Filed under: AV Club, Diversions — olivander February 3, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
Here is an absolutely terrific documentary about music collector Joe Bussard. Over 50 years of trekking back roads and knocking on doors in search of records, Joe has amassed an amazing collection of over 25,000 78rpm recordings of early American music. Even more infectious than the great musical rarities in his collection is Joe’s own enthusiasm for the music he so obviously loves.
This is Part One. The 55-min documentary is available in its entirety for one week only at pitchfork.tv. You can also purchase the DVD at Dust-to-Digital.
Update: Oops. It looks like the video is already gone!
Filed under: Diversions — olivander February 16, 2006 @ 8:02 am
You scored as Serenity (from Firefly). You like to live your own way and do not enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you that you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.
For my part, I’m reading Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. It’s about a group of women in Tehran, Iran, who gathered in secret to read forbidden Western classics. With Banned Books Week leading into the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, it seemed doubly relevant.
I’ll smoke you a kipper, because you’ll be back for breakfast. You’re the cult television show quoting, user account deleting, soap loathing IT Manager.Something in your childhood has made you the way you are. You’ve been hired to provide a service to everyone else in the office – you make the computers run, and you make them run well. You’ve streamlined everything; you’ve removed all the viruses and installed all the firewalls. The only trouble – the only hole in your veneer of digital perfection – is the way you laugh at everyone.
If someone doesn’t know UNIX, you laugh at them. If they lose their password, they laugh at them. If they visit a website using Microsoft Internet Explorer and their computer succumbs to an Internet worm, you laugh. Then you take a swig of your Coke, and with another hearty chuckle tell all your friends on IRC about the idiots you have to deal with.
Maybe it makes you feel better about yourself, although let’s face it, you don’t need help in that department. You’re great, you. Fantastic like burning cool. If only those luddite office fools would let you play Unreal Tournament in peace.
