Immersed / Crawling Inside Speakers
November 05, 2004, 01:35 pmI got JV's Cellar Door and Time Travel is Lonely albums on 180-gram vinyl the other day. I love them.
I've been actively listening to music. Of course, I listen to music all day during work and when I'm driving, but I've realized that I rarely do nothing but just listen to music. So that's what I've been doing the past few nights.
I also finished Ronnie Spector's biography, Be My Baby and it was pretty interesting. A lot of the crazy-Phil-Spector stuff I knew before, but I didn't know how much John Lennon had the hots for her, or that she and David Bowie had a one-night-tryst. Scandalous!
Towards the beginning of the book, she talked about when she first heard Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers sing Why Do Fools Fall In Love and how she was so completely blown away. And how everytime it would come on the radio, she would turn it up, getting so close to the speaker, almost crawl inside it and wanting to become immersed in the sound.
I was always doing that as a kid: improvising ridiculous speaker configurations around my bed to listen to music. I once slept inside an entertainment center that I had.
Another thing I've been doing lately is actively practicing piano. I'm getting pretty comfortable functionally on piano, but I'd like to get both hands more coordinated and become more expressive. I've also started reading music again, which is slow, but I'm getting better. I've always been able to read rhythm really well, but reading treble and bass clef is pretty tough. Oh well, I guess it just takes practice.