Where is the melody?
I don't have anything to say. I am not even a worthless toad, for toads can be used to psychedelic or murderous effect, whereas if someone were to lick me (for example), that person would probably be disappointed. More than probably. (I might not be.) The only things of value I have to contribute to the world are the (trite, obvious) observation that "Where Is The Police?" is annoying, and the relation of the experience of reading about an incipient language called Logix and seeing that it has an operator called "defop", which causes your variables no longer to be scoped dashingly, macaronically, unboundedly dandily, in a word, no longer dynamically, but rather hideboundedly, bespectacledly, in the manner of one confined to the dusty, musty, fusty library and engaged in tiresome exegisis—that is, lexically; plus, it dirties their vests. An experience I probably won't even relate.
And what kind of service is that, after all? Ask anyone. Ask me, for example.
Comments
on 2005-05-26 6:05:35.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
Dynamic scoping is a bungle wrapped in a travesty inside an anathema.
and, further, on 2005-05-26 8:04:01.0, ben wolfson commented:
I like Erik Naggum's quotation on call-by-name:
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.
and, further, on 2005-05-26 8:21:56.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
Here's Gunnlaugur Briem, on typeface design:
If you decide to autotrace, even if you know the angels will weep for you, remember these four tips.(Tips follow.)
and, further, on 2005-05-30 10:26:41.0, Matt Weiner commented:
"Where Is the Police?" is not annoying, but catchy, its location in the middle of Solo Guitar: Volume 1 making it delightfully incongruous as well. If we're talking about the same thing (I am not sure that one can refer to any observation about anything to do with Derek Bailey as "trite," but that's probably your famous humor.)
and, further, on 2005-05-30 17:00:36.0, ben wolfson commented:
I was indeed talking about the piece from Solo Guitar vol 1 (also present on Ground Zero's Plays Standards). I maintain that it is annoying.
Here's what's probably a trite observation about Bailey: it sounds like he's just, like, making it up. Or playing noise.
and, further, on 2005-05-31 9:13:54.0, Matt Weiner commented:
I maintain that it is annoying.
Did you do that on purpose?
and, further, on 2005-05-31 9:24:58.0, ben wolfson commented:
If only!
(btw, are you aware that the email address going through on the comment-submit form is an incorrect hyper-abbreviation of your actual address? It used to be correct.)
and, further, on 2005-05-31 13:21:49.0, dave zacuto commented:
What kind of service is that, Ben?
and, further, on 2005-06-02 11:38:41.0, Matt Weiner commented:
Ben--y, except that I thought that it was a correct hyper-abbreviation; I was posting from another computer and didn't want my real address to be posted accidentally from it later.
and, further, on 2005-06-03 7:44:39.0, ben wolfson commented:
What about "flinty"? It seems to be required to describe Bailey's acoustic playing as flinty.
and, further, on 2005-06-03 9:13:16.0, Matt Weiner commented:
And possibly "angular." Now that I think about it, it is entirely possible to be trite about something that extremely few people have heard of. Probably someone somewhere has written a mathematics paper beginning "It is trite to say that the Riemann-Roch theorem..."