{"id":77,"date":"2007-12-24T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/24\/im-doing-science-and-im-still-alive\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T00:14:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T00:14:01","slug":"im-doing-science-and-im-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/24\/im-doing-science-and-im-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m doing science and I&#8217;m still alive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cleaning out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/\">eMusic<\/a> account: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Rev\">Martin Rev<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/album\/Martin-Rev-Martin-Rev-MP3-Download\/10865400.html\">first album<\/a> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/album\/Martin-Rev-Clouds-Of-Glory-MP3-Download\/10586628.html\">Clouds Of Glory<\/a><\/i> and Killing Joke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/album\/Killing-Joke-XXV-Gathering-Let-Us-Prey-MP3-Download\/10872530.html\">25th anniversary live album<\/a>. Many years ago, I was in a failed band. I&#8217;d come home after hours of musical torture and want to hear an actual <i>good record<\/i> that was <i>rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll<\/i> but didn&#8217;t actually involve guitar, bass or drums. <i>Clouds Of Glory<\/i> is that record.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been finding and playing every possible version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal_%28video_game%29\">Portal<\/a> theme <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megaupload.com\/?d=P56QRZ2I\">&#8220;Still Alive<\/a>&#8221; after playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weebls-stuff.com\/wab\/cube\/\">Weebl and Bob<\/a> version for Freda. (Spoileriffic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XqpfhrlDJR0\">ending fight<\/a>.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2007\/10\/15\/portal-the-skinny\/\">Lyrics and chords<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQrSYLYtltU\">piano 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oFeI7Vo3c4s\">piano 2<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceparanoids.net\/music\/Jarrett_Heather_-_Still_Alive.mp3\">mp3<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sNY2d747b-o\">cello<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCzPa4mAD28&#038;feature=related\">indie rock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CGwRLKl2Co4\">EBM<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.megaupload.com\/?d=28LR0IKB\">mp3<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nokcYEpgHQc\">NES<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3HnA-rljeM\">8-bit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qvRqnd4ymus\">Japanese<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cPvdmW3vjPg\">Swedish<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_12b6Om758Q\">Engrish<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7HCzl6-S4wk\">YouTubeSports<\/a> (hear his voicebox disintegrating), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jRyQig8N1jY\">YouTube stereotype<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8\">by the songwriter<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWUcVj31QaM\">in concert<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/home.ca.rr.com\/cbken\/Still%20Alive\/Still%20Alive%20REV.pdf\">transcription<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n<p>Liz is playing the baby awful &#8217;80s charity videos. Hear&#8217;n&#8217;Aid, oh dear God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cleaning out the eMusic account: Martin Rev first album and Clouds Of Glory and Killing Joke 25th anniversary live album. Many years ago, I was in a failed band. I&#8217;d come home after hours of musical torture and want to hear an actual good record that was rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll but didn&#8217;t actually involve guitar, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/24\/im-doing-science-and-im-still-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m doing science and I&#8217;m still alive.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}