Disquiet

• Gotta love form-emails from music publicists that start, "Dear ," #
• Twitter apps of the stars: @ryuichisakamoto uses @echofon, @chris_carter_ @tweetie, @shocklee @hootsuite, @kronosquartet the web interface. #
• The @facebook film is Fincher/Sorkin but feels like Soderbergh experiment. Anyhow, Reznor/Ross MP3 set just $2.99 http://www.nullco.com/TSN/ #
• Long before @twitter, book-reading as a form of ambient awareness for "forgetful majority" http://is.gd/ffF6y (by James Collins @nytimes) #
• Anyone see a film called La Linea (The Line) with Ray Liotta? Looks a bit like Traffic. I may need to watch, if only for David Torn's score. #
• #ff Some feeds that shouldn't have fewer "followers" than mine: @sfemf @gregdavis @mapmap @npseaver @mariplasma @soundscrapers @carlstone #
• Turning your ashes into an LP puts the "forever" into "perfect sound forever," a true "vinyl resting place" http://www.andvinyly.com/ #
• "The Gentle Hum of Anxiety": a cue from @trent_reznor / Atticus Ross Facebook film score; 5 free MP3s http://nullco.com/TSN via @brandonnn #
• Sound-recycling Organ of Corti wins new-music prize. Congrats to liminal (composer David Prior & architect Frances Crow). http://is.gd/fe8bL #
• Yes, dear, when I was your age, we did use that weird word "and" but we started to use the ampersand around 2009/2010 because it's shorter. #
• Looxcie's "wearable camcorder" always-on earpiece (think Jawbone + video) makes me wanna reread Two-Step by @warrenellis http://is.gd/fdzdA in reply to warrenellis #
• According to Matmos' myspace page, its http://brainwashed.com/matmos/ page will be updated more regularly. Current post on Baltimore fest. #
• Dancing with my two-week-old kid appears to put her to sleep. Who says music is without functional value? #
• Based on "Hamburg Hotel" off the new Underworld, will be listening to a lot more Appleblim and Al Tourettes. #
• Silent-car plot device. Last night on Sons of Anarchy, comment after fugitive is hit by car: "Damn hybrids! Dangerous!" http://is.gd/fc0Ow #
• Name drop of Underworld on Covert Affairs, so close to the release of Barking. Someone's got good timing. #
• Tuesday noon air-raid/emergency-alert alarm in San Francisco almost always triggers Cold War flashback, kindles desire for tinned-meat lunch #
• Continuously misreading "drone war" stories as being extensions of Steve Goodman's Sonic Warfare. #
• Seeking first soundscape @alexismadrigal notes primacy of visual: "Decades when we can see our places, but not hear them" http://is.gd/faCer #
• The incremental rewinds inherent in transcribing an interview always make the process sound like a Scott Johnson composition. #
• ICV2 on digital sales/piracy's role in comics (vs. music). Argues comics, in essence, too small to not grow http://is.gd/faqVF Seems wishful #
• Two time-honored staccato traditions (blippy modular synths, jittery time-lapse photography) yoked by @robotdancerobot http://is.gd/f9vR2 #
• I second this: RT @pheezy I'd love a bookmarklet [to] highlight date/time on a page & it's added to calendar w/ url as description #lazyweb #
• Feels like 90% of the emails from djshadow.com are about designer hoodies, but today brings two free MP3s — when the website isn't overrun. #
• Afternoon chamber music: dishwasher, babbling baby, typing, hard drive, neighbor cleaning house, wind outside, occasional bird/plane/car. #
• Bittersweet audio anecdote: an old reel-to-reel + the hope to hear a father's voice + a demo of the Norelco 100 recorder http://is.gd/f7Jom #
• ♫ Afternoon tune: blood-in-the-ear drone + hot-jazz drums = a beat named "Cheat" by @rieces_pieces http://is.gd/f7EkJ #
• Misread this @nytimes headline today as being about music: "Some Ask if Ozawa Is the Force That Japan Needs" http://is.gd/f7cqm #
• Maybe once in a while the foghorns could have a guest DJ? #
• Remain convinced that the @aquariusrecords record-store emailer is one of the best music publications going. #
• "Paying for free" differs from "it pays to be free": @bandcamp to charge for free downloads (over a threshold) via @vuzhmusic @hecanjog #

By Marc Weidenbaum