Dusty Brown .
Had to plug this artist. Went to alot of shows a few years back and really felt a vibe there. I came to think while I was listening something about the concept of 'representing'.
Search engines and statistics govern much of many of our worlds now. To represent in this context means to add one to the count of your group for whereever you are.
Stand up and be counted.
Say, for instance, a junglist in Long Beach, people who notice him or her and her or his music, styling or dress mark that in their head, take notice. Jungle is represented in Long Beach. Hip-hop has a lot to do with this idea I think, at one level or another. Coming from an underrepresented group makes sense to me, if that means something in the end. It's a lot of noise and seems to be everywhere now, what's being done with it no longer has those intensions in mind. But in consideration of its 'roots', where representation comes from and from which people represent, I think there have been significant contributions to music and in my case to how I think about it.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Metronome
Those who love electronic love it for many reasons. Those who don't , in my experience, have a hard time getting past the persistent beat: it is the thump -thump -thump -thumb that that sets them to think they don't really care for it.
I call that sound the audible metronome. Of course, one can always hear a metronome, that is its function. But it sets the course, a musical compass. The metronome is just that in techno, electronica, what have you. It sets dead center for all the musical complexities to surround as they in turn surround the senses.
I am amazed the remember how much energy in my life has been set to that tempo, varying speeds, some slower some intense with meaning and others without a care; that energy that brought me so high and was in the background at times when I was so low.
Tick tock went my heart as the music played.
I call that sound the audible metronome. Of course, one can always hear a metronome, that is its function. But it sets the course, a musical compass. The metronome is just that in techno, electronica, what have you. It sets dead center for all the musical complexities to surround as they in turn surround the senses.
I am amazed the remember how much energy in my life has been set to that tempo, varying speeds, some slower some intense with meaning and others without a care; that energy that brought me so high and was in the background at times when I was so low.
Tick tock went my heart as the music played.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Computer slang
A parent's primer to computer slang
This slang dictionary is a good find from the crew at Google Groups Sacland. Everything seems to be represented in the basic fashion and I think the heart was in the right place in writing the piece. Parents don't have to be hip, but they need to be aware.
I wonder what earlier equilavents were. Did parents have circulating news fliers that had articles on discovering the secret language of HAM radios so as to make sure their son or daughter was not a spy or communist subversive?
Breaker breaker the Chicken is in the Coop - or is that Trucker CB? HAM radio, it didn't go underground, it went on the road.
This slang dictionary is a good find from the crew at Google Groups Sacland. Everything seems to be represented in the basic fashion and I think the heart was in the right place in writing the piece. Parents don't have to be hip, but they need to be aware.
I wonder what earlier equilavents were. Did parents have circulating news fliers that had articles on discovering the secret language of HAM radios so as to make sure their son or daughter was not a spy or communist subversive?
Breaker breaker the Chicken is in the Coop - or is that Trucker CB? HAM radio, it didn't go underground, it went on the road.
Upon the Sea
On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
On Looking First into the Sea
On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
Elgin Marbles
On beginning the Epic Tale Moby Dick
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
Impressive to say the least. This is, in small part, an attempt at getting to blog better. I feel that when I write something down I really have to have something to say, that it better be good, well thought out, and... such. But I understand that such a method is not entirely productive and not in the least for making records of my true thoughts and feelings.
This right here is a good example: I was going to write a few lines and look what happened. Could go somewhere... now to the Pequod.
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