Have a Holocaustastic workout.
My gym plays classical music in the locker room. It’s generally pretty mellow and unobtrusive, which I suspect is the reason they do it. Most of the time I don’t even notice what’s playing. (Not that I can identify much of it, anyway, despite seven years of orchestra classes. Now you know that when I say I’m "classically trained," all I really mean is, "I don’t have enough soul to play jazz.")
So yesterday, post-workout, I’m going about my grooming business and I realize I recognize the music. I can’t place it at first… it’s sober… haunting… but beautiful… what IS it? Then it hits me: It’s the theme from “Schindler’s List.”
I realize that the gym subscribes to some Muzak-type service for this music, and it certainly hasn’t been tailored for this specific purpose. There is no “classical locker room” compilation they can select. But I’m just glad I had already finished my workout, because damn. That tune doesn’t really rev me up. It gives me more of that “want to curl into the fetal position and quietly weep” feeling.
Maybe I should fill out a comment card and tell them that, along with the fact that I don’t appreciate they’ve started closing the front half of the locker room early. Hmph. That’ll show them.
So yesterday, post-workout, I’m going about my grooming business and I realize I recognize the music. I can’t place it at first… it’s sober… haunting… but beautiful… what IS it? Then it hits me: It’s the theme from “Schindler’s List.”
I realize that the gym subscribes to some Muzak-type service for this music, and it certainly hasn’t been tailored for this specific purpose. There is no “classical locker room” compilation they can select. But I’m just glad I had already finished my workout, because damn. That tune doesn’t really rev me up. It gives me more of that “want to curl into the fetal position and quietly weep” feeling.
Maybe I should fill out a comment card and tell them that, along with the fact that I don’t appreciate they’ve started closing the front half of the locker room early. Hmph. That’ll show them.