tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post628638666677367232..comments2024-01-14T01:51:23.999-05:00Comments on DuckRabbit: Truly random nine (power failure edition)Duckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-82540491299464771292013-01-02T20:25:26.450-05:002013-01-02T20:25:26.450-05:00Hi aorto -
1) Which disc are you referring to?
2...Hi aorto -<br /><br />1) Which disc are you referring to?<br /><br />2) How did you get here?<br /><br />In any case, happy new year!Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-43684220602407961702013-01-02T18:43:42.960-05:002013-01-02T18:43:42.960-05:00Great article.
Long shot change of requesting tha...Great article.<br /><br />Long shot change of requesting that you have this CD up for sale? <br /><br />Been trying to find a copy for a long time.<br /><br />I know the back story and the site's feelings on the CD but would love to hear it.<br /><br />I have a blog but will respect the wishes for this not to be mass distributed. <br /><br />My ears only...<br /><br />Thanks.aortohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653461963820119296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-68345903202675992902007-04-25T15:07:00.000-04:002007-04-25T15:07:00.000-04:00Hi Parrot! I suppose I should have guessed that t...Hi Parrot! I suppose I should have guessed that these would be unfamiliar names – and I know how annoying that can be (look at me, I'm so hip) – but I wanted to say <I>exactly</I> what happened the other day, and that's what happened. I should post more on music; but let me just answer briefly here. After twenty-five years of listening to (*cough*) non-mainstream music, I think that for <B>every</B> x (domain = persons), there are, as you nicely put it, "entire sonic worlds out there that are as unknown to [x] as a dead planet circling a black hole." Seriously, no one person could ever hope to keep up (and that's no way to appreciate music anyway, spreading oneself so thin). I'm not into metal at all, for example, but I understand that there are <B>oceans</B> of it, divided into dozens of categories.<BR/><BR/>I can say this though. A lot of my more recent acquisitions (last 10 years) are various kinds of ambient or minimal or techno or experimental or noise; and discs 1-6 and 9 of those listed here are fairly obscure even by those standards (i.e., whereby the likes of Robert Rich and Christian Fennesz are household names). My suggestion is to subscribe to the British music mag <A HREF="http://www.thewire.co.uk/" REL="nofollow"><I>The Wire</I></A>, which started out covering the Brit free improv scene (Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, etc.) some time ago, and has branched out to include virtually everything new/leftfield. I let my sub lapse when I couldn't bear to read about discs I can't afford to buy. There's a lot of stuff on the web too, including much creative-commons material (plus lots of mixes of varying levels of dubiousness re: legality). I'll make sure to post some links.<BR/><BR/>I am a bit surprised you don't know Robert Wyatt, who has been around forever. He was the drummer for Soft Machine, and appears on their first four records (1967-70). After the accident (he fell out a window and is now in a wheelchair) he made a solo record, <I>Rock Bottom</I> (1974), which is a classic of British prog rock and a fave disc of mine. Since then, in addition to several more records of his own, he has provided guest vocals and/or drumming for a wide variety of projects. Hmm, Wikipedia's offline at the moment, but see <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/s/104-1345883-6245535?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs&field-keywords=Robert%20Wyatt&sourceid=Mozilla-search" REL="nofollow">here</A> for more, including a book.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-28356292903934662812007-04-25T10:21:00.000-04:002007-04-25T10:21:00.000-04:00I thought my audio collection was pretty esoteric,...I thought my audio collection was pretty esoteric, but reading what you have at your bedside threw me for a complete loop. Didn't recognize a single name you mentioned (exc of course Shostakovich), and I can't really tell if you are just into some one exotic musical form that I know little about or there are entire sonic worlds out there that are as unknown to me as a dead planet circling a black hole. So what is all this stuff? I do have some *minimal* familiarity with contemporary prog-metal (don't like much that I've heard of it) but none of the names you mentioned ring a bell. Love the "sheep" lyric! I'm always looking for new ways to fritter away the fortune I've made as an adjunct philosophy professor, so tell me more about this collection. My last blog post was on Puccini's Madame Butterly; it's time for something new!Tony Altermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136925406940818982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-68771881826294995122007-04-21T20:15:00.000-04:002007-04-21T20:15:00.000-04:00Heck, Colin, you can rant here all you want (it's ...Heck, Colin, you can rant here all you want (it's safe; no-one can see us). I am working on my own comments for a separate post.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I hope not to have given the impression, in my last comment, that Belle (of John & Belle) contributes only homemaker-y stuff to the blogosphere; she is of course a trained philosopher herself and provides food for thought not only at J & B but also at Crooked Timber. (Y'all knew that already, right?)Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-27826743766210607312007-04-21T19:13:00.000-04:002007-04-21T19:13:00.000-04:00When Holbo posts about Derrida or Zizek it seems (...When Holbo posts about Derrida or Zizek it seems (at least partially) all in good fun, however when Leiter attempts to define Continental Philosophy I feel that he is setting himself up as an ambassador from a "tradition" that he isn't apart of. Or maybe a better way of saying it is that since there are many (most?) philosophers who do Continental Philosophy who deny that Leiter is participating in the same conversation, it seems ironic (or at least bad scholarship) that he is so ready and willing to define what it is. In other words I would suggest that Leiter is offering a normative view of Continental Philosophy, not a descriptive view. <BR/><BR/>Sorry for the rant, but none of my comments have made it through his screening process, so I doubt that this will be heard there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-16633151208510098132007-04-21T13:22:00.000-04:002007-04-21T13:22:00.000-04:00Yes, John and Belle Have a Blog (in the sidebar). ...Yes, John and Belle Have a Blog (in the sidebar). It's mostly personal stuff – comics and kids and life in Singapore. Belle posts yummy-sounding recipes which are way too much work. That sort of thing. But sometimes there's philosophy too. I think the thread in question was a few months ago actually.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-14695651097707859522007-04-21T12:39:00.000-04:002007-04-21T12:39:00.000-04:00Holbo has his own blog in addition to the Valve an...Holbo has his own blog in addition to the Valve and Crooked Timber?Clark Goblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03876620613578404474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-41251881125776110692007-04-21T01:47:00.000-04:002007-04-21T01:47:00.000-04:00You call that a kerfuffle? That's nothing. The o...You call that a kerfuffle? That's nothing. The other day there was a thread-that-would-not-die over at Holbo's own place that made this look like a Quaker meeting (not that there's anything wrong with that).<BR/><BR/>Let me take another look at the Leiter thread (I saw it back before there were any comments), and maybe I'll post something (here).<BR/><BR/>For now let me simply plug <I>World Receiver</I> again. To wit: what a great disc!Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-59599188361537044552007-04-21T00:39:00.000-04:002007-04-21T00:39:00.000-04:00Hi Dave, you very kindly responded to some of my c...Hi Dave, you very kindly responded to some of my comments regarding the basis of Holbo's critique of Derrida on The Thread That (almost) Wouldn't End and I was wondering about your opinion (if you have one) regarding the current kerfuffle surrounding Continental Philosophy going on at the Leiter Report. <BR/><BR/>Being (currently) trained from the Continental perspective so many of the comments seem so deeply off base that the whole argument starts to sound increasingly ignorant. I find this all so surprising from people whose writings i respect.<BR/><BR/>Anyways, I know that you are analytically trained but you seem to have some continental sympathies and I would be very curious to here your opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-39653225305454941792007-04-20T12:02:00.000-04:002007-04-20T12:02:00.000-04:00Isn't it though? Some threads there are less educ...Isn't it though? Some threads there are less educational and more entertaining, since when tempers flare, the resulting name-calling is always very inventive. But this one was both. Maybe we will get a reprise when Holbo delivers the beetle in his box (his words).<BR/><BR/>Your second paragraph is quite right. And what happens too often is that people either abandon evaluation entirely (in favor of exegesis), or become (at best) imperfect clones of the master. The trick is to leave enough room to develop one's own views at the same time as one's conception of those other views. But doing this properly not only takes years and years of study, as you say, but they are years spent fighting against the countervailing pressures of professional specialization, which not everyone has the inclination to do.<BR/><BR/>But don't get me started on that.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349267352262603510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10666901.post-16914183241753342732007-04-20T01:13:00.000-04:002007-04-20T01:13:00.000-04:00Wow! That is a monumental thread. I just spent the...Wow! That is a monumental thread. I just spent the last hour reading it. It was educational and entertaining. My knowledge of post-Husserlian 'Continental' philosophy is cursory, at best, so I wouldn't have been able to make even occasional contributions.<BR/><BR/>A thought that occurred to me while I was reading it is that there's so much to learn. It seems to me that it is impossible to really understand more than one or two primary thinkers (the guys whose names show up in history of philosophy texts), and that only after years and years of study. The problem is that such an understanding is required to evaluate their positions.N. N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05983492370711591794noreply@blogger.com