{"id":19056,"date":"2016-01-10T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2016-01-09T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:05:02","slug":"adrian-belew-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2016\/01\/10\/adrian-belew-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: Adrian Belew"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LoneI’m at a loss as to what to do for music this week. The truth is that my day job is taking a lot of time. This is good and<\/em> bad. There’s been a lot of interesting stuff. But also, my boss asked me to write a resource page about XML. I can’t escape the feeling that she gets a slight thrill out of giving me projects that are nearly impossible. Right before Christmas, she had me write a thousand words about SMIL<\/a>. I know you haven’t heard about it (unless I’ve complained earlier), because it’s a project that kind of started and ended 15 years ago without ever working quite right. All of these projects are difficult for different reasons. XML is hard because it is either trivial or enormously complicated. In order to really understand XML, you have to understand XSLT, and so on. Not that I don’t love it. But when you start with a blank screen, it is very lonely. (The reason I, an editor, write these things is because I’m the only one in the company who can, apparently. So lonely indeed.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m going to start with Adrian Belew and see how it goes. I’m not much of a fan. I admire him, of course. I especially loved the work that he did on the best Talking Heads album Remain in Light<\/a><\/em>. And the song “The Lone Rhinoceros” has been going through my head for days. It’s off his first solo album, Lone Rhino<\/a><\/em>. I do rather like the rhyme of species with feces. But the main rhyme offends my sensibilities: “I’m the lone rhinoceros; there ain’t one hell of a lots of us.” If he had just used “lot” instead of “lots” it would be fine. And the rest of the lyrics are really quite clever.<\/p>\n

More important, there is something amazingly compelling about the song. It isn’t just guitar processing. I love the rhythm section. It kind of reminds me of another Talking Heads album, Fear of Music<\/a><\/em>. So here’s the song. I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow. Maybe another Adrian Belew song. Or maybe Joe Satriani.<\/p>\n