see: Junebug, The Squid and the Whale, A History of Violence.
and maybe Funny Ha Ha (?). and Brokeback Mtn.
1/7 also My Summer of Love and another encouragement for Junebug which tops this Chicago Reader list of The Best Ten Movies You Probably Didn't See by J.R. Jones.
(and remember: Best of Youth and Walk the Line. and and and The Woodsman. The Woodsman was outstanding.)
remember, on k's suggestn, seeing at Musicbox w/susie ells (misspelld on purpose, tiny effort to frustrate ggl just in case: privacy)."The Best of Youth," by Marco Tullio Giordana, the story of two Italian brothers and their lives from 1963 to 2000, as they intersect with politics and history. also remember, seen with dad at River North:"Walk the Line," for its astonishing performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.
-mentions from Ebert after his 10 of 2005.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
whoa. I went from bloggies to whatevs (entertainment blog) to skeetonmischa (babes of 05 re laguna girls) and this guy refers to thighswideshut which from RM1995.com guestbook appears to be palan's blog. my first 'real-life' intersxn w/ online finding:
The thing about brokeback mountain is its not the gay cowboy movie, its just another excellent film from ang lee. i don't want to step upon the toes of the thigh master and his review of the film, but... the guy is a masterful filmmaker, if not the best filmmaker working right now.
a fellow funny guy?: a small problem for me with the film, is well, in the past, i've been told that i sorta look like heath ledger and this isn't me trying to wax my own car... okay, so i'm watching the movie and in certain scenes, i get a bit freaked out...
The thing about brokeback mountain is its not the gay cowboy movie, its just another excellent film from ang lee. i don't want to step upon the toes of the thigh master and his review of the film, but... the guy is a masterful filmmaker, if not the best filmmaker working right now.
a fellow funny guy?: a small problem for me with the film, is well, in the past, i've been told that i sorta look like heath ledger and this isn't me trying to wax my own car... okay, so i'm watching the movie and in certain scenes, i get a bit freaked out...
BLOAT WATCH TERROR LEVEL CHART
www.gofugyourself.com
SEVERE:MY GOD MAN, GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF.
HIGH: Think about getting back on the smack.
ELEVATED: Seriously, cut down on the sodium.
GUARDED: Maybe look into a seaweed wrap?
Low:Keep up the good work.
__
Naomi Watts really is somehow ambiguous in her looks. or what is a better word?
www.gofugyourself.com
SEVERE:MY GOD MAN, GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF.
HIGH: Think about getting back on the smack.
ELEVATED: Seriously, cut down on the sodium.
GUARDED: Maybe look into a seaweed wrap?
Low:Keep up the good work.
__
Naomi Watts really is somehow ambiguous in her looks. or what is a better word?
ah. www.Subtraction.com is very lovely. kottke just linked bc this guy now going to work for nytimes.com. I noted subtraction below 8/2 re weblogs and 9/9 re Onion design but never really remarked. pretty dog. and weblog entries are starred.
this one gets 3 stars (of 3? I think.)
Why Blink.com Failed Where Del.icio.us Succeeded
pretty interesting. folders, default not public...
little note inmind- delicious for sites want to come back to, either regularly [z/find/links/a(=favorite at lst of moment) -topical: web(2.0), books, chicago - fxn, psy] or bc not yet looked at [item] ... or bc may want to find again but not putting anyth here on daylikeww [x]. ok.
this one gets 3 stars (of 3? I think.)
Why Blink.com Failed Where Del.icio.us Succeeded
pretty interesting. folders, default not public...
little note inmind- delicious for sites want to come back to, either regularly [z/find/links/a(=favorite at lst of moment) -topical: web(2.0), books, chicago - fxn, psy] or bc not yet looked at [item] ... or bc may want to find again but not putting anyth here on daylikeww [x]. ok.
exbiblio
is there a way we can endow paper documents with some of the power of their digital counterparts, and gain the best of both worlds?
at Exbiblio, we've found a way to do this. We believe that it will, quite simply, transform the future of paper, and we've worked in this area long enough not to make that claim lightly. For some of the details, please have a look at this whitepaper - 6pg pdf
at Exbiblio, we've found a way to do this. We believe that it will, quite simply, transform the future of paper, and we've worked in this area long enough not to make that claim lightly. For some of the details, please have a look at this whitepaper - 6pg pdf
...in past if wanted to endow an existing paper document with extra functionality you had to convert it into digital form scanning one page at a time with a large inconvenient scanner and then using OCR software to extract the test in a form that a computer could manipulate. OCR somewhat unreliable, required a lot of manual intervention - correction on the part of the user.
ah my Maryland archives experience could be of some small but relevant use here on a resume.
in last 10 years world has changed -- the majority of paper documents with which we now interact already exist in electronic form -- (majority ~? well...: Most documents produced in the last decade or two already exist in digital form somewhere and there are many major initiatives to increase publications available, including Amazon's search inside facility, Google Print, and the Internet Archive. it is only a matter of time before the bulk of the world's printed documents are digitized and that time may be shorter than we think. hmm ok.) this means that instead of using the scanning process to create an imperfect digital copy of a paper document we can now use it to find the perfect digital original.
usually only requires a few words to identify document unambiguously...
an important first application is what we call the life library = a record of everything you scan with timestamps, surrounding context, further information. might be presented in weblog format, and might be for your own personal use, or for more public consumption.
imagine the value of having a reocrd of everything you ever read that you thought was interesting, a record that you could revist, search. remind you of the sort of books you were reading five years ago... mmmmmm. but disappointing me...? at home 9619 was thinking of this - could I easily make a record of my letters, my notes, books already read? --- I suppose a good pen-like scanner would help but the point here is not capturing unique content is it.
imagine you have a small scanner on your key ring. our plans are for something about the size of a USB flash drive, which you hold as if it were a highlighter pen. alternatively, the functionality could be built into your phone, mp3 player, bluetooth headset or other device already carried. it can communicate in some way with your phone, your PC, your wireless network - either directly or by being plusgged in to synchronize from time to time.
ah my Maryland archives experience could be of some small but relevant use here on a resume.
in last 10 years world has changed -- the majority of paper documents with which we now interact already exist in electronic form -- (majority ~? well...: Most documents produced in the last decade or two already exist in digital form somewhere and there are many major initiatives to increase publications available, including Amazon's search inside facility, Google Print, and the Internet Archive. it is only a matter of time before the bulk of the world's printed documents are digitized and that time may be shorter than we think. hmm ok.) this means that instead of using the scanning process to create an imperfect digital copy of a paper document we can now use it to find the perfect digital original.
usually only requires a few words to identify document unambiguously...
an important first application is what we call the life library = a record of everything you scan with timestamps, surrounding context, further information. might be presented in weblog format, and might be for your own personal use, or for more public consumption.
imagine the value of having a reocrd of everything you ever read that you thought was interesting, a record that you could revist, search. remind you of the sort of books you were reading five years ago... mmmmmm. but disappointing me...? at home 9619 was thinking of this - could I easily make a record of my letters, my notes, books already read? --- I suppose a good pen-like scanner would help but the point here is not capturing unique content is it.
imagine you have a small scanner on your key ring. our plans are for something about the size of a USB flash drive, which you hold as if it were a highlighter pen. alternatively, the functionality could be built into your phone, mp3 player, bluetooth headset or other device already carried. it can communicate in some way with your phone, your PC, your wireless network - either directly or by being plusgged in to synchronize from time to time.
Classic Literature Evangelist Build and nurture relationships with publishers, libraries, writers, and teachers as you make a truly important contribution to the study and appreciation of classic literature. html pdf
The products and services that we are creating enable new kinds of rich, interactive experiences around paper documents by leveraging the power of digital media. Exbiblio is a growing company incorporated in the Netherlands, and operating through a sister company located in Seattle. We are a team with diverse talents and backgrounds, but we share a common passion for reading, inventing, and improving our world. Are you entrepreneurial, creative, and passionate about your work? If so, please join us and contribute to a culture where each one of us looks forward to coming to work each day.
Every individual at Exbiblio has a wide variety of responsibilities and participates in many aspects of our business. As our Classic Literature Evangelist, you will focus on building and nurturing relationships with publishers, libraries, high schools and colleges, writers, editors, and teachers. You will also help us with product design and strategic planning. - Own and read great literature- Some experience teaching literature- Business degree (MBA), Library Science degree or related business experience- Knowledge and understanding of education institutions- Knowledge and understanding of the publishing world- Communications and marketing experience
I guess I found this via plasticbag:
Exbiblio a company doing interesting things with paper
I met these guys at FooCamp and wait to see what they're up to with great curiosity
to paper by plasticbag 2005-09-07
my delicious posts:
Exbiblio- The Company watch for info... to web ... on 2005-09-17
Exbiblio- The Paper Renaissance exbiblio starts telling... to web ... on 2005-10-01
Classic Literature Evangelist opportunities at exbiblio... to web a ... on 2005-12-20
is there a way we can endow paper documents with some of the power of their digital counterparts, and gain the best of both worlds?
at Exbiblio, we've found a way to do this. We believe that it will, quite simply, transform the future of paper, and we've worked in this area long enough not to make that claim lightly. For some of the details, please have a look at this whitepaper - 6pg pdf
The products and services that we are creating enable new kinds of rich, interactive experiences around paper documents by leveraging the power of digital media. Exbiblio is a growing company incorporated in the Netherlands, and operating through a sister company located in Seattle. We are a team with diverse talents and backgrounds, but we share a common passion for reading, inventing, and improving our world. Are you entrepreneurial, creative, and passionate about your work? If so, please join us and contribute to a culture where each one of us looks forward to coming to work each day.
Every individual at Exbiblio has a wide variety of responsibilities and participates in many aspects of our business. As our Classic Literature Evangelist, you will focus on building and nurturing relationships with publishers, libraries, high schools and colleges, writers, editors, and teachers. You will also help us with product design and strategic planning. - Own and read great literature- Some experience teaching literature- Business degree (MBA), Library Science degree or related business experience- Knowledge and understanding of education institutions- Knowledge and understanding of the publishing world- Communications and marketing experience
I guess I found this via plasticbag:
Exbiblio a company doing interesting things with paper
I met these guys at FooCamp and wait to see what they're up to with great curiosity
to paper by plasticbag 2005-09-07
my delicious posts:
Exbiblio- The Company watch for info... to web ... on 2005-09-17
Exbiblio- The Paper Renaissance exbiblio starts telling... to web ... on 2005-10-01
Classic Literature Evangelist opportunities at exbiblio... to web a ... on 2005-12-20
is there a way we can endow paper documents with some of the power of their digital counterparts, and gain the best of both worlds?
at Exbiblio, we've found a way to do this. We believe that it will, quite simply, transform the future of paper, and we've worked in this area long enough not to make that claim lightly. For some of the details, please have a look at this whitepaper - 6pg pdf
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
the best -disclosingunconcealmentscovery- always! begins begins! with a question want search --here for a phrase -and!:
explodingdog 2005 i just want to go home. 04.11.05 i don't want to forget you · i will wait forever ·no you can't have it · are you sick of this yet? it's growing on me... www.explodingdog.com/ - 23k - Dec 20, 2005
I just like the titles, listed all down the page... what? simple personal statements
i was lonely for something i forgot about
please forgive me if i take you for granted
- and the idea I guess:
is this a service?do you charge for this? my client needs a logo for his company, and i heard that you do free drawings, can you email me a drawing of a dog and cat wearing suits playing frisbee? i need it by friday.
answer: i am sorry but you have misunderstood this site. people suggest titles and i do drawings from some of them, then post them on this site. if some one likes the picture i drew, they email it to their friends and say "hey, look at this funny picture."
and every which lead: via his links - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/#monkey :
Light blue shirt with a two-tone brown talking monkey. Clango.org URL on sleeve. Tell the world you're sick of human beings, but do it with some panache.
( diesel sweeties rstevens does dieselsweeties.com he used to live across the street. and he taught me about how to make a website. )
and at dumbrella , there is a message board for explodingdog -
good stuff and newbie guide thread:
sam brown and his work
sam is an elusive man who seldom posts on the board. Don't expect sam to answer questions posted on the board, and remember that having your title drawn is something that rarely happens, if at all. don't be discouraged, just don't expect your title to be drawn at first try. You can read a few interviews with sam here, here, here, and here. And here's a speech given by sam a while ago.
from 2nd here=MorningNews:
Sam: Monsters, super heros and talking animals only seem childish when viewed from one dimension. Throughout my day most people I deal with are robots, talking fish and monsters.
TMN: How about Web sites? Sam: I admire modern living not necessarily for the drawings. I like how personal it is. =hoogerbrugge.com - pretty - click on nails - and on info says 2002 brings a new series nails -Hoogerbrugge himself is again the subject of his animations dealing with modern day life.
there's a pretty big livejournal about explodingdog, created by essell and maintained by my dear girl.
explodingdog 2005 i just want to go home. 04.11.05 i don't want to forget you · i will wait forever ·no you can't have it · are you sick of this yet? it's growing on me... www.explodingdog.com/ - 23k - Dec 20, 2005
I just like the titles, listed all down the page... what? simple personal statements
i was lonely for something i forgot about
please forgive me if i take you for granted
- and the idea I guess:
is this a service?do you charge for this? my client needs a logo for his company, and i heard that you do free drawings, can you email me a drawing of a dog and cat wearing suits playing frisbee? i need it by friday.
answer: i am sorry but you have misunderstood this site. people suggest titles and i do drawings from some of them, then post them on this site. if some one likes the picture i drew, they email it to their friends and say "hey, look at this funny picture."
and every which lead: via his links - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/#monkey :
Light blue shirt with a two-tone brown talking monkey. Clango.org URL on sleeve. Tell the world you're sick of human beings, but do it with some panache.
