The DH just called in a tizzy. He was at the counter at Samy's Camera in LA, and at another counter was...Ringo Starr! No one seemed to notice him at all. The crowd at Samy's (which caters to professional photogs) is usually of an age to be Beatles fans, so maybe they were playing it cool. The DH did not speak to him, so I guess he was playing it cool, too.
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Scrappy - Dec 29, 2006 10:49:06 am PST #4710 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aims - Dec 29, 2006 10:52:59 am PST #4711 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Trent's interviewed on the Romanek collection of videos about it. He wasn't furious, but he wasn't that moved by the song hearing it in audio for the first time. It was seeing the video that made him really get how right it was.
I just read a Rolling Stone article on it, too. I'd heard that second or fiftieth hand, and wanted to see what Trent had said.
beekaytee - Dec 29, 2006 10:56:00 am PST #4712 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
Oh my. I was sad already, and then watched the Hurt video. When he closes the piano at the end and sort of lovingly strokes the wood. sniffle
Theodosia - Dec 29, 2006 12:07:20 pm PST #4713 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I suspect most Goths just dream of being dark as Cash, truly.
Laga - Dec 29, 2006 12:31:36 pm PST #4714 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Since I heard the duet with Cash and Strummer on Redemption Song I can't stand to listen to the Mescaleros version sans Cash.
Kate P. - Dec 29, 2006 4:35:01 pm PST #4715 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Opening act? Milla Jovovich. No lie. And despite coming across as a complete whack-nut, she had one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. And made some very interesting songwriting choices.
Agreed! I have her album and it's actually quite good. Somewhere between Kate Bush and Sarah McLachlan.
beekaytee - Dec 29, 2006 6:02:21 pm PST #4716 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
Exactly. Hm. I wonder if youtube can hook me up...
Sean K - Dec 30, 2006 10:22:19 am PST #4717 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt makes Trent Reznor sound like he was singing about happiness and puppy dogs and sunshine and rainbows.
shrift - Dec 31, 2006 2:08:11 pm PST #4718 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My roommate is scrambling for food-or-state-related music for her annual NYE party: [link]
If anyone is around and feels like helping.
DXMachina - Jan 01, 2007 6:08:14 am PST #4719 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Interesting article on why the brain holds onto music so well. [link]
For his first experiment he came up with an elegant concept: He stopped people on the street and asked them to sing, entirely from memory, one of their favorite hit songs. The results were astonishingly accurate. Most people could hit the tempo of the original song within a four-percent margin of error, and two-thirds sang within a semitone of the original pitch, a level of accuracy that wouldn’t embarrass a pro.
"When you played the recording of them singing alongside the actual recording of the original song, it sounded like they were singing along," Dr. Levitin said.