random musical ideas

some random ideas for crazy covers. don't go stealing them now.

• a capella version of that violent femmes song w/ the counting. perfunctory research says that the name of this song is "add it up" and hey the opening, which thematically is substantially different from the rest of the song, is a cappella which i didn't remember. actually i don't know if i've ever heard that opening before. also, there really isn't any counting in the song at all. ok, it's not "add it up" but "kiss off." meh. either one would work for this idea. speaking of counting, how many p's are in capella?
• this idea i've had ever since i found a harmonium on 114th street and half fixed it up. cover of "exit music for a film" with just an acoustic guitar and harmonium. the harmonium kicks in on the "you can laugh" part instead of the whiny noise which is either an electric guitar or a synth but at the moment i don't remember.
• i also have notes somewhere for a synth-heavy version of "what'll i do" (the irving berlin song). fuck, i'm gonna become that taco dude.

also, i really really like politics of dancing which is on my speakers at the moment. fuck you, it is awesome. plus it has a bowie reference. if you haven't seen it, i recommend the video of bowie and arcade fire performing at the fashion rocks show which is floating around the net. i didn't really get arcade fire before, but suddenly i do.

Hello, guy on the bus

Hello, guy on the bus who looks like one of 2 wild and crazy guys, reading a permabound romance novel from the library. I am so going to hell.

musical news

"The feeling was there before I tuned in the musical interpretation of the news on my bedside radio, but it was the musical news that confirmed it: I was about to work again. I would get a case. Violins were stabbing their way through the choral arrangements in a series of ascending runs that never resolved, never peaked, just faded away and were replaced by more of the same. It was the sound of trouble, something private and tragic; suicide, or murder, rather than a political event." - Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem which pretty much sums up what i want to do for my master's project.

why i am a horrible person, part i

besides my general lack of a work ethic or ability to clean my room, today i was doing a crossword puzzle which required knowledge of the fact that bambi was male. i didn't know that.

blog blues

i would like to do my own template for the blog, but i SO don't have the energy for that. i am a whiny teenage girl. NYU has only two means of hitting up the space I have to put files, including my web page: plain insecure FTP, and the most painful web interface ever devised. What really frustrates me about the web interface is that I can see enough to realize that it uses webdav under the covers, but i haven't been able to figure out how to get to that myself. this means that i am loathe to update or do ANYTHING interesting to my webpage at all. i should get a colo or something so i can really do some crazy shit. meh. went to the first master's project colloquy today. looking forward to doing something cool and spending a shitload of time on it. i don't know what it will be yet exactly, but rest assured it will involve hitting buttons and making noises.

mac ui pet peeve

i love osx in concept, but in reality, it is just pure horrible pain, both figuratively and literally (these keyboards! my god!). super-annoying: pressing delete does not delete a file. in fact, there are two keys labeled delete, and NEITHER of them deletes the file. this is just about the most obvious thing i can think of.

also, shortcut keys in text editing windows and boxes are woefully inconsistent. sometimes home and end work, sometimes they don't. sometimes i'm pleased to find that emacs-style keys work, but sometimes they don't. i'd be willing to let that slide except that the claim to fame here is supposed to be consistency and ease of use thereof.