( diesel sweeties rstevens does dieselsweeties.com he used to live across the street. and he taught me about how to make a website. )
and at dumbrella , there is a message board for explodingdog -
good stuff and newbie guide thread:
sam brown and his work
sam is an elusive man who seldom posts on the board. Don't expect sam to answer questions posted on the board, and remember that having your title drawn is something that rarely happens, if at all. don't be discouraged, just don't expect your title to be drawn at first try. You can read a few interviews with sam here, here, here, and here. And here's a speech given by sam a while ago.
from 2nd here=MorningNews:
Sam: Monsters, super heros and talking animals only seem childish when viewed from one dimension. Throughout my day most people I deal with are robots, talking fish and monsters.
TMN: How about Web sites? Sam: I admire modern living not necessarily for the drawings. I like how personal it is. =hoogerbrugge.com - pretty - click on nails - and on info says 2002 brings a new series nails -Hoogerbrugge himself is again the subject of his animations dealing with modern day life.
there's a pretty big livejournal about explodingdog, created by essell and maintained by my dear girl.
you need to whisper
don't accept me - it's more about where i am going - so different with out you - come closer - so you're not angry? - i'm not done growing yet - he looks crazy to me - i'd like to be lost with you mc- i hate everyone, i hate everything, say sandwich, don't look at it, thursday?, that's not mine, mine!, give me that rg!? - just when we have become close, you have to leave mc- to me they are the only real things in the world mc postitnotes- i would be lost without you - you have become a ghost - now now now - the only thing i want, i can't have - what is it like out there? - how do i look in your eyes? - just hold me - you couldn't have known - i wish we could talk like we used to - i'm here - i just want to go home everything everything everything
don't accept me - it's more about where i am going - so different with out you - come closer - so you're not angry? - i'm not done growing yet - he looks crazy to me - i'd like to be lost with you mc- i hate everyone, i hate everything, say sandwich, don't look at it, thursday?, that's not mine, mine!, give me that rg!? - just when we have become close, you have to leave mc- to me they are the only real things in the world mc postitnotes- i would be lost without you - you have become a ghost - now now now - the only thing i want, i can't have - what is it like out there? - how do i look in your eyes? - just hold me - you couldn't have known - i wish we could talk like we used to - i'm here - i just want to go home everything everything everything
exploding dog is great. period. i've been enjoying sam's ability for years now. it's amazing what he can do with such deceptively simple art. there is a great deal expressed here. highly recommended. now I look at stumbleupon reviews of a page (another way to see what people say What do people Think arist phenomena, in addition to google of)
Salon.com News The television will be revolutionized
A spokesman for Current told Salon that all videos that viewers submit to thenetwork ... Steve Garfield, a professional film producer in Boston who's been ...
what recently? oh-mult-tudes: The Revolution will be Improvised.
vi search to see what salon said about Your fertile entertainment source as seen in TIME, BusinessWeek, NY Times, Salon.com and Wired. "Steve Garfield is no ordinary blogger."
A spokesman for Current told Salon that all videos that viewers submit to thenetwork ... Steve Garfield, a professional film producer in Boston who's been ...
what recently? oh-mult-tudes: The Revolution will be Improvised.
vi search to see what salon said about Your fertile entertainment source as seen in TIME, BusinessWeek, NY Times, Salon.com and Wired. "Steve Garfield is no ordinary blogger."
The history of this FAQ starts with Jorn Barger writing a first FAQ for
rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/kate-bush-faq/
via search for "jorn barger" "sam brown"
Love-Hounds was founded with the idea of being a newsgroup about "Progressive Artists with emphasis on Kate Bush", so discussions about other "progressive artists" are generally encouraged. 2 of note: Happy Rhodes. Tori Amos.
so-wow, to explore (or my mood tonite, leads all interest)-why people so into kate bush especially? meaning what is it they are into? -this faq has a sensibility like robotwisdom, so what is that. well for one just earlier internet culture groups lists.
rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/kate-bush-faq/
via search for "jorn barger" "sam brown"
Love-Hounds was founded with the idea of being a newsgroup about "Progressive Artists with emphasis on Kate Bush", so discussions about other "progressive artists" are generally encouraged. 2 of note: Happy Rhodes. Tori Amos.
so-wow, to explore (or my mood tonite, leads all interest)-why people so into kate bush especially? meaning what is it they are into? -this faq has a sensibility like robotwisdom, so what is that. well for one just earlier internet culture groups lists.
Narrator: And so the family staged an intervention.
Michael: I’m sorry, what exactly is this intervention for?
Lucille: We need you to come back and run the business.
Michael: Oh, okay. Well, then, so, technically it’s not really an intervention. It’s a little bit more of an imposition, if you think about it.
Lindsay: Oh, whatever you want to call it.
Michael: I’d love to call it an imposition.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arrested_Development
Michael: I’m sorry, what exactly is this intervention for?
Lucille: We need you to come back and run the business.
Michael: Oh, okay. Well, then, so, technically it’s not really an intervention. It’s a little bit more of an imposition, if you think about it.
Lindsay: Oh, whatever you want to call it.
Michael: I’d love to call it an imposition.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arrested_Development
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
mimi
mimi
I am no good to anyone right now---more like a crow shrieking doom on the telephone wire than any sort of online whatever-ist. (Diarist? Journalist? What is this thing? Did you know that, privately, to myself, I call this webpage the Thing? It works in the John Carpenter sense, the Fantastic Four sense, and the [virtual] tourist trap sense. For me, I must stress. It works for me.) oh- a voice I like. ...in chicago? I want to make some dramatic gesture, like stand in Daley Plaza all day holding a sign that says STOP IT YOU ARE KILLING ME. -
-someone had drawn a rather skillful, soulful, and detailed Chicago skyline in the dirt and grime of the bus window. http://smartypants.diaryland.com/022503.html
I will post this Jim Harrison quotation:
There is an inordinate capacity in institutions, whether governments, universities, publishers, or studios, to turn pretty good wine, vintage or not, into distilled water that they hope everyone will want to drink. You have to hold out for the wine, even blood, nights that are actually dark, bears that aren't teddy, gritty women like you actually know, children who die contorted into question marks, the sun on people who never bought lotion, the human voice not reduced to prattle, animals who have never been watched, the man who cuts all the ropes so he won't hang himself.
I am no good to anyone right now---more like a crow shrieking doom on the telephone wire than any sort of online whatever-ist. (Diarist? Journalist? What is this thing? Did you know that, privately, to myself, I call this webpage the Thing? It works in the John Carpenter sense, the Fantastic Four sense, and the [virtual] tourist trap sense. For me, I must stress. It works for me.) oh- a voice I like. ...in chicago? I want to make some dramatic gesture, like stand in Daley Plaza all day holding a sign that says STOP IT YOU ARE KILLING ME. -
-someone had drawn a rather skillful, soulful, and detailed Chicago skyline in the dirt and grime of the bus window. http://smartypants.diaryland.com/022503.html
I will post this Jim Harrison quotation:
There is an inordinate capacity in institutions, whether governments, universities, publishers, or studios, to turn pretty good wine, vintage or not, into distilled water that they hope everyone will want to drink. You have to hold out for the wine, even blood, nights that are actually dark, bears that aren't teddy, gritty women like you actually know, children who die contorted into question marks, the sun on people who never bought lotion, the human voice not reduced to prattle, animals who have never been watched, the man who cuts all the ropes so he won't hang himself.
***the above via kottke's about page:
-Speed: If I stop writing, the bus will blow up. (source)=mimi smartypants***
check these other references:
-Small pieces, loosely joined (after David Weinberger's book of the same name). <--interesting: This book looks at the internet by looking at Space, Time, Perfection, Togetherness, Matter and Hope.
-Chock full of "wussy PoMo Sedaris-wannabe attitude" (source) <--elegantly simple log w/ input and selecteded output: http://www.rickbradley.com/
-A giant RFC document.
also look at:
Someone got fired for reading MetaFilter at work (kottke.org) But I ask myself: what part of "NSFW text" - as the post was marked - did the... (I was searching kottke for "NSFW" to find: Thumbnails of images that look like porn but aren't really porn ... May be NSFW, but not really.)
comments:
- it's almost as if the people online are real people who exist in the outside world.
-Speed: If I stop writing, the bus will blow up. (source)=mimi smartypants***
check these other references:
-Small pieces, loosely joined (after David Weinberger's book of the same name). <--interesting: This book looks at the internet by looking at Space, Time, Perfection, Togetherness, Matter and Hope.
-Chock full of "wussy PoMo Sedaris-wannabe attitude" (source) <--elegantly simple log w/ input and selecteded output: http://www.rickbradley.com/
-A giant RFC document.
also look at:
Someone got fired for reading MetaFilter at work (kottke.org) But I ask myself: what part of "NSFW text" - as the post was marked - did the... (I was searching kottke for "NSFW" to find: Thumbnails of images that look like porn but aren't really porn ... May be NSFW, but not really.)
comments:
- it's almost as if the people online are real people who exist in the outside world.
avatars
Online Gamers Unmasked The BBC presents an amazing portfolio by photojournalist Robbie Cooper, otherwise known as "the Walker Evans of online gaming." The concept is simple: a series of portraits of hard-core gamers placed alongside images of their avatars. Along with writer Tracy Spaight, Cooper also hosts Alterego.Net, an exploration of online gaming communities in words and pictures. http://picks.yahoo.com/
Online Gamers Unmasked The BBC presents an amazing portfolio by photojournalist Robbie Cooper, otherwise known as "the Walker Evans of online gaming." The concept is simple: a series of portraits of hard-core gamers placed alongside images of their avatars. Along with writer Tracy Spaight, Cooper also hosts Alterego.Net, an exploration of online gaming communities in words and pictures. http://picks.yahoo.com/
Monday, December 19, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
The Austin Chronicle Music: No-Show Jones: During the heyday of George Jones' absenteeism in the Sixties, promoters took advantage of the singer's reputation by putting his name up on club marquees without ever having actually booked him. By the end of the evening, the bar would be better off, some fans would be drunk enough to not ask for their money back, and the the rest of those in attendance would shrug their shoulders at the crazy antics of country music's favorite boozehound. Not that Jones doesn't acknowledge his habit of missing concerts due to drunkenness; in fact, he's made a trademark of it, flaunting his 'NO SHOW' vanity plates and recording a song called 'No-Show Jones.' They say the first step to recovery is acknowledging the problem.
In his 1996 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, the singer claims years of sobriety, attributing it to the love of a good woman -- his wife Nancy Sepulveda.
In his 1996 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, the singer claims years of sobriety, attributing it to the love of a good woman -- his wife Nancy Sepulveda.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Transparent: Available to others. Nothing unavailable. Absence of pretense or guile. No one to impress.Non consumptive of energy, people or environments. [Striving to become someone, even just to become 'yourself.' is fairly consumptive.] Nothing expensive. Lightness of style, communication. Nothing is heavy. Highly flexible, responsive. Nothing is gripped/rigid.
-Wide Open-
Absence of You program unhappily means absence of me 'self' not about you ( I don't want to be with me if you're not with me too)
(who do you admire? who do you want to impress? does a person want anything without having someone to impress?)
_12/21 thinking what if were to prepare -for- an audience? is it not imaginable - no different just my notes - insider style
not that I am aiming for transparency it's that there is no distracting motivation
-Wide Open-
Absence of You program unhappily means absence of me 'self' not about you ( I don't want to be with me if you're not with me too)
(who do you admire? who do you want to impress? does a person want anything without having someone to impress?)
_12/21 thinking what if were to prepare -for- an audience? is it not imaginable - no different just my notes - insider style
not that I am aiming for transparency it's that there is no distracting motivation
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
the reason people visit kottke (or maybe it's just me) is because, well, its more "normal" then what others expected (and easier to accept and digest).
and i think it might be the same reason people dislike it ("what?! what so good about it!?")
it's not great, and it's not bad, therefore making it readable, anyday, anytime.
posted by cqny at 11:32 PM PST on January 3 Metafilter re 2002 bloggies
that's right.
also note: Alamut.com
and i think it might be the same reason people dislike it ("what?! what so good about it!?")
it's not great, and it's not bad, therefore making it readable, anyday, anytime.
posted by cqny at 11:32 PM PST on January 3 Metafilter re 2002 bloggies
that's right.
also note: Alamut.com
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
the sum of my parts » figured it out!
matched anon to non-anon blogger by linguistic markers
are we so consistent with ourselves? maybe I am.
look more at this blog:
My name is Stephanie Hendrick and I am a Doctoral Student at the Department of Modern Languages. The working title of my thesis is Representing topic and coherence in online weblog networks.
Weblogs are much more than small pieces, loosely joined (David Weinberger). Two schools of thought seem to be emerging from both popular and academic research in weblog community. One group proposes that the blogosphere is ‘partially interconnected and sporadically conversational’ (Herring, et al.) while the other puts forth that weblogs are topically related communities which converse often (Hendrick, Efimova, Marlow). My own research focuses on how these communities are formed, as well as how they communicate in dispersive environments. Links are often singularly studied as a form of conversation in weblog communities. I believe that it is necessary to go beyond the link, into the language itself, and examine elements of discourse such as those proposed by theories of mental spaces, frames, and cognitive and cultural models.
personally, i am interested in in the process of finding out and formulating why. i am an active 27 year old single mother of incomparable twins, emma and sebastian. and living in Sweden. in the spirit of the great ee cummings, i have decided to do away with capital letters in this blog.
matched anon to non-anon blogger by linguistic markers
are we so consistent with ourselves? maybe I am.
look more at this blog:
My name is Stephanie Hendrick and I am a Doctoral Student at the Department of Modern Languages. The working title of my thesis is Representing topic and coherence in online weblog networks.
Weblogs are much more than small pieces, loosely joined (David Weinberger). Two schools of thought seem to be emerging from both popular and academic research in weblog community. One group proposes that the blogosphere is ‘partially interconnected and sporadically conversational’ (Herring, et al.) while the other puts forth that weblogs are topically related communities which converse often (Hendrick, Efimova, Marlow). My own research focuses on how these communities are formed, as well as how they communicate in dispersive environments. Links are often singularly studied as a form of conversation in weblog communities. I believe that it is necessary to go beyond the link, into the language itself, and examine elements of discourse such as those proposed by theories of mental spaces, frames, and cognitive and cultural models.
personally, i am interested in in the process of finding out and formulating why. i am an active 27 year old single mother of incomparable twins, emma and sebastian. and living in Sweden. in the spirit of the great ee cummings, i have decided to do away with capital letters in this blog.
