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(SLYTP-filter) What
choreography goes best with Igor Stravinsky's "Dance of the Young Girls" from his
Rite of Spring?
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 12:54 PM on September 4, 2008
(43 comments)
Inspired by
this question: I have the sheet music to Steve Reich's MUSIC FOR 18 INSTRUMENTS. I bought it to understand the piece better. But, the individual parts played by themselves sound nothing like the actual piece. I am not a good enough pianist to create a full piano transcription of the piece. Does anyone have any advice as to how to play excerpts from this score but still have it sound like Reich? ( Maybe someone who knows the piece better than I do.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 8:02 PM on August 6, 2008
(5 comments)
"
The blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to the Blade account and encouraged readers to complain to the Post. “I can see why outing someone who is alive and closeted is unethical,” he wrote. “Inning someone who is dead and was out is a function of utterly misplaced sensitivity, rooted in well-intentioned but incontrovertible homophobia.”"
A Soldier's Legacy.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 11:22 AM on August 2, 2008
(18 comments)
"Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected. But the connection was too obvious to ignore, and Betts and Janikowski figured that the same thing must be happening all around the country."
American Murder Mystery.
Page 2.
Page 3.
Page 4.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 1:37 PM on July 7, 2008
(57 comments)
"Bishop contends that as Americans have moved over the past three decades, they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs, and in the end, politics. There are endless variations of this clustering—what Bishop dubs the Big Sort—as like-minded Americans self-segregate in states, cities—even neighborhoods. Consequences of the Big Sort are dire: balkanized communities whose inhabitants find other Americans to be culturally incomprehensible; a growing intolerance for political differences that has made national consensus impossible; and politics so polarized that Congress is stymied and elections are no longer just contests over policies, but bitter choices between ways of life. "
Article about the book from
the Economist. Book's
Website. A
review.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 11:21 AM on June 22, 2008
(52 comments)
I will be in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the beginning of June. I will (probably)
not have access to a car. I will have one afternoon/evening to myself. What bookstores/specialty shops should I not miss?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 2:51 PM on May 20, 2008
(10 comments)
GuitarChordFilter: What are the chords being played in
this video?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 9:43 AM on April 23, 2008
(7 comments)
This story from NPR's morning edition discusses a program in a Georgia middle and high school that pays students $8 per day to go to after school study sessions twice a week.
Jackie Cushman is the originator of the project. She is also
Newt Gingrich's daughter.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 6:01 AM on April 22, 2008
(100 comments)
Netflix used to have a page that listed all of the new videos that were coming out that week in all categories. Sadly, that page seems to be no more. What is a good online replacement, a site that lists what new items are coming out on DVD that week, particularly in the foreign film and documentary categories?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 6:24 PM on April 1, 2008
(7 comments)
"Windows needs to close" - filter: The computer now seems to present that "windows needs to close" message when I try to close any window containing a web page that had video or audio on it. It didn't used to do this. I would like to fix this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 8:10 PM on February 23, 2008
(8 comments)
What do you look at/notice, as you wander through the world, that I probably ignore?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 12:15 PM on February 12, 2008
(129 comments)
Comic Book creator Steve Gerber has
died.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 6:16 PM on February 11, 2008
(28 comments)
Does anyone know a neurologist in the Boston, MA area that they have had good experiences with?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 4:39 PM on January 16, 2008
(3 comments)
"it turned out the abstract compositions in the posters contained hidden letters. (The one above, for example, displays the letter A.) Hung side by side on the streets, they spelled out N-A-Z-I. A public outcry followed, and within six weeks the company was ruined."
Can a designer punish a company that helped the nazis?
Maybe.
Maybe not. (via
swiss miss)
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 10:30 AM on January 14, 2008
(28 comments)
So, Mrs. Wittgenstein read an article that says that shrimpers are now keeping the jellyfish they catch, becuase they can be dried and turned into edible crackers that are high in protein with no cholesterol. She wants some of these crackers. Where can I get some?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 4:18 PM on January 9, 2008
(8 comments)
Calculus II filter: I have trouble setting up the integral for the volume of a solid of revolution when it is being revolved around a horizontal or vertical line other than the x- or y- axis. Does anybody know a trick or mnemonic for these types of problems?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 8:49 AM on December 28, 2007
(5 comments)
(Question from Mrs. Wittgenstein) Is anyone using University of Kansas' Strategic Instruction Models (SIMS) to teach high school physical science or biology? If so, which models are you using?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 6:50 PM on December 19, 2007
Lost Song Filter: I swear I remember hearing a song called Time Bomb in late 70s early 80s.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 11:16 AM on December 10, 2007
(5 comments)
Scubertfilter: What is your favorite recording of Schubert's Winterreise?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 3:47 AM on November 8, 2007
(12 comments)
What makes Allan Holdsworth's guitar sound so strange when he is playing the song "Metal Fatigue"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 12:26 PM on October 31, 2007
(19 comments)
Obscure Todd Rundgren/Utopia filter: What chords will go with the Utopia song "Zen Machine" ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 1:23 PM on October 23, 2007
(1 comment)
Wittgenstein filter: Tractatus 6.43 (end)
"The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man"
What does this mean?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 12:31 PM on October 14, 2007
(22 comments)
Calculator-filter: My beloved casio fx-115s is dying after about 20 years of use. I need to replace it. Tell me what to get as a replacement.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 9:33 AM on October 7, 2007
(7 comments)
MTV used to have a show called "Earth to MTV" where they showed videos from foreign countries. On it, I would swear I saw a japanese video by a gorup called the "Barbie Boys". The song was called "Norma Jean".
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 9:03 PM on September 29, 2007
(4 comments)
It's Friday afternoon. 1981 - 1982ish. I just got home from high school and I want some MTV. Back then, MTV played these things called "music videos". But they didn't have a large catalog of them yet, so they tended to play everything they had. You really got to see some lesser known classics. For Example: Jan Hammer/Neal Schon
Lies. The Hitmen
Bates Motel. Utopia
Feet Don't Fail Me Now.
Landscape
My Name is Norman Bates.
Chilliwack
My Girl.
Ultravox
Vienna. Snakefinger
Man in the Dark Sedan.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 10:46 AM on September 23, 2007
(128 comments)
Craft Filter: (this question is from my sister-in-law)
"Any suggestions for mounting Art Glass (Fused) Tiles?
Sizes are 8 in by 11 in and 3 in by 3 in. No wires were fused in the tiles for hanging purposes.
Should I bond to plexiglass as base? If so, how? What adhesive should I use? Any other suggestions?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 7:31 AM on September 20, 2007
(4 comments)
Obscure Mathfilter: In the arcane past of mathematics, there is something known as a "Newton Polygon", which theoretically can be used to help sketch functions of two variables, say, x^3 + y^3 =3xy, for instance. But --
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 5:53 AM on September 13, 2007
(4 comments)
What makes disco disco? In particular, what makes it different from funk, r & b or soul? Is it the arrangement? Is it the beat? Is it the horns? Details please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 5:57 PM on September 5, 2007
(12 comments)
What books or websites do you recommend that look at popular music (I really mean 70s and 80s) from a music theory perspective. For example,
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 5:32 PM on August 29, 2007
(13 comments)
Piano Playing Filter: I play the piano at what I believe is considered the early intermediate level. I enjoy playing the Burgmuller op 100 pieces. I am familiar with Mikrokosmos. I have an easy piano complete beatles book that I LOVE. But, there is
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 5:18 PM on August 21, 2007
(1 comment)
