[MUSIC] Saint-Saens "Aquarium"

I've noticed this piece showing up in more and more TV shows over the last decade. I don't know, maybe it has always been popular on soundtracks and I'm only noticing it now. It first caught my attention in the Simpsons episode, "The Wife Aquatic" and it's been popping up ever since. It's a pretty piece, so I'm not complaining.

[LINK] Super Metroid Music

This is really only a note to myself, but it may be of interest to others. Metroid Database is a website dedicated to, you guessed it, the Metroid series. My personal favorite is Super Metroid for the SNES. It ranks up there in my top five games of all time.

Anyway, I wanted to hear the music from the Maridia region of the game which led me to the Metroid Database where I found rips of the soundtrack. If anybody else is interested, it can be found here:

http://www.metroid-database.com/sm/music.php

Source: imgur

 This gif takes me to a happy place.

[LINK] Ursula K. Le Guin in The Paris Review

Copyright Marian Wood Kolisch

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favorite authors. While she is probably best known for the Earthsea series, she also wrote some of my favorite sci-fi stories. The Left Hand of Darkness is a classic that I recommend to anyone who is a fan of the genre.

Somewhere in the maelstrom of Twitter I came across a link to an interview with her at the Paris Review. It's good stuff. She talks about her family and life in the Berkley scene of the '40s and '50s. Did you know she and Philip K. Dick went to the same high school? Me either.

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 221, Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to check out her work, I'd recommend any of her short stories, and of course The Left Hand of Darkness which besides being a great book, also inspired some really choice cover art:

 More Links:

Ursula K. Le Guin's Official Website 

UKL at Wikipedia

UKL Bibliography at Wikipedia

Buy UKL Books at Amazon.com

More to Come...

I know I keep saying this, but Hosey will soon be back to releasing music and playing shows after an extended hiatus. Who knows where the future will lead us? I haven't been bitten by any cake bugs, so I do not possess the curse of second sight... yet. ("Cake Boss!")

That also means I have to brush off the old blogging chops and get used to writing again. So I'll start that process by reporting on what is in the pipeline. Sorry if this is all a little dry. Text messaging has dulled my long-form writing edge.

Hosey has written a bunch of new songs that we will soon take to the stages, so we can get feedback and decide which pieces are worth the cost of recording. Stay tuned for upcoming shows.

We've gone through the vaults of unreleased ephemera and found about an EP's worth of demo material that you could only have heard if you saw us play live oh so many years ago. We're mixing all that now. Coming soon.

We are very excited to have Friend of Hosey (and sibling of one half of the band), Eddie Phalen, working on new logos and and artwork. Check out some of his paintings at the end of this post.

During this break, we've continued doing music/sound work for performance artists and modern dancers. We'll try to promote that work a little more in the future (since it actually pays!), and highlight some of our favorite collaborations. We've also played some acoustic shows and cover gigs under our "secret" band name, Goodbye Bikini Island. We're sifting through that ephemera to find anything that might not actually be ephemera.

Is that it? Maybe.

Otherwise, I (Patrik) think I will start writing about things outside of music that I find to be great or interesting. Make no mistake, this isn't to improve other people's lives, or to promote content, I'm doing it solely because I'm tired of no one getting my How Did This Get Made? references at the bar. It is very upsetting.

Here's some of Eddie Phalen's art:

 

 

 

Have Fun,
Patrik