I like forms and forms like me

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I am not surprised that I had never heard of Pylon before tonight. I am also not surprised that I love them. They are spiky and spare and apophatic—the musical equivalent of Ceci n'est pas une pipe, only headbangingly danceable. Their catchiest songs are anti-anthems. This after I spent much of today plying asakiyume with mythic folk. Maybe it's the same angle of my brain that really likes Pierrot Lunaire.

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It's good to have broad musical tastes--it's the equivalent of having many routes to walk to your destination; then the kidnappers never know where to find you.

Hitting shuffle on my iTunes gives me: three musicals ("Where's My Shoe?", She Loves Me; "The Ladies Who Lunch," Camp; "Pretty Women," Sweeney Todd), one oratorio ("O Grosse Lieb," Johannespassionen), three different species of folk music (Pete Seeger, "Jam on Jerry's Rocks"; Déanta, "Ready for the Storm"; The Watersons, "Pace-Egging Song"), three kinds of punk or alternative (The Pixies, "Debaser"; Division of Laura Lee, "Does Compute"; The Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism"), some psychedelic rock (Jefferson Airplane, "How Do You Feel?"), some comedic folk (The Arrogant Worms, "Johnny Came Home Headless"), some unclassifiable performance music (Cirque du Soleil, "En Ville"), and a circa-1918 music-hall number (Courtland and Jeffries, "Oh! It's A Lovely War"). I suppose this makes as much sense as anything.

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I need to get more classical on my computer. I crave it sometimes, and I have very little.

Yes you are a Katamari of music, absorbing all, and that's brilliant.

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I need to get more classical on my computer. I crave it sometimes, and I have very little.

I think most of mine on my computer is Britten, Menotti, Puccini, Offenbach, and Weill, with occasionally outcroppings of Shostakovich, Bach, and Saint-Saëns. Carl Orff, Carlisle Floyd. I suppose there's nowhere else to file P.D.Q. Bach and Anna Russell. If I ever transferred my entire CD collection to iTunes, I think Macintosh would hate me for the rest of its life.

Yes you are a Katamari of music, absorbing all, and that's brilliant.

I like to think I don't listen to anything that sucks . . .

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Now I'm reminded of the Peter Schickele quote from the start of each of his "Schickele Mix" shows (I guess originally from Duke Ellington), "if it sounds good, it is good."

My only familiarity with the plot of the Ring of the Nibelungs is from Anna Russell :-) (incidentally, if you're unsure how to spell "Nibelungs"--which you would not be, but I was--and simply type "Ring of the," minus even the quotation marks, into Google, it comes right up. Oh Internetz, I love you.)

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My only familiarity with the plot of the Ring of the Nibelungs is from Anna Russell

Yay.

You should then appreciate, if you have not already heard it, her "Backwards with the Folk Song."

Hey, libido, bats in the belfry
Jolly old Sigmund Freud!