Another episode from the Arkansas Hall Soundtrack, this one features the amazing percussive abilities of some of my hallmates when they get hold of some snare sticks whilst listening to loud music.
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That silly shipping commercial
11-Mar-04
I heard this on some shipping commercial a while back and knew it sounded oh so familiar. Then randomly hear my boss in the music library listening to it when I get to work today, so the mystery is solved. Enter Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3, movement 2:
Download Audio: It gets stuck in my head, too
You gotta start somewhere
08-Mar-04
Hollywood has never been known for its accurate representation of reality, and one area especially it never gets right is the realm of the school band. Even more popular movies such as Mr. Holland’s Opus feature phenomenal musicians compared to the reality of what a school band typically sounds like. For those of you who have never experienced it, here’s a little taste of beginning band.. flute class to be exact.
Download Audio: Beginning Flute Class
Schoolbus on a walk
06-Mar-04
It has been absolutely gourgeous the last few days. I took my MD on a walk the other day just for the heck of it. While I was walking around my apt. I happened to walk by the office just as the schoolbus was dropping off kids. This is a snapshot of my walk by the schoolbus while the kids were unloading.
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The dorm I lived in my freshman year of college was notorious for housing all the freshman riftraft and my hall on the third floor set that standard. Besides activities like room to room porn distribution (occasionally tacked up in the bathroom) and the infamous peanut butter shower bandit (don’t ask) it was usually chaotic and loud. That all the other people were very friendly and social didn’t help either. My roomate and I were both quiet computer geeks and mostly kept to ourselves, trying to either ignore or endure the chaos .
Eventually I decided that since the noise wasn’t going away, I might as well try to record some of it to enjoy for later. Unfortunately, I lost all the original .wavs so all I have left are poorly encoded .mp3s, but they still capture the moment well enough. This one is a recording of the general noise one could expect at any given time of the day or night, displaying the typical volume level of my oh so lovely neighbors.
Download Audio: Absolut Insanity