I must have heard about the shortwave numbers stations years ago on this Lost and Found Sound recording for NPR’s All Things Considered (original page, YouTube version). The story was strange, the recorded sounds spooky, and the low-fidelity of the shortwave signal making them sound even spookier, as if other sounds and voices are edging …
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Domestic Comedy
Exchange between me and Liz as we drove past Ravenscroft school. ME. That’s where Matthew did his play. LIZ. Yeah, that musical about Noah’s ark. He was Ham. ME. (Pause. ) (Seriously.) He was doing his best. LIZ. (Pause.) No! His character! His character’s name was Ham! He was the son of Noah!
Soothing Sounds for Baby – http://deadelectric.com/post/77195612103/experiment-does-raymond-scotts-soothing-sounds-for Source: assets.boomkat.com
Software: Audiobook Builder
Back in the days of iron men and wooden computers, I listened to audiobooks on cassette. In 2001, I joined Audible.com and listened to digitized audiobooks using my trusty yet problematic Digisette Duo-Aria; for years, my secondhand cars only had cassette players so the Digisette served me well. I preferred listening to audiobooks over music whilst …
Current reading
The Relationship Handbook — George Pransky. The focus is primarily spousal relationships, though there are a few chapters dealing with parents and children. The core message is that our insecure thinking lowers our moods, which causes us to act defensively against our partner and they against us. The chief remedies include simply calming down until …
(via Rethinking How We Teach Composition, Part 1 | NewMusicBox) Source: newmusicbox.org
True Work is that which occupies the mind and the heart, as well as the hands. It has a beginning and an ending. It is the overcoming of difficulties one thinks important for the sake of results one thinks valuable. Jacques Barzun Oddments of High Unimportance: True Work Source: highunimportance9.blogspot.com
Serious reading, after all, should be active, focused, engaged—and Cooper suggested some ways to make it so. First, read aloud—at least some of the time. “Every line of Shakespeare, every line of Milton, is meant to be pronounced, cannot be duly appreciated until it is pronounced.” Second, read slowly. “Take ample time. Pause where the …
A word fraught with meaning
I like embroidering my plainspoken, earthy, everyday, quotidian speech with particularly Victorianesque embellishments and verbally diabolic adornments that I dredge up from profligate readings of literature, ephemera, and old Monty Python sketches. Or maybe I just like words with lots of syllables. To that end, I sometimes clot my electro-mails and casual conversation with antique …
(via Drip, drip, drip, by day and night | Books | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
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