Fri, Sep 30
at 8:28pm
29-year-old woman born deaf hears herself for the first time (via @xenijardin)
hmobius notes
Sights, thoughts and sounds. Longer notes at the archive.
Fri, Sep 16
at 9:18pm
The hardest class in literature?
Feeling Fridayish? Cheer yourself up with THIS slice of joy, provided by some very bright, presumably bored spark, who hacked into the Trinity College, Dublin website yesterday to add a new member to the faculty. The “Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Hyborian Studies and Tyrant Slaying” has a compelling resume: as well as having “spent several years tethered to the fearsome ‘Wheel of Pain’, time which he now feels helped provide him with the mental discipline and sado-masochistic proclivities necessary to successfully tackle contemporary critical theory” he has also, apparently, completed a PhD, entitled “To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature”. Anyone considering attending his classes will be interested to note that his courses for 2011/2012 include “The Relevance of Crom in the Modern World”, “Theories of Literature”, “Vengeance for Beginners”, “Deciphering the Riddle of Steel” and “D.H. Lawrence”.
Mon, Sep 12
at 10:33pm
A Wired Playlist
Wired UK ran a competition a little while ago to win tickets to one of their symposia on the ‘Future of Music’. Entrants had to build a playlist reflecting that theme. I won, but couldn’t go. Here’s my playlist, reflecting the story of a future to come.
1. Gil Scott-Heron : The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
..and we won’t see it coming either
2. Error : Nothings Working (Error)
.. When the revolution came, what worked for us before in hindsight seemed now to be completely inoperable (Punch cards? puh-lease)
3. Kashiwa Daisuke : Requiem (Dec 5)
..So we said farewell to old technology and ways of thinking and embraced the future
4. Serj Tankian : Reconstructive Demonstrations (Imperfect Harmonies)
..Of course there were many choices of future to be had, each shouting over the top of the other…
5. The Gutter Twins : Who Will Lead Us? (Saturnalia)
..But we made our choices and found our pioneers…
6. Devin Townsend : Notes From Africa (Synchestra)
..we found many of them in Africa…
7. Will Haven : Carpe Diem (Carpe Diem)
.. and we seized the opportunity to put our own stamp on the future with what we learned from there.
8. Joe Satriani : A Cool New Way (Super Colossal)
.. We found many new ways to do many things we took for granted..
9. Iron Maiden : Brave New World (Brave New World)
.. and built our brave new world from the seeds of opportunity..
10. A Perfect Circle : Gravity (The 13th Step)
.. We chose to live ..
Album names are in parentheses. The playlist as a whole spans four decades and many different generations of music making technology.
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