‘music’ Archive
This entry was posted December 27th, 2007 and has 1 comment.
There are days every once in a while when I hear a song and, for whatever reason, that song just fits my day perfectly. I was listening to the new Nada Surf album “Lucky” this morning on my way down to DC, when I was struck by the first track, See These Bones. After listening to the entire album, which is pretty good, I played See These Bones again and ended up listening to it on repeat for the rest of the day.
It’s hard to articulate exactly why this happens or even why I like this song so much. Maybe it’s the guest vocals from Ben Gibbard, or the way the song starts off with kind of a heavy feeling then begins to sound more hopeful and joyous as it builds, before reaching it’s climax with layered vocals singing,
“Do you remember when the light was low?
Do you remember it fell?
Do you remember when we went through her house?
Remember ringing the bell?”
and
“Look alive
See these bones
What you are now
We were once
Just like we are
You will be dust
Just like we are
Permanent”
I really don’t know what it is about this song or why I listened to it so much today, but each time it was finished, I wanted to hear it again.
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Posted in Chris Walbert, music
This entry was posted December 13th, 2007 and has 7 comments.
I know every music site or blog out there is putting out their top 50 or 100 albums of 2007 now, so I had to get in on the action. Instead of rating or ranking the albums based on which are the best, I’m just going to share the albums I’ve been listening to most this year.
If there’s something on the list that you haven’t heard, go out and get it. If there’s an album you love that I don’t have, please share it with me. I’m always looking for new music.
So, without further adieu, here are the albums from 2007 that I’ve enjoyed listening to the most.
Continue reading Top Albums of 2007
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This entry was posted October 10th, 2007 and has 4 comments.
As pretty much everyone knows by now, Radiohead released their new album, In Rainbows, today. The album isn’t available in stores or on iTunes, only directly from Radiohead. The band basically shocked the music industry when they announced on October 1st that they would be releasing this album themselves, without the backing of a label. A much bigger deal was the fact that there would be no set price for this album. Instead, Radiohead believed that people, when given the choice, would pay a fair price for the album.
This is genius, and actually works, for so many reasons. First, they didn’t release any promotional copies to radio stations, stream new songs on MySpace (they don’t even have an official page), or allow the album to leak in any way. They merely announced 9 days ago that they had a new album coming out and told you where you could get it.
Continue reading In Rainbows by Radiohead
Posted in Chris Walbert, advertising, business, marketing, music, technology
This entry was posted October 9th, 2007 and has 1 comment.
Last night, I ran my fastest 3-mile run to date. My overall pace was 7:57 per mile, finally breaking that 8-minute mile time. Yesterday was a beautiful, hot, humid October day. After a somewhat trying day at work the run was exactly what I needed.
I decided to run to the song Let Down by Radiohead on repeat. It’s a beautiful song, but not something you’d think of as a running song. For whatever reason, I just wanted the repetition of that song over and over. And each time the song restarted, it was just as good as the first time.
Continue reading Fastest 3 Miles
Posted in Chris Walbert, life, music, running
This entry was posted September 26th, 2007 and has 3 comments.
Let me run an idea by you. This is one of the things that I really enjoy about blogging. Sometimes you just need to get an idea down, and see if it’s worth pursuing.
As anyone who knows me in real life knows, each winter for the past 5 years, whatever house I’ve lived in has hosted a large, semi-formal Christmas Party. Each year seems to get bigger and even more fun. Last year was an absolute blast. Throughout the night we probably had 150 people in our Hampden duplex, each of whom was well-dressed, somewhat well-behaved, and definitely enjoying themselves.
An idea came to me this morning, as we have already begun planning this year’s party.
Continue reading Christmas Party Sponsorship
Posted in Baltimore, Chris Walbert, advertising, business, food, life, marketing, music, technology
This entry was posted July 18th, 2007 and has 3 comments.
How many times are you distracted from what you’re working on in a typical day? What is the longest amount of time you can concentrate without your attention being diverted? What are the things that distract you the most.
Yesterday, I was talking with my buddy Brad about the many distractions that we are provide with in our high-tech world. So I have decided to compile a list of all the things that have distracted me this morning, before noon.
1. Upon first logging on to my computer, Gmail Notifier let me know that I had an important email to read about color options for this season’s kickball tee shirts. Please God don’t let them be red.
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This entry was posted July 16th, 2007 and has no nomments.
This past Saturday evening I saw The Decemberists play with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Merriwether in Columbia, MD. I was lucky enough to receive 2 free tickets from a very generous work acquaintance. We had pretty fantastic seats, probably about 30 rows back. The great seats almost made me not mind paying $9 a beer, almost.
The show was amazing. The Decemberists are great musicians and their sound was only enhanced with the backing of a full orchestra. They played for about an hour, took a 15-minute intermission, then came back for another 40 minutes or so, before one final encore song. As great as the show was, I still wanted more when they were done. An extra 2-song encore would have been perfect.
Continue reading The Decemberists with The BSO - updated with video
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