More gift music

Gye Greene has been playing the Devo cover of Nine Inch Nails' ''Head Like a Hole'' fairly frequently over the last few weeks. I may, or may not, have mentioned that we have decided to cover this song.

This morning, I found myself singing it, and realized that it would make an excellent candidate for our ''gift music'' concept album.

I can already foresee the shape it would take. It would have several distorted electric guitar parts, but -- due to our self-imposed limitations --no synthesizers. Any basslines would be performed on the piano, which would actually work well and give the song some power. And the drums we would be ''allowed'' to use would be a rack tom, a floor tom, and a kick drum -- all very ''lower-octave'' and thus powerful -- but also potentially cluttered and indistinct. The ride cymbal will add some distinction, but it will also have to serve as a crash: to prevent ''choking'' the ring-through, we will have to track the two roles separately.

This will be an interesting challenge. Hopefully, the end result will be enjoyable, rather than just the result of an intellectual and artistic exercise.

This will take place when GG finishes his Dissertation, of course. :)


--TG

Illusion website

This is from today's edition of an e-mail newsletter called "This is True'', to which I subscribe.

''BONZER WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: http://www.2loop.com/3drooms.html -- 3D Painted Rooms. This page, on a site essentially filled with time- wasting fun stuff, is simply cool: seemingly nonsensical interior paint jobs suddenly pop into very sensical patterns when you look at them from the exact right spot, sometimes looking as if the *air* in front of you is painted. It's how I wish I was able to paint my room when I was a kid.''

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--TG

Strange public toilet

Gye Greene's sister e-mailed with this interesting public toilet in Switzerland. It is apparently part of some art installation.

Essentially, the cubicle or mini-building is out on the sidewalk, and consists of one-way glass: people can not see in -- but you can see out (as you are sitting on the toilet). Creepy.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/toilet.asp

The rhetorical(?) question asked is ''Could you use this toilet?''


--TG