I have created the single most distubing MP3. I took the audio from a video of a baby laughing in slow motion and combined it with a song by a drone-metal band called Sunn O))). I think it's the greatest thing I've ever done. In my entire life. Listen to it here.
My last few posts have been music oriented and I have no intention of breaking that pattern with this one. Since I got my new Zune and finished ripping, downloading, and retagging my entire music collection, I decided to see if there were any essential albums I was missing out on. I took a look at Pitchfork's list of top 100 albums from the 1990s, and downloaded the top 50. Pitchfork kind of has a reputation of being a little pretentious at times, so I expected that there would be a lot of albums I had never heard of before, but to my surprise there were a few that I had already owned. Go me.
I spent yesterday's Random Crossfade Playback Wednesday listening to everything at once, just so I could get a general idea of what I was getting myself into. As expected, it ranged from pretty okay to pretty bizarre. I intend to spend the next few weeks listening to every album from beginning to end, deleting those I don't care for, and eventually buying those that deserve to stay in my collection. Maybe in the next few months I will tackle the remaining 50 albums from the list.
I am a fan of making odd smart playlists in iTunes. My most recent creation was "ONE HOUR OF SHORT SONGS", which consisted of all the songs in my library between one second and one minute in length, equaling exactly one hour.
With those rules, iTunes was able to create me a playlist with 111 songs. I will listen to it today, exactly once.
Poetic.
I've heard about quite a few cases where you can sync up otherwise unrelated songs and movies resulting in a piece of film that seems completely and eerily intentional. The most famous of these sync-ups is called Dark Side of the Rainbow, which syncs up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz. I've always dismissed these kind of things as people just looking too deeply into it, like this one interpretation of Fight Club and Radiohead's The Bends:
Track One on "The Bends", "Planet Telex", is referred to at least three times within the film.
(a) "'Planet Xerox' was this song's original title, but because Xerox was a copyrighted name, Radiohead changed it to 'Planet Telex.'" Jack: "When deep space exploration ramps up it'll be the corporations that name everything: the I.B.M. Stellarsphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks..."
(b) The pay phone that Jack uses to call Tyler is made by a company called Telnex.
(c) When Tyler disappears and the house is run by his army, Jack refers to the place as "Planet Tyler", a mere two letters away.
Anyway, I ran into this sync-up of a scene from Fantasia 2000 and Tool's 10,000 Days which I feel is pretty neat. I've never seen the original Fantasia nor this remake in 1999, but I basically have to now because it looks really cool. The song isn't bad, either.
I may be more interested in these kinds of things now, but I'm sure it helps if you are familiar with at least the song or the movie. That is probably one reason why I've never been too curious about Dark Side of the Rainbow.
So I guess that means tell me some that you might know about, and I will watch them. Or I won't.