Extreme music geekery
Feb. 25th, 2008 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseI think if I hold my head fairly still the top of it will not fall off... this is officially day 4 of a murderous headache. Though at the RPG Saturday, the GM had a migraine, which made me feel disinclined to complain. But today it's especially vindictive; I got home, and after supper spent an hour lying on the couch with my eyes closed and the blanket over my head to hide from the light Colin was reading by (I HATE having a blanket all the way over my head). Then I read until that hurt too much (Not that the subject matter helped; Phoolan Devi's early life is pretty much a series of appalling things happening and horrible injustices.) Then I lay in the dark for a while: Colin tried to leave the light on dim because he thought it would help, but one of the few times I got up was to put a very mellow cd in on low and turn the light off, because low and gentle sounds were fine, but light was horrible.
Still is, but my brain got restless to the point where doing something a little more stimulating was worth the ache.
But other than that, life is good. Much of it lately has involved music.
The first weird music thing is that I found a cassette that has been missing since I moved into Colin's house, and possibly longer than that. Turns out it was in Colin's tape collection for some reason - when and how it would have got *there* I honestly have no clue. Because I didn't even know where he stored his cassettes. He doesn't have a cassette player. He only pulled his collection out because my old cassette player is the only music source in the sewing room.
The next is: I went through my music collection and pulled 62 cds I wanted to give a serious listen to so they could justify their existence in my collection. Some of them were old favourites I hadn't listened to in significantly over a year (in some cases, I'm sure it's been two or three). some are duplicates with Colin's collection, some I haven't ever given a serious listen.
I'll eventually post the failures (Or at least those that I'm willing to pass on to people who will love them more) so if my friends see anything they like, they can get first pick. But not yet.
So far the 5 survivors out of the first 14 are:
Scruj McDuhk: The Road to Canso. Celtic, occasionally celtic rock. The album is extremely uneven, but the good tracks are more than worth having to hit the skip button occasionally.
3 Mustaphas 3 - Friends, Fiends, and Fronds / Heart of Uncle : Insane world beat eclectica. Passed with flying colours. I didn't have to listen to all of the first track to remember why I was keeping these. Which is noteable, as I haven't listened to them in over 2 years (I know the last play was well before the wedding. I'd been wondering if I'd listened to them more than once since I moved in.
Michael Longcor - Lovers, Heroes, and Rogues - Filk/folk. One of the ones I got then barely listened to. I remembered it as lumpy but good. That's about right.
Enya - The Memory of Trees. I still like her early stuff a lot (Watermark was STAYING), but as she got more mellow and new-agey, I lost interest. This one still had enough substance to be worth keeping. There's another, newer, in the stack still waiting to be weighed.
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Then, last night, we had another music night. I introduced people to Heather Alexander, Varttina, and Oysterband (I ended up loaning out CDs of the latter two).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
abacchus played Miles Davis from three distinctly different eras of jazz. _aura_ played World beat selections from Fruit, Fiamma Fumana, and Ba Cissoko, a band called Plumb featuring a rather lovely female singer, and two Christian bands whose names I'm blanking on - one fairly rocky and pretty good, the other eclectic and a bit silly, (I believe their name started with "Hocus"). taleisin played Cat Empire, (FAST Australian south-American inspired alternative folk-rock), a fast celtic rock bagpiper called Stuart Cassells (This resulted in me also loaning her Wolfstone, whom she'd heard of but never found), and Flook. Hadassah played only three songs, as the only music source she had the chance to bring was her cell phone, all inspirational, but otherwise nothing alike. Rajaton was gorgeous a capella that had me in one song, Chris (Rice?), and one Veggie Tales song about belly buttons. No, really.
That's ok. Colin beat her for Weirdness. He started with the Wet Spots' "Kinky Neighbour Song", and ended with the Elevator Song from the 5000 Fingers of Doctor T, by way of Filippo Giambetta, the Producers, and Pavarotti.
Cristina didn't bring anything this time, but she borrowed a lot.
So now I have things to look for (Besides the ones I already was) to trade in my unwanted CDs *for*.
And Taleisin left behind some of her Cds she didn't play, so I'm getting a sneak preview.
