{"id":430,"date":"2017-12-14T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:26:02","slug":"thematic-thursday-lonely-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/thematic-thursday-lonely-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Thematic Thursday: Lonely Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lonely-planet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-431\" src=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lonely-planet-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lonely-planet-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lonely-planet-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lonely-planet.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Welcome back to Thematic Thursdays where I share from my collection of soundtracks suitable for writing or working! This week I am giving you a blessed break from Christmas music with another blast from the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/thematic-thursday-80s-night-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last week<\/a> I shared a trifecta of nostalgia inspired by the 80s; this week I&#8217;m offering a similar a variety of song styles and tempos to chose from, except it&#8217;s from one source in the 90s: the Lonely Planet TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Running from 1994 to somewhere in the mid-oughts when it became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pilotguides.com\/tv-shows\/globe-trekker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe Trekker<\/a>, Lonely Planet explored different locales with different hosts, each week giving an interesting look into remote cultures and places long before Instagram and travel blogs were a thing. In fact, just to let you know how long ago this all was, I <em>taped<\/em> the theme song for myself by literally holding a tape recorder close to the TV. (It was later one of the first MP3s I downloaded from a new interesting program called Napster.)<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack is just as varied as the episodes, and samples from an assortment of musical backgrounds (including traditional songs, such as on tracks <em>Vanuatu Voices<\/em> and <em>My Eyes<\/em>). And yet it all still works as background, despite the disparities (or perhaps because of them).&nbsp; There are moody pieces (<em>Saga<\/em>, which I still associate heavily with a story Grace wrote in the late 90s, even though I haven&#8217;t read said story in a good 15 years) and lighter, peppier songs (such as <em>Ranchero<\/em>). There is something for every kind of scene\/mood\/tone, but more than writing, it remains a great soundtrack for focused working. My older sister uses it still for jogging. It&#8217;s a perfect example of music that is complex and interesting but easy to fade to the background when you need to concentrate.<\/p>\n<p>If, for instance, you&#8217;re busy editing, and daydreaming about travelling again.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Lonely Planet, and happy exploring, whatever form it takes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/lindsay10\/playlist\/0ouXszWn3dc3YTTs6ign5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original 2-part CD (retitled Globe Trekker: Ambient Journeys) on Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lwpCAtzqS7I&amp;list=PLKpSlbIgBV02AvFpVDUX_eo4wn5f7OQni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Playlist, including music released more recently<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the soundtrack to the late 90s and early 00s travel show Lonely Planet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43,131,37,12],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thematic-thursday","tag-eclectic","tag-global","tag-orchestral","tag-soundtrack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}