I submit that SB is secretly Brion Gysin's ghost and that Unfogged has always been the intricate and statistically unlikely outcome of an ongoing cut-up.
I'm guessing that it's a text translated by Babelfish through a half-dozen languages and back into English. The source is either the Gospel of Thomas, The French Laundry Cookbook or Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
I am happy with 2's explanation. Quite happy.
All theremin anticoagulamabobs
An orchestra? A blood-thinner? A kind of tomato?
Designated thing of a certain specification Hitomi where it can add that pursues should be stopped, your fact which is shown is pursued. When they find, that is obstructed. Perhaps, when they obstruct, control you are surprised completely.
(Good news of Tomasu, Logion 2)
1) Sheep
2) Goatsex
3) Comment
4) No comment
5) Yes
6) Healthcare
7) Double Sooper Sekrit Ultra-Clever Megaplan! Defeat is Victory! Victory is Defeat!
8) Purity of Essence, Essence of... PURITY
9) ONE MORE MOUTH TO FEED IS ONE MORE MOUTH TO FEED
max
['You can get what you want and still not be very happy.']
Theories:
1. Standpipe has his hands on a real life spam text generator.
2. Standpipe has deveped a keyboard-specific form of Wernicke's aphasia
An example from the Wikipedia link in 8:
It was too breakfast, but they came from far to near.I want to open a diner just so I can print this on the cover of the menu.
It was too breakfast
How could anything be too breakfast? Even something that was none-more-breakfast would still be completely delicious, I'd wager.
Or perhaps it's a retort to the assertion "that wasn't breakfast!".
I can't believe you guys haven't figured it out already.
How could anything be too breakfast?
Nobody can eat fifty eggs.
I don't see how this is about Mexican food.
Nadie puede comer cincuenta huevos.
This time I resolve to go slowly. This time I resolve to take up too much space.
SB's a fat family at the mall?
2: In grad school I knew a guy who would take English translations of Roman elegy, run them through Babelfish into German or Japanese or whatever, run that back into English, and then post them for comments at a country-music songwriter group.
11: I can't believe you guys haven't figured it out already.
That's way like too much breakfast; if I whirl at tilt-a-wheels enough, something will come to my house.
max
['As it has, several times.']
There was another NYT article about unfogged, and Neb was busy?
This time I resolve to go slowly. This time I resolve to take up too much space.
This does feel familar, the end of a novel or story, Beckett or Robbe-Grillet or some modernist unreliable narrator work. Rotation Method. Something.
24 seems right. My googling is fruitless googling. I'll kick it off by translating into songish fragments.
OK. This time I resolve to go slowly.
All right, I'm gonna take my time now
This time I resolve to take up too much space.
I'm gonna explode / I'm bigger than my body
The anticipation thing is the only problem.
The waiting is the hardest part
At last, I suppose, that there is nothing for it except practice and more practice.
In the end you gotta work it
All theremin anticoagulamabobs.
???
This seemed to mean that I am (was?) generous.
Looked like I'm giving
I must have grown stingy in the meanwhile.
My heart got cold
I think, actually, that this method could be quite effective.
I think it's gonna work out / Gonna get it right this time
It remains to be seen if it is, in practice, faster.
Don't know how long it's gonna take
That remind anyone of anything?
I can't believe you guys haven't figured it out already.
You can say to me in English.
All theremin anticoagulamabobs.
???
Is musical interlude.
If this is from a translation engine it has been really cleaned up. They usually look like this:
I am looking for a new refrigerator. I will have a large table SENAI cookies. I have owned. You can enjoy the path of the kick. You can see me dance. Also, I learn from them. Here I was looking for trouble. Now here is the Super Bowl shuffle, I do not.
I assume the translation engine is Bridgeplate's own mind. And yes, k-sky's thing does remind of something. I assume the sheep-herding reference is relevant.
"Pastor" also means "shepherd".
New advertising signs [proi]4[stamenoy] 10 for Delta Airlines - on 16 July 1987.
10. Delta: We'? ; Amtrak re with feathers.
9. Delta: Links frequent that is avoided program of our precision.
8. Delta: It is informed the regulations l'? us? friendly.
7. Noisy engines? We'? ; tour '? l? finally the support distant!
6. Delta: Champagne encomiastic in the free fall.
5. Appreciate the film in the flight in l'? plane apart from you.
4. Delta: The children will like our [diogkosimes] slippings.
3. Delta: Think It'? ; if easy s, it takes clean your [xameno] plane!
2. Delta: Are our pilots terminalement imperfection and n'? has nothing it loses.
1. Delta: We could unload in your road!
27, 28: I thought the same and, given the recent Beach Boys post, looked to see if it was any of the BB's theremin-incorporating songs. None seems to fit.
None of the Beach Boys' songs incorporate the theremin.
Neb, the Japanese for "tannerin" is "theremin anticoagulamabobs".
