What if we could perfect the formula for tear-jerking, goosebump-inducing songs? That question has obsessed me ever since I read a Wall Street Journal article about Adele’s Grammy-minted ballad “Someone Like You.” Granted, it's a breakup song set to foreign-film piano, but it’s Adele’s “unexpected deviations” from the melody, effects known to music nerds as “...
Read MoreAs you may have seen, the indie-cum-mainstream rock outfit the Decemberists recently partnered with Michael Schur to make a video for the band’s “Calamity Song” based on the Eschaton throwdown scene from Infinite Jest, in which the Enfield Tennis Academy’s younger students enact—with tennis rackets & 5 megaton tennis balls—the thermonuclear self-destruction of the modern world before it all collapses into a “degenerative chaos” of punching, tackling, barfing…and a head smashed through a computer monitor.
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