Although fortunately a friend from back home sent me the latest album from one of my favourite NZ bands, the Phoenix Foundation, entitled Happy Ending, which has helped keep me from jumping out the lab window.
I’m drawing to the close of my research project for the semester so am obviously spending this week doing all the experiments I should have been doing for the past two months in a mad attempt to get enough data to write a coherent report about. Have spent 12 hours or so every day this week doing nothing but HPLC to measure the effects of up or down regulation of a particular serotonin receptor (5HT2CR…if you’re asking) in a couple of lines of transgenic mice we have in the lab. While interesting in theory, the actual lab work involved in preparing and running each sample is very mundane, thus this album was a welcome addition to the lab-work playlist on my iPod.
And since these experiments have cut the umbilical cord I share with my laptop on most days, this post is all I have had time to come up with all week (which is a token effort, at best). Anyways, here’s the retro-tastic beast of a video clip for the first single off said album, Bright Grey.
the effects in the music vid are wild.
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I have a Happy Ending story that doesn’t have a happy ending. At the end of my Christmas holiday in New Zealand, I gleefully pocketed a copy of Happy Ending from the Sounds store at Christchurch International. It cost me $25. Then I got back to Hong Kong and pulled the CD out of its case to find the dufus sales guy had put Pegasus in there by mistake. I already got Pegasus. I want Happy Ending. I still haven’t heard it. It’s hard to find Phoenix Foundation torrents….
Sob.
Drag.
Although the joke is on Sounds. They’re out of business now.