Lose Tunes

The LOSE is going to diversify the portfolio here in 2014. Since IN PLAY LOSE is my personal corner office here in cyberspace, I figure that I should actually move in and make myself at home – which means I definitely need to have some music playing. Yes, IN PLAY LOSE does, in fact, have a soundtrack which lives on my laptop, and which I'm usually playing as I composing these long essays which I post. It's rare when there isn't music playing, in fact. Usually I'm streaming KCRW out of Santa Monica, which is the greatest radio station on the planet. Or I'm listening to a playlist, such as the one I call Lose Tunes.

So every now and then (most likely on Fridays, when I'm usually drunk), I am going to add some musical selections to the blog from the Lose Tunes. My tastes are pretty eclectic. I listen to just about every style of music and tend to go in phases – right now I am in something of a techno/electronica phase for reasons I cannot fathom.

And this song is maybe as close to a theme song for this blog as presently exists. It's assembled by a guy from Wales who now lives in that sleepy little Welsh fishing village named New York. And the video is apropos to this blog as well, as it's culled from one of the best films about out-and-out, dimwitted, self-destructive, self-inflicted defeat which has been made in recent memory, Spike Lee's 25th Hour.

Fear not, we'll resume our regular programming here in the next few days. There is always more time for LOSE. As we say at the San Francisco scrabble club, once you've found a bad play, always take the time to look for a worse one.