Mythical creatures venn diagram. Not entirely accurate.

Finally, a Count I’m proud to have on my bookshelf.

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Fridge – “Cut Up Piano and Xylophone”
Happiness

One of my favorite albums ever , Happiness has so many different beautiful sounds that to only be able to put one up at a time feels wrong. This particular track is the shortest and perhaps the most easily enjoyed.

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Soft Canyon – “For You”
Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings

The last song on this album, as I noted in my original review, nearly knocked me out of my chair. Unfortunately, since that time, the band has broken up, leaving Broken Spirit as their sole album.

Luckily it’s a great album. Sounds like it just came out of a time capsule. The first track is a great example of this. There’s really nothing that places this album past 1975.

Circular polarization is something I’ve always wondered about but never knew was real. If electromagnetic waves have amplitude in one direction, why not two? or three? After all, there are compression waves, too.

So I would think, some nights when I couldn’t sleep: if a wave moving along the axis Z had a wavelength W along the perpendicularY axis, and a similar wavelength along the doubly perpendicular X axis, wouldn’t it propagate in a helical fashion? And if you change the phase, won’t it change the handedness of the helix? As it turns out, yes it does. I only just found out it’s an established phenomenon (as I might have guessed) while researching stereoscopic methods for a post.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be circular. The more general form is elliptical polarization, but that doesn’t look as cool.

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The Psychic Paramount – “Para5”
Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural

Wrote this up here. I believe this to be the actual loudest song ever.

I’m not kidding, be careful.