I took another stab at this tune because I noticed I was paying more attention to the video than just playing the song. And seeing me mauling the uke really doesn’t add much. So I just recorded the audio and dropped in a few goofy stills.
Category Archives: Media & Culture
Another Brick In the Wall
Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ Played on a Traditional Korean Gayageum.
Quit social media?
“My second objection concerns the idea that social media is harmless. Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit of stimulus at the slightest hint of boredom.”
Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. (New York Times)
Dead Professional
Just stumbled across these guys on Apple Music. Reminds me of someone from the sixties but can’t think of who.
Melody Men Quartet
Radio: There will be no more new music formats
Mark Ramsey says the last successful new radio format was the Variety Hits format, “Jack.” I barely remember that format (now 15 years old). Mr. Ramsey says there as been no new youth-based format on the radio fail in generations… and there never will be “but because the tastes are so fractured among millennials that there is no popular thread of music that isn’t already absorbed sufficiently well by an existing format.”
I’m not sure who would care about this theory besides someone who programs a radio station. He offers some insight into who listens to which formats and why but it all seems a bit… academic to me. Like reflecting on Mayan culture.
Swinging On A Star
This tune isn’t ready for the road it’s proof I’m still practicing. Struggling with good clean chords and smooth changes. Once I get this song memorized and can stop looking at the iPad, these will improve.
Gimme Shelter (Playing For Change)
VICE News
Watched my (the) first installment of Vice Nightly News last night. And loved it. But not sure I can describe it. But I’ll try.
- Different look and feel. Black and white graphics. And big. More web-like than TV’ish. Faster pacing.
- No anchor. At least no “talking head” anchor. Just a normal (female) voice over the video and graphics. And the package reporters were normal people as well. Looked like real people and talked like real people. You’ll have to watch this to get what I’m trying to describe.
- Natural writing style. I noticed this immediately. Sharp contrast (for me) to the “news speak” we get from the networks and cable news.
- Watching debate #2 with Glenn Beck. One of the longer segments. A bit like a serious Stephen Colbert interview.
- No ads. Thank you, HBO. Didn’t realize how a dozen adult diapers and Flomax ads trash up a news program.
The producers didn’t just take the ancient evening news format we’ve been watching for 60 years and tweak it. They started fresh. Your grandpa ain’t gonna like Vice Nightly News. But I ain’t your grandpa.
UPDATE: Music critic Bob Lefsetz says Vice News Tonight is “the real thing.”
“The hosts were a cornucopia of sexes and ethnicities. They looked like America. Where everybody is just not an old white man. […] The networks think it’s about slickness. The local stations are a joke, peopled by bimbos, both male and female, it’s a caricature of the news. […] They humanized Glenn Beck, a seeming impossibility.”