Finally trying to get in the spirit of the season. Not all Christmas music is bad - just most of it - and here's some of my favorite. Wish we can listen to it together. Instead, we can listen to it apart, I suppose.
Cheers!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wguPmVVewigjt40ddCFmx?si=RWWfUw_IROeQ262tB-Awwg
Having a very hard time organizing myself around Christmas presents this year. Usually, the gathering is the present, but that's obviously not going to happen. Every time I try to think about Christmas, I just get sad, and I've been so slammed at work that I haven't had much chance to shop or plan anything this year. Afraid everything's going to be both a) lame and b) late. 2020 not letting up for even a minute on the way out.
I just noticed looking through my Google News feed this morning that there's not a single story about Trump or the election on the front page. Small victory, but I'll take it.
According to Spotify, I streamed 72,115 minutes of music this year.
1202 hours.
50 days.
Seems a little light to me.
Here's my Amazon wishlist. Don't have to buy through Amazon if you hate Bezos, but at least it's all in one spot. Added a few items this morning. No particular order, but, for example, if you're interested in the Familiar series, it would be nice to start at the beginning. Cheers!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JDV6K47ZS6MB/ref=cm_wl_huc_view
I love that these posts are called "toots".
@owen @grampyfr Found this series of podcasts on modern music. Listened to the first one about tuning systems and found it quite fascinating. I'm always amazed at how much music I know about and what a miniscule fraction of what is going on that represents. Site's a little awkward, but there's a couple dozen episodes with transcripts and supplemental material. Cheers!
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/probes-9468?sort=date&order=asc
Some graphic delights from our 2nd AirBnB in KC...
Two questions about water:
1) can you cook it?
2) is it a mineral?
On the road.
@owen Also, you should know there were many tracks I either couldn't find on Spotify - like Wendy Carlos' version of Ode to Joy used in Clockwork Orange or the primal Bicycle Built for Two experiments from the mid-60's, and like half the tracks from my old "it's more fun to compute" playlist also qualify, but I didn't want to repeat material.
Enjoy!
Owen and I have been sharing Spotify playlists for the past year or so. My rules for making them are that there has to be some sort of thematic unity and it has to be exactly two hours long (as rounded by Spotify). In honor of the book about the history of the vocoder that I'm nearly done reading, I have compiled a playlist of music that features vocoders. There are certain types of music that tend to favor vocoders (Electro - a type of techno - being the most popular), but I've tried pulling examples from other genres. If anybody else is interested in hearing it, the link is posted right after I get my character count to 666. There.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hAV2BGaI10465RGcNbeaX?si=-ZSAWh1eRz-ZZ0OQ3uxXPQ
Great, one week on Tin Can Phone and I'm inundated with nude photos of my dad.
Joined Nov 2020
