Random Notes From the Southern Hemisphere
Random notes, photos and musings from the "Land Down Under". Lame and self-serving I know, but a good way to keep you all updated as I'll never be any good at emailing.
19 January, 2010
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Pic of the Day 6 January, 2010
Here's a picture of my dad and some friends that my oldest childhood mate (I hadn't heard from him in nearly 30 years) sent me after we hooked up on Facebook (I guess it's good for something). I'd never seen this picture before and it gave me a lot to think about. Our dads (Mine, Dennis on the left and to his right Randy, my friend's) look so young and carefree. Knowing my dad in his later years I know that he struggled with a lot of demons and seeing him so innocent and playful really made me take a moment and imagine him in another time and place.
Judging by the Wisconsin sweatshirt one guy is wearing I imagine they were on holiday from boot-camp. This may even been the week that my parents met. If so this could be the first living record of my Genesis.
Judging by the Wisconsin sweatshirt one guy is wearing I imagine they were on holiday from boot-camp. This may even been the week that my parents met. If so this could be the first living record of my Genesis.
04 January, 2010
End of Month Music Tip-December 2009
Whatever is Isobel listening to???
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Rise Above began as a happy accident: cleaning out his parents' home, Dirty Projectors mastermind Dave Longstreth came across the empty cassette case for Black Flag's epochal debut album Damaged — "It was my jam," he's said, "probably the first music I ever got into" — and decided to rewrite the album, retaining only the lyrics. It's a radical makeover, with West African guitars, odd meters, chamber music interludes, transient noise-bursts, tastes of post-millennial r&b and dizzying female vocal arrangements that explode into plangent harmonic bombshells.
(More Dirty Projectors Link#1)
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Rise Above began as a happy accident: cleaning out his parents' home, Dirty Projectors mastermind Dave Longstreth came across the empty cassette case for Black Flag's epochal debut album Damaged — "It was my jam," he's said, "probably the first music I ever got into" — and decided to rewrite the album, retaining only the lyrics. It's a radical makeover, with West African guitars, odd meters, chamber music interludes, transient noise-bursts, tastes of post-millennial r&b and dizzying female vocal arrangements that explode into plangent harmonic bombshells.
(More Dirty Projectors Link#1)
(More Dirty Projectors Link#2)