Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Another item for future reference: Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. posted: 8:27:20 PM |
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is perhaps a little over-glammed, and the text could use some copy editing. But there are plenteous looped audio clips linked to a map of dozens of subgenres, from Glitchcore to Epic Trance. I like the radial presentation, with each major genre (Downtempo, Breakbeat, ...) represented by a quarter wedge of a circle for the 1970s, surrounded by increasingly larger wedges for each succeeding decade. Genre-jumping movements (like Synthpop) are hyperlinked to other genre pages. Ishkur acknowledges pioneers from the 1950s and earlier, many of them from the art music tradition. He knows what he likes, and what he doesn't (we don't see eye to eye on Trip Hop). A search facility would be a great enhancement to this handy music machine. (Thanks to things magazine.) posted: 8:08:07 PM |
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"Did you mean to search for: equivalence" says Google. Henry Alford reports on the cooked-up word esquivalience, inserted by Oxford University Press into a recent dictionary to help protect copyright. The alleged meaning of this non-word:
n. the willful avoidance of one's official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, "dodge, slink away."
Seems like a word whose time has come. I know any number of people who practice esquivalience. posted: 7:48:48 PM |
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