Disquiet

• I'll be at San Francisco Zinefest Saturday. If we run into each other, I'll have minicomics of the Disquiet.com Sketches of Sound series. #
• PR emails that begin "Hello %$firstname$%" are my favorite. #
• Turned off a drone MP3 only for the world's drones — a plane, the dryer, the fridge, and on and on — to become all the more apparent. #
• Synaesthesia, quantum physics, secular beatification: more on my Nature piece about the Richard Feynman graphic novel: http://t.co/ogFIULl #
• Current worst trend in email PR: use of false "Re:" in a subject line to suggest existence of prior related communication. #
• This month's free University of Chicago ebook is The Score, one of the great hardboiled Parker novels by Westlake/Stark http://t.co/GxHowPJ #
• The new (9/1) issue of Nature features my interview with the author of the new Richard Feynman graphic novel: http://t.co/WS1Qr0R (paywall) #
• Is there a Mylar app I can use to protect my overpriced "digital day-and-date" e-comics? #
• Today's my wife's first "gave-birth-day." Which is to say, our kid was born a year ago today. The closer one listens, the slower time flies. #
• Learned that the soda drone posted yesterday was from a Sprite Zero bottle. Helpful liner note detail. http://t.co/3rC9oOg #
• Love emails that go: "Here is a drone I made using only the sound of me blowing air through a 20 oz plastic soda bottle" http://t.co/3rC9oOg #
• Tuesday noon siren in San Francisco amid chatter and clatter of Sichuan restaurant. #
• Synthesis is virtual foley. #
• Guessing the amount of battery life gained by experimenting with Ubuntu to my Win7 netbook will equal the time required to master it. #
• Morning sounds: outside fog matches white-noise buzz of desktop computer's fan and hard drive. #
• Typewriter pecked at from neighboring room at SF Public Library. Walls covered by Hamilton/Chamberlain mural made from old catalog cards #
• ResophNotes hasn't been updated since December 2010. Windows needs a more competitive @simplenoteapp environment. #
• Occasional reminder: If you do the Facebook, there's a Disquiet.com "page" you might "Like": http://t.co/ITTLdrf #
• I remember asking circa 1989 why Metallica wasn't on a Willner or Zorn tribute LP. Was told their management didn't think it was a good idea #
• Lou Reed + Metallica + Hal Willner? Very much looking forward to November 1 of this year, which is when their album Lulu is released. #
• RIP, Japanese voice actor Junpei Takiguchi (b. 1931), who was both the Millennium Earl in the D.Gray-Man anime & Grandpa in the Simpsons dub #
• Sure sign you've reached a deep level of phone tech support: there is no hold music, just silence. #
• Five films on sound in Berkeley @BAMPFA this September: http://t.co/ROOH9j1 #
• Thanks to Caesar Meadows of New Orleans (& @jigsawjct) for drawing my current Twitter background, up all month. More at http://t.co/P0BKRHf #
• RIP, music critic and Detroit chronicler Dan Sicko (42), author of Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk #
• Evening sounds: foghorn in impromptu duet with plane buzzing overhead. #
• The next "Sketches of Sound" image for my Twitter background is pretty darn funny. Goes live later today. #
• Potato tacos look like Minecraft http://t.co/GCrNZcy #
• Another great iOS sound app diversifies. RT @NodeBeat: The Android version of NodeBeat is currently in the beta testing phase. #
• Afternoon sounds: phone conversation muffled by wall, the percussion of baby toys, washing-machine rumble. #
• New Christian Marclay exhibit opens at Fraenkel Gallery in SF on Sept 8. Runs through Oct 29. He's also playing at SFMEF this year. #415 #

By Marc Weidenbaum