SOUNDTRACK: REAL ESTATE-“Beach Comber” (2009).
I found this song through a fascinating series of clicks. Yesterday’s song from Real Estate was a pick for Fall. And next to it was a link entitled Ridgewood, N.J., Why Here? Why Now? I grew up right next to Ridgewood and I spent a lot of time there as a kid. So it’s pretty exciting to hear that there’s a mini-music scene happening there. With Senses Fail, Vivian Girls, and Real Estate coming from Ridgewood and Titus Andronicus coming from Glen Rock, Bergen County is totally hip (even my hometown of Hawthorne seems to be considerably cooler than it was when I left ten years ago–there’s a coffee shop!).
Back back to the song. I don’t enjoy this track quite as much as yesterday’s song from their new album. It’s missing a little of the fuzz that I really enjoyed from “It’s Real” (I find the picked guitar a wee bit too clean for my tastes). Indeed, for me, “It’s Real” is a small change but a giant leap sonically. Neverthleess, the verses and chorus are really quite pretty. And yes, the song does feel very summery and beachy.
Because they’re from my neck of the woods, I’m giving them the very curious distinction of having their song paired up with a letter from Issac Newton. Imagine the search results that will bring people here. Imagine, crazier still, that an image search for this Letter from Newton could produce their album cover. Woah.
[READ: September 15, 2011 (three hundred and thirty-nine years after publication!)] Letter to the Publisher
What better way to start off a Sunday than with a letter from Issac Newton? Yes, this is really an article from Issac Newton. And it’s available pretty freely just by searching for the title words, although JSTOR has a nice searchable version of it available. (This is the final JSTOR article for a while, after this it’s back to the 21st century).
What I especially loved about this letter was that the “long s” is used throughout the letter (like the word Congrefs in the bill of rights–see right). It makes it a challenge to read, but that is by no means the only challenge. According to the introduction, this letter contains “some more suggestions about his New Telescope, and a Table of Apertures and Charges for the several Lengths of that Instrument.”
And if you think that the wording of that is ungainly, try reading the letter itself. (more…)
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