Culture
I’m not sure I am terribly cultured. I mean, I am a bit, but not much more than cheap pearls or expensive yoghurt.
I do a bit. I read books and stuff and I put on Classic FM. I got one of those digital radios and they’re gear. Yeah, I know Classic play movements and snippets whereas Radio 3 does whole the whole symphony, but who has time for symphonies? I listen to the symphony of life, me.
Sometimes if there is a piece of classical music playing in the background, I do this annoying intermittent hum-a-long; a pompous, punctuated “hmm mmm mm hmm hmm hmm” before I realise I have absolutely no fucking idea what the music is.
Gentle. Elgar perhaps. Sounds English. Vaughan Williams. Cold, at least. Dvorak. Dvorjak??
I am fooling no one, unless it’s romantic era symphony movement, which mostly all end “hmm-HMMM. hmmm? Hmmm….” These allow me to redeem myself with the music snob’s equivalent of a last-minute equaliser.
Have a good weekend, you road dog, you old horse-thief you.
The Weekend Song tomorrow will make you feel good.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:06 am
I’m hopeless at recognising classical music. Well, not exactly, I recognise things, I just generally don’t know who wrote them or what they’re called (although since they’re all called generally the same thing, just with a different number or key, that doesn’t help). The closest I usually get is trying to pin down a memory of having played it once. Which isn’t really useful to anyone.
I find I can only manage Classic FM in short bursts. After they’ve been playing the same adverts every hour for a fortnight, my tolerance tends to reach breaking point and I have to switch off for a few months to recover!
August 31st, 2007 at 9:31 am
I found this site the other day, which really works for me as I’m a background music freak! Can’t do anything without something playing ….
www.music2work2.com
August 31st, 2007 at 11:44 am
Thanks FB. My problem is that Classic FM is always on in the background so I’m not really soaking it up.
Thanks Dan. And since this is a link to a commercial site, can you please mention my blog on your homepage? Thanks!
August 31st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
A Culture Club?
Um, CLiff….
August 31st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Hi Cliff - the site is nothing to do with me, just thought you might be interested - I follow, and have commented a couple of times on your blog.
In future I will email you with stuff like this instead of leave a comment!
have a good weekend
August 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Dan - in that case I completely apologise. I’m sorry I forgot you commented before, which would be why your comment was not held for moderation. I get about 60 spam comments a day inviting readers to their commercial (or porn) sites and I this was one.
Please keep commenting. I feel like a prize chump - you were sending a link that I might be interested in and I thought “Eh up, sonny. I know your game.”
Turns out I didn’t know your game and I apologise.