in where I look smarter than I am
So occasionally I manage to stuff something into my memory that gets recalled and makes me look like I'm smart. I'll read something on the statue of liberty and it will mention it's height relative to other buildings in NYC and I'll be there the next week and like the best setup someone will wonder out loud how tall a building is and I will know. Years after being in Fluid Movement's production about Baltimore's great fire I was in a cafe that used to be a fire station and had pictures from the 1904 fire and someone commenting on the decor asked me if I knew anything about it's history. Did I?! I treated them to the factual but slightly hallucinatory recollection of both the fire and explanation of the production involving tumbling, fire dancing, flamenco and a giant slip and slide.
Last night in my dorky pursuits I was listening to some Black Eyed Pees to see what they did to Miserlou in Pump It and I wondered over to listen to My Humps. I noticed that it had a phrase that was a lot like the last part of Dvorak's 9th New World symphony. I googled it to see if there was a mashup and yes there was but the rat bastard publishing company for one of the better know recordings wouldn't share the sample on youtube so I had to settle for reading about Dvorak and how misnumberd his symphonies are. Before you think that I am smart and cultured the only reason I know Dvorak is because of high school band class and the last movement in the 9th sound a little bit like the tuba part to Jaws and I got to play fff (triple forte, aka REALLY LOUD) to the pain of the flute and clarinets in front of me at school. I ended up buying a tape of the New World Symphony at some point.
So today, in the free school music theory class we were listening to pieces of music and talking about them and the instructor played a classical piece that he didn't expect us to know. I didn't identify it at first but it was pretty familiar. After he identified it as Dvorak he was trying to remember what piece it was. I then remembered back to the cassette tape and sitting through it to get to the last movement and it's wonderful bombast.
Between that an a long string of thought leading me to reference Allan Parsons Project and Lady Hawk I am pretty firmly the nerd of the class, which is saying something about group that will get together on a weekend night to learn music theory in an uncredited class.
Last night in my dorky pursuits I was listening to some Black Eyed Pees to see what they did to Miserlou in Pump It and I wondered over to listen to My Humps. I noticed that it had a phrase that was a lot like the last part of Dvorak's 9th New World symphony. I googled it to see if there was a mashup and yes there was but the rat bastard publishing company for one of the better know recordings wouldn't share the sample on youtube so I had to settle for reading about Dvorak and how misnumberd his symphonies are. Before you think that I am smart and cultured the only reason I know Dvorak is because of high school band class and the last movement in the 9th sound a little bit like the tuba part to Jaws and I got to play fff (triple forte, aka REALLY LOUD) to the pain of the flute and clarinets in front of me at school. I ended up buying a tape of the New World Symphony at some point.
So today, in the free school music theory class we were listening to pieces of music and talking about them and the instructor played a classical piece that he didn't expect us to know. I didn't identify it at first but it was pretty familiar. After he identified it as Dvorak he was trying to remember what piece it was. I then remembered back to the cassette tape and sitting through it to get to the last movement and it's wonderful bombast.
Between that an a long string of thought leading me to reference Allan Parsons Project and Lady Hawk I am pretty firmly the nerd of the class, which is saying something about group that will get together on a weekend night to learn music theory in an uncredited class.