Monday, December 12, 2005
-If you're looking for a collection that captures the breadth of Van Zandt's recording career, I'd recommend the double-disc "Texas Troubador" collection. If you're looking for a collection that captures the depth of his troubled soul, this is the one. Utterly beautiful in its darkness. Perhaps the most consistently eerie and true collection of TVZ yet released.
-Not sure i've ever heard music that was so mired in an unyielding hopelessness, but every now & again you'd see some light get through, and in those moments you felt really good because the bad moments were so bad. I can't sum up Townes Van Zandt any better than that. These aren't songs that are gonna lift you up and carry you away on angels' wings. These are songs about being just about as low as one can get among the living. And make no mistake, these aren't hokey blues numbers with clever turns of phrase and wry lyrics. The heartbreak and loneliness bleeds through the music and pours out from between some lyrics that might not seem all that depressing, if not for the musical delivery of a man beset on every side by the typical demons of 20th century America. It is said that Jay Farrar has been heavily influenced by TVZ, and i can see that. The world-weary warble of Jay's voice is heavily informed by Van Zandt's dusty drawl. But what Jay can't touch (and I'm admittedly a huge fan of Farrar) is the honestly hopeless yet fearless, almost gothic, tone that always seemed to come so naturally to Townes Van Zandt. It wasn't an act, it wasn't a put-on. As for this release, it's apparently a companion piece to a documentary film about the man, a work i have not seen but can believe in its vitality. The songs included on this 2-disc set seem chosen to accentuate the tragedy of the artist, and the bleak world he called home. It's as good an introduction as I can think of.
sold! Be Here to Love Me ~ Townes Van Zandt (Audio CD)
-Not sure i've ever heard music that was so mired in an unyielding hopelessness, but every now & again you'd see some light get through, and in those moments you felt really good because the bad moments were so bad. I can't sum up Townes Van Zandt any better than that. These aren't songs that are gonna lift you up and carry you away on angels' wings. These are songs about being just about as low as one can get among the living. And make no mistake, these aren't hokey blues numbers with clever turns of phrase and wry lyrics. The heartbreak and loneliness bleeds through the music and pours out from between some lyrics that might not seem all that depressing, if not for the musical delivery of a man beset on every side by the typical demons of 20th century America. It is said that Jay Farrar has been heavily influenced by TVZ, and i can see that. The world-weary warble of Jay's voice is heavily informed by Van Zandt's dusty drawl. But what Jay can't touch (and I'm admittedly a huge fan of Farrar) is the honestly hopeless yet fearless, almost gothic, tone that always seemed to come so naturally to Townes Van Zandt. It wasn't an act, it wasn't a put-on. As for this release, it's apparently a companion piece to a documentary film about the man, a work i have not seen but can believe in its vitality. The songs included on this 2-disc set seem chosen to accentuate the tragedy of the artist, and the bleak world he called home. It's as good an introduction as I can think of.
sold! Be Here to Love Me ~ Townes Van Zandt (Audio CD)
As notorious for his substance abuse and death wishes as he was for a mysterious ability to survive them, Van Zandt died in 1997 of a mere heart attack. He was 52. "I booked this gig 30 years ago," joked friend and fellow musician Guy Clark at the funeral, swallowing tears.
Hard-Living Folk Icon in a Sympathetic but Frank Doc Be Here to Love Me
by Georgia Christgau November 29th, 2005 villagevoice.com
did I fall in love with the name Georgia? since that Italian movie.
Hard-Living Folk Icon in a Sympathetic but Frank Doc Be Here to Love Me
by Georgia Christgau November 29th, 2005 villagevoice.com
did I fall in love with the name Georgia? since that Italian movie.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
If the ladies were blackbirds if the ladies were thrushes I'd lie upallday inthecoldrainymarshes
If the ladies were squirrels with big bushy tails I'd fill up my shotgun with rocksaltandnails
-written by Bruce "Utah" Phillips performed by Steve Young
If the ladies were squirrels with big bushy tails I'd fill up my shotgun with rocksaltandnails
-written by Bruce "Utah" Phillips performed by Steve Young
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Atlantis Books, Oia, Santorini Island, Greece (where Lena in SOTP). This is a dream of a bookstore. Perched on the cliffs of this volcanic island in a postcard-worthy Greek villa, it's run by an international collective of artists, writers and activists. As well as organizing theatre and open-air cinema, they set up programs such as the 'book donkey', which brings books to the local schools. I'll be living beside Atlantis for the first four months of 2006 to work on my next book.
Atlantisbooks.org: Atlantis Books opened in the spring of 2004. Since then Quinn and Karisha have arrived, and the cat’s had kittens. The bookshop feels like home now and we’re still laughing about how our children will run it someday. As Will says, it’s as easy as that. As you. As that. news and photos (a bookshop with beds yay: The room now contains not only standard shelves, but also a ‘philosophy tower’, a children’s corner, two extra beds and two swing bookcases.)
first on list - Author Jeremy Mercer picks his top 10 bookstores in the world.
If you make a donation we will buy a book of your recommendation, put your name in it next to the Atlantis stamp and stock it on our shelves. If you choose, we will include your email address so that whoever takes your recommendation can thank you personally for your excellent good taste in literature. We will thank you for your support by sending you a copy of our own first publication "Atlantis Books the Seminal Voyage."
well-done. http://www.atlantisbooks.org/sponsor_a_book.php
but, moving? from photos and descriptions, the current shop looks wonderful.
well-done. http://www.atlantisbooks.org/sponsor_a_book.php
but, moving? from photos and descriptions, the current shop looks wonderful.
Shakespeare and Co, 37 rue de la Bucherie, Paris, France - Shakespeareco.org
#2 on Mercer's list: George Whitman has been running what he calls "a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore" for 50 years. His store has long been a literary hub, attracting the likes of Henry Miller, Richard Wright, and William Burroughs. More importantly, George has been inviting people to live in his shop from its very first days. oh -huh. There are now 13 beds among the books, and he says that more than 40,000 people have slept there at one time or another. All he asks is that you make your bed in the morning, help out in the shop, and read a book a day. so Atlantis is following this lead in being a live-in collective. (could be great but you know it scares me.)
After living here for five months, I was inspired to write my own book about the place.
ah right: Time Was Soft There : A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
#2 on Mercer's list: George Whitman has been running what he calls "a socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore" for 50 years. His store has long been a literary hub, attracting the likes of Henry Miller, Richard Wright, and William Burroughs. More importantly, George has been inviting people to live in his shop from its very first days. oh -huh. There are now 13 beds among the books, and he says that more than 40,000 people have slept there at one time or another. All he asks is that you make your bed in the morning, help out in the shop, and read a book a day. so Atlantis is following this lead in being a live-in collective. (could be great but you know it scares me.)
After living here for five months, I was inspired to write my own book about the place.
ah right: Time Was Soft There : A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
k: Any personal favorites that you'd add to the list? (49 cmts)
Seminary Coop Bookstore in Chicago. Must be visited to experience properly. A basement maze of only books books books, no magazines, no toys, no crap with a front table of only the most egghead academic books. Unfortunately, no used books either. Harvard Bookstore is also great and Powells and the Tattered Cover are true American National Treasures. » by jen
Seminary Co-Op in Chicago. An absolute subterranean joy. » by Chris
For selection, Powell's in Portland - recognize! For atmosphere, Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. » by Timothy McClanahan
The Elliot Bay Booksop at Pioneer Square in Seattle (http://www.elliottbaybook.com/) which is a hangout on visits to Seattle... we bring an empty suitcase! Great staff recommendations yay Leah and Paul and great coffee shop. » by Steve
ebbco gets a few more mentions but the most-mentioned seems to be Powells...
Powell's absolutely should be on there. I don't know the facts, but they pretty much pioneered putting the very same used books right next to the new ones on the same shelf, when most other stores were sending you off to the not-so-well-lit and dusty "Used Books" section at the back of the store. As a college student, this was life-saving. And as others have said, Powell's is also hard to match from a selection standpoint, especially for more unusual titles. Wonderful laid-back atmosphere. » by Courtney
Powell's .... Also, no snobbiness. Huge sections for fantasy, sf, thrillers, rpgs, comics, you-name-it » by Slickdpdx
I 5th or 6th or what ever powells in Portland. » by justin
no mention at all of Politics&Prose - huh.
new to me:
The Book Mill in Montague, MA, is great. So pretty. » by Sathya
Seminary Coop Bookstore in Chicago. Must be visited to experience properly. A basement maze of only books books books, no magazines, no toys, no crap with a front table of only the most egghead academic books. Unfortunately, no used books either. Harvard Bookstore is also great and Powells and the Tattered Cover are true American National Treasures. » by jen
Seminary Co-Op in Chicago. An absolute subterranean joy. » by Chris
For selection, Powell's in Portland - recognize! For atmosphere, Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. » by Timothy McClanahan
The Elliot Bay Booksop at Pioneer Square in Seattle (http://www.elliottbaybook.com/) which is a hangout on visits to Seattle... we bring an empty suitcase! Great staff recommendations yay Leah and Paul and great coffee shop. » by Steve
ebbco gets a few more mentions but the most-mentioned seems to be Powells...
Powell's absolutely should be on there. I don't know the facts, but they pretty much pioneered putting the very same used books right next to the new ones on the same shelf, when most other stores were sending you off to the not-so-well-lit and dusty "Used Books" section at the back of the store. As a college student, this was life-saving. And as others have said, Powell's is also hard to match from a selection standpoint, especially for more unusual titles. Wonderful laid-back atmosphere. » by Courtney
Powell's .... Also, no snobbiness. Huge sections for fantasy, sf, thrillers, rpgs, comics, you-name-it » by Slickdpdx
I 5th or 6th or what ever powells in Portland. » by justin
no mention at all of Politics&Prose - huh.
new to me:
The Book Mill in Montague, MA, is great. So pretty. » by Sathya
Friday, December 9, 2005
The adverbial use of passing does not mean what you might expect. It is neither 'merely adequately' nor 'fleetingly', but 'surpassingly; exceedingly; very', so that something passing strange is very strange indeed.>The Mavens' Word of the Day
Thursday, December 8, 2005
impressive chicago blogs found
- here the top post of each:
Cosby, footwear, and the state of social science
http://locussolus.com/archives/001612.html
Does Cheap Fashion Undercut Designers? {H&M}
http://www.knowledgeproblem.com/archives/001463.html
- here the top post of each:
Cosby, footwear, and the state of social science
http://locussolus.com/archives/001612.html
Does Cheap Fashion Undercut Designers? {H&M}
http://www.knowledgeproblem.com/archives/001463.html
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
I don't have any secret sites. I just have sites I haven't made public yet.
» by Joseph on Dec 06, 2005 at 09:17 PM
right on
I think we usually blog for legitimation by our peers, and anything which moves us too far away from this "real world" will usually not be maintained.
» by Newfred on Dec 06, 2005 at 09:44 PM
where I differ
Perhaps there's a distinction between, "This is my secret blog which nobody must associate with me" and what I've got, which is more like, "This is some writing that shouldn't be construed as having an intended audience." It's not meant to convey an opinion, be clever, witty, controversial or intriguing. It's not designed for reading at all. » by Andrew on Dec 07, 2005 at 06:43 AM
Currently, I maintain a very public blog and a very private one with an audience of one - myself. The latter is almost more of an electronic commonplace book than a blog, however.
» by Trent on Dec 07, 2005 at 01:18 PM
...more personal than, "today i did this..." » by Faith
If it's truly supposed to be secret, it shouldn't be on a website. The purpose of a website is self-publication. » by Nels Nelson
nah... I'm with: Why keep a private real live notebook diary when current blogging tools make publishing journals so easy and pretty? Of course, no one can read my notebook diary so my secret site keeps the same rules. The tools are there, hence secret site. » by rapturekat
» by Joseph on Dec 06, 2005 at 09:17 PM
right on
I think we usually blog for legitimation by our peers, and anything which moves us too far away from this "real world" will usually not be maintained.
» by Newfred on Dec 06, 2005 at 09:44 PM
where I differ
Perhaps there's a distinction between, "This is my secret blog which nobody must associate with me" and what I've got, which is more like, "This is some writing that shouldn't be construed as having an intended audience." It's not meant to convey an opinion, be clever, witty, controversial or intriguing. It's not designed for reading at all. » by Andrew on Dec 07, 2005 at 06:43 AM
Currently, I maintain a very public blog and a very private one with an audience of one - myself. The latter is almost more of an electronic commonplace book than a blog, however.
» by Trent on Dec 07, 2005 at 01:18 PM
...more personal than, "today i did this..." » by Faith
If it's truly supposed to be secret, it shouldn't be on a website. The purpose of a website is self-publication. » by Nels Nelson
nah... I'm with: Why keep a private real live notebook diary when current blogging tools make publishing journals so easy and pretty? Of course, no one can read my notebook diary so my secret site keeps the same rules. The tools are there, hence secret site. » by rapturekat
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Top Grocery Stores Ranked by Supermarket News NACS Online > October 2002
Wal-Mart Supercenters was ranked the number-one grocery store in terms of sales by Supermarket News. The four grocery stores rounding out the top five and their sales were:
Kroger Co. - $50.1 billion (actual)
Albertson's - $37.9 billion (actual) -Jewel?
Safeway - $34.3 billion (actual) -Dominik?
Ahold USA Retail - $23.2 (actual) -Giant
Wal-Mart Supercenters was ranked the number-one grocery store in terms of sales by Supermarket News. The four grocery stores rounding out the top five and their sales were:
Kroger Co. - $50.1 billion (actual)
Albertson's - $37.9 billion (actual) -Jewel?
Safeway - $34.3 billion (actual) -Dominik?
