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May 25, 2008
BehindTheMedspeak: Dr. Hendrix will see you now
Who says the dead don't live?
True, he doesn't take insurance but the co-pay is only $8.99 — and you get a lifetime supply of meds.
Best psychotherapy value on the planet.
I was in a kind of funky, downcast mood when I decided it was time to address the issue head-on.
This fantabulous, supersensational album contains 20 of the master's greatest hits.
But I usually don't get past the first song — "Purple Haze," blasting at 10/10 on my über-boombox wit MegaBass™ (below)
cranked to the max such that no one pounding on my front door offering me money, tree care, certified mail or a FedEx package that needs to be signed for has a chance of being heard — before a bout of treadmill dancing (below, demonstrated by the inimitable Kevin Bacon) breaks out.
That's just the way I like it.
Like I said last year, life would go so much better for so many people if only they could choose the soundtrack.
But I digress.
Crikey, it's so darned loud I can't even hear myself think and I have no idea what was supposed to come next.
No matter.
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(Anybody actually wanting to try that first one & has trouble, go to YouTube & search for "5 Dies Irae Comparative")
Posted by: Flautist | May 25, 2008 12:03:47 PM
This kind of thing is very interesting to me -- what music prods a person out of a deep (or shallow) funk. (Or, what drives them deeper into it.) My personal tune is way old but loaded with hellfire and damnation, and loud enough to make your ears buzz and ring, which I somehow find invigorating, and if you listen to this you'll get to hear it 5 times in a row! Whee! (And, should you go there, you HAVE to crank it up to the ultimate max, almost just below distortion, to get the effect you'd get in a concert hall.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVtUdl1yMqc
I like the Eugene Ormandy recording for maximum blasting effect, 'cause it literally makes my house shake. Should you want to torture yourself further, you can check out this extended Karajan version, with him looking gray and distinguished and for all the world like Claude Rains in the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBBzsMqDnPE
Or, you could let Tina Turner do it --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YAfqZk7P1M
Posted by: Flautist | May 25, 2008 11:54:07 AM
