Tag: experimental
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Song 82: Influence of DIY constructions
“Forbidden Planet: Main Titles (Overture)” composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. “Forbidden Planet was a huge event in our neighborhood, made even larger because you could get in for free with a Quaker Oats proof of purchase coupon. Everybody went. When the movie was over we all walked out of the Port Theater into the… Read more
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Song 80: Schizophrenic with dark alleyways and sundrenched corrals
“The Big Gundown” performed by John Zorn. If the 13th Floor Elevators are the band I associate most with my dad, John Zorn seems most twinned to my dad’s restless and experimental spirit—and what better example of this than Zorn’s mashup of legendary Spaghetti Western composer, Ennio Morricone! My dad loves Westerns and Film Noir.… Read more
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Song 59: First activist calling
“Suggestion” by Fugazi When I was 15, I fell in love for the first time. I met my boyfriend in a summer writing program, and we finally kissed right before he got sent off to a disciplinarian boarding school along with all of my best male friends. We wrote letters to each other every day,… Read more
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Song 53: Paris, France 2004
“All We Have is Now” by The Flaming Lips Written by Teresa Another song that brings me back to France, but in a different way. This is a song that was on a mixed CD that my boyfriend-now-husband made for me and mailed to Paris where I was studying abroad for a semester junior year.… Read more
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