Dec 212008
Let’s hear it once again for the ol’ untrustworthy narrator. Randy Newman sums up the eternal struggle between the haves and have nots in slightly over 3:30 with “My Life Is Good”.
As always, click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube…that’s right!
We would like to think societies operate within moralities… unfortunately it is not so.
In context of West Coast mores; there is nothing east of the Rockies — on the east coast the buffalo still run west of the Allegheny.
In context of a musical more — hmmmm that is difficult. I have not got past a little paradox. If a drummer is beating out a standard march staccato 11/8 rudiment on a bass drum… do I hear the thud or am I measuring intervals of resonant silence between thuds?
This is what I think when I hear this pair of ducks by Randy Newman, originally one of the Lovin’ Spoonful. I don’t care who is boss… never have.
That boy sure can turn a phrase, but I wish someone would have “bossed” him into taking some voice lessons. His life is good because he doesn’t hear his voice the same way that we do.
PD, the sound is not all or nothing; thinking of a certain non linear graphic audio editing program, there’s a transient “peak” that defines the bass drum attack and the rest is decay, all the way to the next transient. In other words, it ain’t all or nothin, it’s a combination kinda grey area.
Like my finances during the holidays….
That reminds me…didn’t Randy Newman just release an updated soundtrack for the original “Dawn of the Dead” movie?
http://paulandstorm.bandcamp.mu/track/day-18-dawn-of-the-dead
Thanks, Boss. That really helps. I can always count on you, Dr J.
I was having a transient mort’o vivente moment there. Much better now.