I don’t know if it’s cool to like Mumford & Sons now, or if they’ve already moved on to overplayed and overrated.
I remember when Coldplay was the hippest band around and then a year or too later they were the punchline of a “You know how I know you’re gay?” joke in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I have the feeling that Mumford & Sons is on the brink of that conversion.
Here’s a nice marriage of art and science. Alexander Chen, of the Google Creative Lab, programmed this visualization of an isolated Beach Boys vocal track based on the aural dynamics of church bells.
In his words, “Using a mathematical relationship between the circumference of a circular surface and pitch, I wrote code that draws a circle for each note of the song.”
I’ve been writing this blog long enough now (more than 5 years without missing a day!) that sometimes previous posts are completely new to me.
When Thisway popped up as today’s Random Weekend selection, I started writing about how I have no recollection of how I discovered this band and their one album in the late 90s. But the sentiment felt vaguely familiar, so I search the Meet Me In Montauk archive and, sure enough, I’d written just that already.
Through the first seven months of 2013, I’ve seen only 11 movies (they’re listed over on the right). That’s pretty sad by my standards, even given the fact that my in-theater movie consumption has decreased in recent years.
I can name about ten more that I wish I’d seen (and will catch up with on DVD, I hope), but none that I’m truly kicking myself over.
However, the back half of the year promises to deliver a bunch of films with real potential. I have identified 16 upcoming movies I’m eager to see and listed them below in order of least to most anticipation.
For the record, the final episodes of Breaking Bad take the crown as the work I’m most dying to experience, but these big-screen efforts are next in line.
One of the reasons I love Fountains of Wayne is that their lyrics are so straight-forward and relatable.
They write about people who might live in your neighborhood, pass by you on the highway, sit in the cubicle next to yours at work.
But today’s random SOTD, ‘Cold Comfort Flowers’ from the band’s last album, Sky Full of Holes, is a different ballgame.
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