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grigorss - 2007-02-17 17:56:14
RE: "Veiled Conceit" -- I have to say, Ms. Carino, you truly have a knack for picking out the best of the most spiteful; the crossword couple piece was particularly vicious -- but really the whole thing just fills my black little heart with gooey glee...
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Adam - 2007-02-17 18:44:25
Veiled Conceit guy used the word "chiasmus". Awesome. Awesome.
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2fs - 2007-02-18 00:12:32
Hmmm - that Silmaril band is pretty obscure, judging from the lack of info online anyway. I could find only one other site that mentioned them. I was curious, because I was wondering whether any band members went on to do other stuff locally that I might have heard of. The most notable late- or neo-psychedelic band from Milwaukee is, of course, Plasticland - who began in the late '70s/early '80s as Arousing Polaris - but I can find no connection. Anyway, the two Silmaril tracks at their myspace site sound interesting - I'll have to check that CD out.
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Greg - 2007-02-18 10:56:16
One of the girls at work has to sell plaques and framed prints of wedding announcements and vows. It can be pretty entertaining stuff--funny that this guy's whole blog is focussed on that stuff though. Pretty entertaining.
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Greg - 2007-02-18 11:06:02
I don't know much Christian music at all, but admit that I've got an unfair tendency to dismiss it, based on what little I've actually heard. That confession aside, there's this guy Phil Keaggy--the guy from Glass Harp. He's really good--I heard about him first from an old Hendrix interview--someone asked Jimi what it was like to be the best guitarist in the world and he replied that they'd have to ask Phil Keaggy. That's a pretty awesome recommendation.
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Greg - 2007-02-18 11:39:44
Holy crap! This Veiled Conceit guy is funny. He must be a professional writer... if not, his talents are wasted.
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Baby Party - 2007-02-18 11:55:18
Veiled Conceit has made my month. Thank you, thank you!
When I lived in New Orleans, my friends and I would play a game where we'd read each other the wedding announcements, and then we'd have to guess where the couple was honeymooning (always mentioned in the last line). We got pretty good at guessing based on certain clues (education, occupation, parents' occupation): Florida, Hawaii, the South of France...But I'm not good at this game for NY Times announcements; I'm not familiar enough with the cultural signifiers in the Northeast as opposed to the South.
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Whip Newell III - 2007-02-18 20:20:46
Laugh laugh laugh, you peasants! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to sip Moet on my yacht. We're in Antigua now and Mum and Dad just bought out your employers.
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Paula - 2007-02-19 10:03:45
I don't know much Christian music at all, but admit that I've got an unfair tendency to dismiss it, based on what little I've actually heard. Silmaril were just Catholic guys who met and formed a band and their lyrics have some Christian imagery. And the Danielsons who I sort of jokingly compared them with are just doin' their crazy thing.
Is it possible that you mean you haven't heard a lot of "Christian Contemporary Music"--which is a genre and industry unto itself? Because that's not what I'm referring to here.
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Greg - 2007-02-19 11:34:06
Ahhh, that is what I meant. I actually haven't listened to the Danielsons but I had assumed that's what they were about.
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Paula - 2007-02-19 14:55:38
Nope, the whole Danielson enterprise is pretty "outsider."
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Greg - 2007-02-19 17:29:51
Well, I went and listened to these Danielsons, and lesson learned. No more unfair, undeserved lumping from this corner...
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2fs - 2007-02-19 23:44:06
Re "Christian" music: the problem is it's inevitably more a marketing category than anything else...since a G-flat can espouse no particular belief system. I have plenty of records by Christian bands (on Christian labels even) which you wouldn't know were Christian except for the dedication on the label that says something like "All praise and glory to Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour" (I think that's the exact phrase Starflyer 59, for example, uses). Yes, lyrics can be overtly Christian...but lyrics rarely define a musical genre, since you can put the same lyrics in any number of different musical settings.
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Paula - 2007-02-20 02:53:21
Re "Christian" music: the problem is it's inevitably more a marketing category than anything else.
That's what I was trying to get at in my comment above, maybe I wasn't clear. Except for Gospel and CCM (and I'd include Tooth & Nail type acts in that), it doesn't make sense to lump Christian acts together...it'd be like lumping Yusuf Islam and Abdullah Ibn Buhaina together as "Muslim music."
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Greg - 2007-02-20 08:43:58
Well... I can't explain my discomfort with Christian music and it doesn't make sense. I love traditional gospel. I love religious music and spiritual music from other cultures. Most of my favorite reggae has distinctly religious messages. It's a prejudice I should get rid of.
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