American Proto-Shred

In other news, we are still barreling along towards a merger with the other Firm.  My boss is acting as though this is going to happen, but he still hasn't signed the agreement, so it is kind of weird.  The time window is really shrinking for things that need to be done to inform our clients about the merger and to get their permissions to share their data with this new firm and yet we can't really do anything until my boss says it is official.  It really didn't take too long for my cautious optimism to turn to severe doom and dread.    The reality being that I will be still doing the same job that I don't enjoy doing at a new address with probable more responsibilities and more masters to tell me what to do and not do. 

Uncertainty is stressful, especially when it deals with your job.  I've definitely know that feel over the past few months.  With my wife of course, we played the "I may or may not get laid off" game for a couple of months - to the point where it was actually a relief when she did get laid off (thanks to a generous severance package).  My company had the arbitration thing hovering over us for months, but now that we finally "reached a deal" thus avoiding the arbitration, we're still hemming and hawing over contract language even today, so nothing is really official yet.  But we have to work anyway as if it is going through, even though we can't get the required notices out to our doctors yet.

So yeah.  It's nerve wracking, I'm sure.  I just hope the changes you see in your company are for the better rather than worse, even if they do cut down your shred time for a while.

HolyMoly wrote: I would like to hear what others who do "get it" have to say about what excites them about this kind of music - and please don't just post videos saying "listen to this" because that probably won't help.  I mean, what is your visceral reaction to this stuff, what does it DO to you?

It's kind of hard to articulate one's visceral reaction.  I just dig it.  I really enjoy listening to it, but I understand that it can all run together or sound the same sometimes.  But that was the brilliance of Miles - he kept pushing forward trying new sounds and styles and essentially abandoned old forms.  Just look at his progression from the first quartet and Kind of Blue to the sh*t he was doing in the mid 70s - mind boggling.

I'm only starting to really get into and collect a lot of jazz works, but in the short term I'm only going to stick with the bigger names - Miles, Trane, Mingus, Monk, Ornette Coleman - I may not really feel the need to delve deep into more obscure artists the way we do with prog rock.

rushfan4 wrote: From Last.FM description of Delusion Squared: "Their music can be classified as Crossover Prog (or Art Rock) according to the ProgArchives gurus and has been found to be close to a female fronted Porcupine Tree."

  I'll have to take a listen to this.

rushfan4 wrote: From Last.FM description of Delusion Squared: "Their music can be classified as Crossover Prog (or Art Rock) according to the ProgArchives gurus and has been found to be close to a female fronted Porcupine Tree."

Based on this song I am listening to I would give an album a try.

This seems to be appropriate for recent cable TV discussions.

Queen's song "Don't Stop Me Now" has worn out its welcome in my head.  I can't make it stop.

I'm finding that I do like quite a bit of jazz rock that is listed here on PA, but I think that the more the rock quotient the more I like it and the more the jazz quotient the less, or something like that. 

I vant to suck your blood, deer:

I wouldn't mind one of those to help me open cans of beans.


Edited by HolyMoly - November 14 2014 at 12:41