fellow beasts,

the etymology/ontogenesis of metabeats

1) since this is a place where we think about how we think about music, thought that the word 'meta' fit, at least in terms of its definition as an abstraction from another concept. thus metabeats is sharing how we felt (feeling the feeling, therefore meta) about a particular piece of music (beats)

2) it sounds cool

the other option would have been to just give it a simple name, like 'Barry'. but i thought this would be too cute by half.

as for stuart's suggestion that the video may distract from the song, it's a valid point but allow me to add this twist: i rarely watch the video itself.

once i find the song on youtube, i'll alt-tab over to another application and continuing doing something else while enjoying the song. youtube is just an easier place to find the song and provide a link or embed a track than any other site. granted, when i search for a song, i do try to find the best video or one that appears to be the 'official' video, so on some level, i must assume that you want to watch it, even if i don't. or perhaps i just want the option of alt-tabbing back to watch, should it strike my fancy. i'll spare you any further self-exploration as this is meta-enough for today.

as we head into the long weekend, though, any music that you're planning on playing?