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Friday, July 09, 2004

random music-related bits

It has been very nearly a full week since my last update. I have not been flung off the face of the earth by some inexplicable localized gravitational lapse. Nor have I been kidnapped or had my fingers cut off or (gasp) given up my LTL. I have just been, well, busy. Weird. And today's post won't be anything to write home about either, but here it is for what it's worth.


Yesterday I was driving alone in my car, so I was of course blasting the stereo really loud because I'm all mature like that. So what if I was blasting classical music, OK? (in the loose sense. Most if it was actually twentieth-century or romantic and not classical, if you want to get specific) Anyway, for a reason I won't go into, I was fast-forwarding the CD through Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man." Surprisingly enough, the reason was not my vitreous hatred of Aaron Copland, which runs very deep thanks to his extremely annoying choral arrangements. "Fanfare" is a pretty cool-sounding composition, but it still doesn't get Copland off my bad side. AN-Y-WAY. I was cueing through the song and it sounded extremely cool. It sounded like 80's techno synthesizer music, as if "Axel F" had been written and performed by some European group with pointy hairstyles and lots of makeup. In other words, it rocked, in an I-shouldn't-be-admitting-I-like-this kind of way.


In other music news, I was just reading someone else's diary, and she said that her weekend was lame, and then she typed these words: "I blame it on the rain." So now guess what late 80's dreadlock-wearing lip-synchers are hip-hopping around in my head, and will be for a week? I'm sure Emily didn't do it on purpose. She could never be so cruel. Right?

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