Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

I like Balkan music. It's cool seeing people folk dance in 7.

This is but one reason why I like emusic -- there is a lot of interesting stuff on there that I would never find/hear otherwise. Also they have tons of Fania releases.

I need more education on world music. I really like African music from what I can tell, but I don't know if I'm able to narrow it down to a more specific region/country.

Yeah, plus most of the "African" music I listen to is pretty heavily influenced by Western music. I like all the highlife stuff I've heard, some pretty awesome guitar on there.

I end up hearing most non-western music on the radio, although I've got some Brazilian, African, Cuban, and Indian cds that I'm into (mostly drumming-centric stuff).

For African stuff I basically have various afrobeat records + some West African drumming things (Drummers of Burundi = A+).

alice coltrane x2, love that record, yes plz. I had a huge Impulse! phase in college. My other favorite was Pharaoh Sanders - Karma.

This is a totally cool record:

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/CDIMAGES/sea_cov.jpg

When I was in high school my mom went to Eastern Europe on a choir tour and brought me back some really, really bad Czech and Hungarian hard rock CDs.

I really like ska/rocksteady/dub/reggae.

You all should hear this:
http://www.mcdustsucker.de/discography/laswell/images/trance.jpg

I guess I hardly think of Jamaican music as "foreign" at all, just because it's so heavily influenced by U.S. music and vice versa (and the African diaspora blah blah blah).

But you can take that to the extreme that there's no such thing as "foreign" music to United Staters.

Well, yeah, that "Teen Dance Music" record I posted is basically taking western music and playing with Eastern instruments, so it feels less foreign. But it's awesome stuff; even the non-Ennio Morricone tracks sound like Ennio Morricone, played on such foreign instruments.

Sure, "world music" is a pretty meaningless and arbitrary term, but so is every other genre classification.

I like Orchestra Baobob and saw these guys at the African festival a few weeks ago and liked them a lot.

world music = crashing waves, wind in trees

maaaaaan

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S2F6TJ44L._AA240_.jpg

lol at classical loon, awesome band name

So. When a client comes in I always offer them coffee. This one guy came in earlier and I offered him coffee.

He said, "Oh sure, I'll take a decaf."

OUTRAGEOUS!!!

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51578NJYC8L._AA240_.jpg

^^^from the people who brought you wolf eyes, wolf parade, guitar wolf et al

hahaha jazz wolf

hmm, the boss is in today (was off last week for the holiday), and i'm not sure we 'click'. but will probably only interact with her for another few hours. weird lady.

I feel like shit. Weird sort of hangover from food and booze-laden weekend. And I have to meet a guy from WorkerJusticeInc. tonight for drinks and I rrrrreally don't want to.

:(

But you can take that to the extreme that there's no such thing as "foreign" music to United Staters.

True, but I still see a difference between stuff like afrobeat, where the local rhythms are translated to drumset and guitars and keys etc., and musicians trying to play some kind of traditional folk style (which I guess in this case would be the West African drums + vocals groups).

I was image-searching something related to wolves and found this instead:

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/jun02/sfpolka45_front.gif

man of the people

OK. Let's entertain each other. You go first.

I heard a joke the other day but I can't tell it on the internet. I'm going to take a long lunch instead.

I would like to reinstate Thirsty Thursday, or some approximation thereof. Discuss.

Yes.

End of discussion.

^^^^drunks

http://www.xoospace.com/myspace/graphics/24521.jpg

I'm up for the reinstatement of TT, especially now that the FFs aren't doing anything during the week. However, I can't do TT this week because I'm taking the GRE on Sat. and I need to cram this week. I took one of the computer simulations yesterday, I got a 780/800 on the verbal and a 420/800 on the math. ;_;

I don't need math to do library science, right?

OMG GOOD LUCK NICK!

i like the idea of thirsty thursdays, we used to do 'toasty tuesdays' or something similar when i lived here before, and it usually involved margaritas. fun even though i didn't drink back then.

p.s. nick you're going to do great!

I'm up for reinstated Thirsty Thursdays, too. Also, Kr is out of town all this week. Let's party.

The free testing software the GRE people send out when you sign up is PC-only. GOOD JOB!

Fortunately I got some other mock testing software with the prep book I purchased. Only two full tests, but I have four mock paper tests left too.

ps 420/800 for math is not great

though honestly I could be working harder on preparing. I guess that's what the last week is for, though, right?

PCs are the future.

The Mac fad is passing.

Discuss.

How scientific is library science?

They say it's because it's supposed to be an exact representation and they only do the actual testing on PCs, but that's bullshit, like they couldn't slap together a decent facsimile for Mac? I think they are just LAZY.

they are LAZY and they are also ASSHOLES

The Mac fad is passing.

heh. This is why their computer sales (not including iPods) were up 30% from just last year.

Nick... any chance of borrowing a PC laptop for someone for the night, or something?