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Post by Barry on Sept 2, 2008 23:27:16 GMT
Yup. 4'33" has to be set in the context of Cage's other works. He was fascinated by both sound and its absence; by what music actually is, and by the space in people's consciousness it inhabits, as well as the space it is performed in (both physically and metaphorically).
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 2, 2008 23:44:51 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 2, 2008 23:48:46 GMT
And from inside the same book:
Source: Adams, P & Newell, P (1995). The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace, Ringwood, VIC: Penguin. pp. 6-7
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 2, 2008 23:54:22 GMT
And also on the media - from an interview with Gore Vidal (ABC Lateline, 11/04/2005) (my emphasis):
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 2, 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Still on the mass media:
Source: Lawlor, Robert (1991). Voices of the First Day. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions. p. 147
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 3, 2008 0:04:09 GMT
On the cult of tv celebrity:
Source: Hughes, Robert (1994). Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America. London: Harvill
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 3, 2008 0:07:26 GMT
Television = "cultural nerve gas".
Source: Eve Fesl, quoted in: Pilger, John (1989). A Secret Country. Jonathan Cape
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 3, 2008 0:11:34 GMT
And more ...
Source: Vidal, Gore, Screening History. London: Andre Deutsch. pp. 31-32
And ...
Source: Vidal, Gore, Screening History. London: Andre Deutsch. p. 37
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Post by Twoddle on Sept 3, 2008 13:49:09 GMT
Good stuff, Vv. We're told what to think in such subtle ways by the "media", aren't we? Nato decides that it's OK to use force to make Kosovo independent. That's fine. Russia decides that it's OK to use force to make South Ossetia independent. That's really, really naughty. I'm buggered if I can see much difference.
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 4, 2008 4:31:40 GMT
Good stuff, Vv. We're told what to think in such subtle ways by the "media", aren't we? Nato decides that it's OK to use force to make Kosovo independent. That's fine. Russia decides that it's OK to use force to make South Ossetia independent. That's really, really naughty. I'm buggered if I can see much difference. Twod: Indeed! Perhaps that has something to do with "military intelligence"? I think that the credibility of "news" reporting on military conflicts finally fell through the floor when the Bush administration "embedded" journalists in Iraq. Is sleeping with the enemy any less desirable than sleeping with the allies? (And in what is still largely an all-male situation at that! Oy, oy, oy!)
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Post by Barry on Sept 4, 2008 21:54:03 GMT
I just read a nice quotable passage in Jasper fforde's latest book, First among Sequels:
"Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment - the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the walls down at the local madhouse."
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Post by Twoddle on Sept 4, 2008 22:12:56 GMT
I just read a nice quotable passage in Jasper fforde's latest book, First among Sequels: "Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment - the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the walls down at the local madhouse." A nice quotation, that; reality TV is hi-tech entertainment in the basest form yet devised.
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Post by Tone on Sept 5, 2008 11:16:53 GMT
>paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the walls down at the local madhouse<Yes, all the good things have gone. Tone
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Post by Verbivore on Sept 5, 2008 11:30:57 GMT
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Post by WeeWilly on Feb 15, 2009 9:18:19 GMT
You all know the man and the situation involved in my hands-down favourite quote:
"I am going out for a walk. I may be some time."
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