SOUNDTRACK: THE HIVE DWELLERS-“My Noise” from Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers (2009).
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e Score! collection finally produced a cover I do not like. I don’t know anything about The Hive Dwellers, but this feels more like a joke than a cover. The voice is the voice I make when I’m making fun of a song. And the instrumentation is a series of strange keyboard notes and random drum noises. I might like it if it weren’t a cover–and I guess I do respect them for going so different from the original. But man there’s not much to recommend here.
Go for the Superchunk original, without a doubt.
[READ: April 27, 2012] “case notes of a medical student, east harlem, psychiatric ER, winter 2002”
I try not to have the same author two days in a row, but I included this to show what a fascinating career Galchen has had and how incredibly different her published works can be. So, yesterday it was an article about Borges. Today it’s about her work in a psychiatric ward.
Triple Canopy is an online journal of some kind–I’ve actually never heard of it before. It’s graphically interesting with lots of pictures and a cool interface.
This article is about nine slides long. It printed on one page with very small type. Galchen offers an introduction as to just what she was doing in the ER (exhaustion from three years of medical school and an opportunity to stop touching people for a month). Although she admits her heart wasn’t in it. (more…)
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