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What a job - Shooting a Ferrari Enzo … darn that’d be a rough day at work.
Though the subset of tumbledry’s viewing audience able to experience this post fully may hover near (or at) 0 people, I nevertheless feel the need to outline my favorite “break-down” in trance music. We’ll begin with a backstory: trance music is a cousin to techno - to me, it is less electronica and more melodic (at least the stuff I like), and when done right it appeals to my sense of cleanliness and precision. If jazz is the old cherry table with fine classic craftsmanship and a lovely patina, then techno is the computer modelled sleek and contemporary Philippe Starck-designed table. Each has their own merits.
But that is neither here nor there.
The bottom line is, on Paul Oakenfold’s definitive two-disc import entitled Perfecto Presents ‘Another World’ lies a mix of the song Flesh by Jan Johnston which is itself a mix of the original “Flesh” by DJ Tiesto. I tend to use this song as the acid test for trance attitude. If the listener likes (or tolerates … sans hitting me) the song, then perhaps I’ll wax appreciative about the great trance album Intuition - if they don’t like it (the general response), I immediately discontinue any trance related discussion. Why make musical enemies? All that said, this song has the most magnificent build up and break down of a simple melody that I have ever heard. I’ve never been able to play it loud enough. Someday, with proper ear protection, perhaps I’ll blow the doors off a room with the SPL required to fully experience this song. Perhaps not.
So there you have it - an entire post about a song you probably can’t listen to, likely don’t care about, and most certainly didn’t ask to hear the details of. You’re welcome!
P.S. My iTunes is set to random and just queued up “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” on the stereo. This, too, is a great song. No I’m not kidding. Stop laughing. Hey - seriously, stop laughing.
Embarass yourself - This fantastic blog entry chronicles the author’s need to explain his restroom activities to a co-worker. I have to admit, I identify with the writer in that I also tend to worry unduly about what others are thinking of me. The consequences of this worry can be serious. And hiliarious.
This morning, at around 12:10am, I purchased a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal with some milk. It was one of those late night food runs that you make when you realize you will have nothing to eat the following day. At this point in the day, I do still have the box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but there is nothing in it.
Man, I love cereal.
“At the library’s entrance stands “Constellation Earth” by Paul Theodore Granlund, sculptor-in-residence at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. The bronze sculpture’s dancing sphere of seven human figures symbolizes the seven continents and the interdependence of human beings. The piece was commissioned for St. Thomas by businessman Thomas Coughlan in 1984. A duplicate sculpture was installed in 1992 in St. Paul’s sister city, Nagasaki, Japan, as a gesture of peace.”
Snickers commercial - Prancing nouget in the middle sings a song of satisfaction … toooo the world. Great ad.
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