Yup. I’m playing with UMapper again.
I just beat my high score! Happy Sunday!
Philip Glass Ensemble - “‘Train/Spaceship’, Part 1” [1982]
It’s like watching someone do their taxes. In base-2. And Esperanto. As a palindrome.
And yet? Still gives me a giant arpeggioboner.
Before it was a Counting Crows song, Einstein On The Beach was a 5-hour opera, with no intermission, written by Philip Glass. It’s mind-blowingly awesome and contains some of the most complicated arrangements you’ll ever hear paired with fantastic spoken word poetry. And the performances, particularly on the 1993 Nonesuch release, are out of this world; the degree of difficulty, on a scale of 1 to 10, is somewhere around HOLY SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
I’ll happily share Einstein On The Beach with anyone that would like to hear it. Leave a comment.
Philip Glass Ensemble - “Rubric” [SNL, 1986]
Part of me loves that somebody tuning in for Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan bit also got hit with five minutes of brainspray courtesy of the Glassmeister General
I will never let Philip Glass roll through my dashboard without reblogging.
He is America’s greatest living composer (with all due respect to Steve Reich), and don’t you forget it.
On a related note, if you all haven’t seen Koyaanisqatsi (or the whole ‘qatsi triology for that matter) then do yourselves a favor and watch it this weekend.
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The Rochester Ghost Subway
This is awesome. Rochester truly is one of the most overlooked cities in America, and to see what might have been is more than a little disappointing. Unfortunately, our history of failed public initiatives runs deep.
Homie - American Girls
Darling, I’m afraid to close my eyes when I’m going to bed
I’m afraid you’ll crack the phone down over my head
Why are all American girls so rough?
Damn a girl can’t ever hurt you enough
Homie is a band that sprang up post-pinkerton, while Rivers was still in Boston. The notables on this recording include all four original members of weezer, the rhythm section of Soul Coughing, as well as the incomparable Greg Brown on lead guitar.
It’s been confirmed that there is an entire album’s worth of Homie material recorded (with different musicians), but the only song that has ever been officially released is this one, which was buried on the soundtrack for one of the most awful movies ever committed to film: Meet The Deedles.
This was actually a point in Rivers’ life where he was still writing and performing songs with genuine emotional content, many of which can be heard via a few bootlegs of the solo shows that he had performed in Boston at the time (contact me if you want those). One can only imagine how fantastic the rest of the Homie material turned out.
…I’m just going around my house at midnight and making sure that the screws on all the outlets and switches are vertically aligned.
What?
NO; YOU’RE AN OCD!
I declared war this evening.
You haven’t lived until you’ve emptied a gallon of insect killer, one squirt at a time, around the perimeter of your basement.
Tonight’s casualties included 5-kills-via-shoe-stomp, 5 additional direct hits with the kill-juice, as well as any civilians hiding in the cracks while I applied a full saturation to the edges of my base.
I’m winning the battle and I hope to soon win the war.
