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Haven’t heard this in a long time, but something made me remember it today. Circa 2005? Was learning to track on whatever the new version of Cubase SX was at the time. Playing with 5/4 time in Cubase, anyway.
This came to mind today because I was reminded of Foxy, the cat who jumped up on the MIDI controller during a take and added the cymbal roll at 0:55. It worked, so it was left in right where she put it.
Foxy’s no longer with us, but her percussion sensibilities live on.
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”20. Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
21. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on.
22. Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist.
23. It is in changing that things find repose.
24. Time is a child moving counters in a game; the royal power is a child’s.Heraclitus (circa 500 BCE)
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Okay. Vows has been out in Australia and New Zealand for many months, but it’s only been released in the US this week. I’d seen a couple of her videos that had made it over on YouTube and such. While “Settle Down” was intriguing and well-done, it didn’t prepare me for the breadth and quality of Vows.
This isn’t a garden-variety good stuff. This is the oh,-wow,-this-is-the start-of-what-could-be-a-massive-career good stuff.
The lady can sing, and the music isn’t one-trick-pony stuff. It’s broad in its character and tone, but there’s an undercurrent of rhythmic sensitivities and vocal character that seems to be very much her own and possibly could come from nowhere else but her.
I haven’t kept up with the growing list of collaborations, but they’re appreciable. Cynical folks sometimes attribute it to managers and handlers trying to market an artist, but the truth is that can’t work if the artist can’t deliver and isn’t a pleasure to collaborate with. But it’s music. It’s creative. Creativity as collaboration is about the most enjoyable way to spend time on this planet.
The only thing on this album that bothers me is the Warner Bros. brand. If Kimbra and her managers, producers, and colleagues have the fortitude not to get lost in the corporate label meat grinder, that size of monolithic support can be good. But talent needs nourishment, and the number crunching nature of the Old Regime Record Business can be a pressure-cooker.
There’s so much good on this album that isn’t going to be on the big-label production singles. Get on MOG or whatever subscription service you prefer. Give it a listen. Chances are good this’ll end up on your shopping list.
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London
This is exactly what it’s like
I think everything I love is in this picture!
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On the path in the park yesterday after this week’s rain. The 70’s are coming back to claim its due. (Taken with instagram)
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Infections, Homophones, and Annoying Semantic Fields
Some folks have been known to write or type “staff infection” when they really intend to say “staph infection.” It’s understandable since it’s not universal knowledge that staph is short for Staphylococcus—the name of a genus of bacteria, of which there are many species and strains.
In most medical offices, it gets to be something of an old joke about when they see someone write “staff infection.” People sometimes joke about large groups of professional personnel—staff—all coming down with something communicable, unsavory, and perhaps a little suggestive. The joke gets old pretty soon.
Most people don’t go any farther down that philological rabbit hole. But if one does….
Staph is, as most of us already know, a type of bacteria.
“Bacteria” comes to our language directly from the Greek βακτηρία (bakteria).
Here’s the annoying part:βακτηρία means “staff.”
Yep. Staff. Just like a rod or cane that one might carry around. Because that’s what Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg saw in his microscope and wrote about in 1828.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see microbes through his own microscope in 1676, but his own term for them—animalcules—just didn’t have the staying power.
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”With the global war against terrorism, it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat to clamp down on Palestinian extremists that have perpetuated violence and to restart a peace process.
Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., in an email reply to a constituent from April 20. Yasser Arafat has been dead since 2004, and Ariel Sharon has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2006. (via officialssay)
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Because life’s too short not to have the right ringtone for whoever’s calling. (Taken with instagram)
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