Music and Psalms.

Howdy, y'all, these songs are some of the more meaningful ones to me lately. Picking three was hard but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


1.Drunk snake---Dirt Nap *this is the link to the song*

This song grabs my attention because of the kind of left-fielded feel in the lyrics. Like a Serpent that's going to enslave mankind? Cool. Sure, maybe you can say there could be something deeper but I'd rather take at face value for what it is. Fun. The production is less than stellar, but I also feel like it would lose some of the "live" feeling it carries with it. The song-writing itself is scatterbrain in it's approach, which I find appealing because I find myself bored of listening to a set of phases of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus and the lack of variety.

2. Straight Edge---Minor Threat

Straight Edge is a song that is against obsessions and addictions because Ian MacKaye (vocalist, lyric-writer, typical vocal stuff) noticed when he was a kid that the only way kids his age (18 at the time) "rebelled" was through self-destructive means of alcohol, drugs, and promiscuous sex. He wasn't into it so he made this song. It became a movement to be against these things, rebelled in a different way that doesn't harm oneself.

3. Honestly?--American Football

Honestly, American Football's whole album is stellar, but if I had to pick a favorite, I guess I'd pick this one. The use of beautiful guitar lines accompanying beautiful vocals with beautifully simple drums allow some the most beautiful, relaxing, and sad music made by this band. There are hundreds of bands trying to imitate this sound, but nobody quite gets it like these guys. I'm a fan of minimal lyrics to emphasize on the music, which these guys pulled off beautifully.

Comparisons//Questions of...

Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 are both stories of creation in the Christian theology. They share interesting ideas and also conflict on some current ideals. They're also vastly different from each other in the way they read, and the message they transmit. Check out this lists of things I put together, I'll show ya what I mean.

Similarities:

       ~Both are fairly vague accounts of creation. Meaning there isn't a lot of detail of what is happening and how long it takes to do things that are accounted for. For instance, a day isn't clarified to be a specific 24 hours or an epoch of time, this is a common argument among many people but it's still important thing to point out.

     ~Both accounts talk about humans being created for the purpose of governing all that God has created (Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:15). I actually feel that the two chapters are meant to be one continued story and not two separate creation stories. Maybe I just misunderstood something along the way.


There's several questions I have (like everyone else). Like, did god create multiple human beings in Chapter 1? Yes, he did. (Genesis 1:27). Chapter 2 there's just one man, who may just be the focus of the story and the rest of mankind is spread around the world, left to fight and survive on their own. May not. It's just an awkward flip, if you get my drift. Why was the Tree of Knowledge placed in the Garden of Eden?

Some Jargon 'n Other Cool Stuff

AUDIO ENGINEERING JARGON

Room Acoustics: “Room” from the Old English word  rum meaning “space” (extent or Time); “Acoustics”, mid 17th century: from Greek akoustikos, from akouein ‘hear.’ combined to make jargon for different rooms make different sounds and what audio engineers do is try to pull the best sound out of the room.

Here’s a cool drum video showing how drums can sound in different environments: Rad stuff

Mic Placement: “Mic” short for “microphone” 1680s, "ear trumpet for the hard-of-hearing," coined from Greek mikros "small" (see mica) + phone "sound" (see fame (n.)). Modern meaning dates from 1929, from use in radio broadcasting and movie recording. Earlier, "amplifying telephone transmitter" (1878). Of the two spellings of the short form of the word, mike (1927) is older than mic (1961).

Mic Placement can change the sound by a bunch too. Check this video showin' that.

Stereo//Mono: "Stereo" from Greek stereos ‘solid.’ "Mono" from Greek monos ‘alone.’

When it comes to tracking, most do stereo to get bigger, fuller sounds, as needed. When you set things to mono then it's only playing as one track (duh) opposed to two, or three, separate tracks. Stereo is accomplished by two mics in different positions while mono is one mic.

Waveforms: "Wave" Old English wafian (verb), from the Germanic base of waver; the noun by alteration (influenced by the verb) of Middle English wawe ‘(sea) wave.’ "Form" Middle English: from Old French forme (noun), fo(u)rmer (verb, from Latin formare ‘to form’), both based on Latin forma ‘a mold or form.’

Different Waveforms are used to described differents sound levels and hertz of a pitch or set of pitches. Some examples of the different wave lengths are shown in this video below.

The track below was recorded was (shameless plug) recorded with a radioshack mic, haha. You can hear a lot of the room. [Kaptain Krunch Cidz]


*Ask Me for track :/ I don't know how to get audio tracks up on here*

Not the greatest quality, it's lo-fi at best. Then check out this awesomely produced song because it's so crisp.