Bees in a hive
This entry will eventually make sense, so stay with me:
I follow a woman on Twitter named Jelisa Castrodale who goes by the handle gordonshumway, and yesterday I had a good half-hour giggle over this update:
What am I supposed to call it? Has someone come up with a replacement word for it? Because I was going to begin this post by saying that one of the recent albums I bought... and then I remembered her update and got all self-conscious and was all, when kids see me do they go home and have nightmares about zombies? Because I guess I'm old and senile in the sense that I still buy whole albums and not just individual songs. It's a habit I cannot break, maybe because some bands used to write songs with the theme and dialogue of the whole album in mind? And I'm trying to honor that artistry? Or am I just an asshole?
WHAT DO I CALL IT NOW? The whole collection of downloadable MP3s? Who has the attention span for that? HOW MANY QUESTION MARKS CAN I FIT IN ONE BLOG POST?
God. Whatever. I bought the new Grizzly Bear album Veckatimest
And then yesterday a reader named Alissa sent me a link to this fan video of that exact song, and upon watching it my jaw fell off my face and bounced on the floor. Note: I said fan video. This is not the official video, but something someone made in his spare time out of the love of what he does. I don't know much about this guy, his name is Gabe Askew, but I hope whoever employs him pays him a lot of money.
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew.
How unbelievable and beautiful is that? Leta heard me watching it on my laptop, came running over, and then we watched it about fifteen times in a row. All of this is to say THE INTERNET IS SO AWESOME. Case in point: the White House corresponded with my husband.
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Visty said:
I frequently wonder what the hell I was doing in the 80's without the internet.
08.25.09 - 09:11 AM / 1Jackie said:
EFFING BRILLIANT
08.25.09 - 09:11 AM / 2Anne said:
Whoa, I have a hard time believing this is a fan video as well. I do love when the fan videos somehow magically happen to be better then the original video of the artist.
Now I need to go find and download the song (since I don't do albums, haha).
Thanks for sharing the music. :)
08.25.09 - 09:13 AM / 3adrienne said:
i love that album too! and the word used should be album ... let's not let that word die.
08.25.09 - 09:13 AM / 4Daddy Scratches said:
Wait, I can't call them "albums" anymore? I mean, I can see bagging "LP," but "album"? No, I'm not going along with this. Screw Abercrombie-ish guy.
P.S.: Tell Jon I have a few requests for Barack, so if you guys could let me know when he's coming over to your place for dinner, I'd appreciate it.
08.25.09 - 09:14 AM / 5Alli E. said:
I must say, we've been listening to the entire Veckatimest "album" (hell yeah I still say it) for a couple months now and I give 100% of the credit of my as-of-today successful pregnancy to it. God bless Grizzly Bear.
08.25.09 - 09:15 AM / 6Kristan said:
Sounds like the next Apple commercial song. :P
Or maybe the next Prius commercial song. They've done well choosing music lately, and this video reminds me of that style.
PS: If Leta dances to this, POST THAT VIDEO! She was so cute dancing to Viva La Vida. :)
08.25.09 - 09:18 AM / 7Corey said:
I still call them Albums too!!
08.25.09 - 09:18 AM / 8Holly said:
What a great video! I can't wait to show that to my four year old! I don't think I've ever loved any song (or even any pets) enough to invest that kind of time in an homage.
08.25.09 - 09:20 AM / 9Candice said:
I'm 23 and most everyone I know uses the word "album", some people are just dimwits.
08.25.09 - 09:21 AM / 10Tara said:
iTunes uses the world album, so i think if iTunes/Apple says it, then it's still cool.
08.25.09 - 09:22 AM / 11Brooke said:
That video is amazing! I love it. And, I agree, the internet is awesome. I have NO idea what I would do without it.
08.25.09 - 09:23 AM / 12Shelly said:
Isn't J-Money awesome? She seriously is one of the funniest people I read.
Her entire post is hysterical!!
08.25.09 - 09:23 AM / 13Ariel said:
I love it when you link to new music. I've found some of my favorites through you. You should do a music post at least once a week. PURTY PLEASE?
08.25.09 - 09:23 AM / 14Jelisa Castrodale said:
Maybe if we all mash our collective brains together, we can solve this "What're we s'posed to call an album?" thing.
Record doesn't work and neither does 78, unless you're Steve Buscemi in Ghost World.
Or maybe I just shouldn't go out ever again.
08.25.09 - 09:24 AM / 15Jen said:
I'm hearing impaired, don't listen to music and despite that, I know that "album" is still used in reference to music.
I vote for dumb.
08.25.09 - 09:24 AM / 16dani said:
Brilliant! That is such a great video. I could probably watch it over and over again. If I wasn't at work.
08.25.09 - 09:25 AM / 17Tera said:
I still say the word album but usually I think I just say CD.
08.25.09 - 09:25 AM / 18Jasie VanGesen said:
That video was absolutely awesome. And that song... that band... how did I not have any of their stuff before now? They're fantastic! Downloading the whole ALBUM now. ;)
I'm going to have to show Silas this video... not that I'm getting tired of watching "Invincible" by Muse over and over and over. No, not at all.
08.25.09 - 09:26 AM / 19kim said:
you know how they say a companies best asset is their employees?....well it looks like maybe this bands (second) best asset is their fans :D
08.25.09 - 09:26 AM / 20Shelly said:
I mean, not that you aren't awesome, as well.......
you are. Really.
08.25.09 - 09:26 AM / 21Snow said:
Wow, that was a beautiful video. I kept thinking while watching, I bet this guy had awesome diorama's growing up!
(We have two elementary age kids who have teachers that love diorama projects!! Uggg!)
08.25.09 - 09:27 AM / 22Lara said:
THANK YOU. I love hearing about new music, and I adore this. I'm on my fourth or fifth viewing of the video already.
Wait, is saying "video" still cool?
08.25.09 - 09:27 AM / 23Finn said:
Wow. I'm willing to bet Gabe's video is 1,000 times better than the official one. Brilliant.
So does anybody know what to call it if it's not an album? CD? Playlist? Roger?
08.25.09 - 09:29 AM / 24Katherine said:
I call it "album," too, and not because I look for vinyl records over an iTunes download. (Hello, Internet! I'm not pretentious so much as inclined to work at a PC next to a record player. ...I'm digging my own hole here.) Anyway, I love that song. It picks me up when I'm down. I'm glad it meets Leta's approval! :)
08.25.09 - 09:31 AM / 25Jeanette said:
Oooh, I heard this song on the NPR All Songs Considered "Best of 2009" Poll. You should check it out, awesome stuff on there...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/07/poll_res...
08.25.09 - 09:31 AM / 26Jen said:
I'm 22 and call it an album... 22 can't be old, can it? Abercrombie-ish guy must just be some weird anomaly.
08.25.09 - 09:32 AM / 27andrea r. said:
What a coincidence. I was listening to this on the radio on my drive home and I thought to myself "hmm, they sound pretty good, I might have to check them out." Them coming to Portland and all. Album. I don't think it should die, but have you noticed how the don't really know what "rewind" or "fast-forward" is? It has now been replaced by "skip".
08.25.09 - 09:33 AM / 28Bunny said:
"Album" is perfectly acceptable in my book. Isn't that what i-tunes calls it?
08.25.09 - 09:33 AM / 29missy. said:
ha i love that twitter comment. some attractive men are so ridiculous.
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