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anybody have a record player?

I take it back; it’s not a piece of a record, but a very flimsy whole record, the size of a single. And this is no average exhibition catalog, but a monumental historical record of sound in art (organized around … Continue reading

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I Heart Libraries (and librarians)

I.L.L. = Interlibrary Loan. This is a pretty incredible library service I have recently discovered. Libraries within California can actually request books from other participating libraries anywhere (in California, so far as I know) outside of their county. At my … Continue reading

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Roland Barthes' quote

This is what I am writing about right now: (Like a bad concert hall, affective space contains dead spots where the sound fails to circulate. – The perfect interlocutor, the friend, is he not the one who constructs around you … Continue reading

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my resolve

I resolve to stop my namby-pamby complaining. Listening to disc 5 of The Two Towers on my hour run gave me some perspective this morning. Heck, Gandalf survived fighting the Balrog and made his way back from the bowels of … Continue reading

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a poor me post

People all over are doing regular fun things tonight and I am home BATTLING DEMONS. Sad. I feel like I was dragging an elephant along, trying to get three (only three!!) pages written today. I had a popsiscle (=1 point), … Continue reading

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of auditory interest

This website posts one-minute audio vacations. Just an audio snapshot of some other place (likely to be very exotic) for one minute. There was another artist too, I can’t think of his name, but he simply placed a recording mic … Continue reading

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it's all about the prep work

That’s the entire old thesis, pulled into post-it chunks of info and categorized into four chapters. I’m starting to remember that writing, like painting a house, is mainly about all the set-up and thinking. The part I associate with writing, … Continue reading

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it hurts to think this hard

something’s happening. Yellow is the intro, blue chapter 2, pink 3 and purple the conclusion.

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writing=nausea

I am roping my sixteen tracks on intimacy into four, more substantial chapters. I. Intro (Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller – who they are and how they’ve been received – define intimacy) II. Why I think it’s about this … Continue reading

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how to post files by converting files to pdf

For my work blog this weekend, I wanted to post the new pacing chart for our school district, but I couldn’t do it without losing all the formatting and I was going crazy. Luckily, Chad taught me a new computer … Continue reading

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