God, the only one of those I've heard of, I'm not fond of.

I'm sure it'll be great, neb.

So, basically, you might turn out to be fond of all of the rest. Doubtless you'll be tuning in.

Because it's got a funky beat and I can bug out to it is neither necessary nor sufficient -- merely adequate.

And don'y forget Nouvelle Vague.

Gram Parsons can be great. If you don't enjoy that track then, I'm sorry, your soul is damaged in some crucial way.

Plus modesty. But of course you didn't mention that one, what with being so modest and all.

What's that clause doing there in that first sentence? Passed out on the couch drunk?

You're querying W-lfs-n's sentence structure? Somewhere between bold and pointless, isn't it? I mean, the first sentence is word salad, but I assume it was meant that way.

Previous titles [for the radio show, to wit, "music to grow a beard to"] have been deemed exclusionary I return to this [title, to wit, "Jena & Gomorrah"], which I like just as much anyway, thanks, honestly, for a limited time one-day-only return engagement at KZSU [a radio station, that is, I'm doing a show, and need a title for it] tomorrow from noon to three pee em Pacific.

Doesn't it need either an "As" before "Previous", or a "so" after "exclusionary"?

Oh, right, I see. I meant to write "having been deemed" and managed to miss that I didn't. Twice.

I assume that intended was "having been deemed", making the first into a dependent clause, as is proper.

a lifetime of experience married to a subtletil, restless aesthetic sensibility

Fixed for consistency.

restless aeæsthetic sensibility

And so.

I'm not sure what you two are getting at here.

Now now, Ben, don't be so modest.

a lifetime of experiënce

And "harmoniöus".

Not to mentiön "mentiön".

Geez I keep requesting Björk - löts öf Björk.

Those aren't diæreses, bill. I scorn them.

neb nosflow: objectively anti-umlaut.

I'm an ablaut man from way back; I'm even a member of the society.

How do you feel about anlaut and inlaut?

-ieren ist menschlich, allzumenschlich !

Inlaut and anlaut appear merely to be types of sounds, not types of sound changes. I scorn them.

Regarding this page of 1,302 extremely short reviews of bands who played SXSW, I've deployed the techniques of statistical quality control to screen the list.

Namely, I filtered everything that wasn't either top-ranked or bottom-ranked - management by exception, see? - on the grounds that if the reviewer had given someone 5 stars there must at least be a chance they had something, and as I can't assume that his tastes are similar to mine, if he row Z'd them this implied they had some sort of interesting feature which I might actually like.

As you know, Bob, if you survey a population and ask them to rate something on a five-point scale, they tend to give everyone a 3 and therefore avoid making a judgment either way, so my methodology was also intended to counter that. The upshot is that I've got a pile of 31 MP3s by bands I've never heard of before (with one exception).

And I can't tell which ones were the 5s or 1s, which I think validates my method.

26: I am not following your method rigorously, but it's influencing my decisionmaking - I'm picking all the 5s & 1s that don's sound awful to me, plus various of the others that sound maybe intriguing. But mostly focusing high/low. We'll see.

I do wish that the 6 words were attached to the songs, as I will surely be thinking, "WTF did I pick this?"

Ten minutes, bitches.

You should listen in because I've been testing out a Cornelius Pig voice.

Er, Cornfed Pig.

i hope there'll be a recorded link to listen afterwards

There won't.

26: What is the protocol for Unfogged mixtapes? One big MP3? A zip/tar/gz/whatever archive of them? Some weirdo format I've not heard of? We should probably compare the track listings at least.

Generally zip files. Once I put up a tarball and Lunar Rockette made fun of me.

hm, that's sad

Hey, what do you know, I'm actually enjoying this!

(How's that for a back-handed compliment?)

Except for the talking bit.

(I kid, I kid).

Will you be offering an exegesis of "The New Soft Shoe"?

Does it stand in need of one?

I don't like the talking bit either, Parenthetical. I prefer to let my shirts speak for me.

Kissing might not translate very well on the radio...

To me it does. Who is Walker? What is cord and line?

Yes, that's true, but I pour out my soul's passions through music, instead.

The current song is leading my cat to try to chew on my speakers. Not sure if that's a compliment or not.

I prefer to let my shirts speak for me.

Me too!

This? The bouzouki? What's wrong with your cat?

47 works surprisingly well as a response to 46.

It might mean she likes it - she is only a cat, after all, hard to ascribe much.

