I've been working on this blog for about 5 months and I am still feeling out the medium. One thing that I love is how fast ideas move by. As someone who thinks slowly, and has trouble being "in the moment" I find the pace here challenging and stimulating. But there are some drawbacks. I don't have time to follow up right away on all the interesting recommendations that get posted in the comments. Later, when I'm ready to go browsing/researching/video_renting, they can be hard to find. So I've made a new page of recommendations. I did this for myself, but realised others might get something out of it too. It's sort of like a links page, but not quite because often there aren't links, and each entry has a referral back to the thread where it appeared on this blog. Now that I've done the back posts, it shouldn't be too hard to maintain. I'm not sure if this is a throw-back reaction I'm having, an old-fashioned desire to hang on to things, or a genuinely useful type of archive. We'll see how it goes, I might abandon the idea if it starts to drag me down. Anyhow. Recommendations from comments on this blog are currently posted here.
Just a couple of clarifications on the 60s stuff:
"Classical Gas" was an instrumental Top 40 hit by Mason Williams (one of the Royal Road Test guys), played on a classical guitar with pop orchestration. A student filmmaker had done a high-speed animated montage of images from art history, which Williams ran as visual accompaniment to the music. The "video" played on the Smothers Brothers TV show on CBS, a variety show with hip guests that was later cancelled for being overtly political (anti-Vietnam war, etc.)
I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus and How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (which includes "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye") were psychedelic comedy albums
recorded as "radio plays on vinyl." The group who wrote and performed them was The Firesign Theatre, a California foursome who had a long-running radio show on one of the Pacifica stations, and a stage act. They were a huge cult item in the late 60s/early 70s.
I'm pleased to see that the Firesign-ers are (irregularly) blogging. Phil Austin's "DEVELOPMENTAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
LUNCH MENUS FOR THIS WEEK" are pretty funny.
And here's Phil's personal weblog (he's my favorite).
thanks Tom. I think I've corrected the posts you refer to so that they are at least not incorrect ... some pertinent info may still be lacking (will check again in the morning when feeling a bit less pollooooted).
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I've been working on this blog for about 5 months and I am still feeling out the medium. One thing that I love is how fast ideas move by. As someone who thinks slowly, and has trouble being "in the moment" I find the pace here challenging and stimulating. But there are some drawbacks. I don't have time to follow up right away on all the interesting recommendations that get posted in the comments. Later, when I'm ready to go browsing/researching/video_renting, they can be hard to find. So I've made a new page of recommendations. I did this for myself, but realised others might get something out of it too. It's sort of like a links page, but not quite because often there aren't links, and each entry has a referral back to the thread where it appeared on this blog. Now that I've done the back posts, it shouldn't be too hard to maintain. I'm not sure if this is a throw-back reaction I'm having, an old-fashioned desire to hang on to things, or a genuinely useful type of archive. We'll see how it goes, I might abandon the idea if it starts to drag me down. Anyhow. Recommendations from comments on this blog are currently posted here.
- sally mckay 5-01-2004 12:41 am
Just a couple of clarifications on the 60s stuff:
"Classical Gas" was an instrumental Top 40 hit by Mason Williams (one of the Royal Road Test guys), played on a classical guitar with pop orchestration. A student filmmaker had done a high-speed animated montage of images from art history, which Williams ran as visual accompaniment to the music. The "video" played on the Smothers Brothers TV show on CBS, a variety show with hip guests that was later cancelled for being overtly political (anti-Vietnam war, etc.)
I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus and How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All (which includes "The Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye") were psychedelic comedy albums recorded as "radio plays on vinyl." The group who wrote and performed them was The Firesign Theatre, a California foursome who had a long-running radio show on one of the Pacifica stations, and a stage act. They were a huge cult item in the late 60s/early 70s.
- tom moody 5-01-2004 5:03 am
I'm pleased to see that the Firesign-ers are (irregularly) blogging. Phil Austin's "DEVELOPMENTAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT LUNCH MENUS FOR THIS WEEK" are pretty funny.
And here's Phil's personal weblog (he's my favorite).
- tom moody 5-01-2004 5:50 am
thanks Tom. I think I've corrected the posts you refer to so that they are at least not incorrect ... some pertinent info may still be lacking (will check again in the morning when feeling a bit less pollooooted).
- sally mckay 5-01-2004 9:13 am