Comments for eau et gaz http://eauetgaz.net a bog Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:12:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on acceleradeck, “narcoticbeats” by dbv http://eauetgaz.net/?p=236&cpage=1#comment-193 dbv Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:12:30 +0000 http://eauetgaz.net/?p=236#comment-193 A coda to this: it seems strange that I didn't talk about the role of money in my feelings about this record: for a long time, this was a record that I hadn't paid any money for. This wasn't entirely novel – earlier there had been cassette copies of things, and CD burners let you copy the CDs of otherss – but at the time if I wanted to listen to something interesting I almost always had to pay money for it. Or more precisely: when there was a record I wanted, satisfaction of that desire was almost always contingent on finding that record and paying money for it. The Internet broke that connection: one could want something and get it without having to pay for it. This record isn't the best demonstration of this, because I didn't actively seek it out, as far as I can remember. It was odd, though, to have a record that I liked where my enjoyment of it wasn't related in some way to money. I probably would have bought a copy of this if I could find a copy of it. (The idea of buying records mail-order never really occurred to me at that point – I think – going to the stores, finding the record, paying money for the record, and taking it home was the order of satisfaction. A coda to this: it seems strange that I didn’t talk about the role of money in my feelings about this record: for a long time, this was a record that I hadn’t paid any money for. This wasn’t entirely novel – earlier there had been cassette copies of things, and CD burners let you copy the CDs of otherss – but at the time if I wanted to listen to something interesting I almost always had to pay money for it. Or more precisely: when there was a record I wanted, satisfaction of that desire was almost always contingent on finding that record and paying money for it. The Internet broke that connection: one could want something and get it without having to pay for it.

This record isn’t the best demonstration of this, because I didn’t actively seek it out, as far as I can remember. It was odd, though, to have a record that I liked where my enjoyment of it wasn’t related in some way to money. I probably would have bought a copy of this if I could find a copy of it. (The idea of buying records mail-order never really occurred to me at that point – I think – going to the stores, finding the record, paying money for the record, and taking it home was the order of satisfaction.

]]> Comment on gert wilden & orchestra, “schulmädchen report” by dbv http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186&cpage=1#comment-123 dbv Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:20:26 +0000 http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186#comment-123 You're almost certainly right about Andrew having this first – that makes perfect sense & I don't know how I could have misremembered that. Of course it was Andrew. Alex was responsible for me buying a terrible techno compilation that had "Happiest Feet" on it, which was always playing at the end of the night in Homer Square – maybe I still have a CD of that somewhere? "Happiest Feet" seems to have bypassed the Internet entirely, which is a grave injustice. I don't remember leaving that note, which seems like a horribly pretentious thing to do! Oh youth. You’re almost certainly right about Andrew having this first – that makes perfect sense & I don’t know how I could have misremembered that. Of course it was Andrew. Alex was responsible for me buying a terrible techno compilation that had “Happiest Feet” on it, which was always playing at the end of the night in Homer Square – maybe I still have a CD of that somewhere? “Happiest Feet” seems to have bypassed the Internet entirely, which is a grave injustice.

I don’t remember leaving that note, which seems like a horribly pretentious thing to do! Oh youth.

]]> Comment on gert wilden & orchestra, “schulmädchen report” by Lisa Nosal http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186&cpage=1#comment-122 Lisa Nosal Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:53:30 +0000 http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186#comment-122 The Schulmadchen! I think Andrew Nieland was the original owner, or at least one of them. He used to play it in the Austria/German/Switzerland room. I actually still think of you, and the weird cacophony of the Let's Go office soundtrack, when I play Leonard Cohen, because one day I came to my desk to find that you had put a sticky note on my Leonard Cohen CD giving me credit for "good taste in music." You should probably be glad you were not in the office the summer before that, when Gilbert and Sullivan competed with the Trainspotting soundtrack for most-overplayed. The Schulmadchen were a most welcome soothing, sighing escape. The Schulmadchen! I think Andrew Nieland was the original owner, or at least one of them. He used to play it in the Austria/German/Switzerland room.

I actually still think of you, and the weird cacophony of the Let’s Go office soundtrack, when I play Leonard Cohen, because one day I came to my desk to find that you had put a sticky note on my Leonard Cohen CD giving me credit for “good taste in music.”

You should probably be glad you were not in the office the summer before that, when Gilbert and Sullivan competed with the Trainspotting soundtrack for most-overplayed. The Schulmadchen were a most welcome soothing, sighing escape.

]]> Comment on gert wilden & orchestra, “schulmädchen report” by Posts about music as of August 10, 2009 » BLOGVIDEOS http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186&cpage=1#comment-120 Posts about music as of August 10, 2009 » BLOGVIDEOS Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:55:09 +0000 http://eauetgaz.net/?p=186#comment-120 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]>