Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Crystal Castles: history repeats itself
In the 80s, technology progressed to the point of making low resolution electronic keyboards financially practical. The sound has made a huge comeback for some time now... from Intergalatic by the Beasty Boys to more recently Crystal Castles.
Truthfully, the keyboards sucked... eventually they were replaced by keyboards with higher resolution and sampling frequencies... Today I think we are seeing the same thing in finance... Long Term Capital Management imploded in 98, was bailed out by the government, and probably set a bad precedent. Complex mortgage backed securities and quantitative hedge funds wouldn't be possible in their current form without the advances in computers. I'm saying Long Term Capital Management is the Herbie Hancock of finance.
I have worked on programs that are used to do analysis for mutual and hedge funds. At this point, computers can only do what they are programmed to do. Many expert systems fail because they don't take into account the real factors experts use like intuition, of which the experts aren't fully cognizant.
The Blow: Parenthesis
There is a line in this song... "something in the deli aisle makes your cry." I'm going to speculate they are vegetarians. It always seemed like the line should be "something in the deli aisle makes you smile." because it would rhyme, and meat is delicious.
TV on the Radio: Staring at the Sun
TV on the radio defies explanation for me... I saw them in Atlanta a year or two ago and the singer said the keyboard player wrote one of their songs (it might have been this one)... when he was in kindergarten.
A place to bury strangers: I know I'll see you
in the vein of the cure, joy division, bauhaus... or more recently she wants revenge. plus i like all the shots of microprocessors. the vocals seem sort of low in the mix.
Jay Reatard
I looked on youtube for "My Shadow" which is the song it seems like Jay Reatard is known for, but I couldn't find a good version...
This song makes me think of a book I once read about intimacy issues that said most people struggle when they move away to college with breaking their bonds with their parents. However, many people that have intimacy issues struggled to form bonds with their parents. I identify with not forming much bonds with my parents. Even as a young child I plotted to run away and throughout adolescence my parents never really knew much about me.
Who could've known
Things could have
Gone so wrong
One moment everything is here
the next it is all gone
A child's love
Turns into a bloody mom
Who could've known
Things could have
gone so wrong
Walking through the house
The photographs
line the walls
Memories they hurt
The bloodening will send them all
Please close your eyes
As the blood
makes impact
And say goodbye
cause they are never coming back
My family
They never knew
My family
They never knew
My family
The never knew
My family
This song makes me think of a book I once read about intimacy issues that said most people struggle when they move away to college with breaking their bonds with their parents. However, many people that have intimacy issues struggled to form bonds with their parents. I identify with not forming much bonds with my parents. Even as a young child I plotted to run away and throughout adolescence my parents never really knew much about me.
Who could've known
Things could have
Gone so wrong
One moment everything is here
the next it is all gone
A child's love
Turns into a bloody mom
Who could've known
Things could have
gone so wrong
Walking through the house
The photographs
line the walls
Memories they hurt
The bloodening will send them all
Please close your eyes
As the blood
makes impact
And say goodbye
cause they are never coming back
My family
They never knew
My family
They never knew
My family
The never knew
My family
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