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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2024-10-20 12:14 pm
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[401] but thinking young and growing older is no sin

The sky this morning was doing that weird thing where the clouds are low enough to catch and scatter particular light sources, so there's just this big glowing white cloud hovering somewhere high above... I want to say the airport? set against the black night sky. Pretty neat! All hail!

Had a weird moment yesterday where the customer I was helping on the left side of my cube was somebody I went to high school with but never knew, and the customer I was helping on the front side of my cube was one of my high school teachers, and it was like... we're all just a bunch of adults with cars now, huh? Huh!

Off to Calgary in the morning. Very nervous about pretty much every possible aspect of the next week and beyond. So much to do tonight, but I still have many, many more hours of work until I can go do them. At least they should be quiet hours.

Saw Smile 2! Liked it even more than the first one! It had all of that movie's faults (simplistic themes hammered endlessly home, an overreliance on jump scares when the central conceit is scary enough on its own) and also kinda added a new one (never being able to tell what's real papers over infinite screenplay weirdness here) while doubling down on how hard it goes on pure execution and throwing in a much cooler protagonist for good measure. I don't want to see a remake of Possession! Force Parker Finn to just make one of these every two years forever!



Wikipedia Sez: The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the fifth album by the American rock band the Byrds, and was released in January 1968, on Columbia Records. The album represents the pinnacle of the Byrds' late-'60s musical experimentation, with the band blending together elements of psychedelia, folk rock, country, electronic music, baroque pop, and jazz. With producer Gary Usher, they made extensive use of a number of studio effects and production techniques, including phasing, flanging, and spatial panning. The Byrds also introduced the sound of the pedal steel guitar and the Moog modular synthesizer into their music, making it one of the first LP releases on which the Moog appears.

Genre: Pop/Rock

Styles: Country-Rock, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic/Garage, AM Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock

Release Date: January 15th, 1968

Prior Familiarity: Loooooooow.

What I Did While Listening: My now-usual post-work tidy up, I'm getting better at this routine. Time to leave town for a week for work! Fuck!

Verdict: Weird album! Starts off as pretty straightforward folksy country that is very much my speed, but didn't actually leave much of an impression, and then just goes completely off the rails in ways that are much more memorable, but which I didn't actually enjoy as much? And then it actually managed to become the (very, very) rare album in which bonus edition backmatter tracks actually add to and improve the experience?? A Moog instrumental track! Their version of that goofy David Crosby song about threesomes! And a huge argument between the band members while they were in the middle of trying to record that one song about dolphins or whatever that ends up being the most delightful and compelling thing on the record somehow. Love it!

Favourite Song: I'm going to say Goin' Back, just because I didn't care for it the first time but actually quite liked it by the time I got to the extended/alternate version at the end of the re-issue bonus tracks? Weird!

Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Okay, back to panicking!

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