Posts tagged with "music"

Stew

It’s rare that some­thing will make me feel for­lorn nowa­days, but every so often, some­thing will set me off. I love to stew in those emo­tions, to appre­ci­ate them when I do feel them. Some songs sound total­ly dif­fer­ent, like Battlecry by Grace Like Winter, but there’s noth­ing like hear­ing the open­ing bars of Oddity by Coal Chamber. A song that makes the skin feel like it’s peel­ing off, that must be loud enough to burn the tym­pan­ic mem­brane. It’s like the body melts, and every­thing fus­es togeth­er.

Eventually, every­thing goes away.

Director

One job I think I could do for the rest of my life is music edit­ing for movies. I would­n’t com­pose my own stuff (because I have no rhythm), but I’d find the right songs for the sound­tracks. I like the idea of being an exten­sion of the direc­tor, hav­ing him or her express them­selves through me, pre­sent­ing a scene in a par­tic­u­lar way. And I think I’d be good at it, which isn’t some­thing I say about a lot of things.

Cutsman

I’ve nev­er heard a song that’s any­thing like Cutsman by HORSE The Band, some­thing I can’t say for a lot of tracks out there now. It’s refresh­ing­ly orig­i­nal, and they make me think of a cross between The Epoxies, and Fear Factory. At times it’s paced and sullen, oth­ers it’s tear­ing the face off the sky. Yet there are melod­ic sec­tions, aggres­sive sec­tions, retro sec­tions, raw sec­tions. One of the most inter­est­ing songs I’ve heard in a while.

The Jeff Identity

Holy fuck, I just found Wizo … Kopfschuss in one of my direc­to­ries. I haven’t heard this song in more than three years. It’s always in a vol­ume of mis­cel­la­neous songs, and I must have skipped over it every time I made my punk playlist. I had total­ly for­got­ten about it, and now remem­ber how much of a kick­ing fuck­ing song it is. It brings me back to sec­ond year, being at Iain’s place, using Slackware for the first time.

It’s odd to hear a song, almost for the first time because it’s been so long, but still know all the notes as they come. It’s like The Bourne Identity where he has no idea how he knows all this ran­dom shit.

Step Into Freedom

I start­ed off the day with my Breathe mix, an ener­getic col­lec­tion of songs that makes me think of deep inhala­tions against a rush of music.

Friday after­noon. I was tempt­ed to leave work ear­ly, but held on until 4:15. I put my head­phones on, and as I stepped out of the build­ing, Honour (Juno Mix) by VNV nation was the first thing to come on. It just floored me. I mean, that song is what I based my Breathe mix on.

Hearing the words, “Notify ground troops”, is the best way to step into free­dom.