Ahold USA Retail - $23.2 (actual) -Giant
Monday, December 5, 2005
I kind of love high school. put a bunch of people of about the same age in
a building, have them switch rooms every hour for various activities. it's
like a playground for personality: having one, trying one, encountering
others. is it like that because the people are young? and more or less
trapped there? or maybe you think it is no more like that than any other
place where people convene day after day.
a building, have them switch rooms every hour for various activities. it's
like a playground for personality: having one, trying one, encountering
others. is it like that because the people are young? and more or less
trapped there? or maybe you think it is no more like that than any other
place where people convene day after day.
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Friday, December 2, 2005
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Sunday, November 27, 2005
If you've got such a problem with a single author getting disproportionately praised in the press for an effort that, while good, is not unequalled, then why are you reading Jason's site, of all things?
» by Anil on Aug 07, 2002 to kottke.org/02/08/what-dave-eggers-is-up-to
got there via ggl for loretta lux (looking for a new yorker review but ah I guess what there was was a photographic essay) which took me to
The Best Links 2004 (kottke.org) : In lieu of a book or magazine compilation of the best writing of 2004, here are some of the best things I linked to in the past year. The list consists mostly of magazine and newspaper articles with a few other types of media sprinkled in and is more objective than my favorite weblogs of 2004 list.
» by Anil on Aug 07, 2002 to kottke.org/02/08/what-dave-eggers-is-up-to
got there via ggl for loretta lux (looking for a new yorker review but ah I guess what there was was a photographic essay) which took me to
The Best Links 2004 (kottke.org) : In lieu of a book or magazine compilation of the best writing of 2004, here are some of the best things I linked to in the past year. The list consists mostly of magazine and newspaper articles with a few other types of media sprinkled in and is more objective than my favorite weblogs of 2004 list.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
John Lennon's 11 life-epiphanies (Nwswk-list)
May 1968: While wife Cynthia is away in Greece, John invites Japanese artist Yoko Ono to his suburban London estate. The couple spend the night assembling a sound collage in his studio. They finish at dawn—and have sex for the first time. "I had no doubt," Lennon will later say, "I'd met The One."
May 1968: While wife Cynthia is away in Greece, John invites Japanese artist Yoko Ono to his suburban London estate. The couple spend the night assembling a sound collage in his studio. They finish at dawn—and have sex for the first time. "I had no doubt," Lennon will later say, "I'd met The One."
Sunday, November 20, 2005
JOHNNY CASH
tennessean.com - The multifaceted Man in Black - Saturday, 09/13/03
J.R. Cash born in Kingsland, Ark. on Feb. 26, 1932.
To his parents, and on his birth certificate, he was J.R. Cash.
He graduated HS 1950, moved to Michigan to work in an automobile plant, then joined the Air Force. The military refused to accept ''J.R.'' as a first name, and he became ''John R. Cash.''
During basic training in Texas, he met a high school senior named Vivian Liberto. Upon his 1954 discharge, Mr. Cash moved to Memphis, married Liberto, worked as a door-to-door appliance salesman, enrolled at the Keegan School of Broadcasting and put together an upstart country group to help him become a gospel singer. ''Sun Records was between my house and the broadcasting school,'' Mr. Cash told journalist Peter Guralnick. Sun owner/producer Sam Phillips, a rock 'n' roll pioneer whose records with Elvis Presley were making pop inroads, had no use for a gospel artist. Cash went back to the studio with his Tennessee Two (guitarist Luther Perkins and bass man Marshall Grant) with homesick train song Hey Porter! and Folsom Prison Blues, a song that borrowed liberally from Gordon Jenkins' Crescent City Blues recording (Jenkins successfully sued Mr. Cash, citing similar words and an identical melody, in the late 1960s).
Phillips charged Mr. Cash to write ''an uptempo weeper love song,'' and he filled the order with Cry! Cry! Cry!, which would be paired with Hey Porter! as Mr. Cash's first single, released 1955.
''Musicians scoffed, but Cash and the Tennessee Two possessed the quality that had been lacking in country music since Hank Williams [1923-1953] died -- originality,'' wrote Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins in Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll.
In January 1956, Mr. Cash followed the tradition of Elvis Presley and Hank Williams by joining the Louisiana Hayride radio show. Six months later, he was given a slot on the Grand Ole Opry. Opry star Carl Smith introduced Mr. Cash by calling him ''the brightest rising star in the country music of America.''
That December, Mr. Cash again made headlines when he and Presley were photographed with Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins during a Sun session. That photograph is said to capture ''The Million Dollar Quartet.''
...
On New Year's Day 1959, Mr. Cash's travels took him to San Quentin prison, where he played a concert for the inmates. Eleven years later, the performer would record a live album at San Quentin, but this initial appearance was notable in that one of the prisoners was future country legend Merle Haggard.
Johnny Cash: An American Original Returns good article.
By Anthony DeCurtis - Reprinted from NewYorkTimes.com - February 24, 2002
Earlier this month saw the release of The Essential Johnny Cash, a superb two-disc collection that also includes eight of the legendary tracks (like I Walk the Line and Big River) Mr. Cash recorded between 1955 and 1958 for the influential Sun label, where Elvis Presley also established his career.
Tuesday marks Mr. Cash's 70th birthday, and to commemorate that event, Columbia/Legacy has begun an extensive reissue campaign that draws on the dozens of albums Mr. Cash recorded for Columbia between 1958 and 1993.
Since he left Columbia in 1993, Mr. Cash has made three albums with the producer Rick Rubin that are regarded as among his finest. They are notable both for their austere sound emphasizing the gravitas of Mr. Cash's incomparable voice — and the boldness of their song selection. On those records, Mr. Cash has performed versions of his own songs, traditional ballads, spirituals and material written by artists as varied as Beck, Glenn Danzig, Neil Diamond and Nick Cave. “When I signed with Rick's label about 10 years ago,” Mr. Cash recalled, “I asked him what he would do with me that nobody else had done. He said, `I would like for you to sit in front of a microphone with your guitar and sing every song you want to record.' I said: `Whoa, that's a tall order. There are lots of songs over the years that I've wanted to do.' He said, `Well, those are the ones that I want to hear.' ” The two men are now collaborating on a fourth album, which they plan to release later this year. “The songs are coming from every direction,” Mr. Cash said of his forthcoming album. “I've written two or three new ones, and I recorded a Sting song called I Hung My Head. I've recorded a Marty Robbins song called Big Iron. I'm recording The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, that Roberta Flack song. And I'm recording Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.” One of the more ominous characters on the contemporary music scene, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails can be seen as one of Mr. Cash's many unruly progeny. That notion brings Mr. Cash delight. “When I heard that song, I thought, `That sounds like something I could have written in the 60's,' ” he said of Hurt. “There's more heart, soul and pain in that song than any I've heard in a long time.”
What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know - goes away - in the end
If I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way
so there you go. (my reason.)
By Anthony DeCurtis - Reprinted from NewYorkTimes.com - February 24, 2002
Earlier this month saw the release of The Essential Johnny Cash, a superb two-disc collection that also includes eight of the legendary tracks (like I Walk the Line and Big River) Mr. Cash recorded between 1955 and 1958 for the influential Sun label, where Elvis Presley also established his career.
Tuesday marks Mr. Cash's 70th birthday, and to commemorate that event, Columbia/Legacy has begun an extensive reissue campaign that draws on the dozens of albums Mr. Cash recorded for Columbia between 1958 and 1993.
Since he left Columbia in 1993, Mr. Cash has made three albums with the producer Rick Rubin that are regarded as among his finest. They are notable both for their austere sound emphasizing the gravitas of Mr. Cash's incomparable voice — and the boldness of their song selection. On those records, Mr. Cash has performed versions of his own songs, traditional ballads, spirituals and material written by artists as varied as Beck, Glenn Danzig, Neil Diamond and Nick Cave. “When I signed with Rick's label about 10 years ago,” Mr. Cash recalled, “I asked him what he would do with me that nobody else had done. He said, `I would like for you to sit in front of a microphone with your guitar and sing every song you want to record.' I said: `Whoa, that's a tall order. There are lots of songs over the years that I've wanted to do.' He said, `Well, those are the ones that I want to hear.' ” The two men are now collaborating on a fourth album, which they plan to release later this year. “The songs are coming from every direction,” Mr. Cash said of his forthcoming album. “I've written two or three new ones, and I recorded a Sting song called I Hung My Head. I've recorded a Marty Robbins song called Big Iron. I'm recording The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, that Roberta Flack song. And I'm recording Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.” One of the more ominous characters on the contemporary music scene, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails can be seen as one of Mr. Cash's many unruly progeny. That notion brings Mr. Cash delight. “When I heard that song, I thought, `That sounds like something I could have written in the 60's,' ” he said of Hurt. “There's more heart, soul and pain in that song than any I've heard in a long time.”
What have I become, my sweetest friend? Everyone I know - goes away - in the end
If I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way
so there you go. (my reason.)
Freakwater Dancing Under Water -Rereleased in 1997, Freakwater's 1991 full-length debut shows a band that's enthralled by country's dark, dismal, and austere acoustic tradition, but one that's bold enough to forge a new dirt path.
thinking of I Still Miss Someone -writ by Johnny Cash- to You're Still On My Mind -George Jones (but writ by Luke McDaniels~) here covered by Freakwater. and George Jones also did? Just One More:
Put the bottle on the table Let it stay there til I'm not able to see her face in every place that I go
I've been sitting here so long Just remembering that you are gone
Well one more drink of wine, then if you're still on my mind
One drink, just one more, and then another
thinking of I Still Miss Someone -writ by Johnny Cash- to You're Still On My Mind -George Jones (but writ by Luke McDaniels~) here covered by Freakwater. and George Jones also did? Just One More:
Put the bottle on the table Let it stay there til I'm not able to see her face in every place that I go
I've been sitting here so long Just remembering that you are gone
Well one more drink of wine, then if you're still on my mind
One drink, just one more, and then another
Long Black Veil by Lefty Frizzell (1959)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Joan Baez (1963)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Kingston Trio (1963)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Faron Young (1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Roy Drusky (May 1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Bobby Bare (September 1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Johnny Cash (February 1965)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Band (1968)
- - - - Long Black Veil by New Riders of the Purple Sage (1972)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Marianne Faithfull (1984)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (August 8, 1986)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Seldom Scene (1990)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice (April 25, 2000)
Original music by Marijohn Wilkin Original lyrics by Danny Dill
Cover Hierarchy at Second Hand Songs (click any of these links) - nicely done site.
- - - - Long Black Veil by Joan Baez (1963)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Kingston Trio (1963)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Faron Young (1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Roy Drusky (May 1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Bobby Bare (September 1964)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Johnny Cash (February 1965)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Band (1968)
- - - - Long Black Veil by New Riders of the Purple Sage (1972)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Marianne Faithfull (1984)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (August 8, 1986)
- - - - Long Black Veil by The Seldom Scene (1990)
- - - - Long Black Veil by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice (April 25, 2000)
Original music by Marijohn Wilkin Original lyrics by Danny Dill
Cover Hierarchy at Second Hand Songs (click any of these links) - nicely done site.
Maybe the only way to play Cash adequately is to be, on the surface, all wrong for the part. Phoenix, with his narrow shoulders and lithe build, is the wrong body type to play Cash -- even the young Cash. And he bravely sings Cash's songs himself, in a voice that gamely struts the territory and yet has one crucial, unforgivable drawback: It just isn't Cash's.
But this is a remarkable performance, not because Phoenix pulls off, or even attempts, an approximation of Cash but because he manages to embody the spirit of Cash. ...
Witherspoon has taken far too many roles that allow her to coast on her tart cuteness ; this is the first one she's had in years that seems to have genuinely challenged her. Witherspoon's Carter meets Phoenix's Cash in an impressionistic middle ground that has some resemblance to reality, without feeling like a desperate attempt to re-create it.
But this is a remarkable performance, not because Phoenix pulls off, or even attempts, an approximation of Cash but because he manages to embody the spirit of Cash. ...
Witherspoon has taken far too many roles that allow her to coast on her tart cuteness ; this is the first one she's had in years that seems to have genuinely challenged her. Witherspoon's Carter meets Phoenix's Cash in an impressionistic middle ground that has some resemblance to reality, without feeling like a desperate attempt to re-create it.
Johnny Cash rose out of the genre to become something more than a country singer - a genuine American icon. With a voice like a rumbling volcano, Cash found success with early hits such as I Walk The Line and Ring Of Fire. He toured with Elvis at the birth of rock and roll, hobnobbed with Dylan in the 60s and spent a few years in the commercial wilderness in the 70s before his rebirth in the '90s with his Rick Rubin produced set of albums. Even up until his death in 2003, aged 71, Johnny Cash remained an icon of individualism and rebellious artistic spirit, sticking it to the man like no other artist in history. tiscali.co.uk-johnnycashbio
John's first wife Vivien (Ginnifer Goodwin) — “a wonderful lady” who “went through a lot of hell with him,” in the recollection of Cash's buddy George Jones — is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week: “That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home.” The screenwriters probably didn't mean to demean her; they just needed to show a failed marriage before the perfect one comes along. The rules of movie romance forbid a hero from having two true loves. But the subsidiary conventions finally don't matter. This is a solo dirge that becomes a love-song duet. And as such it's as down-home and true as the image of John and June singing their hearts out for their fans and themselves — a destiny to which she was born, and he was fated. TIME.com: A Phoenix in the Ring of Fire
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine... I walk the line.
I hear the train acomin it's rollin round the bend
and I ain't seen the sun shine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin on
http://johnnycash.com/
http://www.walkthelinethemovie.com/
I hear the train acomin it's rollin round the bend
and I ain't seen the sun shine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin on
http://johnnycash.com/
http://www.walkthelinethemovie.com/
Thursday, November 17, 2005
books to get...
Pacific Comics Club Presents
Krazy and Ignatz Daily Strips 1/1/1921 - 12/31/1921
Krazy & Ignatz 1922 Volume 2
we special ordered these for a customer as isbn 999014219x and 9990142203 from PACICC - received exactly 2 wks from date of s.o. cost 19.95 (selling for 24.95) shall I s.o. for me? very nice: square, satisfying heft. the first one is yellowish with purple and grey circle-pictures of krazycat and ignatzmouse. the second is black with 6 panels of yellow moon over yellow field against which cat walks, -pow-, mouse laughs, and officer pup comes after him...
and when I next make purchase from semcoop: T.S.Eliot The Voice of the Poet. 19.95, 0739315358.
