A trip down Memory Lane with the Eurythmics, and
a lullaby from Steely Dan.
"Some prefer more rural tunes . . . "
"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."
* See a Log24 post of April 26, 2023.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Into the West: Coachella* Concert
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley
This journal on April 19, 2004 —
"Follow the fellow who follows a dream."
Melissa Errico
in Finian's Rainbow
"Give her a song like … 'Look to the Rainbow,'
and her gleaming soprano effortlessly flies it
into the stratosphere where such numbers belong.
This is the voice of enchantment…."
"Follow the fellow…." Or the girl.
See posts now tagged Birthday Girls
in honor of a Coachella Valley native
born on September 27, 2002.
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
In Memory of Dan Einstein
Einstein, a former operator of independent record labels, reportedly
died at 61 on Jan. 15 in Nashville.
See as well a record label in this journal from the eve of his death —
— and an independent work of graphic art, also from 6515 Sunset Blvd. —
Related art . . . Test Patterns (May 10, 2014).
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
New-Age Trinity
"Taken together, vibe, mood, and energy formed
something like a loose philosophical system.
They presented the world as a swirl of forces
that eluded capture in rational thought, but that
could nevertheless be acutely sensed and even
influenced with the right kind of effort."
— Mitch Therieau in The Drift , Jan. 19, 2022 —
https://www.thedriftmag.com/vibe-mood-energy/ .
See as well Pacific Rimming and Black Sparrow.
Related cinematic lore:
Cailee Spaeny and The Drift in "Pacific Rim: Uprising," as well as . . .
Related tune: "Gimme the Beat Boys."
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Update of 4:16 PM ET Friday, Jan. 21, 2021 —
From https://dash.harvard.edu/
bitstream/handle/1/39988028/
GRIETZER-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf —
Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System
A dissertation presented by Peli Grietzer
to The Department of Comparative Literature
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
the subject of Comparative Literature,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
November 2017 —
[Edited to emphasize key notions]
"On the picture that I am suggesting, there exists a reciprocity between
the structure of our sensibility or sensible cognition (system),
the structure of our affective life or social experience (mood),
and the structure of our social-material performance or production (style/vibe)
— a reciprocity whose approximate equilibrium or ‘metastable state’ binds
the cognitive, affective, and material aspects of life into a coherent lifeworld
or ‘totality.’ One way to tell the story of this reciprocity is as follows. The system
of our sensibility—our faculty of sensuous cognition that discloses objects, properties,
and patterns—recapitulates the structure of the social-material world. We continuously
calibrate our sensibility by attuning it to our social-material world’s dominant patterns
and forms, adapting our powers of apperception to the task of navigating our
social-material world." (Pp. 145-146.)
Compare and contrast the following trinities:
Related tune — Meat Loaf at the Ryman, "Two out of three ain't bad."
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Sunday, January 16, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
Trick Question
In David Mamet's TV movie "Phil Spector," set prior to Spector's
first, 2007, trial, Helen Mirren holds up a 45 rpm record and asks
a younger lawyer . . .
"Now, what is this?"
Actually, it's something to do with 6515 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles:
A graphic image from the current business at 6515 Sunset —
Related art . . . See Test Patterns (May 10, 2014).
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Infectious
The record-label address in the previous post suggests . . .
"The infectious '1650 Broadway Medley,' a mash-up
of the sounds from the era, spanning 'Yakety Yak,' to
'Love Potion No. 9,' is also joyously performed by the
ensemble."
Some prefer more rural tunes —
"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
(Belated) Meditation for New Year’s Day, 2022
"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"
See also . . .
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