What are you reading, watching and listening to?

[Nesescosac]

Great, thanks for the feedback.

What sort of questions did you have that were satisfactorily answered?

How well did it cover syntax?--Yoruba is an isolating language, so that area should get a lot of coverage in such a grammmar.

Lastly, how were the open "e" and "o" sounds and the simple/contour tones represented? (If I'm not mistaken, the book is fairly old, so maybe the author did something other than what we could expect today.)

Mostly I was really curious about serial verb constructions, because I had just come up with the idea that one of my conlangs would have them. I was also curious about the phonology of the language, and that was covered well too. Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't remember as much. I seem to remember being satisfied with its treatment of syntax, and I also seem to remember it using underdots for the open vowels, but I can't remember how it represented the contour tones. Sorry.

[Trebor]

^ Well, it sounds worth borrowing or purchasing. Thanks for your input again. Happy conlanging!

[Viktor77]

Lindsey Stirling. I'm considering buying her CD. I've pretty much worn out my Mackelmore CD and I need a new CD for the car.

[Torco]

Lindsey Stirling. I'm considering buying her CD. I've pretty much worn out my Mackelmore CD and I need a new CD for the car.

i discovered her on pandora. i wuv 'er

also, a bit slowpoke, but a propos the thread's title

[Viktor77]

i discovered her on pandora. i wuv 'er

Seriously though, if I were straight....

[vampireshark]

Reading: Some works my crazy brother concocted. Like his most recent one, a work-in-progress called The Sordid Tale of Sir Ginger.

Watching: Fort Boyard, the original French edition. Super fun and full of schadenfreude and laughing at the stupidity of some people. Also doesn't hurt that the current host is pretty good-looking.

Listening: Assortment of Volbeat (ex. Cape of Our Hero), Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, and Heart.

[Torco]

Just watched into the wild
I'm deeply touched
I know its a simple enough argument with kind of cheesy music, and the fully rational side of me brain goes all "yeah, well, its a normal, proficient movie", but fuck it, sometimes a movie just touches you, you know?
*warm esthetic glow*

[Pogostick Man]

Currently listening to marow's "inter 2".

[Cael]

Just Finished reading the first book in "The Wheel of Time" series 12 more to go.

[ObsequiousNewt]

"The Mists of Avalon", "The Waters of Mars", and "Altus Silva", respectively.

[gach]

Just put the latest Ayreon, "The Theory of Everything", playing from glorious vinyl. This is seriously some of the most thought through music I've heard in a long while.

[Ketumak]

Watching v. little

Reading - nearly finished "Advanced language construction" (just reached the bit on gen and SCA2)

Currentt listening local folk music legend Kate Rusby "Who knows where the time goes"

[Melteor]

Reading Deirdre of the Sorrows, piece by piece.

Listening to Kyla La Grange and Zola Jesus.

[ObsequiousNewt]

The Gate to the Mind's Eye. I did a paper on it!

[Risla]

I keep getting stuck listening to October Project---here's my favorite song by them.

[Ketumak]

I do like that October Project song - soaring vocals, atmospheric music - thanks for posting.

I'm discovering the Magnetic Fields at the moment. I looked all over town being a particular favourite (the video is someone else miming to it, the band don't seem to have put up a video of it).

When not watching the association football world cup, I've found time for East is East a well-observed down-to-earth comedy about tensions within an Anglo-Pakistani family in the Manchester area in the 1970s. Father wants them to follow strict Pakistani ways and the teenage children have other ideas. Their English mother is conflicted.

My carry round book at the moment is "Collected poems" by Roger McGough, a popular poet with a dry, Liverpool wit.

[GreenBowTie]

i'm reading my friend's copy of farm to factory: a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution by robert c. allen, watching various incarnations of star trek, and listening to best coast

[GreenBowTie]

official guide to watching star trek:
*movies 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8
*tng 2x09: measure of a man
*tng seasons 3 through 7
*ds9 seasons 1 through 7
*that youtube where patrick stewart does the quadruple take
*galaxy quest

and nothing else

[Salmoneus]

official guide to watching star trek:
*movies 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8
*tng 2x09: measure of a man
*tng seasons 3 through 7
*ds9 seasons 1 through 7
*that youtube where patrick stewart does the quadruple take
*galaxy quest

and nothing else

There were some really good bits of Voyager. And Generations wasn't all that bad, I seem to recall.

[GreenBowTie]

if you have to watch voyager, watch "living witness", but only the parts where they show the reconstruction of the voyager crew as bloodthirsty unfeeling monaters. if you've ever heard werner herzog talk about "accountant's truth vs ecstatic truth" you'll understand what i mean when i say it's the real voyager

[jmcd]

Well, personally out of Star Trek, I've seen the odd episode here and there as well as Into Darkness and Search for Spock and it was only Into Darkness that I liked. Maybe I only Star Trek in French or something? ::searches for the old rolleyes emoticon::

[Chagen]

So recently I have discovered that Dubstep when done well is actually pretty awesome.

Then again, unlike most people I actually like the sound of wubwub.

[Nortaneous]

^ i'm p sure half the electronic music out there uses that exact chord progression. i should make a list someday. just about everything by dismantled does.

i was going to link that celtic/berber fusion thing i linked on irc a while back, but apparently there are multiple bands with the same gimmick. (mugar, thalweg, tayfa) what is going on

anyway, dismantled

[Chagen]

Having felt generous and bought Monstercat's 15th compilation (inb4 >buying music), I started off with the first song, From The Dust by Rogue. An absolutely amazing start to this album. The way it manages to change so much throughout the song and yet feel like one coherent whole is incredible.

Now on the second song, Timeless by Rameses B.. I had no idea DnB could be this smooth...and yet so amazing.

[Chagen]

Man this thread is dead.

With the purchase of Monstercat's 18th album, Frontier, I'm drowning myself in the sweet Nu Disco tunes of Neon by Televisor. Nu Disco is such a fucking amazing genre. I love the use of police sirens particularly.