Caveat: Alternate Tracks

I’m not a musician. At all. I’m intimidated by the mere idea of trying to learn to play an instrument – I have hangups about it, even. Sometimes, I think I could have been a musician, though, given a very different childhood, where my parents weren’t so forgiving of my complaints of “it’s too hard” with respect to my brief forays into trumpet lessons or piano lessons. I like music, and I think about it a lot.

I have an acquaintance who was a coworker of mine back in the database days. I respected him hugely for his multitalented approach to solving business problems, and we had worked together some, though not as much as I would have liked, on a few projects.

So… in facebookland, he’s been sending me links to his son’s musical projects. His son seems to be attending the highly reputed Berklee in New England. I know something of this rarefied musical world, 3rd-hand, because of my bestfriend Bob’s musical career as a conductor and professor of music.

Until now, I hadn’t really paid attention to these links – there’s so much in facebookland that I simply don’t pay attention to, at all. But this morning I clicked the link and surfed around this music-for-musicians type website: mostly for people doing “high art” of various contemporary styles of music, such as house, electronica, hip-hop, etc. The site is called indaba.

Here’s the song that sent me there. I’m trying out the embed function for the website.

What I’m listening to right now.

[UPDATE 20211201: The embedded music from the site called “indaba,” above, had stopped working, due to “link rot” – a common problem on any long-running blog. I happened to notice this, this morning, and found what I think is the same music track uploaded the creator, my former coworker’s son, on youtube.]

ProfileTrick Smil3y, “Drenched (Trick Smil3y Remix).” I guess there’s some contest to remix this piece and he’s participating. I know very little about how remixing even works or what it means, artistically. But I enjoy listening to it and many of the various other tracks I surfed across on the site. I didn’t actually “vote,” however – registering a vote required integrating to facebook, which I have resisted for data privacy reasons because I deeply distrust facebook corporation despite using it – the same reasons that I have taken to almost always putting my own images, links and thoughts on this blog rather than on facebook directly. [Update: I confess I finally voted. I’m not very good at sticking by my corporate boicott principles, am I?]

Caveat: 아아아아 우우우 우우우

What I’m listening to right now.

A십센치 (10 cm.), “잊어야 한다는 마음으로.”
picture가사 (there are swear words in the lyrics below that aren’t in the “clean version” in the youtube above).

고요한 밤
우울한 이 밤에
만나줄 여인 하나 없이
비틀대는 눈부신 거리엔
다 everybody love tonight
나만 쏙 뺀 사랑
쏙 빠진 로맨스는 잔인해
OH no
나의 짝을 찾아
간절한 구애의 춤을 추네
비가 쏙아지는데
달이 차오르는데
눈물이 흐르는데
오늘밤에
땀이 쏟아지는데
숨이 차오르는데
눈물이 흐르는데
오늘밤에
우우 우-
외로운 밤
쓸쓸한 이밤에
놀아줄 여인 하나 없이
삐걱대는 만실 여관방에
다everybody fuck tonight
나만 쏙 뺀 사랑
쏙 빠진 로맨스는 잔인해
Oh no
나의 짝을 찾아
간절한 구애의 춤을 추네
비가 쏟아지는데
달이 차오르는데
눈물이 흐르는데
오늘밤에
땀이 쏟아지는데
숨이 차오르는데
눈물이 흐르는데
오늘밤에
아아아아 아아아아 아아아아
우우우 우우우
오늘밤에
아아아아 아아아아 아아아아
우우우 우우우
오늘밤에
미치도록 한적한 스탠드바에 문을 열지만
여전히 웨이터는 날 반기질 않는군
하아- 누구도 날 반기지 않아
촉촉히 젖은 글라스의 물기를 봐
이것은 한남자의 눈물이야
우리 과거는 묻지 않기로 해
어차피 우리 남이잖아
비가 쏙아지는데
달이 차오르는데
눈물이 흐르는데
오늘밤에
오늘밤에
오늘밤에
오늘밤에
오늘밤에

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