…is still progress. When it comes to writing, I’ll take it. I have a first chapter draft finally, after several false starts. This has been my accompaniment.
Lou Reed, New York and Walk On The Wild Side, The Best of Lou Reed.
And this two-song “CD Single” of The Rembrandts. The back side might remind you who they are if you were alive in the Nineties and have forgotten.
Yup, the theme song from the TV show “Friends,” or “I’ll Be There For You.” I think I got this to use on a video we made for the place I worked from ’92 to ’96. Memories…
Then I moved on to these.
R.E.M.: Murmur; Out Of Time; Automatic For The People; and Monster.
There’ll be more R.E.M. to come before I continue in the “R” section of my CD binders. None of this music has been really connected to what I’m writing (except that this novel does begin with a sort of who’s who among a group of friends, I guess).
Different time, completely different kind of music. That’s fine. I’m a little partial to “Nightswimming” from Automatic For The People because if I recall correctly, Timothy referenced it in Three Fortunes in One Cookie. THERE’S a blast from the past.
In many ways, the CD single was an oddball. The 12 inchers were sometimes albums or EPs in disguise as well. But, the CD being physically the same size for albums or less down to a single was more due to some of the players being unable to recognise a CD3 singles, which had the audio capacity of a 45 ot 12 inch single, or just under an average side of a 12 inch album around 20-25 mins.
The CD3 was less popular if the player needed a ring adapter just to be even recognised but not exactly insertable to some slot loading players. So, singles took the standard CD5 size and looked like albums with barely 10 minutes of two tracks with hardly a distinction to A side.
Of course tangible media of superior audio quality gave way to lossy downgrade for downloadable sizes that libraries could fit onto a compressed CD and iPods.
That’s a lot of CD info!
A damn fine chapter it is!
It just needs a piece of pie and a cup of coffee. And I need some time without so many other things to take care of. =)