{"id":587,"date":"2007-12-05T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:19:34","slug":"winter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/12\/winter-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes, it is a little weird<\/span> flying direct from the resorts of Coolum<\/span> and Coolangatta<\/span> back to a leafless London where the sun sets a little before 4 pm. This is not procrastination, this is a warm-up post after arriving home and trying to write coherent, self-contained posts about the antipodean trip.<\/div>\n
Before I left, I finally got around to putting some music on my dad’s old iPod<\/span><\/a> so I’d have something to listen to on the plane. This means I can follow up Little Miss Bossy’s<\/span><\/a> meme (as have Deceptively Simple<\/a>, The Concert<\/a>, and Soho the Dog<\/a>.)<\/div>\n

1. If someone says \u2018Is this OK?\u2019 you say?<\/span>
“Yesterday When I Was Young” (Buddy Greco<\/span>)
It’s OK, but it used to be better.<\/p>\n

2. What would best describe your personality?<\/span>
“Tu Es La Soleil<\/span> De Ma Vie” (Brigitte Bardot<\/span> and Sacha Distel<\/span>)
I am the sunshine of your lives, but in a language you might not understand.<\/p>\n

3. What do you like in a girl?<\/span>
“Cybersonic<\/span> Cantilevers” (Gordon Mumma<\/span>)
Yeah, well who doesn’t like a nice set of cybersonic<\/span> cantilevers?<\/p>\n

4. How do you feel today?<\/span>
“Study for Player Piano No.7” (Conlon<\/span> Nancarrow<\/span>)
According to Kyle Gann<\/span>, I am feeling something like a sonata<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. What is your life\u2019s purpose?<\/span>
“Magnetizing” (Handsome Boy Modelling School with Del Tha<\/span> Funkee<\/span> Homosapien<\/span>)
All my life, I have stroked myself in one direction to attract ferrous materials.<\/p>\n

6. What is your motto?<\/span>
“Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City” (Yoko Ono\/Plastic Ono Band)
“Greenfield Oriens<\/span> Ego Pulsus<\/span> An Cassus<\/span> Infantia<\/span> Gero<\/span> Totus<\/span> Super Urbs<\/span>” looks better on my family coat of arms.<\/p>\n

7. What do your friends think of you?<\/span>
Nicolas Slonimsky<\/span> at the Berkeley Piano Club, 1971<\/a>
They think I’m witty, talented, erudite, charming, and older than god.<\/p>\n

8. What do you think of your parents?<\/span>
“Elemental Procedures” (Morton Feldman<\/span>)
It seems I have a rather Beckettian<\/span> attitude toward my conception.<\/p>\n

9. What do you think about very often?<\/span>
“Konx<\/span>-Om-Pax<\/span>” (Giacinto<\/span> Scelsi<\/span>)
I am closer to Richard Gere<\/span> and Bono<\/span> than I realised.<\/p>\n

10. What is 2+2=<\/span>
“Post-Prae<\/span>–Ludium<\/span> Per Donau<\/span>” (Luigi Nono<\/span>)
[tuba solo]<\/span><\/p>\n

11. What do you think of your best friend?<\/span>
“Theme from Swan Lake” (Takeshi<\/span> Terauchi<\/span> and The Bunnys<\/span>)
A Japanese surf group covering a classical chestnut. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

12. What do you think of the person you like?<\/span>
“Half A Canyon” (Pavement)
American indie slackers pretending to be Stereolab<\/span>. Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

13. What is your life story?<\/span>
“Winter (Hostel-Maxi)” (The Fall)
Going somewhere cold, bleak, and British. Yep. I’ll take both of you on! I’ll take both of you on!<\/p>\n

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?<\/span>
“Identity” (The Gordons<\/span>)
Noisy, obscure, and from New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

15. What do you think when you see the person you like?<\/span>
“Symphony No.4 (Chiaroscuro), 2nd<\/span> Movement: Mystical Plosives” (Gloria Coates<\/span>)
No, I mean it in a good way, don’t you see?<\/p>\n

16. What do your parents think of you?<\/span>
“Computer World (for repeat 1 play)<\/a>” (Kettle)
We don’t understand, but you seem to know what you’re doing.<\/p>\n

17. What will you dance to at your wedding?<\/span>
“The Projects (PJays<\/span>)” (Handsome Boy Modelling School with Del Tha<\/span> Funkee<\/span> Homosapien<\/span> and Dave from De La Soul)
Hell, everyone’s<\/span><\/span> gonna dance to this at my wedding!<\/p>\n

18. What will they play at your funeral?<\/span>
“Kissing Jesus in the Dark<\/a>” (Mystery Labs (John Oswald))
They will want everyone to leave my funeral before it’s over. How very like them.<\/p>\n

19. What is your hobby\/interest?<\/span>
“Study for Player Piano No. 25” (Conlon<\/span> Nancarrow<\/span>)
Time consuming, obsessive, nerdy music stuff no-one was expected to listen to. A little close to home, this one.<\/p>\n

20. What is your biggest secret?<\/span>
John Cage interviewed by Jonathan Cott<\/span>, 1963<\/a>
I am secretly antagonistic toward John Cage, and secretly take Norman Mailer’s gibberish seriously.<\/p>\n

21. What do you think of your friends?<\/span>
“AT&T” (Pavement)
Enjoy them without analysing them.<\/p>\n

22. What should you post this as?<\/span>
“Winter 2” (The Fall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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