bright stones and bones
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yamamanamaIt's that time again. Time to reflect on my listening habits in the last year.
Karoly Goldmark - Rustic Wedding Symphony
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite
28 Degrees Taurus - from part to part
Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia
As The Sparrow - Emily
Thermal And A Quarter - This Day That Morning
The Away Days - Galaxies
The Levelers - What A Beautiful Day
Feathermerchants - Where You Are
Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents - Shake Some Action
The Robot Knights - Dragons
Vision Thing - Here We Are
Sneakerpimps - Six Underground
Amy Kucharik - Clocks and Bottles
Think of these as a whole unless you're making an actual playlist.
Giuseppe Verdi - La traviata
Giancarlo Menotti - The Consul
Richard Strauss - Salome
Karol Szymanowski - King Roger
Leos Janacek - The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni
Sweet Trip - Air Supply
Cherry 2000 - Tommy's Lonesome Trainwreck
By 2015, I'm discovering a lot of new music via Emma, and Emma's very active in Boston's music scene but not so active in south Asia's, southeast Asia's, and east Asia's music scenes. I'm not sure where to go for northeast Asian or north Asian or northwest Asian traditional music. Southwest Asia's music scene is absolute shit, which is why I'm lumping Iran in with Southwest Asia and not South Asia. Spoilers: For a while, Iran banned women soloists and bands with women at the forefront from performing in front of male or mixed-sex audiences, and then Rouhani dashed any hopes of restoring a touch of harmony to the discord of Iran's tainted song by banning women from music period. I think they're also banned from recording. Mithridates would be pissed, if he weren't trapped in the toppled-over ruins of the Burj Dubai. On the other hand, I'm not sure what India and Pakistan have in common that Bangladesh and Sri Lanka do not, or what Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have in common that Vietnam and Burma do not.
As I said to Katie, it's nice when the bands support each other rather than getting wrapped up in petty rivalries.
Shoegaze has always been like that.
Atlas Lab - Castellana
Dear Face - Open Mouth (Kaki King Remix) - even if it is Alex.
Dæphne - Winona Ryder
2:54 - The Monaco
Bifflecup - Sonata 2: Allegro #Becca
Astrologic - Laugh It Off
Meta Mora - Gilded Prism - this is somehow connected to Atlas Lab
Mini Dresses - Bracelets
Midriffs - Fresh
The Barbazons - Sleeptalkin
American Echoes - Hell Shepherd
Dirty Bangs - We've All Got To Die Sometime - this song reminds me of Galaxie 500.
Sophie Atlas - Monsters
Ghost Box Orchestra - Desert Lights
Maybe things didn't work out the way I wanted things to, and maybe my friendship with Emma is winding down, but I don't regret the time spent at all.
A few things I didn't discover through Emma
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Evening Hymn
Long Arm Rex - Earth Angel
Mornings - Wasted
Fennesz - Mahler Remixed
Eyeless in Gaza - Quiet Lustre - it's like discovering the band for the first time again.
벨 에포크 - 5월의 후유증
And now back to modern times.
It's like Picasso was a 15th century Dutchman.
Basically, just this frozen mass of fish. Zofia found another head.
I said I have someone's name on a hypothetical bucket of that stuff.
I want to say she was Cassie but I can't be sure compared the stuff the other intern who may or may not be named Catherine was cutting up to the daikon radish spirit from Spirited Away. I had to look it up. I remember him but it never occurred to me that he was a daikon radish.
Whoever she is, she says she's at least ten years behind with regards to pop culture.
It's funny because I brought up the train ride in Spirited Away in the last entry I posted.
Eden, the intern who may or may not be named Catherine, and I discussed Snowpiercer and its plot and her and how
sometimes there is no right thing to do. It's like the situation with Vox: either I let him win and that encourages him to stalk others, or I don't and make it clear that I will not be intimidated by bullshit legal threats and he continues to go after my friends to hurt me. Spoiler alert: he feels even more confident about stalking nowadays.
It's funny because Katie was just talking about Snowpiercer with her friend earlier. Perhaps said friend was Justin, or maybe not. And that, as they say, is that.
Eden has a tattoo that says "I think." I kind of like the ambiguousness of the statement when it's read and not spoken but Hungarian would clear any of that up for you. Her hair is black with tips of periwinkle and blonde.
I know someone else with a tattoo that says "I think I think too much."
The name Laura is pronounced differently in Spanish. Think "lauda" except replace the d with a Spanish r. I don't know, I didn't take Spanish. If I need to, I'll write it as Lauȑa.
