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larryhammerFour podcasts I listen to:
1. YourClassical Daily Download -- My default music of choice is classical, but I haven't done much in the way of expanding my library for, um, several years. To avoid only listening to the same stuff all the time, there's the radio (my local station is pretty darn good, actually) and when reception or wifi is not an option, this: a random track a day, saving up ones I like.
2. Music for Programming -- While baroque works well for focus music, this is even better. (I can write casually to vocals, but not when I need deep focus.) Every few months, a new hour-plus of downtempo electronica ranging from space to ambient, constantly mixed up just enough to avoid boredom but not so much to jolt you out of your zone.
3. low light mixes -- When I want a little more variety. It's mostly thematic mixes of ambient, but it ranges about, with mostly weekly releases. I only occasionally save episodes, I find, but I generally listen to every episode.
4. Saga Thing -- Not for working to. Two professors of medieval literature are on a mission to discuss every Icelandic family saga, summarizing each one then bringing it to trial by rating its moment of best bloodshed, best stoic one-liner, who should be outlawed from the saga, and so on. (Thus calling it a "thing" in the sense of an Icelandic court.) Fair warning: They are scholars who love and teach this stuff and have been friends since grad school, so if you don't like their banter and byways you'll find it very long-winded -- it took them 12 going-on-two-hour episodes to get through Njal's Saga. (Content warning for those segments: hating on Hallgerd.) They're almost ¾ of the way through the project and just started Egil's Saga.
What podcasts can you rec?
---L.
Subject quote from On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, John Keats.
1. YourClassical Daily Download -- My default music of choice is classical, but I haven't done much in the way of expanding my library for, um, several years. To avoid only listening to the same stuff all the time, there's the radio (my local station is pretty darn good, actually) and when reception or wifi is not an option, this: a random track a day, saving up ones I like.
2. Music for Programming -- While baroque works well for focus music, this is even better. (I can write casually to vocals, but not when I need deep focus.) Every few months, a new hour-plus of downtempo electronica ranging from space to ambient, constantly mixed up just enough to avoid boredom but not so much to jolt you out of your zone.
3. low light mixes -- When I want a little more variety. It's mostly thematic mixes of ambient, but it ranges about, with mostly weekly releases. I only occasionally save episodes, I find, but I generally listen to every episode.
4. Saga Thing -- Not for working to. Two professors of medieval literature are on a mission to discuss every Icelandic family saga, summarizing each one then bringing it to trial by rating its moment of best bloodshed, best stoic one-liner, who should be outlawed from the saga, and so on. (Thus calling it a "thing" in the sense of an Icelandic court.) Fair warning: They are scholars who love and teach this stuff and have been friends since grad school, so if you don't like their banter and byways you'll find it very long-winded -- it took them 12 going-on-two-hour episodes to get through Njal's Saga. (Content warning for those segments: hating on Hallgerd.) They're almost ¾ of the way through the project and just started Egil's Saga.
What podcasts can you rec?
---L.
Subject quote from On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, John Keats.