Friday, October 24, 2008
The Big 100
Hey, so this is the 100th post on this blog, which is kind of cool and hopefully a testament to something other than my insufferable nerdy-ness and compulsion to discuss music. It's a milestone, however small, and I'm really glad we hit it.
I started writing this blog during my first year of law school when I began to miss the large role music had played in my life. My bass sat untouched in the corner of my office and listening to music was something I crammed in during study breaks. At some point I realized that forcing music into the background was making me unhappy and I decided to concentrate on it in the only way my schedule would allow: writing about it during my spare moments. I was still very excited about what I was discovering and, at the very least, writing a blog would give me a chance to share my appreciation with anyone who cared. It proved to be a great escape during long nights in the library and pushed me, however slightly, to analyze how I experience music and what attracts me to certain styles and sounds. I think we can learn a lot about someone by analyzing their taste in art and music is certainly no exception.
I named the blog after a line ("I spent seventeen nights in the city") from the Blood Brothers' "The Face in the Embryo," an edgy, progressive hardcore song off their first full length, recorded when they were still teenagers. I think the phrasing creates this image of an exciting metropolis, one that you only visit and where the length of your stay is measured in nights. I've always found dense metropolises exciting and vibrant and I think it was this excitement, unpredictability, and energy that I especially missed during my fist year of law school when I was alternatively stranded in my apartment, the law school, or neighborhoods in walking distance. It seemed like a good name and, hey, it's obtuse enough to sound sort-of cool, if things like that are still cool. I don't really know.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for reading. I really appreciate it.
The Blood Brothers - "The Face in the Embryo"
I started writing this blog during my first year of law school when I began to miss the large role music had played in my life. My bass sat untouched in the corner of my office and listening to music was something I crammed in during study breaks. At some point I realized that forcing music into the background was making me unhappy and I decided to concentrate on it in the only way my schedule would allow: writing about it during my spare moments. I was still very excited about what I was discovering and, at the very least, writing a blog would give me a chance to share my appreciation with anyone who cared. It proved to be a great escape during long nights in the library and pushed me, however slightly, to analyze how I experience music and what attracts me to certain styles and sounds. I think we can learn a lot about someone by analyzing their taste in art and music is certainly no exception.
I named the blog after a line ("I spent seventeen nights in the city") from the Blood Brothers' "The Face in the Embryo," an edgy, progressive hardcore song off their first full length, recorded when they were still teenagers. I think the phrasing creates this image of an exciting metropolis, one that you only visit and where the length of your stay is measured in nights. I've always found dense metropolises exciting and vibrant and I think it was this excitement, unpredictability, and energy that I especially missed during my fist year of law school when I was alternatively stranded in my apartment, the law school, or neighborhoods in walking distance. It seemed like a good name and, hey, it's obtuse enough to sound sort-of cool, if things like that are still cool. I don't really know.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for reading. I really appreciate it.
The Blood Brothers - "The Face in the Embryo"
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