28 September, 2005

Lord God WHALE!

Yonaton Baruch sent me this link several months ago, but for some reason, I just dove into the clips for the first time. The first killer whale sound, "A 36´s at Pine Island 1:19 min" kinda sounds likes my mom when she's acting really goofy. Whale Sounds

21 September, 2005

It's a place where you can call the wrong number and talk for five minutes

I would be doing the assigned reading for my class discussion tommorrow, but I don't want to stop thinking about Long Haul Productions,' "The Lord God Bird"...

Actually, I'm not entirly neglecting my assigned reading. John Grierson writes about good documentartians; "They belive that beauty will come in good time to inhabit the statement which is honest and lucid and deeply felt and which fufills the best ends of citizenship." I think Grierson's sentiments are a mirror to The Lord God Bird.

one love!

14 September, 2005

Malls of America

Malls suffocate me, I don't really go anymore, and I'd rather not go anytime soon. However, I really want to buy some J CREW flannel lined pants for the winter season.

From the Public Radio Exchage..."We've been playing Jonathan Mitchell's stuff around the office this week, because we like him that much. Three from Jonathan today; two you just have to hear for yourself, and the third is called "City X"; it was commissioned by Hearing Voices and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. "City X" takes place in a mall, and reviewer Adam Allington said it sounds like "Jonathan might actually be hiding behind a rack of Gap jeans with a microphone." Adam also calls it "a marvelous piece of documentary storytelling."

To listen to "City X" you first have to listen to the less than 2-minute pieces. I think its worth it!

Terminally Blond (1:51), The Sopranos in the West Wing (1:29) and City X (22:32)

13 September, 2005

I've got the goods?

many thanks to sodamphat123 for the juice!

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Sodamphat123: i have a story about ira glass for you

Zuh54: did you sleep with him?

Sodamphat123: close, but no. me and my bro went to see him in the opening night gala of this theatre festival in chicago it was a bunch of vignettes and he was in one...well basically he just did his radio show on stage so it was a really small theatre too...and intermission came, before ira went on (he was the finale) and i asked my bro to get me a cookie at the refreshment stand

Sodamphat123: so he went and when he got back he says "claire, this really weird guy mocked me at the counter. when i said "hey, you giving away those cookies?" i heard an echo. i hear some guy say immediately after me, "hey you giving away those cookies?" isn't that weird? was he making fun of me?"" so my bro looks at him, not knowing who he was at this point because he's never actually seen ira glass...only heard him. and ira refuses to make eye contact.

Sodamphat123: now we’re back at our seats, and my brother points out this guy two rows ahead of us the one who supposedly mocked him. Then the finale comes, they introduce ira glass, and this very guy, the one who mocked my bro gets up! SO, ira glass basically played the shadow game with my brother for one sentence and we still cant figure out why or if it was mean spirited

12 September, 2005

comedowns

Takk is the new Sigur Rós album to be released tommorow.

"When Sigur Rós' second full-length record, Agetis Byrjun, landed stateside in 2001, its extraterrestrial oozing was so unfamiliar (and, subsequently, unnerving) to American ears that it managed to finagle a staggering number of meticulously rendered comparisons to glaciers and fjords and icebergs: By year-end, it seemed oddly plausible to presume that Sigur Rós' songs were actually being mouthed by giant mounds of snow. Something about Agetis Byrjun-- its celestial groping, its shimmers, its weird vastness-- seemed handcuffed to the landscape from which it was born. Thus, the mythology of Iceland-- of staggering literacy and longevity, of Björk, of Reykjavik, of volcanoes and fisheries and giant slabs of ice-- became the mythology of Sigur Rós. Unsurprisingly, domestic intrigue peaked almost immediately: The record's liner notes and cover-- a silver alien-baby hybrid boasting angel wings-- revealed precious little about its creation, and vocalist Jonsi Birgisson openly admitted to howling in an entirely self-fabricated language. In 2001, Sigur Rós were deliciously strange, the only sensible soundtrack to post-millennial comedowns, all future and faith, bones and blood and ice and sun, culled gently from an island far, far away." - Amanda Petrusich

Listen to Takk here

08 September, 2005

"I DONT WANT TO KNOW ME BETTER"

Sometimes I think I’d be better off not listening to "music.” During these moments it seems more holy to concentrate on the sounds of the natural environment that create their own melody. On these days, music (in the conventional sense) feels like an isolator that disables me from having real human contact. And then, I find myself having a day like today, when I discover and re-discover and listen and re-listen and re-listen and re-listen to Clem Snide. I close my eyes and feel totally disconnected from my constructed reality, but at the same time, I fall in love with everyone all over again. Let's Explode

06 September, 2005

Busker in the Big Easy

"you hear a sound that makes you feel like the world don't matter"

Busker in The Big Easy was featured on Weekend America back in Febuary. For obvious reasons, I felt compelled to post it. To listen, scroll down to the fifth piece; "Busker in The Big Easy."

03 September, 2005

Hey Lady!

The Yiddish Radio Project is "dedicated to rescuing every surviving recording from the golden age of Yiddish radio and to disseminating knowledge and interest in the forgotten radio renaissance these recordings bring to life..."

Listen to this wonderful documentary about a jewish mediation court that settled disputes within the lower east side community.


---shabbat shalom---

02 September, 2005

Ray Nagin

Thanks to lissenup for making me aware of this interview with the mayor of new orleans

i think we should all listen to this

01 September, 2005

t.gross

Trace the History of Hip-Hop with your ears.

Fresh Air/Hip-Hop Week...