change

so it's silly because I cannot find my Here and Now book.

Which means my idea of including some excerpts of it, here in this blog, will not really be able to happen until I find it again. I am unpacking from a month of being away so I am hoping it reveals itself somewhere in the mess of my luggage...

luckily, there are always other things about which one can blog.


inficio - jeng ho

I found a list of "countdown to 2010" songs on a music blog I follow, i guess i'm floating. I like finding new music.

I listened to the song Bradley Bear by a band called Holiday Shores. I had never heard them before but "the underlying 50s theme that explodes into a hip-shaking ending" as well as the "contagious bass" that is "impossible to ignore" as described in its little blurb seemed too irresistible to pass up.

i am music

It is a nice little indie pop tune. I realized, though, that I listened to the bass line in the tune not only based on the songs' description but also because my boyfriend is a bass player, and when we listen to music together he talks about the bass in the music he hears. We were listening to some Kim Walker (et al.) this past week and he mentioned that he started listening to and hearing (and appreciating) vocal harmonies because I sing harmony all the time.

It has struck me lately just how we are greatly shaped by the people who we surround ourselves with. Lately I've been going to Michigan and I don't always hear the (lovely) Michigan accent in the same way I used to. I'm getting used to it! And then sometimes I come home and my friend Mike says he hears me speak with a Michigan accent with some of my words.



i NEVER really listened to the bass in songs before Jesse started talking about it.

humans pick up accents where they go because they hear words pronounced a certain way for so long that it begins to be normal.



isn't that interesting?