There is one thing about me that you probably don't know but also happens to be a pretty big fact - I can't read a map to save my life. I can stare at the thing for a long time, but it just doesn't make any sense to me. Even in my own city, when I have a pretty good understanding about how to get most places, I'm clueless when it comes to the map. This means that I would most certainly be an awful candidate for The Amazing Race as it is usually the ones who struggle with the reading of the maps who meet their end early on. (Up until very recently, I couldn't drive at all, and I can't drive a stick - two other factors which would make me a horrible contestant). So, Karen O may love maps more than they will ever know but I am doomed to always find them confusing.
Rain is forecasted for the coming days in San Francisco which means that awful Eurythmics song, "Here Comes the Rain Again" will most certainly go through my head. I didn't always find the song dreadful, but if you listen closely, this song plays everytime you enter the supermarket, a band, or a doctor's waiting area where they play music. It never fails to happen, and why this is, I have no idea. I assume some market research showed that something in this synthesizer notes leads individuals to spend a little more than they normally would. That, or it relaxes them.
Oh, and though you probably don't need to hear another rave about the Twilight Singers, but the new EP - A Stitch in Time is rather fantastic. It has this bluesy Massive Attack cover ("Live with Me") with Mark Lanegan on vocals, this pretty and subtly experimental number called "Sublime" (and featuring Joseph Arthur)and a heartbreaker ("The Lure Would Prove Too Much"). You can buy it at iTunes or eMusic, while you await their episode of the N&UR Video Podcast.
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I'm hopeless reading maps as well. I'm always the driver on roadtrips, I make others tell me where to go. I've just recently mastered the subway system in Toronto, and its a giant U.
I will have to try this 'Here Comes the Rain Again' test. Its still raining here, and the cold has started to set in. Oh, winter.
I just read your Twilight Singers review at the Record Room, and really like 'Sublime.' Looking forward to your next video podcast.
I think if I had to work at a supermarket or another store or someplace where I was subjected to "non-offensive" music not of my choosing, I would be downing pills like mad.
THANKS, now it's in *my* head.
Will, if you say you "can't" do something, then you certainly won't discover the ability! You can learn to read maps, you just need a more positive attitude.
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