« The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.

The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs. »

91 disques disponibles dans les archives du site, au moins quatre autres via BitTorrent, et un nouveau chaque semaine.

The Westerner’s Fear of the Neonsign : The Seven Stages of Gaijinhood

The first dip in sanity occurs when people try just too hard to learn. Eager students may sacrifice critical judgment in the race to absorb their new cultural surroundings. They often stop you while you are eating and say: “You know, you’re not supposed to do that with your chopsticks, it means that the souls of the dead children won’t float to heaven properly.”

On pourrait remplacer « Gaijin » par « Barang » et « Japan » par « South-East Asia », cela marcherait tout autant.

How could anything with so many rules not be real?

How could anything with so many rules not be real?

Un nouveau trésor exhumé et mis en ligne par le Believer à l’occasion de ce début d’année : Destroy All Monsters, un excellent survol de Donjons et Dragons, qui contient même une session avec Gary Gygax.

Why intelligent human beings would find the actions of imaginary fighters, thieves, dwarves, elves, etc., as they move through a space that exists only notionally, and consists more often than not of dimly lit corridors, ruined halls, and big, damp caves, more compelling than books or movies or television, or sleep, or social acceptance, or sex. In short, what’s so great about Dungeons & Dragons?