I think the principle of charity requires ascribing a preference for the track to her.

I just tuned in, and I like it, even if it is a little monotonous (I realize that is possibly a dangerous thing to say around W-lfs-n . . . That wasn't a challenge.)

It is true that the current track is, shall we say, minimal.

She's done it a few other times, W-lfs-n, and only with good songs. So, clearly, it means she likes it.

And I would die laughing if I saw someone actually wearing apo's shirt link, since you just know that it would be the sort of guy who you'd never want to imagine in a compromising position.

And I'm afraid that you'll find the next track, after the Mirah, even more distinguished in that regard, Nick. But it will be worth it.

But it will be worth it.

Be that as it may, I have to go make lunch.

Neb's next show: "Music to Make Lunch to"

"Music to Make Lunch to"

It's peanut butter jelly time!

It would have to involve lots of organ music and dark undertones, since for some reason I think of Neb's cooking as involving offal and unctuous sauces.

It's peanut butter jelly time!

Nooooo! Just when I had forgotten all about that damn song....

OK, now the track is so minimal that I can barely perceive that it is still playing. Time to get coffee.

:(

It really is still playing and the dynamics haven't even changed much.

And it will continue playing for seven more minutes, but the transition—my god!—it'll blow your mind.

You should sell cars, neb. Just substitute "transmission" for "transition".

Have you included gagaku in any of your shows, neb? Seems like it would fit.

This car is guaranteed to keep running for at least seven minutes.

I haven't. That's a good idea. I did see a gagaku ensemble play in chicago for the occasion of pierre boulez' birthday once, though, and it was very enjoyable.

My car can run all night, neb.

My starter won't start.

Whoa.

Or wait, is this a new song?

Toldja.

Yes, this is a new song.

I did see a gagaku ensemble play in chicago for the occasion of pierre boulez' birthday

This gladdens me greatly.

Hmm, now I feel sheepish. You did say to expect a startling transition!

The startlingness is that one track was proto-onkyo and the other was Zappa covering doowop.

I thought it would be within the first song itself - I actually quite liked the contrast of the two songs, so I'd say objective achieved.

Shorter NickS@55: "But really, my cows".

Huzzah!

73: there was also performed this, which was fantastic.

I'm disappointed that you didn't try to pronounce the obscure dialect, neb.

Are we sure that radio shows only available to a tiiny sliver of the commentariat don't qualify as off-blog communications?

I'm talking such shit about you during the mic breaks, JRoth.

only available to a tiiny sliver of the commentariat

How so?

Oh my god! Neb! That was mean.

That was hilarious.

Well, ok, what I meant was hilarious.

That'll teach me, I guess.

85 seconded.

I'll find you and I 'll kill you.

No, no, it was great.

I couldn't even continue backannouncing the tracks.

Oh my god! Neb! That was mean.

Parenthetical has been lying to us about the "history grad student" business. Turns out she's a Pittsburgh architect after all.

I'm really JRoth in disguise, yes.

?

I wasn't aware that P. purported to be a history grad student in the first place.

The lurkers are giving neb accolades in e-mail.

neb, will there be an online archive of this show for those of us unable to listen?

There will not, Robust.

That's not very nice, neb. I think Parenthetical may be onto something.

I missed the cover of "people get ready"? Drat.

94: I do occasionally purport to be that, yes.

I am feeling both affronted and vindicated. I am affronticated.

Hey, you got a shout out, JRoth..that's more than any of us got! And we're actually listening! (Which you can do online. For the next 8 minutes).

102: Oh wow, cool. But I only just saw this. Oh well.

Thanks, neb.

Was this "shout-out" in the form of "Here's one for my main homie, JRoth," or what?

No, it was more along the lines of an insult about being beneath a Pittsburgh architect ... but still!

The basic drift was that anyone who didn't like a particular song ("I'm a Mineralist") would have to be really low, like lower than low, lower than Pittsburgh architect.

Whereupon neb, having cracked himself up and unable to speak, started up the music without announcing the previous set. Let the record show.

Yes, that's true. That also happened. It didn't help that a friend of mine was standing at the doorway to the studio and he had no idea what the significance of what I had said was, so he was laughing too.

Did you enlighten him?

Eventually.

re: 33

Yeah, a zip of the various MP3s, stuck on a file host. I usually convert all of the files to the same bitrate, too, but that might just be me.