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- Thu May 29, 2003 6:00 am
- Forum: Swoon
- Topic: Pitchforkmedia.com review of WIPTF
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11629
Dandelions are health-giving herbs, well respected by the wise for their virtues -- primarily, cleansing the liver, easing digestive troubles and supplying valuable minerals to the diet. The leaves, served raw, add a wonderful bitter counterpoint to lettuce, rocket and other salad greens. Cooked, th...
- Wed May 28, 2003 10:41 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: To Laura, Age 14: Emotional Damage and Pop Music
- Replies: 25
- Views: 22750
To Laura, Age 14: Emotional Damage and Pop Music
Before Nick Hornby's High Fidelity came out as a novel, a section of the first or second chapter was excerpted in Granta (the magazine that thinks it's a book!) under the title "To Laura, Age 14." It's an OK piece of writing, describing the narrator's various infatuations & close brushes with the fa...
- Tue May 20, 2003 7:23 am
- Forum: Cattywampus
- Topic: founder's forum rules
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14042
A rondeau.
This high coup might topple Princes Though lonely word rarely convinces Those who hardly feel oppressed; So cries of "foul" seem, well, obsessed -- (Though points are won by eloquences) Where one man's brief survey evinces Proof of tyranny, he winces, and counts his syllables, distressed (though met...
- Mon May 19, 2003 12:07 pm
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Which comes first?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9511
- Mon May 19, 2003 12:04 pm
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Keyboards and such
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19864
Except, perhaps, Ms Marni Rice. She's not happy, she's mysterious . A accordionist fatale. And Merlin, I would say that you too are the wind beneath my wings, except that would lead to an awful lot of wind, and quite possibly some damage to our feathers. I will, however, attest that if loving you is...
- Mon May 19, 2003 7:12 am
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
Were there spelling nerds when people used cuneiform? Yes. They were known as scribes , and held in rather more high regard than today's lexicographers & logophiles. However, their influence came at a rather high personal price: (from the above link) To meet this need there were a number of scribal...
- Mon May 19, 2003 7:01 am
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
- Mon May 19, 2003 6:47 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Keyboards and such
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19864
the problem with pianos/keyboards is simply that you have to sit down while playing. i think tha't why many people on keys look a little pissy by default. Au contraire ! Not all keyboardists sit: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:sgax-zRMqDoC:www.daveedmunds.com/images/jerry.jpg . http://images...
- Thu May 15, 2003 11:51 am
- Forum: Cattywampus
- Topic: founder's forum rules
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14042
- Thu May 15, 2003 8:26 am
- Forum: Cattywampus
- Topic: founder's forum rules
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14042
- Thu May 15, 2003 7:53 am
- Forum: Cattywampus
- Topic: founder's forum rules
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14042
'Twas in the twilit city streets, the anarchist and I Would often walk, the best to talk away from listening ear For in those times, the loose-lipp'd thought could loose the bonds of fear And surveillance trumped our common sense, with all this might imply. "When suspicion shackles trust," he cried,...
- Thu May 15, 2003 6:56 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Keyboards and such
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19864
- Thu May 15, 2003 6:52 am
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
- Thu May 15, 2003 6:49 am
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
- Wed May 14, 2003 12:26 pm
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
I have a little scrap of paper with "the plainest words are the finest" scotch-taped to my computer monitor. It gives me something to focus on when I'm having a slow-word day -- so as you can imagine, I was happy to have a moment to employ my adopted credo somewhere besides in my day-to-day writing...
- Tue May 13, 2003 8:51 am
- Forum: Give Me a Moment
- Topic: Pretentiousness: a response
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45936
This is the diary entry being discussed . On first read, that "coy vocals" line appears to be a bit (ho ho!) counter-revolutionary. But then, I would say that, as a fellow who has dedicated far too much effort to the ironic appropriation of pathos. I mean, if you're a ruddy post-modernist, what isn...
- Fri May 09, 2003 5:47 am
- Forum: Cattywampus
- Topic: Tootsie Pops and other oral favorites..
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8147
- Fri May 09, 2003 5:45 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Keyboards and such
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19864
And what samples will you be feeding into the Nord Electro? Oh, wait a bit -- just looked at the site: http://www.clavia.se/nordelectro/ where it says: The organ in the Electro 2 is based on a digital simulation of the mechanical tone wheels of the B-3 organ. It offers a number of very innovative so...
- Thu May 08, 2003 11:49 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: straw poll: the best noisemaker....
- Replies: 33
- Views: 29094
The local radio broadcast of " Evenin' Jazz " uses, as its signature tune, one of the most unusual applications of the oboe I have ever heard: Yusuf Lateef playing a version of " In the Evening ." Quite something, that. French horns - lovely, distant, emotionally wrought instruments. Yes. I am all i...
- Thu May 08, 2003 10:23 am
- Forum: Band Nerd!
- Topic: Keyboards and such
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19864
Just been reading up on the Optigan. Splendid, stirring stuff. Optical sampling -- just lovely. Nonetheless... I'm wondering two things: First, how an Optigan might compare with other sampling instruments like the mellotron, in general character and timbre and what-not. Second, and most contentiousl...