Tag: Music
Wmotd, Week 11
It’s been a busy week… Time to take a breath before diving back in.
Wmotd, Week 10
So far this month feels like it is ZOOMING… or at least this past week certainly did. This piece is much longer than I share typically, but take a break and listen to it all the way through if you don’t already know the piece— trust me.
Wmotd, Week 9
This song has been stuck in my head lately. February is just about over and it seems to have been a tough month for some of us if nothing else because of the weather. Listening to this track on repeat (as I tend to when I write these weekly posts) a number of things come…
Wmotd, Week 8
Hard to believe it’s the eighth Friday of the year already. In grad school, Fridays often meant taking the train to Stockholm and this album generally reminds me of Sweden. Have a nice weekend, friends.
Wmotd, Week 7
Since it’s Valentine’s Day here’s a little love song of sort. This is by no means a new song, written & recorded in the 1950s originally by Phil Phillips, Sea of Love has been interpreted by a number of artists over the years. This version from 2006 by Tom Waits is my favorite (Iggy Pop’s…
Wmotd, Week 6
Haven’t been feeling so hot this week. Hopefully this weekend things will turn the corner and the haze will lift. Smooth by Car Stereo Wars
Wmotd, Week 5
This week seemed to simultaneously zoom and crawl. Either way it’s Friday which means, among other things, that it’s time to share another piece of music. This song always makes me think of riding the train for some reason. Swingtime in the Rockies by Benny Goodman
Wmotd, Week 4
Feeling pretty blah today after a weird week. So here’s a little music to shake up your afternoon. Always Alright by Alabama Shakes By the way, on Sunday we’ll find out if these guys win a Grammy for their performance of this song for the Silver Linings Playbook soundtrack.
Wmotd, Week 3
I don’t know about you guys, but it has been a crazy week on my end at least. Lots of days that felt longer than they were and a lot of distance covered. But it’s Friday and that means two things, we can (theoretically) sleep in tomorrow and “weird” music of the day for you…
Wmotd, Week 2
Ok, I’ll admit it. This week’s installment of “weird” music of the day/week isn’t “weird,” at least not to my ears. But the pace and mood of it pretty well captures the busy pace of the week so far (Also, I just like this tune.). How about you? How was your week— productive? slow? icy?…
Wmotd, Week 1
A few years ago, when I lived in Colorado, Fridays became associated with weird music of the week or day (or wmotd if you will). At least once a week, usually Fridays, I’d share a piece of music with a co-worker who had a pretty brutal workload and crazy schedule in and out of the…
The skies above are clear again
It’s no secret that 2013 has not been my favorite year so far. Hell, let’s just admit it— 2013 pretty much sucked (at least for me and several others I know). It could’ve been worse, things could ALWAYS be (or get) worse; even so it was still pretty bad as years go, imho. But tomorrow…
Into the Void
The autumn weather snapped finally, a pleasant enough change, but not so great for outdoor swimming. Instead, I’ve been enjoying the gym indoors for the last few weeks, switching things up and cranking the tunes while grinding away on equipment. It feels great (if exhausting) and allows me the same time to reflect that I…
7/4
For days this song has been stuck in my head. DAYS. I don’t know if it’s the unconventional 7/4 time of the piece or its blues-y bass-heavy-ness that gets me, but DAMN. Adding to the greatness of this piece? Brubeck is reported to have thought this up and recorded it in a day. Deceptively simple…
Tujunga
Today, this song by Ikebe Shakedown is stuck in my head: What about you, dear readers, what has been stuck in your head lately?
The Father Jumps
Whether you’re a dad or not, today is a day for celebrating the father figures in our in lives. Dads this is for you:
Traveling through the snow
Even though the books are long since published, and the movie(s) shot by two different directors in two different languages, I still can’t help but like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (aka Män Som Hatar Kvinnor) and the soundtrack produced for the American movie version directed by David Fincher. There’s something about the album…
Walkabout
As I mentioned in an earlier post, a lot of the time when I’m doing creative work (concepting/sketching, designing, doing post production on photos, etc) I like to do so with my headphones on (even when I’m alone). Each year as the season change and the weather grows cooler, I find myself drawn outside to…
The soundrack of work…
I don’t know about you, readers, but productivity seems less elusive with some headphones on, tuning out external distractions. Like a lot of people, I switch my working soundtrack around quite a bit, often times relative the current project(s) on my desk–using the music to put me in the right mood for the style of…
Lie to Me
Ok, not really… but it IS a good song… This is pretty much what the inside of my head sounds like heading to work in the morning…