I was out at a karaoke bar recently and someone sang 'What It's Like' by Everlast. This somewhat cheesy, quintessentially 90's song came out when I was a teen, and I've always known all the words but somehow I've never really heard them before. Or maybe it's that, being older and having a bit of …
Old music
Been listening to some old songs I haven't heard in a while and it's strange how much music draws you back into the past. What you were doing when listening to the music the first time, with supreme clarity sometimes, can come flooding right back with just a few notes...
AI takeover
I was listening to the radio the other day, and on the pop stations there is a surprising amount of robot-voice or 'auto tune' or whatever you want to call it. I find it strange that this sound could be appealing to anyone, but it seems to be so. What is interesting to me, is …
I FINISHED IT
I got to the end of the Glass Bead Game, finally! And boy... did it disappoint. The final 20% of the book is several poems and three short stories written by the character whose life we just got a long, tired account of. Two of the three stories were actually really good and I thought …
Toto or not Toto
As you may, or much more likely may not have noticed, for a bit more than two weeks I've been roughly inserting song lyrics into my blog posts. Yes, I am a fan of the band Toto. No, I have nothing better to do with my time then figure out how to work lyrics into …
Jonas David 