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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Music and Milestones - daily goodness

Wow, day 2 and this "identifying good stuff" got hard. I suppose this is the reason for me ditching my other attempts.

Okay... think goodness...

  • Discovering new music. I recently discovered Nouvelle Vague - Bande a Part. Whoo, I am in love. From Amazon.com:
    In 2005, the French duo's eponymous debut introduced their singular take on post-punk nuggets by the likes of Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tuxedo Moon, and The Undertones, recasting them as svelte, sophisticated bossa nova-inflected chansons. This follow-up is a beguiling, retro-futurist odyssey, containing covers of Echo & The Bunnymen, The Buzzcocks, Lords Of The New Church, Billy Idol, U2, Blondie, New Order, The Cramps, Bauhaus, The Smiths, and more. "...a beautiful, melancholy exercise in deconstructing familiar songs and reassembling trace amounts of the melodies into fresh music" - Boston Globe. "Fresh (and refreshing) takes on these classics...The songs are so wildly different in their dreamy form that they stand on their own" - Flaunt.
  • Reaching milestones.
    Today is 2 years minus 1 month for the boy and me. We'll be spending our actual 2nd anniversary somewhere in the Rockies *love*




6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yay good things!

2:52 PM, November 30, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oooo- I do love bossa nova...

Oh, and congrats!

3:38 PM, November 30, 2006

 
Blogger Michelle said...

oh, that's cool to hear that nouvelle vague is good! i don't know much about new music, but i remember hearing about them playing once, and wanting to go, cause, you know "french new wave" -- i'm a huge truffaut fan, though i'm sure it's not much related. like they have songs that go "antoine doinel...likes a girl...gets rejected....as always!"

happy 2-1!

10:27 PM, November 30, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I LOVE Nouvelle Vague! A friend gave it to us at our housewarming party and we listen to it all the time! Good to see that there are others out there!

12:42 PM, December 02, 2006

 
Blogger mishka said...

Lisa - I just checked out your blog... and I know who you are. We're kind of a couple of people removed, but I worked with your brother and I know people who went to school with you. Small world, isn't it??

5:15 PM, December 02, 2006

 
Blogger gwern said...

congrats!

and nouvelle vague are great! french music....aaaaahhhh. :)

4:40 PM, December 05, 2006

 

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