The tannerin is an electro-theremin. To call it a theremin seems just fine when writing colloquially, I say.
Hmm. Comments on this YouTube theramin performance are surprisingly positive. I'm not so impressed. I understand the difficulty, but if that's as good as it gets, then I'm still not impressed.
Is that a theramin in the closing music to the Simpsons' halloween episodes?
Maybe this would be more to your liking, heathen.
37: depends on your taste, I guess.
The music of my link and yours are both OK, it's just the theramin performance that I think kind of sucks.
I think Theramin is a cold medicine. Maybe that's the problem.
You should spell the instrument's name properly, as well.
The best theremin stuff is Clara Rockmore, imho.
More this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZQi2m7i9Y
And young Rockmore was pretty striking looking.
Maybe that's the problem.
I hear it used to be better before they changed the ingredients so teenagers couldn't make meth from it.
Rockmore has much better pitch than the other two, but uses a bit much vibrato for my taste. But then again, so do 99% of opera singers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-aXtrrdpU
Pretty great for a beer ad.
Noted rock band Barbez includes a diminutive theremin player.
53: Yes, the other two theremin videos linked on the thread as of my comment 51.
Sifu and I posted the same video, and the one you posted also features Clara Rockmore.
Ahh, that's true. Well, she sucked in the first one then.
Theremin really ain't got much on a Musical Saw
Alison Goldfrapp takes a different approach to theremin.
From about 3min 45 in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEp6MH_uLw8
I have a theremin. It's hard to play. I tried to teach myself by watching Clara Rockmore videos, but they're no substitute for lessons. I can do a pretty on-key Happy Birthday though.
You can put sheep to sleep with a theremin.
max
['That lets you get them onto the trebuchet without a hassle.']
60: It's like a cross between a cello and a clarinet: you can put it on your crotch and in your mouth.
I ask again: is there a theremin in this video?
Actually, this was more the one I was thinking of.
re: 67
It's definitely intended to sound like one, although it's probably a cheap synth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6nv0iDrAis&feature=related
That's some pretty impressive saw playing.
The Simpsons' Halloween episodes feature the ondes martenot rather than the theremin. I know this only because I went to one of those lecture-concerts to hear Messaiaen's Turangalila (which was fucking awesome).
71 continued...and the conductor explained that Matt Groening was a huge Messaiaen and ondes martenot fan, and asked one of the, like, four professional ondes martenot players to play for his soundtrack. I am sure that the ondes martenot player was thrilled to get the work.
This piece engineered in the late sixties with extreme stereo, listened to with headphones, is what convinced me that classical was the best acid music.
I while ago I bought a Naxos disc of ondes martenot compositions. Some (but not all) of the music is interesting, rather than good. But there are a few nice pieces.
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.555779
Also, iirc, Radiohead have made use of the ondes martenot.
Messaiaen
Got this book that says music is absolutely abstract and cannot represent. Cannot even represent emotion. Programme music is not necessarily bad music, it is impossible music, not doing what it says it is doing. The only Pines of Rome are in the title.
And, I think, the psychedlic experiments of say side 2 of Anthem of the Sun are closer to Webern or musique concrete than Respighi or De Falla(?).
So, coming from the psych to Olivier, I didn't hear any freaking birdcalls. Of course, by the logic, it is impossible to describe what I did hear instead, except perhaps in a numerical language that obfuscates more than reveals(A flat followed by F"...)
I dunno, Bob---I heard birdcalls in Thurangalila. (I also heard what the presence of God in the universe sounded like to Messaiaen, but that's another matter. I hear God in music a lot.)
In Messaiaen I heard a fierce and passionate mathematicism, the music of the spheres, and felt religious ecstasy and caritas. I grew to believe they were related.
Got this book that says music is absolutely abstract and cannot represent.
Profound silliness in the service of dogmatism. Tone painting has been used in settings since the plainchant era; birdsong especially has been part of representation in music for five centuries at least.
In Messaiaen I heard a fierce and passionate mathematicism, the music of the spheres, and felt religious ecstasy and caritas. I grew to believe they were related.
And you were right! But you already knew that from hearing J.S. Bach.
The ondes martenot is also what is often mistaken for a theramin in "Good Vibrations," no?
81: No, it's an instrument variously called electro-theremin and tannerin. (See 33-36 (or not).)
Ah. I had skimmed and missed the point of that little exchange.
Seems like the tannerin is mighty similar to the ondes martenot.
Bartok's music for strings percussion and celesta is pretty trippy. Also the tuning-up bit in Mozart's Jupiter.
83.2: I'm not sure what exactly distinguishes one from the other, given that each comes in several different forms. Also, pace nosflow, the New Grove considers the electro-theremin/tannerin a theremin.
I still want an explanation of the post. You know, the kind that would be on Standpipe's blog.
Um, essear, how does one explain that which means nothing?
