So much to calculate.
Gotta just take on the things that are on the front burner and let the rest of the chips fall where they may for a few days.
No emails.
No whatsapp stuff for a bit.
Just... let it simmer a little after launching all this nonsense in every direction.
Chillax bro.
Hmmm... what's a song of some sort when you really need it.
Give it a little time to pull back into the nether recesses of the mind-brain-reality algorithm nonsense.
I'll be back later...
... with something maybe.
You sort of get that Anthony Bourdain feeling a little. Oh well.
It does get exhausting sometimes...
I guess I'll just try to think of some songs from the way-back time... and then try to sift through and fine one that has just the right amount of sparkle and only I know why.
Otherwise it gets too predictable.
Right?
Yeah, just start with that one I guess. While I think a little deeper.
...
Take a break... Shut the mind down a little. Some way-back drifting would be good on White Line Fever.
...
Something reflective. Something enigmatic. Give it a few hours. You need it.
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So here's an interesting question [no rest for the wicked]. Consider this blog. I have all these weird sequences of music on various pages here, there, and everywhere. Can machine-learning algorithms calculate emotions from training sequences of music?
In the wind
The ashes fly
The poisoned crown
The charcoal ground
Andifyacantseethesmileinme
That's where I wanna be...
I remember that day. U of A. Maz. I got a chance at choosing a song for the Australian sumthingerother. And I chose that one. Because why not? It's pretty enigmatic, right? And I remember after it played, the radio DJ said (in Aussie-ish) "from the ten to one album". I would always say the entire title really quickly, but who am I to argue with the first peoples?
Well we have to be here at the end
Yeah we yeah we yeah we must must must be here at the end
I'VE GOT TA BE HERE AT THE END
"Ex cetera" [oh man I really f***in hate that]
Okay. Good transition.
What a song, right? And you read about the song, and it's like. Yes. But then, what an album, right?
Now just simmer down. Come back in a couple hours.
[A couple five-minute intervals later...] Question... would it be accurate for me to say "my life is about getting Dunning-Krugered to fuck?" Does that even mean anything?
[Pictures of You is playing... let me pick some offbeat song... no... not "looking at pictures of you wayo wayo wayo..." or whatever that song is... disintegration is too obvious... hmmm]
I guess it's hard to describe how I feel right now. But the song is about to end so... hmmm...
[Okay this one...] Come on, think! Silence? No. One song then silence.
Nothing in the world that I ever wanted more... Deep in the past... Hmmm... Okay, why not...
Too much direct symbolism... but it's a start. Okay, one more song...
That's definitely not the way I feel songwise (and it's probably never the way I've felt), but enigmatically, that's that "song 2" that nobody will get but me. A bit more time to think...
A real shot through the head... come on... it's almost over...
Okay a bit more time again...
Hmmm... not a bad choice...
What song will give me an "enigmatic" reaction? How will I surprise myself?
And to love
A god
And to fear
A flame
Okay I'll transition to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s1lx39sTxA
Come on. One more. And then... calm brain...
What's a really weird song from a really weird catalog where you listen to it and you don't really know how to feel?
I'll put that on FB and see what happens... But what song, come on!
Chopper. Why not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kCALn1hYJA
Now, brain off, fingers off!
Okay, I don't want to finish with that metallic feel. So let's go for a bit of a bath...
[Thank you YouTube-whatever-self-teaching-training-learning algorithm!]
And then? Hmmm...
Thanks again YouTube... it's like it knows me... ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1X3J44ewc
Bah deh doo... Cowboy Junkies is too "common"...
A bit of silence to deal with this young whippersnapper Hays.
Okay, JT suggested Illmatic and criticized me for being on It Was Written. So let's play his song.
Compton State of Mind... Empire State of Mind... here's something with unknown (to me) emotions. Well actually... why not just play the whole album and soak it up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5L8LEyAcL4
Dole svanetya!
Halfway through Track 3 and I'm thinking "here he's a rapper not an artist... not really my thing..." So... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtnL1xOJqo
"Damn these chains, man"... those restraints ohhhhhhh yeah...
Oh man... thinking about MH alleyways with rando "cool criminals" or whomever they actually were back in the day in the 'hood. But yeah. I'm sure they played this. I couldn't really keep track back then.
Street Dreams. For sure I heard this one back then. This is some real way-back time stuff. I like it! Nice call, Assails!
Sometimes [Diesel and Dust, this used to be the greatest track when I didn't really get it] I can't help but think about this blog and the private language argument. Like... is science fiction a private language because it's invented by someone? Can we say "well we all have some sort of cogito, so what about deducible rules?" Like is Finnegans Wake a "private language"? Good question...
Foxy Brown on that chorus (at least I'm pretty sure). SOOO back to the start of high school skulking around with the skulkers and wondering what it was all about and knowing it wasn't my jam to be in it, but it was my jam to be interested in it. Have I listened to this since then??
Oh man, every new track chorus is like a flood. What a find for such a day!!
Alright, enjoy it.
Fingers up!
I guess the second half (aside from Ms Hill's jam) is not so familiar to me. Maybe they just started from the beginning every time and we / they (because it wasn't really about me at all) weren't long enough in the / a car...
During the latter part of May, we recorded six songs. Four of them — 'Killed by Death', 'Steal Your Face', 'Snaggletooth', and 'Locomotive' — ended up on No Remorse. The other two tracks we did when on the flipside of the 'Killed by Death' single and were both called 'Under the Knife' — they were two completely different songs, however. Maybe that sounds confusing, and it was meant to be. That's what's missing from record companies — that kind of lunacy for its own sake. That's the treat British legacy to the world, humour like The Goon Show, The Young Ones, and Monty Python. Some people don't get it, which is too bad for them. You're supposed to laugh in life. Laughing exercises all the facial muscles and keeps you from getting old. Looking stern gives you terrible wrinkles. I also advise drinking heavily — it helps the sense of humour! Smoking pot helps the sense of humour no end, but after a while you lose it altogether and all you can do is talk about the cosmos and shit, which is really boring. (179)
I always find when you play in these depressed, so-called Third World countries, the people are much more trusting and kind. They're more enthusiastic about everything. Considering that, what has civilization done for us? Blunted our sensibilities and made us less open and tolerant. Civilization is apparently a curse — God bless the open market! (183)
I remember really liking this song. Different feel for music then I guess.
Not really that interesting anymore.
But this one I always remembered. I learned some interesting songs from my UK jaunts...
Anyway... regrets and such... well... let's see what happens from here. Fuck last year was brutal. But it could be all worth it... couldn't it...?
Great song from a band I don't really rate.
Anyway, enough of that idle nonsense. What about some cosmic nonsense? Lemmy try ;)
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