tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post5025751655766308516..comments2024-03-03T13:59:25.573-08:00Comments on If You Know What I'm Saying: what i missed last termUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475713415991677653.post-48330132520714828132012-07-20T11:05:19.699-07:002012-07-20T11:05:19.699-07:00once again, took me the best part of a fortnight t...once again, took me the best part of a fortnight to get this actually finished. what is up? well, anyway, <br /><br />next up is... no, i don't even wanna say it in case i jinx it..!<br /><br />1. it really was a serious (attitudinal/energetic/everything else adjustment). part-time to full-time. <br /><br />fixed shift pattern to variable pattern (inc. many evenings). stockroom in the back of a large-ish shop to <br /><br />huge, open-plan call centre with more than 800 employees. that's not even talking about the requirements <br /><br />of the job itself which took weeks and weeks to get used to, there were so many different things to <br /><br />accommodate...<br /><br />2. anyone of my generation, give or take a few years either way, is bound to bear this in (back of) mind <br /><br />whether they like it or no... i first read *hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy* when i was eleven, and <br /><br />re-read it several times over the <br />next few years...<br /><br />3. i used to talk about this quite a bit, back in the early days of this blog. at the church, having taken <br /><br />over with a largely-established readership, i found myself fretting if the site didn't get its thousand <br /><br />hits for the day. naturally i knew that the new one would get nowhere near so much attention, but i didn't <br /><br />really want it to be an issue. still, apparently i was way out in my (under)estimation.<br /><br />4. no, i didn't do a trib this time. what would be the point? he's gone :( what, funerals are for those <br /><br />left behind/ yeah, but this is about celebrating the living remember? anyway, mr lucky may no longer exist <br /><br />in the blogosphere but the man behind the mask is very much still among us, and i am still proud to <br /><br />consider him a (virtual) friend.<br /><br />5. sometimes i go through phases of listening to rock, especially punk and/or metal, even if i am not <br /><br />taking in much "art music". and lon this occasion, there has scarcely even been much of that. just a <br /><br />big... box-shaped... hooooole :-S<br /><br />6. sound is so good on this album that i always figured it for a studio job, but very possibly not by the <br /><br />look of it..? (i don't have the actual liner notes available)<br /><br />7. there had pretty much always been a brass player in the working setup, ever since - well, whenever <br /><br />really. but roland dahinden was the last in that lineage for a while... until thb arrives in 2002. (and <br /><br />since then of course there has very often been more than one, even in the smaller groups: jay rozen on <br /><br />tuba)<br /><br />8. i *think* this occurs in the middle of comp. 211, but i really couldn't be too sure about that now..!<br /><br />9. not quite sure why this surprised me so much... as with the 1989 album mentioned in note 6 above, the <br /><br />sound on the string quartet release is fantastic, and i just assumed it was a studio recording... until the applause at the end of the first piece. (it really need not come as any surprise that b. would attempt such an exploration in the context of a live performance... business as usual, pretty much...)centrifugehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110896886246132385noreply@blogger.com