Posts by recordari
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Sacha,
Funny how some things stick.
His perhaps hand still
( [sic] comes carefully
out of Nowhere)
25 years later.He was a clever little balloon man.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Sacha,
When I said interesting, what I meant was less rhythmic, but YMMV.
I think any device used by poets to make words
flow
.........in the
......................waythey want them to is
important.e.e. cummings again wasamaster, as in [in just-]. Have to link to it, because can't insert NBSPs.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Russell Brown,
Simply wonderful.
Ain't it just.
This, from 'Time', would be interesting without commas.
I, Time, am all these, yet these exist
Among my mountainous fabrics like a mist,
So do they the measurable world resist.I, Time, call down, condense, confer,
On the willing memory the shapes these were:
I, more than your conscious carrier,Am island, am sea, am father, farm, and friend,
Though I am here all things my coming attend;
I am, you have heard it, the Beginning and the End.Strangely, there are three depictions of the poem 'Time' on YouTube. I'm not linking, because they appear to be school projects. Would be nice if RNZ made the audio of this week's readings available. If they are there, they are hidden at the end of the book review section, and I ran out of patience, and bandwidth.
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Back on topic, this Obituary from the Telegraph in 2001was interesting;
Throughout his life, Curnow's work was inventive and unpredictable. Despite his intensity of focus, his poems were full of wit and originality. He remained sanguine about his achievements. "The important thing in assessing the merit of a poem," he once said, "is time."
My favourite ending, on the bird theme, XVII Lone Kauri Road also from Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects.
A tui clucked, shat, whistled thrice.
My gaze was directed where the branch had been.
An engine fell mute into the shadow of the valley
where the shadow had been.Just looking through the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse, and it's good to be reminded of the diversity it represents. And Early Days Yet makes me wonder why I ever sold my Olivetti.
e.e.cummings
I think Allen Curnow may have appreciated this too;
"A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man."
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
... Bill Hammond also flips the bird...
Wow! That's the first Hammond related offering I've seen recently for under 20,000. Sale coming up has one estimated at 300,000+. I like his work, but I'd rather have a house to live in.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Russell Brown,
Adele is bustling and authentic and can’t just be read at a glance.
Yes, authentic seems to be a good word for what she has done to date, even with the power house behind her now.
Must get the album on the iPod so the girls can stop singing Jessie J and Katy Perry.
"It's not about the price tag, but if you say 'ka-ching ka-ching' again, you'll loose your pocket money".
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I wouldn't underestimate the extent in which the "adapt or die" crowd is huting this debate
Bloody cabin dwellers.
<pendant>Since it seems to get mentioned fairly regularly here and elsewhere, albeit in relation to one remix or other, isn't Adele's rise to global uber-stardom worth a mention?
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Regarding 'new' journalism, isn't it now more than previously about getting the reader, viewer, tweeter, closer to the moment of detonation? Putting a camera in the hands of a refugee from Syria and asking them to re-cross a hostile border, or taking live footage from cell phones in the middle of protests. Do they teach that in journalism scool? We seem to be closing on the instant. Where do we go from there? And who decides what is real and what is propaganda? In that sense perhaps nothing changes.
With music we are also let into the artist's creative process, get previews, reviews and videos before official release. I would suggest a defining principle of modern media is impatience. I want it all, and I want it now.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Russell Brown,
I've started buying vinyl again. Actually spending extra to buy lovely 180gm vinyl that comes with a redemption code to download the MP3s.
+1.
Just on the digital download thing, isn't previewing an album by streaming it online pretty much the same as giving it away?
Can't we record a 'broadcast' for personal use? In this sense how do we define 'broadcast'?
This is in relation to a local act streaming a preview right now. I intend to buy the album, even on vinyl if I can get it, but as it would be relatively straightforward to record the stream in acceptable quality, it did raise the question.
Feel free to mansplain, as I really have no knowledge of how this works.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to giovanni tiso,
And we are always being sold innovation as one of the upsides of this technological revolution. So where is it?
Unrelated I know, but I'd say this pretty much qualifies. Airbus 2050.