My new iMac came with a mail-in rebate for an iPod mini. Not being one for personal music systems I thought I might use it for playing music through the car stereo, but I've found that it is really useful for those long, lonely and above all noisy hours in the cell culture lab.
I have subsequently discovered that whereas Stairway to Heaven from the IV album is not quite long enough to passage a single flask (aspirate, rinse, aspirate, trypsinize, quench, spin, resuspend, seed), the live version on the BBC Session Tapes is.
So now you know.
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I've found that Black Dog at high volume is helpful for releasing all different manner of stress.
Posted by: Whifflin' and rockin' | April 17, 2007 01:56 AM
Dearie dearie me. Steve Reich is, of course, the one true god of music-to-work-to.
Posted by: Nix | April 17, 2007 05:12 AM
Hm, or perhaps some Philip Glass? You know...
boodly boodly boodly boodly boodly boodly boodly boodly [goes on for thirty minutes or so]
Just what you need for those long tissue culture afternoons.
Posted by: Whiffling repetitively | April 18, 2007 06:16 AM
I have also found out that should you wish to learn to play Stairway To Heaven on a guitar, the live session is *not* the place to start. You NEED LZ IV.
Posted by: Nige | April 25, 2007 07:25 PM