soundtracks raze the air conditioner is groaning from the other room. fingers on laptop keys click like subdued castanets. a yawn becomes a wave washing away unread words written in the sand of some distant beach. none of these sounds have melodies, but they have small stories to tell. there's music everywhere, if you know how to listen for it. 130520 ... nr i like what amy sherman-palladino said about music on television: "I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. They use it to say, 'Here's a funny moment!' ... you know? It's not an extension of the drama, it's distraction. It's like, 'I'll distract you, so you won't know how shitty the show is'...like a laugh track. That, to me, is what music on television is. They score everything from beginning to end so that after awhile the music is just like white noise. It's not giving it its due, its place. Everything has its place. Shows would go by, and we wouldn't put a lot of music in because to me the music was an extension of the drama, so if you just throw it in under everything, it's like throwing a washing-machine sound effect in there, it's not the point of it. It's like having two characters have a long, not very interesting discussion for no other reason except to fill up screen time." 150525 ... nr say what you want about gilmore girls, but the use and promotion of good music in that show is undisputable. 150525 ... nr from bjork, belle and sebastian, wilco, and nico to grant-lee phillips and tokyo police club (admittedly i was never a huge fan, but there's something neat about a popular american show giving a nod to an indie band from newmarket, ontario) and etc., the selection always inspires me to listen to more music than i already am. 150525 what's it to you? who go blather from