Category: Music

This year’s DAMOP meeting is in State College PA, which has good and bad points. It’s not exactly a tourist Mecca, but then that means I won’t feel bad spending all day in physics talks. It’s also probably relatively cheap, unlike Calgary last year. But the most important feature of the location is that it’s… Continue reading Fines Doubled in Work Areas

The new Death Cab for Cutie album was released last week, and I’ve been intermittently earwormed with the first single, “I Will Possess Your Heart.” And, wow, is that one of the creepiest songs ever– you get the sense that he’s not entirely sure whether he needs to possess the rest of her, or if… Continue reading Non-Dorky Poll: The Creepiest Song in the World

There’s been a lot of talk about REM’s decision to finally sound like a rock band again for their new album, Accelerate. I rather like the first single, “Supernatural Superserious,” which sounds like the REM I remember, rather than some bloodless adult contemporary act. So I bought the album, and it’s been of shuffle play… Continue reading Accelerate and Switch

I’m typing this on the tablet in my in-laws’ kitchen, while Kate sleeps in– we’re in Boston for a wedding, heading back home this afternoon. I need some sort of post to keep things going on our travel day, and I see Scott doing the guess-the-lyrics thing, so that’s as good a topic as any.… Continue reading FutureBaby Guess-the-Lyrics

I picked up the new Rustic Overtones album a week or two ago, partly on the strength of this review at 75 or Less, but mostly because I really liked “Hardest Way Possible” off Viva Nueva, and can’t understand why it wasn’t a huge hit. (The self-cover on this album probably indicates that the band… Continue reading Political Songs That Don’t Suck?

I’m looking for some recommendations of music in the instrumental jazz sort of vein, and I figure this is an area in which the Internet knows more than I do. I have some fairly idiosyncratic constraints, though, so please read the whole post before recommending stuff in comments. Background: For reasons that don’t bear going… Continue reading Jazz Recommendations?

In which I steal post ideas from Kate: The following are two-word phrases from songs in my iTunes library that ought to be enough to identify the song in question. Leave your guesses in the comments: Pre-Raphaelite curls Chrome horse Pink torpedo Jasmine tea Ashtray floors Quartet practiced Lickety splitly Burnt sienna Guaranteed personality Danville… Continue reading Two-Word Lyrics Quiz

We had an appointment yesterday for a fetal echocardiogram, to look for heart problems that might’ve caused the scary first trimester screen result back in January. This was basically a high-resolution ultrasound focussed on the heart (with Doppler velocity imaging to look at blood flow), and after half an hour of looking at FutureBaby’s heart… Continue reading FutureBaby Playlist: T-Z