Krazy and Ignatz Daily Strips 1/1/1921 - 12/31/1921
Krazy & Ignatz 1922 Volume 2
we special ordered these for a customer as isbn 999014219x and 9990142203 from PACICC - received exactly 2 wks from date of s.o. cost 19.95 (selling for 24.95) shall I s.o. for me? very nice: square, satisfying heft. the first one is yellowish with purple and grey circle-pictures of krazycat and ignatzmouse. the second is black with 6 panels of yellow moon over yellow field against which cat walks, -pow-, mouse laughs, and officer pup comes after him...
and when I next make purchase from semcoop: T.S.Eliot The Voice of the Poet. 19.95, 0739315358.
on why GglBse is a really big deal- this is a post on the site *michael parekh on IT* . seems difficult to navigate. so much on the page? and the 'permalink' for each post is only at the bottom of it; the title is not linked. so, for ease, see also: 8/7 on tagging, 10/25 on pc mag's review of web 2.0 tagging services, 10/28 on promoting web 2.0 services, 10/30 on web 2.0 service that thrill.
meanwhile: Google Base provides some structure to the basic Google Search. Not too much like a traditional directory, but just enough for the item to be discoverable by the same basic "type it in a search box and go" approach that most of us are already addicted to. And the directory doesn't look like a directory...you don't get to it in a hierarchichal fashion, but directly via the search box. The directory innards are hidden in what is now being called a "database" and a "classifieds" engine.
//Here's Google's own description of what it is by the way: ...a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we'll host and make searchable online.
-What kind of information can I submit?
Remember, our goal is to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible, and "the world's information" certainly includes almost anything you might wish to contribute. We encourage you to submit your item, whether it's your store inventory, collection of original poetry, or research paper on cancer receptors. //
+11/22 Exploring GglBse's info-architecture (blog via Willison) : how deeply Google has embraced standard information architecture concepts and trends. We have categories, facets, tags. doesn't like that ggle's tags ("labels") are not social. It is in keeping with the Google way to dream up a generic global classified (& other content) service. And also to think that it does not need a local / social component.
also 11/22, and related: eBay implements simple search expansion-by-contraction (37S-vshort via Willison) : eBay does a nice job helping you compare similar searches with different numbers of words. This sort of reminds me of 37betterGoogle.
meanwhile: Google Base provides some structure to the basic Google Search. Not too much like a traditional directory, but just enough for the item to be discoverable by the same basic "type it in a search box and go" approach that most of us are already addicted to. And the directory doesn't look like a directory...you don't get to it in a hierarchichal fashion, but directly via the search box. The directory innards are hidden in what is now being called a "database" and a "classifieds" engine.
//Here's Google's own description of what it is by the way: ...a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we'll host and make searchable online.
-What kind of information can I submit?
Remember, our goal is to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible, and "the world's information" certainly includes almost anything you might wish to contribute. We encourage you to submit your item, whether it's your store inventory, collection of original poetry, or research paper on cancer receptors. //
+11/22 Exploring GglBse's info-architecture (blog via Willison) : how deeply Google has embraced standard information architecture concepts and trends. We have categories, facets, tags. doesn't like that ggle's tags ("labels") are not social. It is in keeping with the Google way to dream up a generic global classified (& other content) service. And also to think that it does not need a local / social component.
also 11/22, and related: eBay implements simple search expansion-by-contraction (37S-vshort via Willison) : eBay does a nice job helping you compare similar searches with different numbers of words. This sort of reminds me of 37betterGoogle.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Weep a tear forTelevision without Pity - medialifemagazine 2002.
Founded in 1999 and originally called Mighty Big TV, TWoP carries the tagline: "Spare the snark, spoil the networks." oh I just got my mind around this by actually thinking the original and understanding that the syntax = 'IF you spare the rod, you spoil the child."
It is unique among fan sites in that it manages to be both obsessively devoted to and unfailingly sarcastic towards the shows it follows. right.
For the mildly addicted, there’s a “recaplet” of each episode posted a day or two after it airs. For the hard-core fans, there are nine- and 10-page recaps that often recount dialogue verbatim. but does the recaplet go Away? And the mighty popular message boards make for fun reading, too.
Incidentally, TWoP is one of the few sites that epitomizes the oft-invoked but seldom achieved ideal of community that was going to make the web so different from other media not that long ago.
Founded in 1999 and originally called Mighty Big TV, TWoP carries the tagline: "Spare the snark, spoil the networks." oh I just got my mind around this by actually thinking the original and understanding that the syntax = 'IF you spare the rod, you spoil the child."
It is unique among fan sites in that it manages to be both obsessively devoted to and unfailingly sarcastic towards the shows it follows. right.
For the mildly addicted, there’s a “recaplet” of each episode posted a day or two after it airs. For the hard-core fans, there are nine- and 10-page recaps that often recount dialogue verbatim. but does the recaplet go Away? And the mighty popular message boards make for fun reading, too.
Incidentally, TWoP is one of the few sites that epitomizes the oft-invoked but seldom achieved ideal of community that was going to make the web so different from other media not that long ago.
recaplet of gilmore 6.9 The Prodigcal Daughter Returns
(at TWoP do the recaplets remain accessible after the full recap goes up? seems not )
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=25&story=8528
oh this is by Wing Chun, maybe thinks more like me than Al Lowe:
Now, even though Rory has sent out (by her own estimation) 125,000 résumés for journalism jobs, she decides the best course of action is to start harassing the one guy who was nice to her and doesn't have work, stalking him at the office and making me cringe and writhe at how inappropriate and awful she's being. yes
To my absolute horror -- and in a terrible blow to reality -- Rory's stunningly unprofessional behaviour is rewarded with a job at the paper. She calls Lorelai from her car to give her all the good news -- that she's also going back to Yale, magically, now that the term is almost over, in a highly unlikely negotiation wisely kept offscreen --.
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I liked: Sookie said "Yes it was" when Jackson reacted to Lorelai and Luke's fighting with the question "Was it because I brought up the wine rub?". I liked that Sookie did not sound sarcastic. Lorelai said "Welcome to Wisteria Lane, you drama queen! Wrap yourself in a towel and trip over a hedge on your way out", sat in Luke's lap at his place above the diner when they made up, told mom "No, you didn't lose Rory like you lost me. Rory was never supposed to be there ... etc..." and as she walks out "And you didn't lose me." That was the more emotional scene even than the reunion w/ Rory, who tells her mom she loves her and Lorelai says "kid you have no idea."
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good, someone who is with me: in the forum, FrancesHouseman- The scene in the plane made me cry more than Rory's coming home. Kelly Bishop is simply amazing and her acting was stunning. I hope that future episodes deal with how much Rory has hurt her.
and another: LG and KB knocked that scene out of the ballpark. They are so great together and the story of Lorelai/Emily is just so much more compelling to me than Lorelai/Rory. It's real, it's organic, it's believable.
and and:
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
-I'm still not happy. Rory fixes running away from her mother by running away from her grandparents. At first, I was hoping that somehwere off-camera, Rory told her Grandmother that she moved out, but when Emily confirned that Rory pulled the same stunt she did on Lorelai, I was just done with the whole thing. (oh so that's what rory did to emily... but here's the point:) I did, however, enjoy Lorelai's "You didn't lose me."
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
- LG is kicking ass with her acting in these emotional scenes, and being a way bigger person than she is often given credit for. absolutely.
-Ok. I fully, completely wholeheartedly believe that this show is never ever good in one isolated episode. yes, interesting. But can I just say... its all Lauren Graham. Thats why this works. The scene with Rory at the end. Lauren sold it. Hugging her tightly like that was all she ( and we) had wanted for months. She sold me. Alexis just hung there like a doll saying in baby voice "i'm so sorry" It ruined it for me to look at Rory, but Lauren made Lorelai look like a Mom who got her whole world back.
(at TWoP do the recaplets remain accessible after the full recap goes up? seems not )
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=25&story=8528
oh this is by Wing Chun, maybe thinks more like me than Al Lowe:
Now, even though Rory has sent out (by her own estimation) 125,000 résumés for journalism jobs, she decides the best course of action is to start harassing the one guy who was nice to her and doesn't have work, stalking him at the office and making me cringe and writhe at how inappropriate and awful she's being. yes
To my absolute horror -- and in a terrible blow to reality -- Rory's stunningly unprofessional behaviour is rewarded with a job at the paper. She calls Lorelai from her car to give her all the good news -- that she's also going back to Yale, magically, now that the term is almost over, in a highly unlikely negotiation wisely kept offscreen --.
------------------
I liked: Sookie said "Yes it was" when Jackson reacted to Lorelai and Luke's fighting with the question "Was it because I brought up the wine rub?". I liked that Sookie did not sound sarcastic. Lorelai said "Welcome to Wisteria Lane, you drama queen! Wrap yourself in a towel and trip over a hedge on your way out", sat in Luke's lap at his place above the diner when they made up, told mom "No, you didn't lose Rory like you lost me. Rory was never supposed to be there ... etc..." and as she walks out "And you didn't lose me." That was the more emotional scene even than the reunion w/ Rory, who tells her mom she loves her and Lorelai says "kid you have no idea."
---
good, someone who is with me: in the forum, FrancesHouseman- The scene in the plane made me cry more than Rory's coming home. Kelly Bishop is simply amazing and her acting was stunning. I hope that future episodes deal with how much Rory has hurt her.
and another: LG and KB knocked that scene out of the ballpark. They are so great together and the story of Lorelai/Emily is just so much more compelling to me than Lorelai/Rory. It's real, it's organic, it's believable.
and and:
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
-I'm still not happy. Rory fixes running away from her mother by running away from her grandparents. At first, I was hoping that somehwere off-camera, Rory told her Grandmother that she moved out, but when Emily confirned that Rory pulled the same stunt she did on Lorelai, I was just done with the whole thing. (oh so that's what rory did to emily... but here's the point:) I did, however, enjoy Lorelai's "You didn't lose me."
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
- LG is kicking ass with her acting in these emotional scenes, and being a way bigger person than she is often given credit for. absolutely.
-Ok. I fully, completely wholeheartedly believe that this show is never ever good in one isolated episode. yes, interesting. But can I just say... its all Lauren Graham. Thats why this works. The scene with Rory at the end. Lauren sold it. Hugging her tightly like that was all she ( and we) had wanted for months. She sold me. Alexis just hung there like a doll saying in baby voice "i'm so sorry" It ruined it for me to look at Rory, but Lauren made Lorelai look like a Mom who got her whole world back.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
november ides
November:
salon on critics James Wood and Dale Peck (against the maximalist postmodern fiction),steph's voicesrising,
October: AT&T, my use of librarything social data, sistertravelpants, gilmore girls, boston legal, googlebase, flock, my use of delicious, antm, moos, dove beauty, grease 2, Nyr on graphic novels...
September:
Kinsey, TWoP/TVgasm, plasticbag on brave new people-owned media, my librarything tags, You Can Count on Me, my librarything tags, kate moss, google and yahoo over years and the cabal, Lenovo, Milliondollarhomepage, fametracker, Michael Douglas v Richard Gere, phone cooking eggs, Motorola A630, exbiblio, visual information (dialect survey maps, letter pairs analysis), warrenellis.com, rw and onion new orleans, julian dibbell's my tiny life, 6fu, hurricane, misc links...
August:
glassdog, birds, suck (salon), 100blogs100days, everybody dies - six feet under finale, metafilter, boston globe on what makes people gay, cervantes of the new meium is rw, the long tail, webshots v flickr, delicious, memepool, peter lunenfeld infotechnodemo, mcsweeneys titles - name that humor, venganza open letter (fsm), consonants spelling, firefox tabbed browsing...
and then the August ides ... into the glory days ...
salon on critics James Wood and Dale Peck (against the maximalist postmodern fiction),steph's voicesrising,
October: AT&T, my use of librarything social data, sistertravelpants, gilmore girls, boston legal, googlebase, flock, my use of delicious, antm, moos, dove beauty, grease 2, Nyr on graphic novels...
September:
Kinsey, TWoP/TVgasm, plasticbag on brave new people-owned media, my librarything tags, You Can Count on Me, my librarything tags, kate moss, google and yahoo over years and the cabal, Lenovo, Milliondollarhomepage, fametracker, Michael Douglas v Richard Gere, phone cooking eggs, Motorola A630, exbiblio, visual information (dialect survey maps, letter pairs analysis), warrenellis.com, rw and onion new orleans, julian dibbell's my tiny life, 6fu, hurricane, misc links...
August:
glassdog, birds, suck (salon), 100blogs100days, everybody dies - six feet under finale, metafilter, boston globe on what makes people gay, cervantes of the new meium is rw, the long tail, webshots v flickr, delicious, memepool, peter lunenfeld infotechnodemo, mcsweeneys titles - name that humor, venganza open letter (fsm), consonants spelling, firefox tabbed browsing...
and then the August ides ... into the glory days ...
It is Peck who hasn't been invited to the wine-and-cheese party, and while you can't blame him for resenting this (he's only human), it's impossible to extract the resentment from his criticism of their books without the whole fabric unraveling. His afterword, in which he claims to be fighting for the liberation of contemporary fiction from its disastrous enthrallment to the modernist model epitomized by James Joyce's "Ulysses," is just silly bravado (and I write this as someone who thinks such a liberation wouldn't be a bad idea).
too bad, I liked Sith Boom Bah so.
Laura Miller, quite good.
too bad, I liked Sith Boom Bah so.
Laura Miller, quite good.
Critics have not hesitated to point out that Peck's "I'm only beating you for your own good" stance resonates creepily with his autobiographical writings about his abusive father.
