Music is Love

The title of this post and the album cover on the left is from David Crosby's first solo album "If I Could Only Remember My Name" If you haven't heard it, you need to stop what you are doing now and get on that ASAP. Thank you. I saw "High Fidelity" earlier in Summer Term when I was sort of in a lull and had to deal with life. The movie was "bleh" but the music store scenes were good. Jack Black, as one reviewer said, does steal the show out from John Cusack when they are together. Also I think I recognized 90% of the album covers and music references that appeared in the movie :-X Maybe I am a music elitist like they are...

But there was one cool thing I'd like to do and I saw John Cusack do it in the movie: he arranged his record collection auto-biographically. Is that sick or what? I guess I have too in little bits and pieces. I remember The Doors right before the start of my freshman year of high school when I was blazing through all 1000+ pages of the Lord Of the Rings during that summer sitting outside on the deck. Or Pink Floyd during the winter-into-spring of my sophomore year. Or Spirit and Love or John Coltrane and Charles Mingus in my senior year, trying to sneak it onto the senior section boom box. Conveniently, I rip all my music to my hard drive, so I have dates of when they were all ripped, which is pretty close to when I first got them.

Unfortunately my hard drive is still broken and still haven't had the time to get it repaired. I hope the chances aren't dimming the longer I wait. Also that poses problems for my senior year radio show: what will I play if I don't have the effort to re-burn and re-download everything? I was thinking one half 80s music, the other half prog/psychedelia for the 2 hour radio show set, not set in stone on that one. Also, who will be my co-host? I think I'm going to need to ask people to help me out on this one.

As my drive has been out of commission, I have had the chance to become intimate with the small amount of music I managed to get onto my laptop. And by small, I mean small by my standards, probably for anyone else it would be a full music collection. I'm getting to know Tangerine Dream and now I see why they were the pioneers of electronic music. If you don't happen to know them, stop right now and get a compilation of their Virgin Records years NOW! Besides that, I have been learning to appreciate the 80s, getting into the deeper tracks from The Zombies and listening to my Crosby, Stills & Nash box. And I don't mean the CSN(Y) tracks that everyone knows but stuff by the duo outings of Crosby & Nash and Stills' attempt at a band in Manassas. Don't know those groups? Don't know the song "To the Last Whale"? Stop now and listen to the CSN side projects.

Now I need to get back to studying. Although the hardest final is over, I still have two on the same day and it is a little difficult to prepare to for 2 finls simultaneously like this. I'll be glad when that is over and I can talk to Peter Torre through the telescope and go to Greenwich with Jess. Haha also I got a shout out from Jess in her blog when she said I "exude masculinity and testosterone" Nice.