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September 30, 2007 (link)
12:02 PM
To be in a room with twenty or so people -- all trained musicians -- listening together to the suite that takes up most of Side Two of Abbey Road, and everyone in the room knows and loves the album ("I don't," says the guy in the back, but who cares about him) and despite ourselves we're carried away, communing in the build and the exhilaration that culminates in that moment when Paul McCartney, like a car that drives at full speed over the edge of a cliff and joyfully sprouts wings just before it begins to fall, enters with the opening words of "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window".
Almost reminds you of what it's like to feel alive, doesn't it?
11:48 AM
If you go to this editorial by Thomas L. Friedman, and click "Listen to article", you will discover two things.
The first is that the quality of speech synthesis has come a long way in the past decade or so; it's remarkable how good the computerized voice sounds, and "his" reading of the text is, for the most part, rather convincing.
The second thing is how marvelous it can be when those algorithms mysteriously fail. Tell me, are you more of a "Nine-E-November" or "Nine-E-December!" type of person? Or, one might ask: With, or without lentils?
Current music: old blues 78s
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