More substantive life post later today, I hope, but for now, a complaint: I have been listening to Sirius XM "Lithium" for an hour and 45 minutes straight while doing some marathon cleaning, and I have yet to hear a single female artist or female fronted band ( Read more... )

I can't recall the last time I had such trouble searching for something that should be obvious ( Read more... )

So, people have been talking a lot in the past few days about the ethics of illegally downloading e-books (including international/cross-cultural aspects of the issue). And it brought up a question for me that is very much tangential to the original point. Several people pointed out reasons why illegal sharing of music is not necessarily a good ( Read more... )

camille_is_here just reminded me of something: a couple weeks ago I heard several songs from Anais Mitchell's folk opera Hadestown on the radio, and was mesmerized. "Wedding Song" in particular stood out as a song that might appeal to vidders ( Read more... )

So, I needed to get my hands on a recording of the Ring. I went to Amazon to research my options, and discovered that Wagner fans are an opinionated lot *g*. There are many choices, and many lengthy, passionate reviews written for each one, and even arguments in the comment threads of the reviews. I ended up going with Clemens Krauss conducting ( Read more... )

You can download Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come, arguably one of the top ten jazz albums of all time, from Amazon for 99 cents, today only.

sweetestdrain's excellent SCC vid set to "Gloria" has brought back dim memories of some sort of fannish tie-in with Patti Smith's "Horses". It might have been a vid, but probably not. Maybe good old-fashioned song fic, or even a scene from a fannishly popular TV show or movie set to that song. (I remember the lengthy Millennium montage -- that's not the one ( Read more... )

Consider this an early contribution for IBARW II. I have no idea what my schedule will be like that week: if I have time, I will upload each track individually and link to this during the festivities, and if I don't, I won't. I've thought about posting something like this for quite some time, but I don't think I ever got around to it... if I did ( Read more... )

Between finally watching Walk The Line a few days ago, and lim's new SGA vid set to Cash's cover of "The Mercy Seat", it's been a Johnny Cash sort of week. So I was poking around his discography and looked at the track listing for My Mother's Hymn Book. This should tell you something about regional variations in church music: in 18 years of regular ( Read more... )

That was Sunday, and of course we sang "For All The Saints", which is surely one of my favorite hymns. Then I decided to try to narrow down my Top Ten favorites (not including Christmas carols), and I got so distracted flipping through the hymnal that I completely tuned out the rest of the service ( Read more... )