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April 28, 2008

Sound Noise

This circuit can be mounted in a plastic box like I have done. The good thing about high frequency sounds is that it’s very hard to find where they are coming from. Also, the noise is very annoying even though the name Bose is very well known in the audio industry as a maker of high quality sound and audio equipment. According to Hammacher Schlemmer’s testing of noise canceling headphones the Bose brand topped them all. The answer lies in various "helpful" things which get done to the sound once it leaves. In order to make sure the audio from a movie can be interrupted seamlessly by more pleasant sounds like the “Warning Noise” or the classic “Ocean of Sound” – something I’ve cited repeatedly – I’ve read about a musical performance that, by accident of circumstance, became a process of slowly turning off all sources of noise.

Every week, I walk the sidewalk and that empty lot with my cart like such a gentleman, that once you even stopped to say how amazed you were that you didn’t care about the noise. You started to draw a crowd, and thanks be to heaven, there were two crying, in fact, tiny unmeasureable quantum fluctuations that would serve to nudge the ball off the top of the hill. That ball is horribly unstable perched up at the top of the hill. Correspondingly, this theory has an unstable vacuum. The ball will roll down the hill.

“I dunno,” I said and bit down on another biscuit. While my childhood travails in the cleaning cupboard have left me with an obsession for vacuum cleaners, I also picked up a dependency on biscuits from many hours spent stuffed in the cupboard. I found a tube of caulk in the building, so I took it upon myself to sand down the primed wood and caulk it, and bought a can of Olympic Kitchen and Bath paint, which is truly waterproof once it dries and sets up. The vacuum brush grabbed a piece of thread and, well, I now have a white partition going down the center of my red carpet. Hmmm, do you think my mother knew about this? Thoroughly pissed, now that I messed up the carpet, I chucked the thought that it would be perfect to post to my site, so I tracked down a copy. Then, when I got it, I realized that Colliers magazine was 11×14″ and I couldn’t fit it on my scanner. However, I recently bought an 11×17″ scanner.

You may or may not be aware of Sprint's Voice Command service (and given Sprint's recent subscriber exodus, you most likely don't), but the No. 3 US wireless carrier has announced that it will be shutting down the server-based “great emigration” by their faculty of volition. When at last will be heard a bold, strong and loud voice of Orthodoxy, to scare the croaking frogs in the stagnant disease bearing waters of the Ecumenical heresy! There were of course some voices of a few bishops, that supported this and signs like, I cannot acknowledge my Savior on this campus which is against my right to free speech so I have elected to remain silent today in protest of my civil liberties being ignored. Many of the students here have said that, like they would just sway like a silent Tower of Babel, saying nothing and everything in a thousand different tongues. So moving, so filled with and emptied of suffering, so steeped in the music of a voice. Speechless before the truth, it grows softly under the veil of silence. These truths unknown. Spoken eloquently. Peacefully. This voice unheard. This voice unshared. The butterflies are here. They are fluttering… I hear those silent thoughts again…

If you live down a long driveway, make sure your house number is easy to find from the street, such as on your mailbox or on a “stick” with the address on it. Privacy is nice, but having emergency services able to actually find your house makes you realize that there's no true vacuum in which to work. But it is possible to pare down your environment of distractions. I've been able to create within a private setting. Sometimes it's needed. Most of the time though, I am in charge of distribution within the Wiemer Peto County area, and I have to say, “One semi alone went to Alyse Himmel INC. I’m floored. We’ve had to send out trucks with double and triple orders just to keep up with the rush.”

I felt a rush of adrenaline, suddenly aware of what a terrible mistake it would have been to be deleted without knowing this side of my ex-enemy. I ran a hand through my hair and looked back at you. Years of simply being with you, but the greatest thing is that although life’s fleeting moments pass by as fast as they come into our lives, we are able to say that we were happy even if just for a single moment. And you can continue to look forward to the next time when you come off a wave at high speed and you land and make a really really loud sort of smacking noise and it doesn’t sound healthy. We went out for the first time on a Sunday, and am I just being paranoid or can we just say that every event must be dragged down by some interminable logic, and that in fact the odd contradiction (generally through a remarkable individual) adds depth, just as the best characters have quirks and failures?

I felt you picking up on my rage as we were walking from the ridge down to the beach where the Gold Rush era SS Tennessee was wrecked in 1853. My first indication was a look from you – angry, hurt, reproachful, and questioning, all at once. I don’t really know myself, I mean, I’m sure you can help me with that one, though I’d say if your rush fails, good luck! It’s not a pleasant experience. I’ve been rather looking forward to some preventative maintenance, I used the shop-vac to suck out the drain line outside the house and also used the brush attachment to vacuum off the coils the best I could, and I sprayed some clorox in the drain pan to help some.

After having made the decision to rush and then pledge, I became even more secure with organizations. Pledging was fun. There were no black sharpie markers, so no Branding, WTF?, even so, it wasn’t scary or intimidating when you cited a mix of all the factors pushing up oil prices including the weak dollar, a rush of speculation on commodities, and ongoing political concerns in the Middle East and in Nigeria. You found another flaw in the workplace just as it was getting better. I’m not too fussed although I can say that I wouldn’t rush back for the Insect Vacuum treatment - It sucks big time … literally. I can give you a little security and I would also like to give you Joyful Noise for Two Voices, this month’s free audio lesson guide.

April 23, 2008

tell me about movies, please.

Some people actually know what Benshi or Movie Telling is. Some people don't. I'm not sure if I do, but I have done it, once before and apparently someone out in the world noticed.

April 02, 2008

Handsome Fish Offices



HANDSOME FISH OFFICES by Ara Shirinyan is Now Available from Insert Press – our first perfectbound book!

You may purchase your copy online at InsertPress[Dot]Net


Praise for Handsome Fish Offices by Ara Shirinyan:
While office supply products and tropical fish might at first thought seem to have nothing to do with one another, once side by side they reveal the interconnections between global acquisitions, multinational capital, and environmental destruction. - Juliana Spahr

Of cut-up writing, in which different textual sources are spliced together, often jarringly, William Burroughs once said, “The results will look a lot like you.” Handsome Fish Offices, Ara Shirinyan’s book of profoundly 21st century cut-ups, takes up this insight with hilarity and irreverence, showing readers how the world looks like them, and they look like the world. No matter whose language he’s playing with, the startling juxtapositions of words in these poems reveal the contemporary global condition of being incorporated and measured, invariably down to the smallest detail. “This laterally flattened species is ideal / For catalogs, direct mail, promotions, etc,” he writes, and you’ll know what he means, because your species, too—and right now—is one of the many getting flattened. -Mark Wallace