Since Friday, I’ve been listening a lot to Kelly Joe Phelps. He had an album out recently called Brother Sinner & the Whale, which I listened to a bit. But I got sucked in to an album of his entitled Shine Eyed Mister Zen.
This video is one of those things where, once you start watching… you can’t pull away. I don’t speak Korean, and have no idea what the lyrics mean. Still, my brain tries to put some kind of narrative to the visuals I’m seeing, piecing the disparate sequences into some kind of coherent whole.
Dan and Ben filmed a scene.
It was shown to the next team.
They had 1 hour and 1 take
to re-create it from memory.
The video that team made
was shown to the next team,
and so on and so on.
For some reason beyond my understanding, the song that Bugs Bunny first sings in the episode Long-Haired Hare got stuck in my head, a few days ago. And after kind of humming it quietly to myself, I came upon a sudden realization: I could look it up on the Internet!
I’ve never known the name of the song, and I’m not sure why it took me all this time to actually look the thing up. It’s been a bit of a mystery to me, and it’s silly to realize that I could have easily looked this up 5+ years ago.
Lately, I’ve been really enjoying an artist by the name of Sóley, and her album We Sink. The songs are soft and have this slow rumbling, slightly menacing quality to them. In particular, I’ve been really liking the above song, I’ll Drown.
There is a definite Spring/Summer vibe to this song, I think. Or at least, it’s the vibe I’m projecting onto it. Hearing this song makes me think of the outdoors, of car rides and long distances. It’s the feeling of traveling somewhere with a friend or a loved one, and that moment when you realize how contented you are by the journey itself, regardless of whatever destination awaits.
Since I looked up his name again a few days ago, I’ve been really liking this one song by Allen Stone.
Last December, when I got an iPad for Christmas… I installed a ton of new apps on the device, just to try them out. One of the ones I installed was the NPR iPad app. Looking around the sections, I happened across this great performance by Allen Stone.
When I first saw this link, I clicked it thinking it would be a passing thing – a quick peek, the close the window. But after 30 seconds, I got sucked in and just couldn’t stop watching/listening.
I’m usually not someone who gets fixed on lyrics. Usually the letters of the notes come first to me, before the words to the song. But as I started listening a bit more to the lyrics, I found myself liking the words and notes in equal measure.
I realize it’s getting ridiculous, but man do I love this band. At this point, I should just officially declare this album to be my soundtrack for 2012.
In this song, it’s the refrain that gets stuck in my head. For my ears, Gotye’s voice seems to channel Sting right around 1:35 (when he hits A and B flat). The resemblance is a little uncanny.
I keep getting drawn back to The Low Anthem and their fantastic album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. So many songs that I could loop, over and over.
The latest for me is Sigh No More, by Mumford & Sons. Having the slow beginning and the build-up in the middle is a nice combination for me, as it feels like the song is slowly rising and cresting repeatedly.
It’s really serious.