The rat was morbidly obese and had some kind of tumors in the fat. They're benign, and by benign, they don't have a tendency to break off and metastasize.
Cassie (either from acacia or from Cassandra, meaning something like shining upon man) was telling me how her name kinda stands out amongst variations on Katie, Caitlin, and Katherine (possibly from a Greek word meaning pure) but kinda blurs together with them.
The thing about names is that I'll remember names that are unique enough to stand out but not so unique I have nothing to connect the name to. Eden, Yvonne, Dana.
So unique like Yaritza. I'm sure that's not actually her name but I'm getting closer. Although spell check seems to recognize it as an actual word.
Look: when I was in high school, there were a bunch of Amandas and a bunch of Jennifers.
In college, it was Alex, Chris, and to a lesser extent, Erin and David. And by that, I mean I only knew a figurative handful of Davids and two, maybe three, Erins. And two guys named Dana. The thing about college is that most of the people I knew had unique names relative to each other. I don't remember any Amandas and I remember only one Jen.
For a while post-college it was Sarah with the occasional Sara.
Now it's Emma. I don't think I've actually met a Sarah since I saw Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band.
Taylor has become common. One Taylor is at the Wildlife Center. One Taylor was in that first group of people I sketched. One Taylor had purple hair. One Taylor has "meow" tattooed on her forearm and I have not yet determined whether she was born under the sign of the Bringer of Order or simply really really really obsessed with felids to the point she got his sigil tattooed on her foot.
Brittany/Brittney (I think both of the Brittneys I know were born in the late 80s. One's a Walker of the Wheel, one's a Condemner; one Brittany is a Bringer of Order, another is a High Seraph)
Don't ask me about middle school or elementary school. I've forgotten most people's names.
Yvonne said the vaccination process is 7 days between the first and second, and then 21-28 days between the second and third, and no immunoglobin, which is not a word according to TextEdit, unless you were actually bitten and haven't been vaccinated.
Katie was talking about how when her aunt was younger, rabies pre-exposure vaccines were a series of 26 shots. Now it's just three. Too bad it's completely unfeasible to eradicate rabies.
The rat was morbidly obese and had some kind of tumors in the fat. They're benign, and by benign, they don't have a tendency to break off and metastasize.
There are entire classes devoted to letting your client know that their pet is overweight.
Burning Question: did The Rock ever reveal what he was cooking?
Karoly Goldmark - Rustic Wedding Symphony
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite
28 Degrees Taurus - from part to part
Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia
As The Sparrow - Emily
Thermal And A Quarter - This Day That Morning
The Away Days - Galaxies
The Levelers - What A Beautiful Day
Feathermerchants - Where You Are
Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents - Shake Some Action
The Robot Knights - Dragons
Vision Thing - Here We Are
Sneakerpimps - Six Underground
Amy Kucharik - Clocks and Bottles
Think of these as a whole unless you're making an actual playlist.
Giuseppe Verdi - La traviata
Giancarlo Menotti - The Consul
Richard Strauss - Salome
Karol Szymanowski - King Roger
Leos Janacek - The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni
Sweet Trip - Air Supply
Cherry 2000 - Tommy's Lonesome Trainwreck
By 2015, I'm discovering a lot of new music via Emma, and Emma's very active in Boston's music scene but not so active in south Asia's, southeast Asia's, and east Asia's music scenes. I'm not sure where to go for northeast Asian or north Asian or northwest Asian traditional music. Southwest Asia's music scene is absolute shit, which is why I'm lumping Iran in with Southwest Asia and not South Asia. Spoilers: For a while, Iran banned women soloists and bands with women at the forefront from performing in front of male or mixed-sex audiences, and then Rouhani dashed any hopes of restoring a touch of harmony to the discord of Iran's tainted song by banning women from music period. I think they're also banned from recording. Mithridates would be pissed, if he weren't trapped in the toppled-over ruins of the Burj Dubai. On the other hand, I'm not sure what India and Pakistan have in common that Bangladesh and Sri Lanka do not, or what Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia have in common that Vietnam and Burma do not.
As I said to Katie, it's nice when the bands support each other rather than getting wrapped up in petty rivalries.
Shoegaze has always been like that.
Atlas Lab - Castellana
Dear Face - Open Mouth (Kaki King Remix) - even if it is Alex.
