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Hey everyone, it's National Methamphetamine Awareness Day, 2006!
You can read more about it here, as well as at the official White House link above, but may I add my own suggestions for a fine way to celebrate this day, and be aware of meth, in the proper MUSICAL spirit?
Start off easy, with a little something from the Man in Black, then move on . . .
. . . to mid-sixties Dylan (if you have the No Direction Home video, rewatch his crazed riffing on some English store signs at the beginning of Part Two). Then --
-- ease back into the rambling poetry and obsessively lush arrangements of Mr. Van Dyke Parks. I recommend this first album, though a reading of his amazing liner notes from 1972's Discover America would not be inappropriate to accompany the instrumental version of "Donovan's Colours" herein.
Finally, turn up your stereo all the way and slap on all 70-odd minutes of
Reading Lou's liner notes as an accompaniment would also be appropriate here, though I think that Van Dyke's notes should be read quietly, intensely and fast, and Lou's should be read AGGRESSIVELY AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS!
In striking things from the Havel Festival, I wound up walking away from The Ohio Theatre with an early-60s Magnavox "Stereophonic" console turntable -- it had been acquired here by the company from Bloomington, Indiana
that presented Havel's Unveiling, and they didn't feel a need to schlep it back home when they were done. Berit has plugged it in and says the turntable actually works (at least, it turns), so I just need to borrow a dolly from my super and roll the heavy thing from the car to here, and hope that it has a working stylus and the tubes inside are A-OK (it has tubes inside! it has TUBES inside!). Sometime soon I'll scan and post some of the instruction book for the console here -- the fonts and layout are LOVELY.
If it all works fine, I think the music above will be good to break it in. Though I'll also have to drag out my 45s and give them a spin (it has a big 45 rpm record changer!). Maybe my Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay box set of 45s.
I'll let you know how it goes . . .
You can read more about it here, as well as at the official White House link above, but may I add my own suggestions for a fine way to celebrate this day, and be aware of meth, in the proper MUSICAL spirit?
Start off easy, with a little something from the Man in Black, then move on . . .
. . . to mid-sixties Dylan (if you have the No Direction Home video, rewatch his crazed riffing on some English store signs at the beginning of Part Two). Then --
-- ease back into the rambling poetry and obsessively lush arrangements of Mr. Van Dyke Parks. I recommend this first album, though a reading of his amazing liner notes from 1972's Discover America would not be inappropriate to accompany the instrumental version of "Donovan's Colours" herein.
Finally, turn up your stereo all the way and slap on all 70-odd minutes of
Reading Lou's liner notes as an accompaniment would also be appropriate here, though I think that Van Dyke's notes should be read quietly, intensely and fast, and Lou's should be read AGGRESSIVELY AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS!
In striking things from the Havel Festival, I wound up walking away from The Ohio Theatre with an early-60s Magnavox "Stereophonic" console turntable -- it had been acquired here by the company from Bloomington, Indiana
that presented Havel's Unveiling, and they didn't feel a need to schlep it back home when they were done. Berit has plugged it in and says the turntable actually works (at least, it turns), so I just need to borrow a dolly from my super and roll the heavy thing from the car to here, and hope that it has a working stylus and the tubes inside are A-OK (it has tubes inside! it has TUBES inside!). Sometime soon I'll scan and post some of the instruction book for the console here -- the fonts and layout are LOVELY.If it all works fine, I think the music above will be good to break it in. Though I'll also have to drag out my 45s and give them a spin (it has a big 45 rpm record changer!). Maybe my Yma Sumac Voice of the Xtabay box set of 45s.
I'll let you know how it goes . . .
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Date: 2006-11-30 07:20 pm (UTC)From:googling on "Van Dyke Parks" "Discover America" and "liner notes" ...
Date: 2007-03-12 05:53 pm (UTC)From:Y'see, every so often, I check to see if there's anybody else out there who noticed that blurb on that album describes how the internet operates. AND, it featured what we then thought of as "computer type" in its headline.
I did steal another VDP gimmick for an album of mine (Ayatollah of Understatement, currently out of print) -- like his Song Cycle, I put lyrics on the cover in a way meant to be mistaken for liner notes.
Another out-of-print album of mine, Turbine Thrust Tests was named sort of in homage to Metal Machine Music. It was also truth in advertising, as that's what the album sounds like. It's a noise CD, for people who want to cover up the ambient sound, but don't want to play music. (But it's not needle-in-the-ear annoying. So it's easynoise.)
Re: googling on "Van Dyke Parks" "Discover America" and "liner notes" ...
Date: 2007-03-14 02:55 pm (UTC)From:Hmmmn. Yeah, i can see it.
At the same time, let enough speed-freaks rap enough, and you'll probably wind up with a correct prediction of EVERYTHING that will ever happen (as well as everything that won't).
Perhaps this power could be harnessed in some kind of Minority Report situation or something . . .