Your certainty that it means nothing might be misplaced. Its origin or method of composition might be interesting. And so on and so forth.
88: I think something like k-sky's 25 is probably right, and the post is likely a paraphrase of some pretty recognizable text like a song. But I can't figure out what.
Nosflow couldn't believe that we hadn't figured it out by 11, so it's likely something well-known. But to whom? It may or may not be a song lyric, the possibility of which has—significantly?—not been disavowed. I suspect that once one has understood the first line, the rest will be immediately revealed.
The clues are all there. It's the New Grove entry for Olivier Messiaen.
Nosflow couldn't believe that we hadn't figured it out by 11, so it's likely something well-known.
Assuming we can take nosflow's 11 at face value. This is an assumption I'm reluctant to make.
"I Got My Mind Set On You" has a few correspondences.
Assuming we can take nosflow's 11 at face value.
True! The whole thing could be a fool's errand.
The Google results for the phrase "resolve to go slowly" are amusing.
64 to all the good things in life.
96: A Google search string that recently brought someone somewhat inexplicably to my obscure personal corner of the Internet was "humping it went right in". All I could think was, well, bless their heart.
OK, Standpipe, I give up. What's this about?
I wrote the source text years ago for a purpose entirely other than to be a piece of automatic writing. It's a cut-up of a piece of automatic writing that's had all explicit references to its original topic edited out. Cancerous growths in the President's colon. Because, perhaps, they are more aesthetically pleasing, so I don't count them as being of the same nature.
After reading SB's explanation, I found myself remain in doubt.
104: But actually, yes I agree with you on that, especially given the last two sentences.
105 to 107. But last minute reprieve by the governor for providing the link.
I wrote the source text years ago for a purpose.
I'm not sure if I enjoy it more or the same, now that I know what it is.
Truly, you people lack Dada.
max
['It doesn't matter! It's an empty toilet with a spinner on it!']
In honor of SB's achievement, and because I haven't linked to it in so long, let's all watch Primiti Too Taa.
113: I love Primiti Too Taa! I sometimes just walk around saying it, like the loon that I am.
Imagine my delight when one of my daughters said, many weeks after I'd showed them the film and apropos nothing in particular, "Primiti too taa, nnz kkr muu!" I should ask her to do it again, so I can use it as my ringtone.
Vroom Va Va Te!!
vroom va va te.
Bonus points for Ed Ackerman.
Where is everybody? Obsessively watching Primiti Too Taa, I'll wager. You can listen to Schwitters reciting the entire Ursonate here.
105 to 111, also.
Oh, well, who the fuck is getting killed here exactly? I didn't take this shit seriously; it's not my fault you did.
max
['Here, have a toilet plunger.']
So far, SB, you and neb (maybe).
Eh. I still say it's a song, and now it's on Standpipe to figure out which one.
In a thread that occurred just before Standmixer Bridgeloan put up this post, text and someone else start commenting in semi-gibberish. Whereupon this post appear not but a coupla hours later.
Might those two occurences have something to do with each other?
Hrmm. The world will never know.
max
[' OooOOooOOOoOOOowweeeeoOOOOOooooweeeOOOOwwweeeOOOOOweee']
Wait, so it is a cut-up? Well, tie my hands and call me Percival.
You couldn't just say you're not into that kind of thing? Fine. Be that way.
That is, there was no aleatory element to its production.
In fact, the whole thing is frightfully linear. I wrote the source text years ago.
Don't get me wrong, I like the thing and if I understand correctly how it was produced, am amused at how it reads. As one of the few active commentators around at the time that the method was "revealed", I took it upon myself to voice what I believed would be the kneejerk reaction of the broader community. In retrospect my assessment may have been a bit harsh. Unfortunately, it is too late to change the punishment. "This court has never held," Justice Scalia wrote, "that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent."
I get the impression that SB wrote the source text years ago.
I wrote it for a purpose, neb.
They're all off, some antics and cheap pudding.
The troll in your buttocks is itchy hurting.
That rolling orb attacks: is it my birthing?
It turns you blue with floppy hat—it's your Smurfing.
I posted bail for a lusty mystic. Arousing.
The mystic's entranced cries woke you up. A rousting.
Have you heard? The redactor's sole vice was peeping.
He was so glad at having grown into his glasses he was practically leaping.
He leapt over trees. He could clear a low pine.
He heard an ant wheeze. He could hear a pine low.
When older, he was a boater, and emptied his bloated bladder when low tide brought an odor.
He found being a hat more purely phatic, at an eye's soundless batting donned or downed, automatic.
And when he was eighty, his brim grew so weighty, it drowned white his locks brown and choked down the hot sound -- doors pwned him somatic up the erratic attic.
And if there was a problem, yo he solved it, while others checked out the hook while his dj revolved it.
to the extent I'm writing verse, then I'm versing/ when I lactate, give me a kid, then I'm nursing.