Comments for Running After My Hat http://johnesimpson.com/blog Ridiculous Pursuits, Solemn Matters Wed, 23 May 2012 02:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by s.o.m.e. one's brudder http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-46330 s.o.m.e. one's brudder Wed, 23 May 2012 02:00:27 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-46330 Oh, and lest we forget (I can't) you ain't heard nothin' live from Talking Heads until you've heard "Love/Buildings on Fire" live. Another "building" song, and it captures their chaos/sweetness combo, I think. Just came on my iTunes and had to send it along. I do believe that the best live recording of this is "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads". Joe Bob says check it out. Oh, and lest we forget (I can’t) you ain’t heard nothin’ live from Talking Heads until you’ve heard “Love/Buildings on Fire” live. Another “building” song, and it captures their chaos/sweetness combo, I think. Just came on my iTunes and had to send it along. I do believe that the best live recording of this is “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads”. Joe Bob says check it out.

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: Lizzy Ross Band, “Waves” by Lizzy Ross http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/midweek-music-break-lizzy-ross-band-waves/comment-page-1/#comment-46244 Lizzy Ross Tue, 22 May 2012 00:42:49 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=9216#comment-46244 Hi John, I was just looking for some details on an upcoming gig and the internet led me to this article. Thank you for your kind words. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I hope you're well, and thanks for listening, Lizzy Hi John,
I was just looking for some details on an upcoming gig and the internet led me to this article. Thank you for your kind words. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. I hope you’re well, and thanks for listening,
Lizzy

]]> Comment on Caught Up by marta http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/caught-up/comment-page-1/#comment-46243 marta Tue, 22 May 2012 00:18:53 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10904#comment-46243 I don't even look at my google reader because the number would traumatize me. Glad you're still here though. I don’t even look at my google reader because the number would traumatize me. Glad you’re still here though.

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-45993 John Fri, 18 May 2012 16:24:39 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-45993 ...and, while I'm thinking about <em>other</em> songs: I was trying to remember what other rock song I was sure I'd heard make use of a rolling rhythm like this one. The song I was trying to remember was by The Beatles, on the <em>White Album</em>: "Don't Pass Me By" (not as much of the drum as I'd thought, at least through the body of the song, but the rhythm and "feel" are right): <p style="text-align: center; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em;"><em>[Below, click Play button to begin </em>Don't Pass Me By<em>. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 3:50 long.<a class="hidden" title="3.6MB - you sure about this?" href="http://johnesimpson.com/blog/audio/dontpassmeby_beatles.mp3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">]</a></em></p> <div style="border: 1px solid silver; margin: 0.25em 0.5em 0.5em; padding: 1em 0.5em 0pt; width: 400px; float: none; text-align: center;" title="Click Play button to hear 'Don't Pass Me By'">[audio:dontpassmeby_beatles.mp3|titles='Don't Pass Me By'|artists=The Beatles]</div> …and, while I’m thinking about other songs: I was trying to remember what other rock song I was sure I’d heard make use of a rolling rhythm like this one.

The song I was trying to remember was by The Beatles, on the White Album: “Don’t Pass Me By” (not as much of the drum as I’d thought, at least through the body of the song, but the rhythm and “feel” are right):

[Below, click Play button to begin Don't Pass Me By. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 3:50 long.

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-45991 John Fri, 18 May 2012 16:20:14 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-45991 Okay, here's that other version of "Once in a Lifetime." The band covering it is (or I guess was) called Big Daddy; they specialized in re-interpreting more or less contemporary music in the style of older hits. This is "Lifetime," <em>à la</em> Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)": <p style="text-align: center; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em;"><em>[Below, click Play button to begin </em>Once in a Lifetime<em>. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 2:21 long.<a class="hidden" title="4.1MB - you sure about this?" href="http://johnesimpson.com/blog/audio/onceinalifetime_bigdaddy.mp3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">]</a></em></p> <div style="border: 1px solid silver; margin: 0.25em 0.5em 0.5em; padding: 1em 0.5em 0pt; width: 400px; float: none; text-align: center;" title="Click Play button to hear 'Once in a Lifetime'">[audio:onceinalifetime_bigdaddy.mp3|titles='Once in a Lifetime'|artists=Big Daddy]</div> Okay, here’s that other version of “Once in a Lifetime.” The band covering it is (or I guess was) called Big Daddy; they specialized in re-interpreting more or less contemporary music in the style of older hits. This is “Lifetime,” à la Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)”:

[Below, click Play button to begin Once in a Lifetime. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 2:21 long.

