What are you reading, watching and listening to?
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Biosphere – "In Triple Time", off of Dropsonde.
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Reading Ceud Oran le Burns, Gaelic translations of Robert Burns
Watching an old episode of the Simpsons (where Bart fears he'll stay in 4th grade)
Listening to Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse playing a medieval instrument, the sackbut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOEvNHkyqM&index=1
Watching an old episode of the Simpsons (where Bart fears he'll stay in 4th grade)
Listening to Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse playing a medieval instrument, the sackbut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOEvNHkyqM&index=1
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Philip Glass, "Part 2" from Music in Twelve Parts (the version where "Part 1" is slow).
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Haha, look what I found: Colville-Okanagan alphabet song. It sounds kinda nice. There's also this alphabet chant. It appears as if they do have loads of epenthetic vowels in this language.
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That alphabet song's good a nice hypnotic sound to it.
I've been somewhat "fantasied-out" of late, after reading all the Game of Thrones books in a few months. I thought I'd try some "proper literature" again, as it's been a while. I read A little life by Hanya Yanagihara. It follows four friends over several decades, particularly Jude. Jude is outwardly successful, yet he has a dark past which we learn about in flashbacks. Its not an easy read, parts are quite horrible, but it was worth persevering with, I thought.
I've been somewhat "fantasied-out" of late, after reading all the Game of Thrones books in a few months. I thought I'd try some "proper literature" again, as it's been a while. I read A little life by Hanya Yanagihara. It follows four friends over several decades, particularly Jude. Jude is outwardly successful, yet he has a dark past which we learn about in flashbacks. Its not an easy read, parts are quite horrible, but it was worth persevering with, I thought.
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Reading The Last Continent, Terry Pratchett. I think the wizards are my favourite Discworld characters.
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
Learning how to program by reading rants and flamewars by old programmers from eight years ago.
(10:11:54 AM) dysinger: fuck you guys
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(10:12:33 AM) DRMacIver: dysinger: Sorry, but no thanks. I find idiocy a huge turnoff.
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Books I've liked recently:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I am watching a Polish-Bulgarian film. It's easy to recognize, because (1) a man and a woman are on a Bulgarian beach and (2) they're fucking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBdv5Pi09U
Jingle Bells in Mandarin Chinese.
Still playing Christmas music a week or so after Christmas. I think Mandarin is a beautifully soft language and that Japanese is its opposite. One Japanese speaker I said this too was so taken aback he simply assumed I was confusing the two.
Jingle Bells in Mandarin Chinese.
Still playing Christmas music a week or so after Christmas. I think Mandarin is a beautifully soft language and that Japanese is its opposite. One Japanese speaker I said this too was so taken aback he simply assumed I was confusing the two.
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Ha! I like it. And why not play Christmas music. We're still in the twelve days of Christmas.
I keep playing this. It's the EDM remix of a 16th century Latin carol. Nice animation to go with it.
Gaudete by Erasure
I keep playing this. It's the EDM remix of a 16th century Latin carol. Nice animation to go with it.
Gaudete by Erasure
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"Act I, Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76", from John Adams' Nixon in China.
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The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
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Listening to the Porcelian Black EP "Porcelain and the Tramps" from 2007.
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
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Watching this show with unshaven David Tennant rn.
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I'm increasingly reading "The New European" newspaper. It's aimed at the 48% of Brits who voted to stay in the EU in last year's referendum. It was originally billed as a pop-up newspaper, saying it would last as long as there was a demand. This was expected to be a matter of weeks. It's still going now, eleven months after the referendum.
I like its editorial line and there's some long think pieces which make it an interesting read. See here:
http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/home
As to music, post-punk appears to be back for the third (?) time. A new band from Manchester called Cabbage have come to my notice and I'm listening to them a lot lately:
Terrorist synthesiser - Cabbage
I like its editorial line and there's some long think pieces which make it an interesting read. See here:
http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/home
As to music, post-punk appears to be back for the third (?) time. A new band from Manchester called Cabbage have come to my notice and I'm listening to them a lot lately:
Terrorist synthesiser - Cabbage
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I discovered Audrey Fall recently, an instrumental post-rock band from Latvia.
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
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Am liking both the found computer music and Audrey Fall!
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I've been rewatching House MD. I used to watch it sporadically, but now I have all the seasons on Netflix, so I can pass time watching it and not breaking the copyright law.
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Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I listened to Let it Bleed again yesterday. Still one of the greatest rock albums ever. Gives me goosebumps from start to finish.
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I've been watching MasterChef Junior and it is frankly bizarre to watch Gordon Ramsay be genuinely kind and nice.
Also it's pretty adorable to watch tiny children carrying around these massive mixers and blenders and such, and having to stand on stools to reach the stoves, and making way better food than I ever could.
Also it's pretty adorable to watch tiny children carrying around these massive mixers and blenders and such, and having to stand on stools to reach the stoves, and making way better food than I ever could.
I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.