a music journal
January 19, 2007 (link)
8:45 PM
Things being what they are, I'm having something of a difficult time figuring out what the mission of this site is these days. When I started this site, it was in part to engage with music in a way I didn't have the chance to in my day-to-day life. Right now, however, music is my vocation, and a lot of the energy I might spend transcribing an Eberhard Weber solo -- or a Shooby Taylor scat, or writing about song-poems -- needs to go to my classwork, and to my professional work.
On the other hand, there's a lot I miss. Listening to Deep Chill Network's Cyber Sleep 1 recently, I thought to myself: Wasn't I a person who lived in these sounds, once? Or something like that. And the reasons for not going "there" as much, anymore, are various and personal, and watching Sesame Street on Youtube can only go so far.
But there are too many blogs...too much of life now is lived on the Internet. And at that, I never intended this site to be a blog, per se -- I wanted to talk about things in music that were beautiful, hilarious, overlooked. To make intriguing connections, to point out the Meat Loaf in Y. Bhekhirst (or vice versa).
The thing is, though, I don't listen to music that much anymore -- well, that's not true, actually: I listen to it all the time, and go to concerts all the time. But the kind of deep engagement I like is, of late, reserved for the music I'm working on at school. (Not to mention the looming possibility of the law of diminishing returns, among other things.)
All that being said, I've finally tracked down the "Guarda Me" song (actually "Guarda mi"). The correct title is "Amore Baciami", and the performance used on Liquid Television was by Nuccia Bongiovanni. So, one small blow against cultural entropy.
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