But Peck isn't merely a bully, and he certainly isn't stupid. Whatever authority others invest in him as an occasional reviewer at the New Republic, he still feels like an outsider, and with cause. He is a gay man from a working-class background and, perhaps hardest of all, a minor novelist, well acquainted with the business end of a stinging review. When he isn't hopelessly enmeshed in his own tangled motivations, he can be an astute and even sensitive critic. His essay on Kurt Vonnegut, one of only two approving pieces in the otherwise aptly titled "Hatchet Jobs," is moving and rather brave; for a critic so intent on demonstrating his own intellect and discrimination, it takes some guts to embrace an author often written off as middlebrow.
Most of the essays lack that kind of courage or clarity, however. Whatever flashes of wit and perception Peck shows, and notwithstanding the extensive knowledge of English grammar and nonreproductive sexual practices he makes a point of showing off whenever possible, the emotional tone here is petulant and muddled.
But Peck isn't merely a bully, and he certainly isn't stupid. Whatever authority others invest in him as an occasional reviewer at the New Republic, he still feels like an outsider, and with cause. He is a gay man from a working-class background and, perhaps hardest of all, a minor novelist, well acquainted with the business end of a stinging review. When he isn't hopelessly enmeshed in his own tangled motivations, he can be an astute and even sensitive critic. His essay on Kurt Vonnegut, one of only two approving pieces in the otherwise aptly titled "Hatchet Jobs," is moving and rather brave; for a critic so intent on demonstrating his own intellect and discrimination, it takes some guts to embrace an author often written off as middlebrow.
Most of the essays lack that kind of courage or clarity, however. Whatever flashes of wit and perception Peck shows, and notwithstanding the extensive knowledge of English grammar and nonreproductive sexual practices he makes a point of showing off whenever possible, the emotional tone here is petulant and muddled.
In the best fiction, Wood argues, the author submerges himself utterly in his characters, so that no image or idea surfaces in the text that would not occur naturally to them.
well that is interesting. sure there is something to say for that: makes integrity more likely? Integrity, what have you.
--so George Eliot in Middlemarch, Wood, would you say her pronouncements are authorial insertions? (vs: could be considered to touch the consciousness of the character we are with?)--
I guess though that we don't need just one kind of fiction. one kind of story! for goodness' sake. why not have a voice that is not that of one of the presented characters? (well because the author is a pompous food snob who offends - right - but otherwise).
these critics who say Aesthetics Aesthetics There is Only the One G-d. (Beauty).
Wood: "The only success is aesthetic, and the 'culture' will never validate aesthetic success, will never 'engage' with that."
Even Curtis White trying to say something positive about What Is Art. sounds...? well, what are they talking about? I guess that's my dislike for the b-g words Beauty Power -? Justice is ok, seems to mean. so... they sound snobby I guess, without sounding sharp. Curtis White when he's sharp well I don't mind if he is harsh. Anger I like. I don't like what?
well that is interesting. sure there is something to say for that: makes integrity more likely? Integrity, what have you.
--so George Eliot in Middlemarch, Wood, would you say her pronouncements are authorial insertions? (vs: could be considered to touch the consciousness of the character we are with?)--
I guess though that we don't need just one kind of fiction. one kind of story! for goodness' sake. why not have a voice that is not that of one of the presented characters? (well because the author is a pompous food snob who offends - right - but otherwise).
these critics who say Aesthetics Aesthetics There is Only the One G-d. (Beauty).
Wood: "The only success is aesthetic, and the 'culture' will never validate aesthetic success, will never 'engage' with that."
Even Curtis White trying to say something positive about What Is Art. sounds...? well, what are they talking about? I guess that's my dislike for the b-g words Beauty Power -? Justice is ok, seems to mean. so... they sound snobby I guess, without sounding sharp. Curtis White when he's sharp well I don't mind if he is harsh. Anger I like. I don't like what?
the topic: James Wood is the most admired literary critic at work today, and Dale Peck is the most reviled. Yet they share the same loathing, for a type of fiction that Wood calls "hysterical realism" and that Peck labels "recherché postmodernism." Most people who follow contemporary fiction can confidently name some books that fall into this category and can tell you what they're like: They're big, they're full of information, ideas and stylistic riffs; they have eventful plots that transpire on what's often called a "broad social canvas"; they experiment with form and voice; they're overtly (or maybe just overly) smart.
Maximalism, to use this genre's most reactionary name, turns out to be a lot less uniform than minimalism. //Once upon a time -- about 15 or 20 years ago, to be precise -- when people complained about contemporary fiction, they complained about minimalism. The quintessential minimalist work was a short story written in austere, emotionally muted prose. It described a scene of domestic despair or disconnection fully understood by its protagonist only in a closing moment of bleak epiphany. It was written by Raymond Carver or Ann Beattie or an acolyte thereof, and edited by Gordon Lish. It was published in the New Yorker. //
If minimalism's paterfamilias is indisputably Raymond Carver, maximalism's is Don DeLillo -- unless it's Thomas Pynchon. (DeLillo is the star that some younger maximalists claim to steer by, but the less solemn Pynchon seems the better fit.) The novelists usually rounded up in this group include Rick Moody, Jonathan Franzen (who wrote a famous 1996 essay on the "social novel" for Harper's Magazine), Colson Whitehead, Jeffrey Eugenides, Dave Eggers, Richard Powers, Jonathan Lethem, Zadie Smith and, especially, David Foster Wallace. well I like Colson Whitehead, sincerely, I think. does he have claim to be outstanding from this list?
and I enjoyed White Noise and The Corrections, but they certainly fit this description and I don't know that I like the authors. smart though.
In a way, these are indeed "social" novels, not because of their content or style but because what connects them is their audience. The same people tend to like them all; it is a society of shared taste (edu), a genre consolidated less by the books themselves than by their fans' sense of what kind of novel they want. A lot of these fans are critics, and this is in part because novels of ideas make critics feel clever and useful -- there's so much to explain! -- see Sideways, you are the schmoo guy who makes pronouncements about wine (food snobbery! the anti-me)and, as Wood is fond of pointing out, they have essayistic passages, such as Wallace's self-contained digression on videophones in "Infinite Jest." oh you did like his essayistic didn't you.
Maximalism, to use this genre's most reactionary name, turns out to be a lot less uniform than minimalism. //Once upon a time -- about 15 or 20 years ago, to be precise -- when people complained about contemporary fiction, they complained about minimalism. The quintessential minimalist work was a short story written in austere, emotionally muted prose. It described a scene of domestic despair or disconnection fully understood by its protagonist only in a closing moment of bleak epiphany. It was written by Raymond Carver or Ann Beattie or an acolyte thereof, and edited by Gordon Lish. It was published in the New Yorker. //
If minimalism's paterfamilias is indisputably Raymond Carver, maximalism's is Don DeLillo -- unless it's Thomas Pynchon. (DeLillo is the star that some younger maximalists claim to steer by, but the less solemn Pynchon seems the better fit.) The novelists usually rounded up in this group include Rick Moody, Jonathan Franzen (who wrote a famous 1996 essay on the "social novel" for Harper's Magazine), Colson Whitehead, Jeffrey Eugenides, Dave Eggers, Richard Powers, Jonathan Lethem, Zadie Smith and, especially, David Foster Wallace. well I like Colson Whitehead, sincerely, I think. does he have claim to be outstanding from this list?
and I enjoyed White Noise and The Corrections, but they certainly fit this description and I don't know that I like the authors. smart though.
In a way, these are indeed "social" novels, not because of their content or style but because what connects them is their audience. The same people tend to like them all; it is a society of shared taste (edu), a genre consolidated less by the books themselves than by their fans' sense of what kind of novel they want. A lot of these fans are critics, and this is in part because novels of ideas make critics feel clever and useful -- there's so much to explain! -- see Sideways, you are the schmoo guy who makes pronouncements about wine (food snobbery! the anti-me)and, as Wood is fond of pointing out, they have essayistic passages, such as Wallace's self-contained digression on videophones in "Infinite Jest." oh you did like his essayistic didn't you.
The war for the soul of literature [Salon, best of, 2004] Two critics, one revered and the other almost universally reviled, protest that the literary world has been taken over by big, bad, "ambitious" novels. By Laura Miller she's very good isn't she-
The line between the amusingly clever and the too clever, between the interesting description and the egregious info-dump, can only be plotted subjectively. Criticism's task is to articulate that subjectivity so that even those who don't share it can see it in three dimensions. see R it's not peculiar to me to want the articulation in order to see. (to better see ot to see what you do not share in seeing)
Wood does this beautifully, he erects a critical structure that's undeniably coherent; you can walk in and have a look around. It's just that once you get inside, the accommodations turn out to be pretty Spartan and the window shades are always pulled down.
With Dale Peck, we're talking about subjectivity of an entirely different order. ah dale peck glory days my early feeling of good writing to be found on the web, via arts&letters, rh noted Peck's arcticle on Star Wars -Sith Boom Bah - see below the bottom beginning of this blog. He is notorious for commencing his reviews with rhetorical detonations ("Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation" being the most famous example).
The line between the amusingly clever and the too clever, between the interesting description and the egregious info-dump, can only be plotted subjectively. Criticism's task is to articulate that subjectivity so that even those who don't share it can see it in three dimensions. see R it's not peculiar to me to want the articulation in order to see. (to better see ot to see what you do not share in seeing)
Wood does this beautifully, he erects a critical structure that's undeniably coherent; you can walk in and have a look around. It's just that once you get inside, the accommodations turn out to be pretty Spartan and the window shades are always pulled down.
With Dale Peck, we're talking about subjectivity of an entirely different order. ah dale peck glory days my early feeling of good writing to be found on the web, via arts&letters, rh noted Peck's arcticle on Star Wars -Sith Boom Bah - see below the bottom beginning of this blog. He is notorious for commencing his reviews with rhetorical detonations ("Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation" being the most famous example).
Monday, November 14, 2005
Capitalism -As If The World Matters- seems to be available only from Earthscan Shop. 1844071928. Hardback £18.99. Publication date November 2005. All royalties from the sales of Capitalism As If The World Matters are being paid to Forum for the Future to support its ongoing work. ah does appear in AZ-uk. but not in Semcoop.com though have I not seen this cover in our store? (same image elsewhere, the planet on black?)
wow this is nicely done, I really like the blue text for emphasis, and ohmy! Barbara Bush :
from Editor & Publisher.com:" 'Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston.'"Then she added: 'What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality." 'And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.' " posted by steph at riseup at 11:28 AM Sept 9 2005
me really 11/15 am but to group on the page-
from Editor & Publisher.com:" 'Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston.'"Then she added: 'What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality." 'And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.' " posted by steph at riseup at 11:28 AM Sept 9 2005
me really 11/15 am but to group on the page-
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Best of Salon
In honor of our 10th anniversary this month, Salon is scouring our archives for the best stories we've published. Every day for 10 days, we will be highlighting one year's worth of memorable pieces.
Best of Salon: 1995-1996 From hackers and the giant squid to George Sanders and O.J. Simpson, a potpourri of memorable pieces from our first year. - 11/05/05 -
Best of Salon: 1997 Vampires! Women's ways of bullying! Sleazy tricks of pornmeisters! Cintra at the Kentucky Derby! A wild ride through Salon's 1997 archives.
Best of Salon: 1998 From Ken Starr and Henry Hyde to fetish nation and J.Lo's butt, a look back at a tumultuous year.
Best of Salon: 1999 From Ruth Shalit's takedown of advertising follies to David Gates' "Breaking Up With the Beats" to James Poniewozik's Media Circus columns, Salon partied like it was 1999.
Best of Salon: 2000 Salon greeted the millennium by exposing the White House's prime-time propaganda campaign -- and licking doorknobs in Gary Bauer's presidential campaign headquarters.
Best of Salon: 2001 Our fearless coverage of 9/11 ranged from Ground Zero to Afghanistan. We explained "Mulholland Drive," exposed Silicon Valley and asked if Bush was a chimp.
Best of Salon: 2002 We introduced the metrosexual and warned of the dangers of touch-screen voting. Plus: 40 must-see movies, and the kitschification of 9/11
Best of Salon: 2003 The Iraq war begins: Phillip Robertson crosses the Tigris by raft, Jen Banbury reports on Abu Ghraib, and Michelle Goldberg covers the new antiwar movement.
Best of Salon: 2004 Gay couples tie the knot in San Francisco, we're still at war in Iraq, and George W. Bush is reelected.
Best of Salon: 1995-1996 From hackers and the giant squid to George Sanders and O.J. Simpson, a potpourri of memorable pieces from our first year. - 11/05/05 -
Best of Salon: 1997 Vampires! Women's ways of bullying! Sleazy tricks of pornmeisters! Cintra at the Kentucky Derby! A wild ride through Salon's 1997 archives.
Best of Salon: 1998 From Ken Starr and Henry Hyde to fetish nation and J.Lo's butt, a look back at a tumultuous year.
Best of Salon: 1999 From Ruth Shalit's takedown of advertising follies to David Gates' "Breaking Up With the Beats" to James Poniewozik's Media Circus columns, Salon partied like it was 1999.
Best of Salon: 2000 Salon greeted the millennium by exposing the White House's prime-time propaganda campaign -- and licking doorknobs in Gary Bauer's presidential campaign headquarters.
Best of Salon: 2001 Our fearless coverage of 9/11 ranged from Ground Zero to Afghanistan. We explained "Mulholland Drive," exposed Silicon Valley and asked if Bush was a chimp.
Best of Salon: 2002 We introduced the metrosexual and warned of the dangers of touch-screen voting. Plus: 40 must-see movies, and the kitschification of 9/11
Best of Salon: 2003 The Iraq war begins: Phillip Robertson crosses the Tigris by raft, Jen Banbury reports on Abu Ghraib, and Michelle Goldberg covers the new antiwar movement.
Best of Salon: 2004 Gay couples tie the knot in San Francisco, we're still at war in Iraq, and George W. Bush is reelected.
-----ENTHUSIASM IS WHAT YOU LACK.
-Don't Say You Didn't Mean It.
-Ark Shaw Kalepsie Vonog.
--Orange Plum Banana Kiwi.
(How can it be irony when it's exactly what you mean?)
-Don't Say You Didn't Mean It.
