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Chet Raymo argues that George Herriman's love struck cat and brick-tossing mouse "turned the deterministic world of Newtonian physics upside down."
In FilmMaker, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.
Clive James has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
If you know James. you're already on your way there, if you don't, click on the external link for an interview that will introduce you.
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
Jeremy Clarkson gives good rant on over-used words that really ought to be considered offensive.
To some people, music doesn't make any sense. There's a name for that: amusia. Auntie Beeb 'splains it to us.
There's a test, too.
I forgot to mention something else that the Musical Fidelity pieces seem to add to my system's performance: depth.
In his Audio Glossary, J. Gordon Holt defines "depth" as:
The illusion of acoustical distance receding behind the loudspeaker plane, giving the impression of listening through the loudspeakers into the original performing space, rather than to them. See "layering," "transparency." Compare "flat."
Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks J. Gordon. If there was one thing that bothered me about the musical presentation offered by my system with the…
One of the best reads I've had in the last few years was Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a story written in the first-person voice of Christopher Boone, an autistic 15-year-old.
The triumph of this little novel is that you completely understand Christopher, who gets upset if touched and who calms himself down by moaning and doing math in his head. All of the chapters are numbered with prime numbers, because they are Christopher's favorites, and he won't eat yellow or brown food. He can't tell jokes, because "I do not understand them."
Haddon makes…
What song was top o' the charts when you were born? (Or, if you're older than the pop charts like me, on your 18th birthday?)