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-45989 John Fri, 18 May 2012 16:06:46 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-45989 You may appreciate the performance of "Once in a Lifetime" which I included in <a href="http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/the-thing-that-happened-once/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this old <em>whiskey river Fridays</em> post</a> -- the song as covered by... The Muppets! You and brudder, above, both picked up on the architectural subtext running through DB's music (which I myself completely missed). I guess you can take the boy (regrettably, haha) out of RISD, but not vice-versa. :) Hmm... I've got another version of "Lifetime" floating around here -- let me see... You may appreciate the performance of “Once in a Lifetime” which I included in this old whiskey river Fridays post — the song as covered by… The Muppets!

You and brudder, above, both picked up on the architectural subtext running through DB’s music (which I myself completely missed). I guess you can take the boy (regrettably, haha) out of RISD, but not vice-versa. :)

Hmm… I’ve got another version of “Lifetime” floating around here — let me see…

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-45988 John Fri, 18 May 2012 15:58:37 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-45988 Oh, right -- Bolivia, not Uruguay. I think I was remembering a commenter at your place who suggested the latter, but I forgot that you'd pretty soundly rejected that option! Naturally, your mentioning Butch and Lefors sent me off, bounding over the Internet's moors and baying every time I picked up the scent. (Er, but not a humble, drab, brownish one.) I haven't laid any odds with anyone about where you might wind up. But I'm thinking Lithuania might be the way to go. Oh, right — Bolivia, not Uruguay. I think I was remembering a commenter at your place who suggested the latter, but I forgot that you’d pretty soundly rejected that option!

Naturally, your mentioning Butch and Lefors sent me off, bounding over the Internet’s moors and baying every time I picked up the scent. (Er, but not a humble, drab, brownish one.)

I haven’t laid any odds with anyone about where you might wind up. But I’m thinking Lithuania might be the way to go.

]]> Comment on Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, “Home” by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/comment-page-1/#comment-45987 John Fri, 18 May 2012 15:53:27 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10843#comment-45987 On some visit, someday, I really need to see something -- maybe <em>anything</em> -- at <a href="http://countbasietheatre.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the Basie Theatre</a>. You've told me of so many performances I would've loved! About "This Must Be the Place/Naive Melody," <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Must_Be_the_Place_(Naive_Melody)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> quotes Byrne: <blockquote>That's a love song made up almost completely of non sequiturs, phrases that may have a strong emotional resonance but don't have any narrative qualities. It's a real honest kind of love song. I don't think I've ever done a real love song before. Mine always had a sort of reservation, or a twist. I tried to write one that wasn't corny, that didn't sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded; I was pretty happy with that.</blockquote> On some visit, someday, I really need to see something — maybe anything — at the Basie Theatre. You’ve told me of so many performances I would’ve loved!

About “This Must Be the Place/Naive Melody,” Wikipedia quotes Byrne:

That’s a love song made up almost completely of non sequiturs, phrases that may have a strong emotional resonance but don’t have any narrative qualities. It’s a real honest kind of love song. I don’t think I’ve ever done a real love song before. Mine always had a sort of reservation, or a twist. I tried to write one that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded; I was pretty happy with that.

]]> Comment on The World Was Too Much With Them All by John http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/the-world-was-too-much-with-them-all/comment-page-1/#comment-45984 John Fri, 18 May 2012 15:13:39 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10853#comment-45984 So good to see you here, Rachel! And I'm not surprised it was a dog-related post which drew you out. :) Susan Orlean is very, very good at covering (without obscuring) a central core of narrative with these kinds of surrounding-context stories. (You may be familiar with her book <em>The Orchid Thief</em>, which was turned into the movie <em>Adaptation</em>.) Interesting, that knowing a subject fully involves knowing about all the stuff which is <em>not</em> the subject! So good to see you here, Rachel! And I’m not surprised it was a dog-related post which drew you out. :)

Susan Orlean is very, very good at covering (without obscuring) a central core of narrative with these kinds of surrounding-context stories. (You may be familiar with her book The Orchid Thief, which was turned into the movie Adaptation.) Interesting, that knowing a subject fully involves knowing about all the stuff which is not the subject!

]]> Comment on The World Was Too Much With Them All by Rachel http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/the-world-was-too-much-with-them-all/comment-page-1/#comment-45964 Rachel Fri, 18 May 2012 04:22:49 +0000 http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10853#comment-45964 Very cool. I love those kinds of stories, with all the crazy things that people never believe are true, but they are. I've been debating whether or not to buy the book. I think you just helped me make up my mind. : ) Very cool. I love those kinds of stories, with all the crazy things that people never believe are true, but they are. I’ve been debating whether or not to buy the book. I think you just helped me make up my mind. : )

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