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MeFi post:
Robot Guitar Technicians 2008 A.D.
I don't see the need for this
I'm pretty much of the opposite point of view here, as is a technician as good as Mike Lull. The Plek provides unprecedented accuracy in fret levelling. The robot guitar strikes me as an unreliable device that will age poorly — although I can't link to the article, it intrigued yet underwhelmed the testers in the Guitar Player review (March 2008). Oh, and MSRP is $3,999 USD.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 11:06 PM on August 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Free Mickey?
The Lion King is Hamlet
See also Kimba the white lion.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 10:13 PM on August 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Kids love Coltrane
Ms. Passarella's second-grade students, she says, would have told him how moved they were by not only the ballads "but the more avant-garde recordings, such as 'Interstellar Space.'"
Heck!
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 9:40 PM on August 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Sokal and beyond
In Lacan's thought, for instance, the underlying world is "the Real." It exists, certainly, and we dream of accessing it directly because it represents the fulfillment of our desires--but we can't, because we as human beings cannot solve the recursion problem.
In the Lacanian schema we access the Real where the veils of the Symbolic and the Imaginary are forcibly torn apart by the irruption of trauma, and our desire is insatiable because its... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 12:08 AM on August 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Woody Allen vs. Jean-Luc Godard
Thanks, I enjoyed that. I found it a very economical little exposition of both Allen's and Godard's creative processes, the one seeking to sculpt a film into something resembling an initial vision, and the other assembling a film like a bower bird weaves a nest from whatever's at hand.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 9:34 PM on August 14, 2008
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Pourquoi tant de haine ?
Ch'suis cool avec les deux, putain de coing.*
*C'est surprenant, mais cette citation parfaitement cromulente des Bidochon semble être complètement méconnue chez Google. Fuck!
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:49 AM on August 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Rhapsody in Pepsi Blue?
disconnected from the the narrative of the melody.
I can't believe you have ever seriously thought about this problem.
Cf programme music, repurposing, interpretation, synchronisation, visual vs auditory, ad nauseam.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 1:26 AM on August 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Getting It Right
Friedman isn't a "simplist" (whatever that is) because of this one article, he's a an idiot
Thank you for that link, it was sensational.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 3:55 PM on August 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Buzz is forever?
(Jazz-loving beatniks on the other hand are all communists.)
I was kind of annoyed when my way out of date semi-ironic tag was appropriated. I guess it was too good not to be recycled.
*sound of bongos, waft of smoke*
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 1:15 AM on August 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Translation with a time limit
He had an emotionless monotone voice and was doing all the parts, male and female.
I wonder how many of these people are left? Seems a vestigial practice at best from the days before recorded and synchronised soundtracks (and still common in Japan until the late 1940s, I believe).
Very interesting!
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 9:15 PM on August 5, 2008
it seems like a good dub is actually more accurate/truer to the original than good subtitles?
If you're referring to the semantic content of the original work, definitely, as the rate of speech can be more or less accurately reproduced, meaning less pruning is necessary. If you think of film as an audiovisual construction whose primary illusion is one of unity, however, the split between the actor's mouth and the sound that comes out of it is the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 10:01 PM on August 5, 2008
I should probably add that I may seem in some sense above to be refashioning a cultural phenomenon as a natural one, and doubtless thus represent the pallid shrieking head of bourgeois normativism attempting to claim the universality of my own prejudices. I am aware, for example, that Italian cinema tolerates a much freer relationship between the speaker's image and their heard words than is usual in the English-speaking world, and that this is entirely a fact of culture. My observation hinges,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 10:21 PM on August 5, 2008
Here's a review from the NYT of Le Ton beau de Marot which I think nails most of it. Me, I can't get past the hideous title.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 4:00 PM on August 6, 2008
MeFi post:
OMNOMNOMopoly
I'm not saying that a few worms don't get by, but to say that there is a part of any fish that is "crawly" and that it is specifically excised and ground up for human consumption is total and complete bullshit.
I really really want to thank you for writing that. I was feeling quite unwell after reading the comment you are referring to.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 11:28 PM on July 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Hiram Bullock dead
Rest in peace, Hiram.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:15 PM on July 29, 2008
Hiram Bullock was born in 1955 in Osaka, Japan to parents serving in the US military. When he was two the family returned to the United States, where they settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Hiram studied piano at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in the city, playing his first recital at the age of six. He also became a fluid saxophone player.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 11:13 PM on July 29, 2008
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he could bear to wait no longer
A couple of years ago I was on a passenger train that a chap had decided to leap under. I heard a scream, a thump, and we came to a stop. The scream, which I will never forget, was the driver, and the thump was the sound of the train wheels severing both the legs of the body under the train. The fellow was lying between the two carriages of the train, and some of the passengers looked out of the carriage's back door window to check out the damage. I remained in my seat and continued reading... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:48 AM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Vormittagsspuk
Thanks for this, very enjoyable. I find myself wondering what the original sound track was like.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 8:59 PM on July 20, 2008
MeFi post:
The Sacred Mushroom
scuba diving on psilocybin in hawaii.
Ten tons of awesome right there.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 7:02 AM on July 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Nothing to see here.
HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR
I was about to post that, but once again you are ahead of me.
*leaves door marked "obvious" open about 3 feet*
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 1:39 AM on July 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Jazz bassist who blew them all away
I dunno if he blew Paul Chambers away. That was about the roundest and best shaped sound around at the time.
I have the feeling I have never heard a decent phonographic representation of LaFaro's work. Sounds sort of light and squiggly to me. I would say Eddie Gomez is his most obvious inheritor in his left hand style, but Gomez gets the thick liquorice tone I love from the right hand. If I could play a quarter as well as LaFaro could I would be fairly proud, though.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:45 AM on July 15, 2008
On non-preview, I see peterkins also has an informed opinion.
Cheers!
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:46 AM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Visual jazz.
Norman McLaren's Begone dull care is pretty much the benchmark for this style of thing.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 6:59 PM on July 14, 2008
Nice post, by the way, thanks a lot.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 11:26 PM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Ooh Yeah I'm A Wild One
Yeah, the Divinyls definitely deserve a spot. Cool post, thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 10:02 PM on July 14, 2008
Also, The Reels, Quasimodo's Dream. Because the bandleader's from Dubbo.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 10:08 PM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
A New Mozart?
I don't think Mozart wrote Für Elise.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 12:07 AM on July 14, 2008
The whole "a new Mozart" framing of this post (and, to be fair, it came from the Korean TV programme) seemed to be a pretty polarising setup to be kicking on with. Of course she is not a new Mozart. But she has a wonderful ear, and her facility in getting around those big keys is impressive. The kid's a musician.
Blue Rondue al a Turk.
Blue Rondo à la Turk
Fairly pointless... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof
at 5:50 AM on July 14, 2008
