newagehuntinggirl.mp3 is my latest effort. I was going through my itunes stuff recording bpm’s using this little utility, and noticed that “Hunting Girl” by Tull and “New Age Girl (Mary Moon)” by Deadeye Dick had almost the same beat. So I played around and got this little number. It’s kinda pleasantly harmonious, especially compared to the creepy monstrosity which was my previous mashup effort. None of Tull’s and very little of Dick’s lyrics survived; it’s mostly riffs and beats.
Category: Personal
American Accent Quiz
| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.” |
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It took an amazingly few questions, most not all that obvious, to peg me.
Via Uncle Bear.
Exploding Head a Side Effect of Aging
On reflection, the thing that most blows me away about finding out where my old classmate ended up is that someone my age, who started out (except for the billion dollar inheritance of course) in the same place as me, could possibly be a player on the global military and political stage. This is aging. First you start to notice that, say, a few pop stars are your age instead of older than you. Then they’re younger. Then most pop stars are younger than you. Then you find yourself in a job where you’re the oldest guy in your department by a few years. Then you move into a job where you’re older than your boss, and that makes you sit down and put your head in your hands.
I have not yet hit the age where the people who run the government are your age, or younger than you. That’s gonna be a tough one. The YouTube generation running the nation, communicating global strategies on their cellphones in txt msgs (omg do u want 2 nvade iraq??? ya u do? me 2 lets do it).
While you’re younger than a certain group of people (pop stars, professional people, politicians, whatever) you can imagine that you could end up as one of them, when you get to that age. 99.9% of us don’t end up as anything but ourselves, of course. And that’s fine, that’s as it should be. But seeing someone you were on the first grade playground with messing with the state of the world (and particularly messing with it in a way you’d never want it messed with) brings home in a forceful way that you’ve gotten to that same age without becoming anything more special than yourself.
Not that, as they said on Seinfeld, there’s anything wrong with that. Just being yourself is all you need to be. But there’s this whole mythology of Getting Somewhere In Life that clings to your brain and wriggles in anger when something points out that it has nothing to do with you.
And of course, the billionaire mercenary warlords and the pop stars and everybody else — they’ve just become themselves too. That’s just what, in rare cases, one’s “self” happens to look like.
Trading Jules for Orzabal and Smith
This isn’t even a mash-up, it’s more of an experiment. People have various opinions on the Gary Jules remake of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.” But I have this “can’t we all just get along” attitude, so of course I took Gary Jules aside and suggested that he speed up his delivery and sing along together with Tears for Fears, everybody happy together. (My initial idea of asking Tears for Fears to slow down to Jules’s speed led to pure fiasco.) So here we have, together on stage for the first time, Gary Jules, Roland Orzabal, and Curt Smith all singing “Schizoid World.”
KEWL headphones
I got an Amazon gift certificate from work for Christmas, and got me some Logitech wireless, Bluetooth headphones. I can walk all over the house wearing these while the adapter’s plugged into my computer. (I can’t seem to get it to Bluetooth directly to the macbook, but that’s OK. So I don’t have to leave Bluetooth on on the macbook. That’s cool.)
I can’t find them on the Logitech home page, which makes me think they’re probably a discontinued model, but googling on the model number gives me lots of results like this one. That’s what I got. And I didn’t pay anywhere near $129 for it. More like just above $30.
In about 10 years, I’ll be using these with the used refurb iPhone I finally get around to buying. Till then I’ll be using ’em with my comparatively humble but makes-me-happy LG VX 8300.