Walking to the office on this sloppy Monday morning, through April's cold rain, with a mind full of dreams and promises of warmer, brighter things, I got the feeling that it might as well be last Friday all over again. What the hell?
Listening to music on the hi-fi is what it is. Listening to music on the hi-fi is two treats in one. Listening to music on the hi-fi is:
1. Listening to music
2. On the hi-fi
And how great is that? Really. What else can we want from this life? Sure, a house in California, NJ, with windows that open out into a great, big, Peruvian…
We'd say we told you Sound Grammar was a winner, but we were really just echoing what Fred Kaplan said. His essay on the record is worth reading again—or for the first time, if you didn't take our word for it the first time around.
The Fraunhofer Institute is working on an active soundproof window that's "particularly effective at frequencies of 50–1000Hz." I want one now—but it'll be four years before they make it to market.
Apparently, Newton, not those modifiers, was right all along. F=ma totally rules!
Rowan Atkinson demonstrates what happened to the hi-fi industry.
Via Jonathan Scull, who probably has auditioned both 3Wpc and 2000Wpc amplifiers.
The Space Review has published an interesting look at Heinlein's collaborations with filmmakers. You've got to love an article that contains lines like this: "To the extent that such an awful piece of filmmaking can actually have a message, Rocketship X-M has a shallow and not terribly original message that nuclear war is bad for children and other living things. The universe is hostile, God hates us, and we’re all doomed. Have a nice day."
Is there a unified field theory for biology?
Tone and intonation are key—as in any fretless instrument.
Via Jon Iverson.
I discovered Erik Satie while in college. The music seemed perfectly fit for such strange and brightly-colored cartoon mornings, rainy afternoons, very sad and lonely drunken nights. Perfectly fit for a dude who felt out of time with himself, a mishmash of incomplete angles and ideas, a dance party, a moonlit walk along a muddy trail, a stranger, a desperate fuck.
The Naxos recording of Satie works performed by Klara Kormendi was one of the few discs I brought along with me when I fled New Jersey for a semester in England. At Fairleigh Dickinson University's Wroxton Abbey in…
The Smithsonian has a nifty slideshow on Harry Houdini. It's mostly posters, but the action shots are worth checking out.
