And FAQ Girl and I listened to David on NPR yesterday and I laughed at the buffista-shout-out story David told about the "friend" buying a Go-Betweens CD and the clerk getting all excited.

That was for you, tina! Happy Thanksgiving. Miss you.

I'm listening to it right now AIFG!! Power to music lovers! I miss you, too. Happy Thanksgiving Weekend Still Kinda. I loooved the shout out and the great interview. I totally e-mailed the link to some friends all "the girl in the record-store story is MEMEME - I'm famous!"

Sidenote: I just finished up a Turkey-Day-Weekend season 7 marathon watch (overall, much much better on rewatch but the commentaries were again lackluster). And decided to read some old Buffy posts from TT (starting with Mejia's Mejia of The Gift previously-on since I hadn't seen it on original airing and just finished up my marathon with it from the easter egg on the S7 DVDs. Amazing. (Mejia's scary and wonderful brain, I mean.)). Anyway. I was loving me some end-of-season-5 Buffista posts and then I caught up over here and saw this. I feel all glowy.

Mr. Boucher, Jon's site with the linernote links is [link]

This is so very cool: Music mimics the composer's native language.

And this: The building blocks of music are to be found in speech.

Some interesting stuff in those articles, although musicologist FAQ Girl says that this

musicologists have long emphasized that while each culture stamps a special identity onto its music, music itself has some universal qualities. For example, in virtually all cultures sound is divided into some or all of the 12 intervals that make up the chromatic scale -- that is, the scale represented by the keys on a piano.

is a gross generalisation.You need only look to Eastern countries like India to find huge exceptions to that "universal" quality.

FAQ Girl's a musicologist? How hot is that?

And well, it does say virtually all, so I guess its ass is covered.

I don't think those billion other people think the rest of the world counts as "virtually all".

How hot is that?

HOTTTTT!!!!!1!

OK, tina, thanks to your rec I have ordered the Built to Spill CD! (New music, yay!)

I finally head the John Cale version recently

I looked back, and I'm not sure if you're talking about Hallelujah , but if you are, I didn't like that version either. I just happened on one by kd lang, which I've yet to listen to properly, and I've tended towards collecting them.

I read on livejournal the other day how the original Cohen version and the Buckley version have different verses--apparently Buckley added some. And then, when Cohen recorded Hallelujah, he used Buckley's version. The ins and outs of this song get more fascinating the more I learn. And I just thought it was pretty when I first heard it.

I'm not sure if you're talking about Hallelujah , but if you are, I didn't like that version either.

It's my favorite. I just like Cale's delivery and the arrangement. This might be because it was the first one i heard, in the movie Basquiat.

And SA, I didn't know Buckley had added lyrics! Do yoou remember whose journal that was in?

Um. I can look. I should have flagged it, because at the time I thought it was really interesting.