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Friday, June 20, 2003

96 percent of cosmos puzzles astronomers

Sometimes headlines say it all.

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Another Canadian author who intrigues me: Alissa York

Mercy, her first novel, isn't out here til next year, and I won't be shelling out for a new Canadian copy. But the excerpt is engaging and maybe I'll find a way.

Any Canadian readers out there who find a cheap used copy, let me know.

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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 Plunderphonics
Oswald'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."

The discovery of pre-existing recordings as a sound source liberated composition from the hold of the specialists. A powerful compositional tool was now within his reach. He says he scarcely gave a thought to the small matter of who owned the recordings, and he never intended plunderphonics to be an art-political platform for challenging copyright ownership, though he has since been forced to engage with the issue or be destroyed by it. For Oswald, the debates deflect people from hearing his work as music rather than as a thieves' charter. "My game plan has always been to create stuff that justifies its existence by being intrinsically interesting as a listening experience whether or not its existence is currently practical," he says. "So I perhaps naively assume that if an audience really wants it, the consumer environment will adapt an acquisition strategy." [link]
Aparanthesi sounds like just the drone I dig, from the sample.

Probably get the other stuff too, from SoulSeek or whatever.

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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.

From the amazon reader reviews, I'd suggest the Curtis if you just read one. His previous works on James Whale and Preston Sturges are widely and warmly received.

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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

All I've seen of Dogme is the excellent Danish film, The Celebration, but sets of rules can be useful in art, as Brian Eno found out.

The above article makes it seem like the "New Puritan" manifesto was only half-serious -- it's a salon piece from 2000, and I've only heard of it now, though The Observer (in an article from last year) thinks it may amount to something, if only because the writers hail from the next generation.

Dead CLever hasn't blown me away yet (despite the cover blurb claiming it's "Twin Peaks condensed into book form"). But anything that establishes a creative tension might yield gold.

Have to say the name "New Puritans" is an unfortunate choice, though.

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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

A very popular suspense writer moves past genre, apparently.

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Sunday, June 15, 2003

Tech News

Micro$uck IE upgrades to stop with IE 6 -- unless you upgrade to their new OS.

Earthlink decision to stop covering customers for state access taxes highlights states which charge them -- New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

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