Disquiet

• By day, buses rattle past. By night, when they stop for passengers, the beepy dis/embark melody sounds like a Japanese train station. #
• Weirdly frequent (and presumably DNS-related) issues accessing various websites this evening. #
• Starting to find A/B stories on TV just as claustrophobia-inducing as verse/chorus/verse structure in songs. But at least TV has story arcs. #
• Entirely caught up with email. Zero inbox. Victory! … Er, for 2011. … As for 2010, that's a major backlog. … #
• Wishing a speedy recovery for Adam Yauch. #
• RT @vuzhmusic New blog series #netlabel artists recommend free downloads, 2nd post by @disquiet http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/?p=704 #
• Thankful for the #lessambitiousearthquake / Baby's first, slept right through it. #
• Not one of the @gdgt #CES smartphone favorites has a physical keyboard. #kindabummed #
• Lab Tech Manhattan #lessambitiouswatchmen #
• I have unintentionally slurred registered nurses. Allow me to revise… #
• #lessambitiousmemes #
• Strawberry 10% #lessambitiousmanga #
• Registered Nurse Strange #lessambitiouscomics #
• Justice Club #lessambitiouscomics #
• Fantastic Three #lessambitiouscomics #
• Acme Novelty Department #lessambitiouscomics #
• Trial of "one-time superlobbyist Paul Magliocchetti" sheds light on the Military-Symphony Complex: http://j.mp/fYV9k1 #
• â–º Video of Latin sung at dawn in Singapore, multiple locations layered; think Lucier divided by Cardiff/Miller: http://t.co/OLlITmc #
• Noon bells pierce the cold, and the closed windows. #
• Relieved to learn, first hand, that the "version history" in @simplenoteapp works smoothly and effectively. #
• That's pretty cool, 250-plus plays of my Unsilent Night field recording @soundcloud http://t.co/OdBMI4y #surveillance #fluxus #
• Evening sounds: traffic bleeds into hard-drive whir bleeds into general appliance hum bleeds into light tinnitus. #
• .@Gurdonark Yeah, you know, the second I wrote to you, I started wondering what the mail-art of email is. Spam is like Ballardian email-art. #
• Just heard "da da" for first time. Sure, just random syllables by four-month-old, but still something. #
• ♫ Afternoon analog-synth audiostream: Keith Fullerton Whitman live at the Bunker (2010.11.05), cascading-tastic: http://j.mp/9dn6jq #
• Best recent song title: Derrick Hart's "0073735963" (the code to get to Tyson on the NES game Mike Tyson's Punch Out). #
• RIP, Ann Southam, Canadian composer (b. 1937) Listen http://j.mp/gna4zV Obituary http://j.mp/gC1ybZ Via @alexrossmusic http://j.mp/gjCgQa #
• Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett's Either #lessambitiousoperas #
• Hydrogen iPod #lessambitiousoperas #
• Someone at @CNN appears to be learning how to use its email newsblast system this morning. #studentdriver #
• RIP, Mick Karn (b. Adonis Michaelides, 1958), musician best known as the bassist for Japan. #
• Pool scenes in recent CSI: Miami ("Match Made in Hell") resembled early Bill Viola video. Yesterday's avant-garde, today's Hollywood effect. #
• Before designing the new Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, Diller + Scofidio did this great mesh of corporate logos: http://j.mp/fYC5NT #
• Very emperor's-new-clothes, these touch tablets/phones. Tech writers describe each like fashion writers do the latest little black dresses. #
• Libération.fr for real. The DeLillo story from Harper's I mentioned is up there for free now en Anglais. http://j.mp/hgCOaM via @1000DIGIKI #
• Somewhat Attenuated Jest #lessambitiousbooks #
• City of Lucite #lessambitiousbooks #
• ♫ Pre-noon beats: Tictoc's entry in the 199th (!) weekly @stonesthrow Beat Battle: http://j.mp/eRR1tZ #
• Remembering packing as much information as possible onto a postcard, to save on postage. #lifebeforeemail #
• "Internet dark" comes in various shades of gray. (Back on Twitter, after two weeks of relative social-media/web silence.) #
• Happy 70th, Hayao Miyazaki. Flipping thru my Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) storyboard book bought after Ghibli visit during my first Japan trip. #
• RIP, Carl Tupper, founder of BSI Comics in Metarie, La, where I used to shop a lot. Stands for "Book Swap Incorporated" http://is.gd/kafJc #
• Many thanks, belatedly due to my Twitter break, to Natalia Ludmila @n_ludmila for drawing my Twitter background. http://is.gd/kafx5 #
• Following CES coverage with practical rather than hypothetical self-interest: my G1 is about to die; want to know what next phone will be. #
• Morning sounds: low (refrigerator hum), middle (bus rumble), high (baby breathing). #

By Marc Weidenbaum