Ciao!
no Bab5 last night (sorry, Loyal Reader!). instead, i spent an hour infuriating myself with the utter lack of vacancies in Old Quebec this coming weekend (unless you fancy a 600$+ per night room at Chateau Frontenac). Were i one of those 'conspicuous consumption' guys, i would be all over that, but seeing that the jury is still deliberating on that one i'll have to pass. Then, Ali came along and solved the issue in, oh, the amount of time it takes for me to have an anger cigarette. We're now destined to sleep in one of them thar 'heritage' house b&b's saturday and sunday. ahhhhh....
There will be a distinct LACK of cell-phone as of saturday morning, though i will be checking it ONCE per evening in case of emergencies.
Incidentally, i've often thought how the dumbing down of civilization is causing, among other things, music to seriously and royally SUCK. I'm talking the trickle down effect going back to Beethoven, man. And then, every once in a LOOOOOONG while, current musicians release albums that will indeed be spared in the Great Purge.
Peter Gabriel - So
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Dire Straits - Making Movies (?) (The red cover with the blue border on the right side).
and the ultimate album of Our Age:
Paul Simon - Graceland (shut up! you don't have to like his music to understand how seamless and finely crafted those songs, each and every one, really are.)
Honourable mentions have to go out to key songs (Sinnerman - Nina Simone), timeless live shows (AC/DC), great interviews (never die, Johnny Rotten!), way existential personas (the Ramones, Madonna (over and over again), et al...
Those albums can safely live alongside that greatest 'pop' album of its time, Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Incidentally, if any of you can find the following, i will pay you whatever you ask. It is the greatest recorded performance of Vivaldi's masterpiece i have ever heard. I no longer possess it, and HMV said it was discontinued. Description as follows:
Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Violinist: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
The jacket shows her (curly redish hair) standing, holding her violin, and in a long black gown. The cover colours are predominantly green behind her, i believe.
pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease help me find this copy, great internet, and i shall put my plans to have all things computer DESTROYED on the back burner! i promise! Consider it a pact. Of Steel.
There will be a distinct LACK of cell-phone as of saturday morning, though i will be checking it ONCE per evening in case of emergencies.
Incidentally, i've often thought how the dumbing down of civilization is causing, among other things, music to seriously and royally SUCK. I'm talking the trickle down effect going back to Beethoven, man. And then, every once in a LOOOOOONG while, current musicians release albums that will indeed be spared in the Great Purge.
Peter Gabriel - So
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Dire Straits - Making Movies (?) (The red cover with the blue border on the right side).
and the ultimate album of Our Age:
Paul Simon - Graceland (shut up! you don't have to like his music to understand how seamless and finely crafted those songs, each and every one, really are.)
Honourable mentions have to go out to key songs (Sinnerman - Nina Simone), timeless live shows (AC/DC), great interviews (never die, Johnny Rotten!), way existential personas (the Ramones, Madonna (over and over again), et al...
Those albums can safely live alongside that greatest 'pop' album of its time, Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Incidentally, if any of you can find the following, i will pay you whatever you ask. It is the greatest recorded performance of Vivaldi's masterpiece i have ever heard. I no longer possess it, and HMV said it was discontinued. Description as follows:
Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Violinist: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
The jacket shows her (curly redish hair) standing, holding her violin, and in a long black gown. The cover colours are predominantly green behind her, i believe.
pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease help me find this copy, great internet, and i shall put my plans to have all things computer DESTROYED on the back burner! i promise! Consider it a pact. Of Steel.
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