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Friday, June 20, 2003 96 percent of cosmos puzzles astronomers
Another Canadian author who intrigues me: Alissa York
I was sampling some tracks on the fine Canadian electroacoustic site/store electrocd when I ran across a new album by John Oswald, famous (in some demented circles) for his remix of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star", Greyfolded and his pop recycling project PlunderphonicsOswald's system of plunderphonics is a by-product of the various strategies he developed to enable a non musician like himself to compose music. He recalls, "When I was first doing these things I just felt that it was an interesting way of working and one that I seemed to have some sort of musical adeptness at. Really," he insists, "it was my way of making normal music. When I was a kid I was attempting to figure out music but I was a singularly untalented musician, so I didn't really have the choice of playing in a bar mitzvah band or an orchestra. Every time I would go to a music teacher I'd be asked not to come back. I pretty much had to sneak into various institutions of higher education to see what was happening. I never passed the auditions. I couldn't even get in the high school band, I had to steal the instruments."Aparanthesi sounds like just the drone I dig, from the sample. Thursday, June 19, 2003 David Thomson's vinegary & delectable diatribe on W C Fields and a recent bio or two...despite his brilliance as a juggler, a stage clown, and a movie comic, I want to attest that, above all, Fields is a voice and a wordsmith. You may hear him in Beckett and Pinter as easily as in John Cleese and Peter Sellers. For here is man unkind, filled with dismay, boredom, and loathing at the very idea of women, society, and decency. Here is misanthropus Americanus, preferring to sit in a thickening fog of tobacco smoke, booze, his own lengthening flatulence, and a little unenergetic pornography. Here is the beast ? the defiant enemy of family, sentiment, flag, and happiness; but he is as eloquent as the greatest confidence trickster. He is Huck Finn in the retirement home.Thomson thinks both Curtis's new (acclaimed) book and Simon Louvish's 1997 Man on the Flying Trapeze are worth reading, if Fields fascinates. Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Started Dead Clever, the first of the "Lily Pascale" mystery series by Brit Scarlett Thomas and saw something in the flap bio about her being a member of The New Puritans, a group of writers inspired by the Dogme 95 filmmakers who eschew technique and artifice over narrative simplicity Tuesday, June 17, 2003 I dunno about the Boston-based early PI novels of Dennis Lehane, but the last 2 -- particularly the new Shutter Island might be worth a shot: Powell's interview Sunday, June 15, 2003 Tech News
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