Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Sunday, September 06, 2015
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Welcome to Greensboro where you can pick up your guitar and jump through this hoop, then this hoop...
GREENSBORO, NC -- Greensboro City Council decides to worry about some really trivial stuff sometimes and overacts in a manner that serves to keep us tethered to mediocrity. Which would make Greensboro a more fun and interesting place? A $26 million sidewalk around downtown or a lively street scene powered for free by the creativity and spontaneity of local talent?
Yesterday, there was a proud announcement from the City that people wishing to play music in public spaces downtown may now apply for a license to do so online. One still has to go downtown to City Hall to complete the paperwork for a police background check however, so the time and effort the City spent putting half of the process online is, frankly, a rather boneheaded waste—but then, so are the onerous requirements to begin with, the blame for which falls squarely on the hand-wringing ninnies, I mean, elected representatives, who voted for this government overreach.
UPDATE: Per the comments, the ordinance requiring buskers to be licensed and get a background check was adopted by a vote of 8 to 1. The lone vote against was cast by councilman Tony Wilkins.
Yesterday, there was a proud announcement from the City that people wishing to play music in public spaces downtown may now apply for a license to do so online. One still has to go downtown to City Hall to complete the paperwork for a police background check however, so the time and effort the City spent putting half of the process online is, frankly, a rather boneheaded waste—but then, so are the onerous requirements to begin with, the blame for which falls squarely on the hand-wringing ninnies, I mean, elected representatives, who voted for this government overreach.
UPDATE: Per the comments, the ordinance requiring buskers to be licensed and get a background check was adopted by a vote of 8 to 1. The lone vote against was cast by councilman Tony Wilkins.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Wired in with some Argentinian new new age
One of my favorite scenes from The Social Network is when screwed over co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) storms into the office looking for Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) who is working on his laptop with headphones on, oblivious to outside distraction, and Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) tries to wave off the charging Saverin with "He's wired in. He's wired in."
I find that certain aspects of web development take enormous amounts of concentration for me. Coding doesn't come easy or naturally. It helps to get wired in -- headphones on with the right kind of music: no words, nothing too sleepy or frenetic. I like psy trance, down tempo, classical and new age.
I've found a great streaming new age station out of Argentina: Cienradios.com, which you can listen to here. It stretches the boundaries of traditional new age, yet retains that meditative and spiritual essence that is the hallmark of new age. It's not predominately South American, as far as I can tell, but it offers a broader mix than I'm familiar with from U.S. new age stations. Flavors of jazz, spacey and the occasional electric guitar join the familiar lush hypnotics. I find it great for getting wired in.
Here's the scene from The Social Network:
I find that certain aspects of web development take enormous amounts of concentration for me. Coding doesn't come easy or naturally. It helps to get wired in -- headphones on with the right kind of music: no words, nothing too sleepy or frenetic. I like psy trance, down tempo, classical and new age.
I've found a great streaming new age station out of Argentina: Cienradios.com, which you can listen to here. It stretches the boundaries of traditional new age, yet retains that meditative and spiritual essence that is the hallmark of new age. It's not predominately South American, as far as I can tell, but it offers a broader mix than I'm familiar with from U.S. new age stations. Flavors of jazz, spacey and the occasional electric guitar join the familiar lush hypnotics. I find it great for getting wired in.
Here's the scene from The Social Network:
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