-Ark Shaw Kalepsie Vonog.
--Orange Plum Banana Kiwi.
(How can it be irony when it's exactly what you mean?)
see. to delete... I want to take all that I do not like from closet and throw away.
these socks: too itchy. this shirt: too whatever. keep only what does not bother me.
and then, oh the constructive part is harder: launder, fold, organize in a useful way into the drawers of the dresser I now have.
go purchase cotton socks.
go get contact lens to wear in my eyes. eyse.
need music and a sister-friend. how rarely do I not prefer quiet.
fantasies of the apartment with the washer and dryer in a little room and then a main area & bedroom carpeted and a clean kitchen and an electric purple fireplace with a mantle above to sit on and sidewalk halfview windows.
these socks: too itchy. this shirt: too whatever. keep only what does not bother me.
and then, oh the constructive part is harder: launder, fold, organize in a useful way into the drawers of the dresser I now have.
go purchase cotton socks.
go get contact lens to wear in my eyes. eyse.
need music and a sister-friend. how rarely do I not prefer quiet.
fantasies of the apartment with the washer and dryer in a little room and then a main area & bedroom carpeted and a clean kitchen and an electric purple fireplace with a mantle above to sit on and sidewalk halfview windows.
so, on wednesday was it? I wanted to delete some of the too cute from katecutrer, and I did, but first posted it with same dates and times in newly created ofachildpretending (little green on my mind). and today I went into that template to at least modify some of the more egregious default settings. ie deleted the Google and EditMe links. not against them putting those as placeholders though. and am typing now to note:
-FIND in IE can find text (eg"Edit") within the template, in the code. Mozilla's FIND apparently does not search in the template box.
-I deleted 2 or 3 coded statements about "border" under heading, with the desired recult that the box around childpretending disappeared.
-FIND in IE can find text (eg"Edit") within the template, in the code. Mozilla's FIND apparently does not search in the template box.
-I deleted 2 or 3 coded statements about "border" under heading, with the desired recult that the box around childpretending disappeared.
Monday, November 7, 2005
fame someway someday SEARCH. clicked results:
Fame Songs - 8:17pm www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/fsongs5.htm
fame nicole holly SEARCH. clicked results:
Fame (1982 TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 8:16pm
www.jumptheshark.com/f/fame.htm - 8:16pm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/quotes.ht ... - 8:16pm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/ftrans.ht ... - 8:16pm
from Google-personalized search history. bcs I hardly use that, and did think to search here dlww for FAME, remembering evening when I found sites for my old favorite tv show after placing memory of singing SomeDaySomeWay.
Fame Songs - 8:17pm www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/fsongs5.htm
fame nicole holly SEARCH. clicked results:
Fame (1982 TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 8:16pm
www.jumptheshark.com/f/fame.htm - 8:16pm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/quotes.ht ... - 8:16pm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1314/ftrans.ht ... - 8:16pm
from Google-personalized search history. bcs I hardly use that, and did think to search here dlww for FAME, remembering evening when I found sites for my old favorite tv show after placing memory of singing SomeDaySomeWay.
pleasantly surprised last week by the announcement of a book deal for Bobby Henderson, the founder of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the centerpiece of an alternative 'intelligent design' theory which, he petitioned the Kansas Board of Education, deserved equal time in classrooms: 'one third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.' nice. mediabistro
Villard bought up an FSM book which they'll be rushing into stores next Feburary. Feburary.
listed at AZ - Bobby Henderson
and at his now fancier site:
The FSM's hobbies include flying through the universe, touching things with his noodly appendage and pissing off proponents of intelligent design creation theories. He could be defeated by common sense or acceptance of basic scientific principles, if only either of those things existed." here
Villard bought up an FSM book which they'll be rushing into stores next Feburary. Feburary.
listed at AZ - Bobby Henderson
and at his now fancier site:
The FSM's hobbies include flying through the universe, touching things with his noodly appendage and pissing off proponents of intelligent design creation theories. He could be defeated by common sense or acceptance of basic scientific principles, if only either of those things existed." here
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Graph of suicides by location off the Golden Gate Bridge.
k: This is a fascinating graph. More overall deaths on the SF half than the Marin half and way more on the bay side. A lot of people walked pretty far before jumping. And lightpost 69...it looks to be about halfway between the towers...lots of symbolism there for the jumpers.
SF Gate: Multimedia (image)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/10/30/MNG2NFF7KI1.DTL&o=2 : the sad tally
oh-
k: This is a fascinating graph. More overall deaths on the SF half than the Marin half and way more on the bay side. A lot of people walked pretty far before jumping. And lightpost 69...it looks to be about halfway between the towers...lots of symbolism there for the jumpers.
SF Gate: Multimedia (image)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/10/30/MNG2NFF7KI1.DTL&o=2 : the sad tally
oh-
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
"...all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive."
Chris Ware interview in the Guardian
Chris Ware interview in the Guardian
Monday, October 31, 2005
SBC Communications Inc. today announced it will adopt AT&T, Inc. as its name following completion of its acquisition of AT&T, which is expected in late 2005. oh.
The decision is a milestone in the history of telecommunications, extending the reign of a global icon. AT&T is inextricably linked to the birth and growth of the communications industry and has represented quality service, integrity and reliability for more than 120 years. yeah.
At close, the new company will unveil a new logo. After completion of the merger, the transition to the new brand will be heavily promoted with the largest multimedia advertising and marketing campaign in either company's history, as well as through other promotional initiatives. So take a long, last look at Saul Bass's finest moment. AT&T will live on, but its logo is about to disappear.
American Telephone & Telegraph was founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Alexander Graham Bell's Bell Telephone Company to create a long-distance network for Bell's local operating companies. ...
From the start, there had been a perfect confluence between the inventor's name and the sound his product made. ...
The decision is a milestone in the history of telecommunications, extending the reign of a global icon. AT&T is inextricably linked to the birth and growth of the communications industry and has represented quality service, integrity and reliability for more than 120 years. yeah.
At close, the new company will unveil a new logo. After completion of the merger, the transition to the new brand will be heavily promoted with the largest multimedia advertising and marketing campaign in either company's history, as well as through other promotional initiatives. So take a long, last look at Saul Bass's finest moment. AT&T will live on, but its logo is about to disappear.
American Telephone & Telegraph was founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Alexander Graham Bell's Bell Telephone Company to create a long-distance network for Bell's local operating companies. ...
From the start, there had been a perfect confluence between the inventor's name and the sound his product made. ...
Saturday, October 29, 2005
library - looking at books shared - second page of 40 starts with 4 as the number of people own the book, ie 3 other than me, and the last 15 of these are 2s, ie only 1 other person has it. plus 17 more 2s on next page. (5 of these are rh: Wonderwater, Sex Art & the Dow Jones, + 3 I added from his catalog bc I have them too).
so, of my 177 books:
fewer than 40 that more than 4 other people own...
exactly 65 that more than one other person owns...
32 that exactly one other person owns....
97 (65+32) owned by at least one other person...
80 (177-97) owned by no one else...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...ON Librarything.
97:80 would be 92:85 if we deduct rh.
Wrong! 8 people total (6 others) own Judith Butler, Psychic Power, 3 total (1 other) owns Optical Unconscious but ok we are the only ones that own Reification.
so we have 3 shared books unique to us. without rh it'd be 94:83.
so, of my 177 books:
fewer than 40 that more than 4 other people own...
exactly 65 that more than one other person owns...
32 that exactly one other person owns....
97 (65+32) owned by at least one other person...
80 (177-97) owned by no one else...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...ON Librarything.
97:80 would be 92:85 if we deduct rh.
Wrong! 8 people total (6 others) own Judith Butler, Psychic Power, 3 total (1 other) owns Optical Unconscious but ok we are the only ones that own Reification.
so we have 3 shared books unique to us. without rh it'd be 94:83.
New Social Data on Librarything: when looking at your catalog in list view, select "more options." Not only does this add some buttons, including the delete button, as before. It now also lists by every book how many other users have it. You can click on the row-title "shared" to sort by this.
good. helpful because many of mine are Not shared - therefore no interesting recommendation info etc.
-to be fair, my eclectic collection is represented as all the more eclectic since I only entered what I felt like... ones I want to make note of. many of which I own and want to make note of precisely for their specificity.
-because so much unshared, my trial run of the Beta book suggestions feature yielded a list of little interest. mostly poetry, I guess many of the ones I share are poetry.
The recommendations and suggestions are all new. I haven't looked at Librarything in some time - had entered what I was most eager to enter - stopped at 177 books. since I had not reached 200, I had not needed to join and hadn't. and now I've missed the lifetime membership for $10 special. that's ok, it's now $25, which is still inexpensive. or $10 for a year - then what happens to yr library if you do not renew? delete?! ~harsh~ or just can't enter more ? ~ but that seems too generous ~.
UPSHOT - this yields lots of possibilities to explore. eg interesting to see what books I list that many others do list. I am looking at my catalog in my display style 4 (no cover, just title author tags/comments entrydate) w/ "more options" so that I see all the buttons (what is that plain white bubble? takes you to social data just like the sharedpeople/rec icon) and sorted by shared.
Top of the list, each with about 60 people sharing:
Tender Is the Night and Little,Big and Lullaby (Palahniuk, Chuck).
righto: a classic, a ~cult/scifiish favorite, a popular hip author.
Then Orthodoxy is owned by 40 people.
Designing Web Usability(Nielsen, Jakob) , Pattern Language, Closing of the American Mind about 30. Huh-a non-fiction tier of practical web stuff, architecture, ?social critique. ohits1guy.
Drops to the 20s for TSEliot, Wallace Stevens, Proust... and Noonday Demon, Set This House in Order, Blankets, Slouching toward Bethlehem. ok so I can see the convergence of mine and other libraries might only happen around poetry (where I have a few entered of consistent taste). maybe also a little around the popular edgy fiction?
and from here I can read reviews, and look around via the book recommendations, which
for book x list various books y ranked by the ratio:
people who own x / people who own y
a little bit of a thought twister? (backwards-bender) book y is being recommended to you because a high proportion of those who own it also own the book you own.
first expectation is that you'd see books ranked over the number of people who own book x. but I guess then you'd be dealing with a smaller pool, less information ... could think about this some more... and let's see all of that small pool might own harry potter because just so many people do. but if of that small pool four of them own another book y that only 5 people total own, that makes y that makes a good recommendation of y. okay.
good. helpful because many of mine are Not shared - therefore no interesting recommendation info etc.
-to be fair, my eclectic collection is represented as all the more eclectic since I only entered what I felt like... ones I want to make note of. many of which I own and want to make note of precisely for their specificity.
-because so much unshared, my trial run of the Beta book suggestions feature yielded a list of little interest. mostly poetry, I guess many of the ones I share are poetry.
The recommendations and suggestions are all new. I haven't looked at Librarything in some time - had entered what I was most eager to enter - stopped at 177 books. since I had not reached 200, I had not needed to join and hadn't. and now I've missed the lifetime membership for $10 special. that's ok, it's now $25, which is still inexpensive. or $10 for a year - then what happens to yr library if you do not renew? delete?! ~harsh~ or just can't enter more ? ~ but that seems too generous ~.
UPSHOT - this yields lots of possibilities to explore. eg interesting to see what books I list that many others do list. I am looking at my catalog in my display style 4 (no cover, just title author tags/comments entrydate) w/ "more options" so that I see all the buttons (what is that plain white bubble? takes you to social data just like the sharedpeople/rec icon) and sorted by shared.
Top of the list, each with about 60 people sharing:
Tender Is the Night and Little,Big and Lullaby (Palahniuk, Chuck).
righto: a classic, a ~cult/scifiish favorite, a popular hip author.
Then Orthodoxy is owned by 40 people.
Designing Web Usability(Nielsen, Jakob) , Pattern Language, Closing of the American Mind about 30. Huh-a non-fiction tier of practical web stuff, architecture, ?social critique. ohits1guy.
Drops to the 20s for TSEliot, Wallace Stevens, Proust... and Noonday Demon, Set This House in Order, Blankets, Slouching toward Bethlehem. ok so I can see the convergence of mine and other libraries might only happen around poetry (where I have a few entered of consistent taste). maybe also a little around the popular edgy fiction?
and from here I can read reviews, and look around via the book recommendations, which
for book x list various books y ranked by the ratio:
people who own x / people who own y
a little bit of a thought twister? (backwards-bender) book y is being recommended to you because a high proportion of those who own it also own the book you own.
first expectation is that you'd see books ranked over the number of people who own book x. but I guess then you'd be dealing with a smaller pool, less information ... could think about this some more... and let's see all of that small pool might own harry potter because just so many people do. but if of that small pool four of them own another book y that only 5 people total own, that makes y that makes a good recommendation of y. okay.
Director Ken Kwapis turned popular book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants into a movie which arrives in theaters on June 3. 2005. quick to DVD indeed then. out this fall, to be on sale as previously viewed dvd at HollywoodVideo on 11/8.
His TV credits include, recently, The Office. huh.
KYW Extra interviewed Kwapis .
-----The movie doesn't follow the book in every instance. Why is that?
Kwapis: The story we changed most was Lena's story, and with all due respect to Ann Brashares, I think it was the story in the book that, for me, was the least effective. I won't go into the specifics of it, but it wasn't as compelling as the other stories. huh.
But having said that, it's not like we changed the characters. I think we were very, very faithful to the spirit of the Lena story. We did change some of the plot of it and the way it unfolded.
There are certain things that fans of the book will miss. I know I'm going to get some letters from readers and viewers about gerbil [Mimi].
There may also be people who wonder what happened to Lena's little sister, Effie. I don't think Effie contributed enough to Lena's story. sure.
It's hard to tell one story let alone four stories in one, so I think we were quite respectful and really honored the spirit of all the stories even if we had to change some plot details. Believe me, I'm very sensitive to this. It's something I've talked for hours and hours about. What we did maintain from the Lena story and from some of the other stories is what I call internal monologue of those characters, often in the form of letters to one another.
His TV credits include, recently, The Office. huh.
