Fooled ya!
Nov. 2nd, 2010 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauAh ha! Two posts in two days.
Don't expect me to maintain this killer pace, though.
I forgot to note some other things - we went to see the Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men) at UVic and were sorely disappointed. They started late, and - what they? there was only one Yes Man! At that, he made a few general remarks and for the most part played some videos from his laptop of some media coverrage of past Yes Men pranks and a rough cut of workshop participant reactions to an unnamed future event in Chicago. In the middle of the presentation, he gave up talking entirely and just asked audience members to break into groups of 5 or 6 and talk about getting things done. Yeah, I know that might have been his point but it still seemed lazy to me. Not impressed.
Anyway, we ducked out of that just before it ended and went across to the other side of the Student Union Building to see "We Don't Care About Music Anyway", (http://reelnrock.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-dont-care-about-music-anyway-hot.html) a film about avant-garde musicians in Tokyo. None of the really big names like Masami Akita, they did have some interesting performers playing in some interesting settings. Personally, I think it's a lot more fun playing this kind of stuff than it is watching a film about it later. The experience of the film was spoiled though because the monkey running the DVD player in the projectionist's booth didn't know how to set the "aspect" of the screen, so the subtitles were all cut off.
This film was part of this year's Antimatter Film Festival, first time I've gone to one in several years becuase frankly the selections before this year were pretty crappy. I did see a good selection of short films a few days later that included a half hour documentary on Delia Derbyshire, the woman who worked at the BBC Radiophonic workshop in the late 50s and early 60s and composed the original theme music to Doctor Who. No electronics then - these were processed sounds worked on tape recorder, and no way to mix tracks, so all the different sounds were an equal number of tape recorders playing at once and you hoped they would stay in sync!
Last night we went to Bolen Books to see William Gibson read from Zero History, his newest book. It's funny, he's lived in Canada for 40 years and still has that Carolina drawl. He sounds slow and a bit stupid, but he has a wicked and very dry sense of humour. It's a treat to hear him read. He took questions later too.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
epexegesis was there too!
Don't expect me to maintain this killer pace, though.
I forgot to note some other things - we went to see the Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men) at UVic and were sorely disappointed. They started late, and - what they? there was only one Yes Man! At that, he made a few general remarks and for the most part played some videos from his laptop of some media coverrage of past Yes Men pranks and a rough cut of workshop participant reactions to an unnamed future event in Chicago. In the middle of the presentation, he gave up talking entirely and just asked audience members to break into groups of 5 or 6 and talk about getting things done. Yeah, I know that might have been his point but it still seemed lazy to me. Not impressed.
Anyway, we ducked out of that just before it ended and went across to the other side of the Student Union Building to see "We Don't Care About Music Anyway", (http://reelnrock.blogspot.com/2010/04/we-dont-care-about-music-anyway-hot.html) a film about avant-garde musicians in Tokyo. None of the really big names like Masami Akita, they did have some interesting performers playing in some interesting settings. Personally, I think it's a lot more fun playing this kind of stuff than it is watching a film about it later. The experience of the film was spoiled though because the monkey running the DVD player in the projectionist's booth didn't know how to set the "aspect" of the screen, so the subtitles were all cut off.
This film was part of this year's Antimatter Film Festival, first time I've gone to one in several years becuase frankly the selections before this year were pretty crappy. I did see a good selection of short films a few days later that included a half hour documentary on Delia Derbyshire, the woman who worked at the BBC Radiophonic workshop in the late 50s and early 60s and composed the original theme music to Doctor Who. No electronics then - these were processed sounds worked on tape recorder, and no way to mix tracks, so all the different sounds were an equal number of tape recorders playing at once and you hoped they would stay in sync!
Last night we went to Bolen Books to see William Gibson read from Zero History, his newest book. It's funny, he's lived in Canada for 40 years and still has that Carolina drawl. He sounds slow and a bit stupid, but he has a wicked and very dry sense of humour. It's a treat to hear him read. He took questions later too.
epexegesis was there too!
