Friday Night Music #8: Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

Amazing that our culture produced a hit dance single (in 1991) about a homeless woman putting on makeup and begging for money as she sings. And the beat is 🔥🔥🔥.

Friday Night Music #7: The Sarabande from Bach Cello Suite #2

Bach's six Cello Suites are profound works. Dance-like but abstract, orderly but deeply emotional, and polyphonic even when only one line being is played at a time. This particular movement is the Sarabande (a slow and stately dance) from the second, rather melancholy suite. It is moody and melancholy, almost funereal, but yet occasionally buoyed by a certain... contentment and balance. I love this particularly recording; Peter Wispelwey is playing on an older instrument that's tuned about a half-step lower. Earthy, sonorous, dark, and deep.

Friday Night Music #6: Autechre - Further

The 90's were a great time for a certain introverted electronica that lends itself towards contemplation. Early Aphex Twin, Autechre, Seefeel. My wife says this is good "MRI music" if you ever happen to find yourself in an MRI.

Lynchian Deli and Grocery

I was in a deli and grocery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, after running a 5K with my wife.
I noticed that the deli and grocery had a security camera system, and being somewhat narcissistic, I tried to find myself in it. I noticed myself looking at myself in the display, and was reminded of the scene in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, where FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper steps into a hall at the FBI offices in Philadephia (because he suspects something strange will happen due to a dream he had), and upon looking at the surveillance screen finds that, counter to the laws of time, he is STILL THERE and Philip Jeffries is right behind him.

At any rate, I turned slightly to the left and saw this. I swear this was AFTER thinking about Fire Walk With Me, not before.

In the words of Carl Rodd: "Weird, huh"?

Friday Night Music #5 - Cocteau Twins with Faye Wong

The Cocteau Twins, active in the 80s and early 90s, were unique, but two elements stand out; the brilliant, crystalline, "shoegaze" sound of the guitars and synths (Robin Guthrie's contributions), and Lis Fraser's "voice of god". No other single was able to approximate her brilliant vocals except Chinese singer Faye Wong, best known to nerds as the singer of "Eyes on Me" in the video game Final Fantasy 8. This track was never recorded, as far as I can tell, by Fraser, but features the other Twins. Because Fraser's lyrics were generally not intelligible (at least until relatively late in her career), I don't particularly mind not understanding anything Wong is saying.