KYW Extra interviewed Kwapis .
-----The movie doesn't follow the book in every instance. Why is that?
Kwapis: The story we changed most was Lena's story, and with all due respect to Ann Brashares, I think it was the story in the book that, for me, was the least effective. I won't go into the specifics of it, but it wasn't as compelling as the other stories. huh.
But having said that, it's not like we changed the characters. I think we were very, very faithful to the spirit of the Lena story. We did change some of the plot of it and the way it unfolded.
There are certain things that fans of the book will miss. I know I'm going to get some letters from readers and viewers about gerbil [Mimi].
There may also be people who wonder what happened to Lena's little sister, Effie. I don't think Effie contributed enough to Lena's story. sure.
It's hard to tell one story let alone four stories in one, so I think we were quite respectful and really honored the spirit of all the stories even if we had to change some plot details. Believe me, I'm very sensitive to this. It's something I've talked for hours and hours about. What we did maintain from the Lena story and from some of the other stories is what I call internal monologue of those characters, often in the form of letters to one another.
my search is not taking me right to what I want, but along the way:
Lorelai's line "Rory, the penal system is not something we enjoy. It's something with a name that makes us giggle." report at TWoP forums of this in EntertainmentWeekly soundbites. though the wit is not what I esp like in Gilmore Girls, I do find this one worth a smile.
this google cache of a 'low-fi' version from TWoP) has many good comments :
-Season three of the "Gilmore Girls" on DVD: Do you like doing the commentaries?
Rory: They make us. I sometimes don't want to. I watch these other TV shows from our network and I've never seen one where the actress does commentary. I feel like I'm getting duped because I have to do a commentary every couple of weeks.
I never really felt the need to post until I read this. Man, Alexis is either very precious or hasn't watch many of the WB's DVD's.
-Alexis does not seem to try very hard. She got the GG job because of her looks (whether it is because she looks like LG or is just plain beautiful, is irrelevant - it's still her looks that landed the part). She just doesn't seem interested in acting, at least on GG.
- It's the other way around, unfortunately. Lauren Graham was cast because she looks like Alexis Bledel, one of the first to be cast. Wow, AB whining to Newsweek about having to do commentaries on the DVDs sounds a lot like the bratty Rory of this past season. A privileged princess. I thought ASP was writing immaturity into Rory's character for dramatic effect, but maybe it's AB who's changed. Next we'll be reading that she's dropping out of acting for a year to kick back in her grandparents' poolhouse.
- More like, Alexis was cast because of this...
Sherman-Palladino says Bledel came in and had the flu and had no desire to talk to the producers. She was annoyed by the entire situation. She couldn't have cared less if she got the job or not. She had to be somewhere at four o'clock. We were like, `What's it like to go to NYU?' And she's like, `Ugh, chitchat, I guess I can do that.' We were, like, `Oh, she hates us! I love that!'
and Lauren because of this...
We wanted someone who could act, make you cry, break your heart, be funny, be gorgeous, be tough, "and still be sexy and vulnerable."-damn straight- Lauren Graham walked in and encompassed "everything that I wanted and then some." Sherman-Palladino compared Graham's bonus gifts to buying Clinique "and you get the gift combo package that goes alongside."
and some of what I did want, re Alexis being the weak link and her story line changing:
- I saw AB's movie last night and I agree with the reviewer of the posted article. While I thought her acting was a great deal better than it has been on recent episodes of GG, she was the least inspiring of the four leads. -definitely-. In addition she played a character who was very Rory-ish. yup. (and the director says on DVD that he thought the character was the other end of the spectrum ! bc reserved instead of verbal. but as both girls she is mainly awkward.)
- What I have heard more of is that it's her character Lena's storyline that is the most cliched and not as moving as that of some of the other girls. Coincidentally, her storyline is the one that is the most changed from novel to screen and probably is the most traditional (or boring).
- yeaah, Alexis' part in the movie probably has the least amount of character arc the way it was adaptated - pretty scenery though. yes, I really liked seeing Greece, so all the more wish I'd enjoyed the character.
-More or less liked the movie and all the actresses except Alexis. good.
and more that is pleasant just as appreciation of Gilmore Girls-
-Entertainment Weekly has an article called "Dear Emmy Voters" and are pushing GG for nods for Actress (LG) and Comedy Series:
Lauren Graham has deftly turned Lorelai Gilmore into a study in contradictions: flighty, yet driven enough to open the world's most perfect B&B; sometimes self centered, but a mother lion when it comes to protecting her whiz-kid daughter from a broken heart. Lorelai could have stalled out at "cool mom" but Graham has made her magnetic, complex and always real. right on.
What started as an occasionally twee mother/daughter dramedy (remember that troubador) has blossomed into the most hilarious and moving hour on TV. yay. Within each densely packed script are wonderful witty musings on family, loyalty, class and the struggles of growing up...whatever your age.
-I don't get how GG can be put in the comedy catagory - maybe I'm too set in the "comedy=30 minutes, drama=60 minutes" mold. I mean, yes Gilmore Girls is smart and funny, but it has some of the best dramatic moments on TV. Maybe the invention of the "Dramedy" catagory would help. - - - what was it that got me about this on the Emmys...? I think Boston Legal was called drama and Desperate Housewives comedy... and BL is so much funnier (and lighter in tone, as far as the framing of the show).
- Hollywood Reporter has a section today discussing the possible acting nominees for the Emmy's. There is a big quote though of Amy's that had me laughing out loud. It's the only quote pulled from the article on the page, right above Lauren's picture."No one else on TV does what Lauren (Graham) does. No one else has to be that funny, that dramatic, be in charge of that much material every week...It's the hardest job in TV, and she does it so amazingly well. Who do I have to blow to get her a nomination?" -- "Gilmore Girls" creator/executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. I heart Amy!
- WB also placed a really beautiful For Your Consideration ad for Lauren, with that AWESOME quote from TVGuide, "Lauren Graham, the Katharine Hepburn of the small screen, is giving the kind of standout performances that scream Emmy."
- ASP is right. Name another working actress that carries an hour COMEDY completely on her shoulders - and so well. You can't find any other actress out there that is like her (hold on the TH comparisons please - I said carry the show) and can transform even lackluster (TLALD) episodes into something remotely watchable. She has the most screen time and GGs has the longest scripts. Do the math. Give her an Emmy. - - - who is TH?
- A magazine here in Brazil did a special on the theme "Why women are still desperate to get married?". In one of the articles, the journalist wrote about how movies and tv shows work to boost or counter the "modern-Cinderella" myth (always waiting for Prince Charming to save her life) . Basically, she said how Bridget Jones, an icon to many, is just another woman who has a life out of control until she finds Mark Darcy to save her (like when he got her out of jail).Then she said that, although she loved Sex and the City, the finale was a disappointment, since Carrie needed to be saved from Paris (where she went to because of a man) by Big. And the paragraph that really concerns us: The Friends finale also sucked. Rachel and Ross live happily ever after, as expected. But something is really wrong when even Phoebe, the airheaded one, finds a Prince. Sorry, but that didn't fit. Funny that the show known to be mushy is the only one in which women can be alone and happy. I'm talking about Gilmore Girls. Lorelai lives happily with her daughter Rory. Do they have boyfriends? Yes. But it's very different having a guy that comes into your life (that was already great) and adds things from having a messed-up life that needs a Prince to fix it. In the category "salvation doesn't come from others", the provincial Lorelai kicks the modern Carrie's ass.
ah ha found the actual TWoP url - couldn't tell what page it was - it's page 141 - http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=877435&st=2100 skip pages in the forum by changing that last number - as it's not a page # , I guess it's the number of the top post?
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Lorelai's line "Rory, the penal system is not something we enjoy. It's something with a name that makes us giggle." report at TWoP forums of this in EntertainmentWeekly soundbites. though the wit is not what I esp like in Gilmore Girls, I do find this one worth a smile.
this google cache of a 'low-fi' version from TWoP) has many good comments :
-Season three of the "Gilmore Girls" on DVD: Do you like doing the commentaries?
Rory: They make us. I sometimes don't want to. I watch these other TV shows from our network and I've never seen one where the actress does commentary. I feel like I'm getting duped because I have to do a commentary every couple of weeks.
I never really felt the need to post until I read this. Man, Alexis is either very precious or hasn't watch many of the WB's DVD's.
-Alexis does not seem to try very hard. She got the GG job because of her looks (whether it is because she looks like LG or is just plain beautiful, is irrelevant - it's still her looks that landed the part). She just doesn't seem interested in acting, at least on GG.
- It's the other way around, unfortunately. Lauren Graham was cast because she looks like Alexis Bledel, one of the first to be cast. Wow, AB whining to Newsweek about having to do commentaries on the DVDs sounds a lot like the bratty Rory of this past season. A privileged princess. I thought ASP was writing immaturity into Rory's character for dramatic effect, but maybe it's AB who's changed. Next we'll be reading that she's dropping out of acting for a year to kick back in her grandparents' poolhouse.
- More like, Alexis was cast because of this...
Sherman-Palladino says Bledel came in and had the flu and had no desire to talk to the producers. She was annoyed by the entire situation. She couldn't have cared less if she got the job or not. She had to be somewhere at four o'clock. We were like, `What's it like to go to NYU?' And she's like, `Ugh, chitchat, I guess I can do that.' We were, like, `Oh, she hates us! I love that!'
and Lauren because of this...
We wanted someone who could act, make you cry, break your heart, be funny, be gorgeous, be tough, "and still be sexy and vulnerable."-damn straight- Lauren Graham walked in and encompassed "everything that I wanted and then some." Sherman-Palladino compared Graham's bonus gifts to buying Clinique "and you get the gift combo package that goes alongside."
and some of what I did want, re Alexis being the weak link and her story line changing:
- I saw AB's movie last night and I agree with the reviewer of the posted article. While I thought her acting was a great deal better than it has been on recent episodes of GG, she was the least inspiring of the four leads. -definitely-. In addition she played a character who was very Rory-ish. yup. (and the director says on DVD that he thought the character was the other end of the spectrum ! bc reserved instead of verbal. but as both girls she is mainly awkward.)
- What I have heard more of is that it's her character Lena's storyline that is the most cliched and not as moving as that of some of the other girls. Coincidentally, her storyline is the one that is the most changed from novel to screen and probably is the most traditional (or boring).
- yeaah, Alexis' part in the movie probably has the least amount of character arc the way it was adaptated - pretty scenery though. yes, I really liked seeing Greece, so all the more wish I'd enjoyed the character.
-More or less liked the movie and all the actresses except Alexis. good.
and more that is pleasant just as appreciation of Gilmore Girls-
-Entertainment Weekly has an article called "Dear Emmy Voters" and are pushing GG for nods for Actress (LG) and Comedy Series:
Lauren Graham has deftly turned Lorelai Gilmore into a study in contradictions: flighty, yet driven enough to open the world's most perfect B&B; sometimes self centered, but a mother lion when it comes to protecting her whiz-kid daughter from a broken heart. Lorelai could have stalled out at "cool mom" but Graham has made her magnetic, complex and always real. right on.
What started as an occasionally twee mother/daughter dramedy (remember that troubador) has blossomed into the most hilarious and moving hour on TV. yay. Within each densely packed script are wonderful witty musings on family, loyalty, class and the struggles of growing up...whatever your age.
-I don't get how GG can be put in the comedy catagory - maybe I'm too set in the "comedy=30 minutes, drama=60 minutes" mold. I mean, yes Gilmore Girls is smart and funny, but it has some of the best dramatic moments on TV. Maybe the invention of the "Dramedy" catagory would help. - - - what was it that got me about this on the Emmys...? I think Boston Legal was called drama and Desperate Housewives comedy... and BL is so much funnier (and lighter in tone, as far as the framing of the show).
- Hollywood Reporter has a section today discussing the possible acting nominees for the Emmy's. There is a big quote though of Amy's that had me laughing out loud. It's the only quote pulled from the article on the page, right above Lauren's picture."No one else on TV does what Lauren (Graham) does. No one else has to be that funny, that dramatic, be in charge of that much material every week...It's the hardest job in TV, and she does it so amazingly well. Who do I have to blow to get her a nomination?" -- "Gilmore Girls" creator/executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino. I heart Amy!
- WB also placed a really beautiful For Your Consideration ad for Lauren, with that AWESOME quote from TVGuide, "Lauren Graham, the Katharine Hepburn of the small screen, is giving the kind of standout performances that scream Emmy."
- ASP is right. Name another working actress that carries an hour COMEDY completely on her shoulders - and so well. You can't find any other actress out there that is like her (hold on the TH comparisons please - I said carry the show) and can transform even lackluster (TLALD) episodes into something remotely watchable. She has the most screen time and GGs has the longest scripts. Do the math. Give her an Emmy. - - - who is TH?
- A magazine here in Brazil did a special on the theme "Why women are still desperate to get married?". In one of the articles, the journalist wrote about how movies and tv shows work to boost or counter the "modern-Cinderella" myth (always waiting for Prince Charming to save her life) . Basically, she said how Bridget Jones, an icon to many, is just another woman who has a life out of control until she finds Mark Darcy to save her (like when he got her out of jail).Then she said that, although she loved Sex and the City, the finale was a disappointment, since Carrie needed to be saved from Paris (where she went to because of a man) by Big. And the paragraph that really concerns us: The Friends finale also sucked. Rachel and Ross live happily ever after, as expected. But something is really wrong when even Phoebe, the airheaded one, finds a Prince. Sorry, but that didn't fit. Funny that the show known to be mushy is the only one in which women can be alone and happy. I'm talking about Gilmore Girls. Lorelai lives happily with her daughter Rory. Do they have boyfriends? Yes. But it's very different having a guy that comes into your life (that was already great) and adds things from having a messed-up life that needs a Prince to fix it. In the category "salvation doesn't come from others", the provincial Lorelai kicks the modern Carrie's ass.
ah ha found the actual TWoP url - couldn't tell what page it was - it's page 141 - http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=877435&st=2100 skip pages in the forum by changing that last number - as it's not a page # , I guess it's the number of the top post?
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