The Editing Room: Abridged Scripts for Movies. The Daily Beast. Cracked.com - America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958. Chicago Reader | Music, movies, news, culture & food. McSweeney’s. Thought Catalog. Brad Pike. I Am Right Behind You. What are you doing? Where are you going? Why must you move in the opposite direction from where I’m moving? It’s morally and ethically wrong that someone with your face should be accelerating further and further away from my face. Our faces should be mooshing together, repeatedly, aggressively, with fluids even. You should be getting closer to me, not further away. You should be thinking about me, not how to reach your mysterious irrelevant destination.
At this moment, the laws of physics seem fundamentally unjust, seem to be working against my happiness; with every passing second, the distance between us grows larger and larger. How can I make you my girlfriend in this split second? As we pass each other in the hallway, there’s no socially acceptable way for me to stop you and say, “WILL YOU DATE ME YOU’RE PRETTY I LIKE YOU GET IN THE VAN.” If only I’d written my autobiography, I could hand it to you, so you would understand why I need to be in your life. Who are your friends? Nerdist.
Music, Mind, and Meaning. This is a revised version of AI Memo No. 616, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. An earlier published version appeared in Music, Mind, and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music (Manfred Clynes, ed.) Plenum, New York, 1981 Why Do We Like Music? Why do we like music? Our culture immerses us in it for hours each day, and everyone knows how it touches our emotions, but few think of how music touches other kinds of thought. It is astonishing how little curiosity we have about so pervasive an "environmental" influence.
Have we the tools for such work? Certainly we know a bit about the obvious processes of reason–the ways we organize and represent ideas we get. The old distinctions among emotion, reason, and aesthetics are like the earth, air, and fire of an ancient alchemy. Why do we like music? I feel that music theory has gotten stuck by trying too long to find universals. Sonata as Teaching Machine Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. Cadence. SoulPancake.
Reading Resources. Humans Invent. Making Plans for Infiniti. Republic Publishing. HelloGiggles. Badass of the Week. Free Rice. Not Zombies! Don't Panic UK. The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely. Marxists Internet Archive. The Bronte Family. Goodreads. Word Spy. The Independent. Total Film.