Hmm, time to make a spinning CD
Sep. 6th, 2004 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesSo, I am teaching spinning again. Translation: Two mornings a week, I'm up by 5 AM and on the bike encouraging people to get the lead out by 6 AM. (Yes, that's right, it's 3 AM in California at that time. I promise not to call you then.) There's a crew of about 10 regulars who turn out for that.
(I admire that--- that's the the one corner of their day that no one else has claimed, and these guys are using it to stay fit. I like to support that, so Tuesday and Thursday can be.... uh... highly caffeinated days for me if Monday and Wednesday nights were late ones.)
In any case, I burn my own CDs for that. I found a definite cultural difference in musical preferences: My Mountain View class was young, hip, and liked faster stuff. Now I teach people my age and older (what, no one under 30 gets up early here? Apparently not...) and, while they will listen politely to my carefully crafted mix of hyperactive techno (for intervals) and raucous punk (for climbs).... I can tell that they don't necessarily like it.
Okay, fine. Time to find a mix that sits right with the Southern soul. One thing hasn't changed: I still believe that if I choose music no one has ever heard, they don't already hate it before I ever push "Play".
Tomorrow's entertainment:
Two songs to get set up by:
Red & White-- Leo Kottke
Somebody's Crying-- Chris Isaak
Warmup song:
Road to the Faire-- David Arkenstone
Get going:
Let the Day Begin-- the Call
Spaceman-- Bif Naked
Qualitat Im Quadrat-- Atmos (Major intervals & spriiiints)
Surrender-- the Call (climb)
Even Now-- the Call (Hmm, am I in a the Call mood? Ya think?)
Do You Feel-- Spinning Volume 9 (More intervals)
Cooldown:
Blue and Sudden-- Ten Mile Tide
We're done, wipe down yer bike and see ya later:
I Believe-- Chris Isaak
Which Is Why-- Ten Mile Tide
(I admire that--- that's the the one corner of their day that no one else has claimed, and these guys are using it to stay fit. I like to support that, so Tuesday and Thursday can be.... uh... highly caffeinated days for me if Monday and Wednesday nights were late ones.)
In any case, I burn my own CDs for that. I found a definite cultural difference in musical preferences: My Mountain View class was young, hip, and liked faster stuff. Now I teach people my age and older (what, no one under 30 gets up early here? Apparently not...) and, while they will listen politely to my carefully crafted mix of hyperactive techno (for intervals) and raucous punk (for climbs).... I can tell that they don't necessarily like it.
Okay, fine. Time to find a mix that sits right with the Southern soul. One thing hasn't changed: I still believe that if I choose music no one has ever heard, they don't already hate it before I ever push "Play".
Tomorrow's entertainment:
Two songs to get set up by:
Red & White-- Leo Kottke
Somebody's Crying-- Chris Isaak
Warmup song:
Road to the Faire-- David Arkenstone
Get going:
Let the Day Begin-- the Call
Spaceman-- Bif Naked
Qualitat Im Quadrat-- Atmos (Major intervals & spriiiints)
Surrender-- the Call (climb)
Even Now-- the Call (Hmm, am I in a the Call mood? Ya think?)
Do You Feel-- Spinning Volume 9 (More intervals)
Cooldown:
Blue and Sudden-- Ten Mile Tide
We're done, wipe down yer bike and see ya later:
I Believe-- Chris Isaak
Which Is Why-- Ten Mile Tide
