Unexpected pleasure of listening to [Lazerhawk’s *Redline*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co) and seeing three-year-old start bumping in booster seat.

(This all started a few days ago with Youtube recommending [Robert Parker’s *Crystal City*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqLH8EA2rM) by the apparently prolific NRW Records, viz., New Retro Wave. Crystal City, King Street, Bethesda, Yellow Line, monuments, DCA…!)

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[Music lover Benjamin Carlson](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/06/how-to-listen-to-classical-music-and-enjoy-it/57867/) advises one to “Name That Emotion” in a classical piece. Not sure if I can do that for one of my favorite pieces, [Dohnányi’s piano quintet 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrF1sWiYkpc) for piano and string quartet (2 violins, viola, and cello). This recording by the Takacs Quartet and András Schiff is a bit faster than I remember it but has all the wonderful goodness.

(originally tweeted on 2012-02-17 at Z12:39:37)

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I am not a squirmy person, but AOA’s latest album’s title track, [*Good Luck*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZusjfI8PdQ), is better heard than seen.

That said, it’s pretty amazing—retro synthwave invaded the album’s second track, “10 Seconds”. Coincidence?

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With all this Firebird on my mind [1], one thing led to another, and I was hit by all of [Stravinsky’s *Rite of Spring*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1q6u3mLSM) with François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles on BBC. 💀.

And finished Miyazaki’s acclaimed 風立ちぬ too. Been a heavy night.

[1] [Benjamin Carlson](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/out-of-the-concert-hall-into-the-night-club/59269/) also gutsily compared the finale of *Firebird* to a Paul van Dyk beat. Everything is better with *Firebird*. *Rite of Spring*, not so much.

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Amazon Prime, you advertise … Doctor Thorne … while we watching The Wire? (Tweeted 9 hours ago.)

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[Synchromanica ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxB1zqvK4g) (via [@Landorien](https://twitter.com/Landorien/status/740266501559615489))