I haven't been doing much learning today, more pondering, sweating, explaining, clenching, releasing etc. I went to a meeting at the office, but nothing is really any clearer, and probably won't be until the disciplinary, when my inner daemon is going to unexpectedly hop out and either beg unrelentingly for forgiveness or tell them they're lucky we don't fucking sue. It's going to be fun finding out. How handy then, that I learnt something good and trivial in amongst the terrible adverts and emo nonsense on Kerrang Radio (will someone start a half-decent metal station on DAB? Please?!) - the meaning of the title of the Pendulum album:
'In silico' is an expression which means computer generated.
Pendulum are one of those very 'now' bands who I already have reservations over (dance rock is very 1996) but aren't quite terrible enough to destroy my interest completely. The single they put out, with the 'bown-bown-bown' keyboard bit, is actually quite smart, and despite my reservations, I feel certain that my aforementioned inner guide is going to decide that it's a really good idea to download two albums of patchy Australian drum 'n' bass. That said, I can't help but feel calling their album 'In Silico' isn't going to do their attempts to be seen as a proper band, rather than a bunch of drum 'n' bass chancers, any favours.
I thought that they had made the title up, but it is in fact a modern scientific phrase given to things that are computer generated, particularly in biology, don't worry, I won't go on. It might sound Latin, but, a bit like fusing dance music with guitars, it was invented in 1989. 'In silice', the closest bona fide Latin equivalent (see what I did there), means 'like flint'. Maybe that's an image that could fit better with their fast-living aspirations...
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