Speaker For The Diodes - July 16th, 2009

02:06 am - Name That (other) Tune

realinterrobang and I (since she phoned me to see whether I knew the answer) are being driven crazy by a familar riff in a song neither us us previously knew. Worse, it's such a familiar riff that we know it's from a song that was fairly popular, and we are both remembering the same instrumentation coming out of the bridge, but can't quite get all the way there though it feels like the answer is in front of us.

So ... who recognizes the riff used as the foundation for this clip (.ogg format)?

05:25 am - QotD

"I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance. If I put a nice new sheet of white paper down in front of myself and took up a new, nicely sharpened anything, it would be instant inhibition, I think. 'So now what?' I would think and I would sit there -- so now what? -- for quite a long time. But if it's something, if I need somewhere to write it down it will be on the back of an envelope, or something like that. Then it's okay. It's just to keep it there so I can find out where it goes from there." -- W. S. Merwin (b. 1927-09-30; awarded Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1971 and 2009), on the PBS television program, Bill Moyers Journal, 2009-06-29 [ transcript] [ video]