Dæphne - Winona Ryder
2:54 - The Monaco
Bifflecup - Sonata 2: Allegro #Becca
Astrologic - Laugh It Off
Meta Mora - Gilded Prism - this is somehow connected to Atlas Lab
Mini Dresses - Bracelets
Midriffs - Fresh
The Barbazons - Sleeptalkin
American Echoes - Hell Shepherd
Dirty Bangs - We've All Got To Die Sometime - this song reminds me of Galaxie 500.
Sophie Atlas - Monsters
Ghost Box Orchestra - Desert Lights
Maybe things didn't work out the way I wanted things to, and maybe my friendship with Emma is winding down, but I don't regret the time spent at all.
A few things I didn't discover through Emma
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Evening Hymn
Long Arm Rex - Earth Angel
Mornings - Wasted
Fennesz - Mahler Remixed
Eyeless in Gaza - Quiet Lustre - it's like discovering the band for the first time again.
벨 에포크 - 5월의 후유증
And now back to modern times.
It's like Picasso was a 15th century Dutchman.
Basically, just this frozen mass of fish. Zofia found another head.
I said I have someone's name on a hypothetical bucket of that stuff.
I want to say she was Cassie but I can't be sure compared the stuff the other intern who may or may not be named Catherine was cutting up to the daikon radish spirit from Spirited Away. I had to look it up. I remember him but it never occurred to me that he was a daikon radish.
Whoever she is, she says she's at least ten years behind with regards to pop culture.
It's funny because I brought up the train ride in Spirited Away in the last entry I posted.
Eden, the intern who may or may not be named Catherine, and I discussed Snowpiercer and its plot and her and how
It's funny because Katie was just talking about Snowpiercer with her friend earlier. Perhaps said friend was Justin, or maybe not. And that, as they say, is that.
Eden has a tattoo that says "I think." I kind of like the ambiguousness of the statement when it's read and not spoken but Hungarian would clear any of that up for you. Her hair is black with tips of periwinkle and blonde.
I know someone else with a tattoo that says "I think I think too much."
The name Laura is pronounced differently in Spanish. Think "lauda" except replace the d with a Spanish r. I don't know, I didn't take Spanish. If I need to, I'll write it as Lauȑa.
The rat was morbidly obese and had some kind of tumors in the fat. They're benign, and by benign, they don't have a tendency to break off and metastasize.
Cassie (either from acacia or from Cassandra, meaning something like shining upon man) was telling me how her name kinda stands out amongst variations on Katie, Caitlin, and Katherine (possibly from a Greek word meaning pure) but kinda blurs together with them.
The thing about names is that I'll remember names that are unique enough to stand out but not so unique I have nothing to connect the name to. Eden, Yvonne, Dana.
So unique like Yaritza. I'm sure that's not actually her name but I'm getting closer. Although spell check seems to recognize it as an actual word.
Look: when I was in high school, there were a bunch of Amandas and a bunch of Jennifers.
In college, it was Alex, Chris, and to a lesser extent, Erin and David. And by that, I mean I only knew a figurative handful of Davids and two, maybe three, Erins. And two guys named Dana. The thing about college is that most of the people I knew had unique names relative to each other. I don't remember any Amandas and I remember only one Jen.
For a while post-college it was Sarah with the occasional Sara.
Now it's Emma. I don't think I've actually met a Sarah since I saw Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band.
Taylor has become common. One Taylor is at the Wildlife Center. One Taylor was in that first group of people I sketched. One Taylor had purple hair. One Taylor has "meow" tattooed on her forearm and I have not yet determined whether she was born under the sign of the Bringer of Order or simply really really really obsessed with felids to the point she got his sigil tattooed on her foot.
Brittany/Brittney (I think both of the Brittneys I know were born in the late 80s. One's a Walker of the Wheel, one's a Condemner; one Brittany is a Bringer of Order, another is a High Seraph)
Don't ask me about middle school or elementary school. I've forgotten most people's names.
Yvonne said the vaccination process is 7 days between the first and second, and then 21-28 days between the second and third, and no immunoglobin, which is not a word according to TextEdit, unless you were actually bitten and haven't been vaccinated.
Katie was talking about how when her aunt was younger, rabies pre-exposure vaccines were a series of 26 shots. Now it's just three. Too bad it's completely unfeasible to eradicate rabies.
The rat was morbidly obese and had some kind of tumors in the fat. They're benign, and by benign, they don't have a tendency to break off and metastasize.
There are entire classes devoted to letting your client know that their pet is overweight.
Burning Question: did The Rock ever reveal what he was cooking?
