nights_of_gum_and_glass epitome of incomprehensibility PART FOUR. I was tired. Five practice tests to correct for the next day and this happens to fall on Daylight Savings Time. Spring ahead. An hour less. Glorious. The issue was how to concentrate. Music seemed a thing, but too many YouTube videos have, well, videos. Music in Twelve Parts came to the rescue (the first seven parts of it). And two sticks of gum. The fourth movement was what stuck out (stuck, like gum on glass, to the shiny recesses of my mind). Ah ain't one of 'em fancy cocktail barkeeps, ain't the brightest tool in the shed, but ah can mix uh metaphor with the best of 'em. ANYWAY. Do you like the middle part where it sounds like reggae? Because I do. Are you ever so slightly creeped out by the organ drone and swelling soprano notes that come later, and a bit later than that, the part where the organ fades away but the soprano and flute are dissonant? And it's oh-so-slightly unsettling? Especially late at night? Because I feel that way too. And then near the end, where it starts to sound like Mario-like video game music, are you surprised when it adds the solemn organ and soprano parts again instead of going back to the reggae bit? And it's ethereal and strangely emotional for this usually laid-back, detached, dryly funny work? Because I was, even though I've heard it a few times. Long ago. Oh sweet nostalgia. When one's taste is formed by the music one's parents can't stand, or is that just me? Eh, it might be merely annoying for others, but it's my cup of glass. Link to only the 4th movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeVl9fAyQAM 190309 ... e_o_i Hmmm. That doesn't seem to be the whole thing. Or maybe I'm thinking of the 3rd part. I NEED SLEEP. Here is the whole thing, at any rate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uiN1YuwWe4&t=6611s 190310 what's it to you? who go blather from