13 Feb 2008

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:14 pm

Really? No one yet?

I haven't yet finished a single recording for FAWM, which I'm finding increasingly frustrating. Still, I've got a lot of material written, and a lot of guitar tracks... Maybe tonight...

Anyhoo.

Question of the Day: What's your favorite word, and why? I'm quite fond of Soliliquy, myself, though I'm not sure exactly why. I think it just has an elegance to its spelling and pronunciation.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:47 pm

QotD: "girl" It's just pretty much the perfect word.

We should do the whole Pivo questionnaire sometime...

DRC: today was pretty unproductive; I just never got started on anything. Highlight of the day was that one of the cable channels was showing "Elmer Gantry" and I watched & recorded it. If you only know Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, check out this movie sometime... I worked a little bit on a Tuneflow song, but wasn't happy with where the music was going and I think it's gonna wind up being redone as a slightly off-kilter upbeat blues.

Charles (KA)

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:02 pm

So many good words, I can't pick a favorite, but right now I will list "effervescent."
-bill

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:07 pm

defenestrate

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:34 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:So many good words, I can't pick a favorite, but right now I will list "effervescent."
-bill

Hey, I used effervescent in my Convalescence song.

QOTD: "kumquat" is a pretty good word. It sounds naughty.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:36 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:defenestrate

That entered my head too! It is a real buzz when you can drop that casually and legitimately into a sentance. I've managed it a few times over the years.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:41 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
Lord of Oats wrote:defenestrate
That entered my head too! It is a real buzz when you can drop that casually and legitimately into a sentance. I've managed it a few times over the years.

Ha! It was voted word of the year by Mariam Webster in 2004.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:48 pm

Yeah, it's quite rare. On the other hand, it's easier than one usually thinks, if it's used figuratively. Hearing it used in a report on NPR News a few weeks ago, I realized that any time something is being carelessly discarded (as politicians are apparently keen on doing), one can slip it in.

But it can certainly be hard to use in a literal sense. The windows in the house all have screens. And I'm not really big on littering, myself. Maybe I should have a sign up in my vehicle for my more careless compadres: NO UNAUTHORIZED DEFENESTRATION.

OH HOLY SHIT, NEVER MIND. YOU KNOW WHAT? I THROW A NEWSPAPER ROUTE. I'M A PROFESSIONAL DEFENESTRATION SPECIALIST. HAHAHAHAHA. KISS MY DICK.

Jeez, all this time and I never realized it.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:07 pm

Here.

Working a lot.

Wrote a "Tomato"

Working on more FAWM.

I like Humuhumunukunuku apua'a

himynameisntmark · Post by **himynameisntmark** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:08 am

Ross wrote: I like Humuhumunukunuku apua'a

Someone's been watching High School Musical 2...

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:52 am

QOTD: I don't know if I have a favorite word...but a word I use alot is "However". I think its a good example of how my brain works. For every idea, thought, or perspective, I have an alternative idea, thought, or perspective and the word "However" allows me to transition between the two very nicely.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:04 am

QotD: I sort of like "yes"

In spanish, one favorite "pero" - which means "but", and they use it all the time in Mexico, so any given discussion has it a dozen times a minute, it seems. They have a hard time making commitments.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:04 am

roymond wrote:QotD: I sort of like "yes"

In spanish, one favorite "pero" - which means "but", and they use it all the time in Mexico, so any given discussion has it a dozen times a minute, it seems. They have a hard time making commitments.

then whats the word for dog? (I'm sure I could look it up... but I thought that pero was the word for dog)

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:37 am

Hoblit wrote:
roymond wrote:QotD: I sort of like "yes"

In spanish, one favorite "pero" - which means "but", and they use it all the time in Mexico, so any given discussion has it a dozen times a minute, it seems. They have a hard time making commitments.
then whats the word for dog? (I'm sure I could look it up... but I thought that pero was the word for dog)

Two Rs in dog. You need a good tongue roll for dog....perro.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:20 am

If we're doing other languages, "amici" from Italian (friends).
-bill

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:08 pm

If other languages count, then I have to use the Spanish guitarrazar, the infinitive of the verb meaning "to strike with a guitar." Apparently, it was an occurence common enough to merit the coining of a word.

Coin, come to think of it, is a good one, too.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:01 pm

Generic wrote:If other languages count, then I have to use the Spanish guitarrazar, the infinitive of the verb meaning "to strike with a guitar." Apparently, it was an occurence common enough to merit the coining of a word.

and thus...

drë · Post by **drë** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:27 pm

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

would suck!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:43 pm

I forgot to say the cool thing that happened on the 13th. I have a friend who's a member of ASIFA San Francisco, and as a result he was able to go to the local showing of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, and had room for a friend, so he took me. So I got to see the Oscar animated shorts. They were very very good.

Anyway I mention it here because this showing was at the ILM campus in Presidio, in their very awesome theater. It is by far the most incredible sound system I've heard in a theater, and moreover the room was almost entirely anechoic and isolated. When it was quiet inside, it was the closest I'd ever been in absolute silence. It was a very odd feeling, like a strange inverted pressure in my ears.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:46 pm

When I have my own house, I want to make my bedroom like that.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:20 pm

fluffy wrote:When it was quiet inside, it was the closest I'd ever been in absolute silence. It was a very odd feeling, like a strange inverted pressure in my ears.

I know what you mean. I have been to a place called Kelly's Hill Caves on Kangaroo Island (yeah, ok, not a particularly inspired name). It is fairly far underground, and the silence is truly deafening. It is indeed like a complete absence of anything for your ears, which causes them to almost reverse state.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:40 am

sausage boy wrote:
fluffy wrote:When it was quiet inside, it was the closest I'd ever been in absolute silence. It was a very odd feeling, like a strange inverted pressure in my ears.
I know what you mean. I have been to a place called Kelly's Hill Caves on Kangaroo Island (yeah, ok, not a particularly inspired name). It is fairly far underground, and the silence is truly deafening. It is indeed like a complete absence of anything for your ears, which causes them to almost reverse state.

This is the kind of thing that would drive me mad. I know no silence...and for everything to be silent around me would only aggravate the existing tones.