Kavoori and Archeneaux The Cell Phone Reader Goggin Cell Phone Culture Horst and Miller The Cell Phone notice a pattern? and I checked out Paul Edwards’ The Closed World for the millionth time. I should really buy that book. Music: Isis In the Absence of Truth and Isis/Aereogramme In the Fishtank
Category Archives: Music
Tonight, for just a moment
the whine of the metro train leaving the station hit the exact same chord as the song playing in my earphones. That was intense.
A Few Other Things I Forgot to Blog About
1. I participated in “No Music Day” on the 21st of November. I didn’t listen to music all day and tried to reflect on the role of music in my life. Unfortunately, the evening before I had watched Monday Night Football. Viagra ads are common during football games, Viagra’s current ad features a song called …
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The Best Rock Shows. . .
are always surprises. Sometimes it’s the quality of the performance itself, but in this case it was the very existence of the show. Looking up the starting time for Tuesday night’s Zombi/Maserati show, I stumbled across a listing for last night’s Grates/Life and Times/ Bad Flirt show at the Main Hall. I’m a big fan …
New Book Arrivals
Alexander Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization. Lawrence Harte, Introduction to MPEG and a CD: Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist More news coming. I’m back, my cat is still alive, and I am officially (well, liminally until my card comes in the mail) a permanent resident.
Other People
Today’s post is about other people, sort of. First, Tim Hecker, who came to McGill to do sonic history, also has a new album out which has him featured on Pitchfork. Here’s the review. Here’s his guest list column. Second, I have been on the steering committee for a group called Media@McGill for some time …
Modernity in a List
Legend Berlin Time/Montreal Time: Activity List 8:45am/2:45am: Wake up. Notice new headcold. 9:30/3:30am: Eat tasty German hotel breakfast with cool people from Paris and Davis. 10:30am/4:30am: Catch a cab to the airport. Drive by funky old looking monument. Ask in (very!) broken German what it is. Turns out it was a victory monument. I thought …