Comments on: Friday Nite Floyd: Pigs Might Fly

By: CNBC Sucks

CNBC Sucks — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:17:06 +0000

Hey Ritholtz, I am the biggest Pink Floyd fan, but I am using this older thread to publish my predictive model of the critical next 4 weeks (the final 4 bye weeks) in the Ritholtz FF league without people seeing it. This posting will make sense to only a few of your readers. I need a time-stamped, publicly accessible link that I can reference to show how my analysis turned out, a month or so from now. Ssshhh! Don’t tell anybody.

Currently…
40: 6-0
Bl: 4-2
TG: 4-2
cv: 3-3
Au: 3-3
Gr: 3-3
AA: 2-4
TP: 2-4
OO: 2-4
Mm: 1-5

ASSUMING that I beat Bl this weekend (tough matchup, but I objectively think that I WILL pull it out)…

Objective Predictive Scenario (baseline):
40: 10-0, W, W, W, W
TG: 8-2, W, W, W, W
Bl: 7-3, L, W, W, W
Gr: 5-5, W, L, L, W
AA: 5-5, W, W, W, L
cv: 4-6, W, L, L, L
OO: 4-6, L, W, L, W
Au: 3-7, L, L, L, L
TP: 3-7, L, L, W, L
Mm: 1-9, L, L, L, L

A more desirable, less realistic scenario is:
40: 10-0, W, W, W, W
TG: 8-2, W, W, W, W
Bl: 7-3, L, W, W, W
Gr: 5-5, W, L, L, W
AA: 4-6, W, L, W, L
cv: 4-6, L, W, L, L
OO: 4-6, L, W, L, W
Au: 4-6, W, L, L, L
TP: 3-7, L, L, W, L
Mm: 1-9, L, L, L, L

In other words, either AA or cv could be 5-5, but I am HOPING both will be 4-6. I constructed another “desirable” scenario, but that is less likely so I will hold off. Let’s see how it all shakes out…

By: steel breeze

steel breeze — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:55:33 +0000

I mostly navigate the Fripp/Eno constellation these days, but Pink Floyd shines brightly as ever …

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:23:18 +0000

This kinda makes me feel like someone dosed my coffee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjcK2Yosbu8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w79sOmN6yyc

By: jesusangelgarcia

jesusangelgarcia — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:29:32 +0000

This is precisely the idea I had in mind with one of the multimedia angles of my debut novel, “badbadbad.” I created a 100-song YouTube playlist, based on references to specific bands or tunes in the text, and set it up in sequence on my Web site to function as a soundtrack to the narrative. So interested readers can deepen their literary experience by listening to what the characters are listening to, perhaps feeling what they’re hearing, so to speak, which I think adds another layer to the emotional heft of the story. The range of the set list is massive, from Coltrane to Johnny Cash.

If you like, you can check it out here: http://www.badbadbad.net/Playlist.html — I welcome all feedback; the site was launched last week.

By: gloppie

gloppie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:25:59 +0000

“BR: I just saw Yes at a very small hall a few months ago — amazing!

I’ve seen Fripp & Eno, and Adrian Belew, but never Crimson.

Gabriel I must have a dozen times,
Genesis w/Phil him once”

The Eno / Gabriel / Fripp connection is a wonderful convergence. I keep going back to Here comes the Flood lyrics, like there is a mystical meaning in it, that is still secret;

When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There’s no point in direction we cannot even choose a side.

I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
Well say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.

When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You’re a thousand minds, within a flash
Don’t be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there’s only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they’ll use up what we used to be.

Lord, here comes the flood
Well say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again, the seas are silent
In any still alive
It’ll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kERnXdbA2y4&feature=related

I’m going to assume you’re not adverse to Ambient /Pop, Barry. Check out the other side of Fripp’s connections; David Sylvian, Riuchi Sakamoto, Thomas Dolby.
You know in the end, it’s all a big circle, like the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon http://www.sixdegrees.org/About.aspx

If you really feel adventurous, there’s Jamendo.com; FREE music. And some of it truly astonishing;
Revolution Void (Brainy fusion trance/jazz), Diablo Swing Orchestra (Opera sum HardMetal), David Schombert (Drone) to name a few….

By: Harry Lime

Harry Lime — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:25:11 +0000

I was in ninth grade when Dark Side came out. It came with two posters, one of which was an earie greenish view of the pyramids. I put it on my bedroom wall. My mother came in and said “Good God, why do you have that on your wall? It looks like the dark side of the moon!”

If you like Belew, check out his new Power Trio. Listen to ‘Side Four’ (from his website). Amazing.

By: Greg0658

Greg0658 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:08:23 +0000

ps .. since you can’t tell anymore
David Gilmour “David Gilmour” / side2 Mihalis / side1 Short n Sweet
Kansas “Monolith” / side2 Glimpse of Home / side1 On the Other Side

By: jdjed

jdjed — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:03:06 +0000

Savor a doobie of Kali Mist while reading Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh and listening to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_discography

By: keithpiccirillo

keithpiccirillo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:55:57 +0000

Synergism is everywhere except in the big banks and government.
Roger Water solo material is my favourite…lyrics a call to action for everyone in their little corner of the planet we are trapped on.

By: Greg0658

Greg0658 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:45:23 +0000

morning .. thanks for the memories …. story here is my copy is on cassette with David Gilmour on the flip-side .. that would be Korea time and the PX didn’t stock super well .. so me or Oly (who ever got something great 1st) .. we’d share …….. kids today have it great .. now we have Napster and for a mere $10 a month – all there is in the world (just about*) is available to hear at a click .. the best jukebox ever invented .. no fear of “here today gone tomorrow” .. and my 500 lbs of LPs Tapes CDs; now in a 8oz box on your hip .. actually with cloud computing infinity and beyond on your hip … just need advice of whats good to pull out of the clouds … btw BR – I think crowds do pretty good at picking **

I was in the mood for Gilmour’s 1st solo self titled last nite .. its a good one (when I’m feeling beat up) .. on pulling it up on Napster I said “thats not how it starts out” .. got the tape out .. back in LP days sometimes we would decide the artist saved the best for side 2 (or editor was just wrong) .. to draw you in slowly .. and the album would get embedded that way .. reminded me of Kansas Monolith – was that way too – so I listened to that next – another good one … cue the chandelier crash in the middle of the party …. oooohhhh

* no Pinky and the Brain doing the Pirates of Penzance … boohoo couldn’t find it on YouTube either
** kids pull up the Billboard Charts thru the years … visaversa this old foegy should do so too ….. but rap beat with little chord progression never got it for me tho