See ya!
Well Folks, I’m outta here. I’m packin it up and headin for the future.
Happy Holidays!
Bye
This is where I talk smack about whatever the hell I want. Feel free to talk smack back. If you're looking for thought provoking notions......wrong blog.
Late last night, I was driving home from yet another recording session with the band formerly known as Jive Market, and I got to hear something that blew me away.
First, some History:
I first learned to appreciate Stravinsky at the age of 19, when a music professor played “The Rite of Spring” at full volume in its entirety. At the time, I perceived it as primordial speed metal. That was a stupid assessment, but there are a few choice excerpts from his works that chunk chunk chunk in true metal form. I know now that this is where the comparisons end. Those chunks were but small rhythmic ripples in a vast sea of genius. Stravinsky burned every rule of musical form, structure, and composition, and from the ashes rose some of the greatest music ever written. Stravinsky is a huge branch on the musical tree that eventually sprouted the likes of King Crimson, Yes and Tool. He was the godfather of modern progressive music.
Anyhoooo, I’ve acquired a few choice CD’s through the years, and one of my favorites has long been his “Symphony in C”. The CD I have is great, but I have no idea who played or conducted it. Last night I turned on NPR and heard this, “Here is Stravinsky’s Symphony in C as conducted by the composer himself.” I had goosebumps the whole dam time. I need to find this CD.
On a side note: My musical fantasy is to assemble a band to play “The Rite of Spring”. The recipe is as follows: 6 ripping guitarist with sounds ranging from clean and beautiful to superchunky and distorted; 3 bass players, 2 drummers, and a psychopathic virtuoso pianist with an insane keyboard. All strings and wind instruments in Stravinskys arrangement would be played with multi-guitar, bass, and keyboard arrangements. The best way to accomplish this would be to take all the guys in Tool, King Crimson, Rush, Metallica, and Return to Forever, throw them in a studio, lock the doors, and not let them out until they're done. I don't think they'd appreciate that, but I'd have a hell of a CD to listen to. And when they finish “The Rite of Spring”, I’ll make them do “The 4 Seasons” by Vivaldi and “Brandenburg Concerto #5” by Bach.
I have the urge to post something, but I don't have the urge to write anything.
I’ve been resisting writing this for a long time, but I can’t hold back any more.
Only 6 work days left, then I'm off for 2 solid weeks. Woohoo!
This weekend, our house will be magically transformed from a normal family dwelling, into a festive shrine with flashing lights and plastic facsimiles of trees, branches, berries and holly. There will be small figures of bears singing carols and wearing their warmest scarves and coats while longing for hot cocoa. There will be strategically placed candles surrounded by beds of garland. There will be Nativity scenes, carousels, Christmas villages, toy soldiers and Santas, and there will be a 1 year old tornado marveling at the abundance of new objects to throw and kick and smack with toy dinosaurs.