The ones I didn't get to play but thought about were Jim Moray, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler (together and solo), Lennie Gallant, and what I call the "depressing trio" of videos off Youtube. Next time I'll probably finally get around to Jim Moray, and I should really try and explain 3 Mustaphas 3. Or Boiled in Lead.
Still is, but my brain got restless to the point where doing something a little more stimulating was worth the ache.
But other than that, life is good. Much of it lately has involved music.
The first weird music thing is that I found a cassette that has been missing since I moved into Colin's house, and possibly longer than that. Turns out it was in Colin's tape collection for some reason - when and how it would have got *there* I honestly have no clue. Because I didn't even know where he stored his cassettes. He doesn't have a cassette player. He only pulled his collection out because my old cassette player is the only music source in the sewing room.
The next is: I went through my music collection and pulled 62 cds I wanted to give a serious listen to so they could justify their existence in my collection. Some of them were old favourites I hadn't listened to in significantly over a year (in some cases, I'm sure it's been two or three). some are duplicates with Colin's collection, some I haven't ever given a serious listen.
I'll eventually post the failures (Or at least those that I'm willing to pass on to people who will love them more) so if my friends see anything they like, they can get first pick. But not yet.
So far the 5 survivors out of the first 14 are:
Scruj McDuhk: The Road to Canso. Celtic, occasionally celtic rock. The album is extremely uneven, but the good tracks are more than worth having to hit the skip button occasionally.
3 Mustaphas 3 - Friends, Fiends, and Fronds / Heart of Uncle : Insane world beat eclectica. Passed with flying colours. I didn't have to listen to all of the first track to remember why I was keeping these. Which is noteable, as I haven't listened to them in over 2 years (I know the last play was well before the wedding. I'd been wondering if I'd listened to them more than once since I moved in.
Michael Longcor - Lovers, Heroes, and Rogues - Filk/folk. One of the ones I got then barely listened to. I remembered it as lumpy but good. That's about right.
Enya - The Memory of Trees. I still like her early stuff a lot (Watermark was STAYING), but as she got more mellow and new-agey, I lost interest. This one still had enough substance to be worth keeping. There's another, newer, in the stack still waiting to be weighed.
_________________
Then, last night, we had another music night. I introduced people to Heather Alexander, Varttina, and Oysterband (I ended up loaning out CDs of the latter two).
abacchus played Miles Davis from three distinctly different eras of jazz. _aura_ played World beat selections from Fruit, Fiamma Fumana, and Ba Cissoko, a band called Plumb featuring a rather lovely female singer, and two Christian bands whose names I'm blanking on - one fairly rocky and pretty good, the other eclectic and a bit silly, (I believe their name started with "Hocus"). taleisin played Cat Empire, (FAST Australian south-American inspired alternative folk-rock), a fast celtic rock bagpiper called Stuart Cassells (This resulted in me also loaning her Wolfstone, whom she'd heard of but never found), and Flook. Hadassah played only three songs, as the only music source she had the chance to bring was her cell phone, all inspirational, but otherwise nothing alike. Rajaton was gorgeous a capella that had me in one song, Chris (Rice?), and one Veggie Tales song about belly buttons. No, really. That's ok. Colin beat her for Weirdness. He started with the Wet Spots' "Kinky Neighbour Song", and ended with the Elevator Song from the 5000 Fingers of Doctor T, by way of Filippo Giambetta, the Producers, and Pavarotti.
Cristina didn't bring anything this time, but she borrowed a lot.
So now I have things to look for (Besides the ones I already was) to trade in my unwanted CDs *for*.
And Taleisin left behind some of her Cds she didn't play, so I'm getting a sneak preview.
The ones I didn't get to play but thought about were Jim Moray, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler (together and solo), Lennie Gallant, and what I call the "depressing trio" of videos off Youtube. Next time I'll probably finally get around to Jim Moray, and I should really try and explain 3 Mustaphas 3. Or Boiled in Lead.
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Aww you should have complained
Date: 2008-02-27 07:43 pm (UTC)Re: Aww you should have complained
Date: 2008-03-01 03:29 am (UTC)It might have been a bug; yesterday Colin had exactly the same kind of headache, triggered by visual rather than audio.