I remember working music retail on Black Friday, Super Friday, whatever you want to call the Friday after Thanksgiving. For us, it wasn’t too big a deal, since most people didn’t buy music as a gift until the last minute…whatever you call it, I did it in a record store for eleven years. Christmas Eve was always much crazier, with guys (and girls) grabbing a stack of new releases off the front racks no matter what they were…I’m sure somebody got Britney Spears, Yanni, and Ice-T all at the same time once.
Trying to suggest “good music” at times like the Christmas season was tough, though I loved giving grandmas asking for a “good country album” a copy of Hank Williams’ Greatest Hits instead of the latest Garth Brooks release. Invariably, a ticked-off teenager would come return it the day after Christmas, however. Oh well, at least I tried.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Trying out this new look for the blog, l…
Trying out this new look for the blog, let me know what you think.
The MusicArt of James Plakovic
Rummaging around on Google images tonight for a new header image to go with this new theme I’m trying out, I found the fascinating art of James Plakovic. He calls it “MusicArt” because the images are created with actual musical scores, the notes forming the ‘lines’ of the image–not only that, but the scores are actually playable musical pieces.
The sliver in the header above is from “World Beat Music”:
Here’s another one, a crucifixion piece:
The music for that one is especially apropos, very sad and haunting. For more of these images and the sound files that go with them, check out the gallery on Plakovic’s website, which includes these two plus many more from the Beatles to a Warhol style campbell’s soup can.
Music Blogs You Haven’t Heard Of (or Read)
As if I didn’t have enough blogs to read already, the guys at the Hype Machine just posted a list of some very interesting music blogs, none of which I’d ever heard of…I found it from a trackback on a comment to their original post, where one of the bloggers on their list actually recommended THIS blog, a huge compliment. Check out the original blog post and read the comments here.
