kthread spins: for the woman who named pluto
The L.A. Times article that I found through my friend Laura’s Tumblr reports that she “suggested the name to her grandfather at breakfast in 1930.” One can only assume she believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast that day as well.
Here’s to those gifted with naming and to all of us delineating new directional paths near and in reference to each other—like the Super Furry Animals recall the Beach Boys on Pet Sounds, the pet sounds in the later track from SKWBN in this podcast, all of the included at the “Speed of Sound” that I like best—
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Dropped (Album version) – Phantom Planet
Rolling Down the Hills – Glass Candy
Zero from Outer Space (Album version) – Tom Petty
Cities of Weather – Woodpigeon
Something in the Water – The Henry Clay People
Moonbeams – Bent
(Drawing) Rings Around the World – Super Furry Animals
She Moves in Her Own Way – The Kooks
1999 – Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
Longer You Sit – Gala Band
Way Down in the Hole – Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet with Greg Cohen
Comme des enfants – Coeur de pirate
The Speed of Sound – Emmylou Harris
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Other celestial songs to add? If you named a planet, what would you name it?
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Friday, May 15th, 2009, 11:00 pm * Filed in Music, Podcast. * Tags: kristen, kthread, Music, pluto, Podcast, spins, taylor. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
