Now that I'm spending almost every waking second either doing, thinking about doing or avoiding doing shorthand, my time is regretfully being sapped away in stacks of flimsy A4 sheets tattooed with illegible scribbles.
Normally I savour hours spent trawling the web for new musical gems, idly flicking through the deepest recesses of HypeMachine or following a string of music blogs, or even checking out other people's carefully compiled Spotify playlists, but current time constraints (and the realisation that real, non humanities university courses man up for more than three hours a week), mean that I'm still listening to Gyptian from my June playlist.
My Masters course offers the opportunity to choose a specialism and in the hope of getting actual timetabled study time to indulge my melodic vice, I've got all wriggly limbs crossed in the hope that some Admin elf will choose yours truly for a programme which would span reviews, interviews and all things musically orientated in the journalism monde.
As I wait in hope for selection, take a look below at a brilliant example of a "back-stage" media platform from the delicious Phoenix. This YouTube-based expose of the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix record began yesterday and will be continuing for the the next two weeks at the rate of nine episodes. So far both the French fancies and their producer Phillip Zdar have painstakingly taken us through the making of both ebuillent Lisztomania and the joyful 1901 in lip-smackingly velvety French with a passion for their music-making which seeps from the screen.
The viewer is guided through their rickety studio, through the complexities of the Phoneix song writing - Lisztomania is the hybrid of no less than FIVE songs - their writer's block, the bit that sounds like a "pirate attack"....Check out the Phoenix-narrated Lisztomania video below.
Head straight to http://wearephoenix.com/journal/ for the daily updates!
This Chiddy Bang choon (produced by phitty Pharrell) is shamelessly ripped from the "most popular" bit of HypeMachine but no less amazing for it.
© Miranda Thompson 2010.
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