Amid all the distressing news, I am delighted to have some good news to share. My sabbatical proposal was accepted, and I have been awarded six months of paid professional leave beginning this September. #metadata #musiccataloging
I am *never* going to remember the vowel arrangement in Putumayo without checking. ANY VOWEL SEEMS REASONABLE ANYPLACE. #musiccataloging
Hamburger Rundfunkorchester: still the best name of anything ever. #musiccataloging
Have officially reached that stage of long #musiccataloging shift where "symphony" CANNOT POSSIBLY BE A REAL WORD COME ON.
schubert you wrote TOO MANY SYMPHONIES #musiccataloging
There is a flute player named Clementine Hoogendoorn. BEST. #musiccataloging
My goodness, Midori, what is that thing you are WEARING for your Carnegie Hall cd cover? #musiccataloging #isactuallyabouttheclothes
The fact that "Michael Myers" is singing Faust on this cd gives rise to more than one Very Odd Mental Picture. #musiccataloging
And oh, my, the gloriously named Gottlop Frick. #musiccataloging
I love German orchestra names! Saarländischer Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester, ROCK ON WITH YOUR BAD SELF. #musiccataloging
I love that I get to put ""Rainstorm, crowd sounds, announcements & general hysteria" as on official track listing. #musiccataloging
Wow, Bob Marley had really pretty hands. #musiccataloging
Wow, #musiccataloging just led me to read about Gram Parson's funeral. Wow.
Who was it that described Garth Brooks as looking like "a thumb in a cowboy hat?" (And can I put that in a catalog note?) #musiccataloging
Man, Sam Cooke's death was WEEEEEEEIRD. #musiccataloging
Huh, first time cataloging in the pop/rock section I've found a band I have never HEARD of. Anybody know "The Joneses?" #musiccataloging
Previous cataloger, why put "Contents and durations times on container" in record? Why not "I can't be arsed to describe?" #musiccataloging
Wow, I'm not even attempting to trace who was officially in the official Drifters. That's some confusing shit, there. #musiccataloging
Chris Isaak, you were very, very pretty in 1989. #musiccataloging
Whyyy is the song list printed on the cd itself different from the one on the cover & insert? Now I gotta listen to it. #musiccataloging
Joe Mauldin from Buddy Holly's Crickets prob NOT the same Joe Mauldin who wrote "Vacuum Aspirator for Counting Termites." #musiccataloging
Good lord, Parliament has like 300 people in it. #musiccataloging #notenglishhistory
No, Library of Congress Name Authorities, guitarist "The Edge" is not short for "Education in a Disabled Gay Environment." #musiccataloging
And now every time I say "thank you" today brain will add "falletinme be mice elf agin. Thanks, Sly Stone. Falletin...ACK! #musiccataloging
So...are the Ramones where that "going through drummers" joke in Spinal Tap came from? Geez. #musiccataloging
