Sunday, January 11, 2009

Kaiser Chiefs and Current Favorite Playlists


I have gotten a lot of questions the past few weeks about the kinds of playlists I am using the most these days.

So, to answer your questions, this is what the playlists include currently. True to nature, I will be switching to other sounds soon, but for now, this is what they look like:






Work-out Playlist

1) My Friend Dario by Vitalic
2) Come Mona Lisa by Mango
3) Dreamworld by Rilo Kiley
4) Bawitdaba by Kid Rock
5) Busy by K's Choice
6) Destroy Everything
You Touch by Ladytron
7) Angel in Night by Basshunter
8) Gone, Gone, Gone by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss
9) Black Burning Heart by Keane
10) Depeche Mode Remix

Writing/Work Music

It's mostly the Kaiser Chiefs. Because they're great! I think of the Kaiser Chiefs as Oasis on vitamins and melatonin. Their sound is unequivocally indie while retaining a good measure of 'mellow' as well. If you have not checked out their 2008 album, Off With Their Heads, you are, indeed, missing out. It's one of the best albums of 2008. And I'm not just biased. I'm being as fair as my nature allows me to be. Beautiful sound. Wonderful depth!

Cycling Music

Mostly Radiohead.

However, I am shifting gears soon and I will most likely revisit Stereophonics for a couple of days. And Verdi's Requiem will be given some attention too. As will Debussy.
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Genome and Self


An excellent piece!
"As I stared blankly, the interviewer suggested that perhaps it was because I grew up in Quebec in the 1970s when language, our pre-eminent cognitive capacity, figured so prominently in debates about the future of the province. I quickly agreed — and silently vowed to come up with something better for the next time. Now I say that my formative years were a time of raging debates about the political implications of human nature, or that my parents subscribed to a Time-Life series of science books, and my eye was caught by the one called “The Mind,” or that one day a friend took me to hear a lecture by the great Canadian psychologist D. O. Hebb, and I was hooked. But it is all humbug. The very fact that I had to think so hard brought home what scholars of autobiography and memoir have long recognized. None of us know what made us what we are, and when we have to say something, we make up a good story."




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Facebook Revisited

I reactivated my Facebook.
Why?
Because, thanks to my person's help, I won't have to spend time on it and enjoy the ok features it has to offer such as quicker functions than traditional email.
I consider myself a blogger first and no shifting has occurred in the hierarchy, of course.
So, E., a Facebook-er, indeed!




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Paging Mary, Paging Charlie



Best conversation of the week. In hindsight, this IS a truly great conversation.

Since none of you, well but one, was part of this conversation, how would you read it? How much of a context does one need to sort of decode this?



I: Ha. What a There's Something About Mary moment! Bizarre!!

Person: I know those vex you but it's better than having a High Fidelity moment, oder?

I: I suppose so. But I wish had more Lawrence of Arabia moments this week, if you catch my drift.

Person: So, how's the avocado on your veggie concoction? And, I caught the drift but I'm out of film references. Are we watching Benjamin Buttons or Milk? You'd go for Milk but it's Saturday and you might actually go for something less cerebral instead.

I: You're definitely having a High Fidelity moment right now. Totally Charlie. No, I don't want to watch Milk. Or Benjamin Buttons. I want to drink Pellegrino water with lemon and watch two episodes of Flight of the Conchords instead.

Person: It's not TV, it's HBO.





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