Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal -- be good for Safari -- add a .htaccess to your website

2007-02-03 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Might be common knowledge, but I thought I might > share this just in > case. > > Geert > > Geert Dekkers--- > http://nznl.com | http://nznl.org | http://nznl.net > --- > > > > On 3/02/2007, at 7:48 AM, Alan

Re: Alan Sondheim and Gertrude Stein

2007-02-03 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
You left out Emperor of Ice Cream. Happy Birthday, Alan. You over-lapped with Lucie Berber by eleven years. She did not die until 1954, the year I was born. Michael --- Maria Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me chime in and say ALL HAIL TO THE CHIEF OF > CODEWORK!!! All > praise to the Em

Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal

2007-02-03 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
ther - I had it in > college, but I've forgotten > most of it. If you know of any good (German) books, > let me know? There's a > good book in English that Feral House just > published. > > - Alan > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Dr. T. Michael Roberts wrot

Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal

2007-02-04 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
ve! I tend to stay away > from any form of magic; I haven't a spiritual bone > in my body which is > precisely what causes the angst... > > - Alan > > > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Dr. T. Michael Roberts wrote: > > > Alan, > > I have that one along with Volu

Anita Berber

2007-03-31 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
“Anything that can be imagined is true within limits to be determined by the experimental method.” That’s John Lilly in “Programming and Meta-programming in the Human Bio-computer.” The areas I actually know well are Philosophy, Literature, Transpersonal Psychology and Semiotics. Semiotics is the

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2006-08-04 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I lost the instructions. What I would like to do is stop receiving this in my mailbox but be able to go and retrieve it somehere on the web. “In so far as literature turns back on itself and examines parodies or treats ironically its own signifying procedures, it becomes the most complex account

Re: listhead: digest format please

2006-08-07 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Great question! --- Nico Vassilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to receive posts in digest format > > thankya, n > “In so far as literature turns back on itself and examines parodies or treats ironically its own signifying procedures, it becomes the most complex account of s

Re: Ecir, Nihc

2006-08-07 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
John, I went to your website just out of pure damnable curiosity and found that you are a CPT (Certified Poetry Therapist). I’ve played with the idea of doing that for years but have never quite committed the time. Michael --- "John M. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ecir > > deem blo

Re: [....]

2006-08-07 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
This reminds me of the time I mistook my wife for a bowling bowl. All’s well that ends well. I throw several strikes that afternoon and it was all caught on audio-tape. My first piano concerto would not be if not for this episode and I’d still be banging away on my triangle in some avant-pop klesme

Dwarf Tossing

2006-08-13 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Dwarf Tossing is now officially banned in all the EU countries and this has just about killed the sport as a realistic career aspiration for little people who are young, fragile and searching for an arena where the dwarf aspect of who they are is a ticket in rather than the reason they end up stand

Re: FEUILLETON

2006-08-14 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
If they will not work then let them play. The slippage and play of the signifiers is what it is all about. The text is always about nothing precisely because there is nothing outside the text for the text to be about. The absent center of every text is also a door leading to the thing outside the t

Re: AVATARS OF STORY / Cybermind (fwd)

2006-08-14 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I reviewed Twisty Little Passages. I found it interesting and informative. The author has not shown up at my front door to punch my nose yet so I guess I’m just not and will never be in the same class as the late, great John Simon. Even his good reviews read as if the lucky recipient were being pra

Re: SUBMOVIE 01

2006-08-14 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
This shows as a broken QuickTime frame on my computer and will not play. --- Peter Ciccariello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite an amazingly kinetic field. > -Peter Ciccariello > > On 8/14/06, Cecil Touchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Very cool! > > Cecil > > mwp wrote: > > > > > SUB

Re: I Don't Fix A Word (new video)

2006-08-15 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
This was very powerful. Thank you. Work rooted in grief is often more of an affirmation of life from the viewer side than from the point of transmission. Grief is the shadow that shows where an absence will always be, shining forever. --- donna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://homepage.mac.com

Nostalgia

2006-08-16 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I wish I could still hear the music and feel the magic in Timothy Leary’s books. They still sit on my shelf but I never read them anymore. I can remember a time when they felt important and what I was reading felt transformative, like being told a big secret about the game of life or, as we of the

Re: why a rabbit is a sphere

2006-08-16 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I still feel that, even given this, it is terribly important to remember that you can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish. The fact that the fish is spherical does not change this. The unity of mathematics will not be achieved until such time as we have protocol statements that will allow any st

Re: Nostalgia

2006-08-16 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
> felt transported into otherworldly realms; when i > heard it performed a few years ago side-by-side > with a beethoven symph, it seemed flat and > underdeveloped. > > At 9:29 AM -0700 8/16/06, Dr. T. Michael Roberts > wrote: > >I wish I could still hear the music and

CIA contractor guilty in Afghan prisoner assault

2006-08-17 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060817/ts_nm/afghan_usa_cia_dc_2 This was murder by torture carried out by an agent of the American government under color of law. This is common practice under the current American regime. This man will be free and greeted as a hero by mainstream America long before m

Re: Come Along If You Can... (into a place of wrote pessimism)

2006-08-17 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
http://drtonymroberts.com/consciousness.jpg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://mapage.noos.fr/sitemoliere/img/lav.jpg > > It is a long trip. We are the only riders. > So that is how we have come to know each other > so well that the sound of his voice and his > image flickering over the tape

Re: origin of Measurement, language

2006-09-04 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
This was really nice. I’m a lapsed Peircean myself and have an ongoing fascination with the question of how representation works as sign action to create the possibility of the virtual. I’m even more fascinated by the possibility that explorations of how the virtual is created and maintained will e

movie

2006-09-20 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I love Jarmusch’s work but missed “Broken Flowers”. This happens with me. I rent many more videos than I go to see movies in the theatre and sometimes will let one slide that I would like to see by never quite getting around to it. I greatly enjoyed “Lost in Translation”. “Broken Flowers” is a mov

Re: RIP Sven Nykvist

2006-09-21 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I was introduced to Bergman as a freshman in college and have spent all the years since wondering how this guy managed to light Liv Ullmann to create the impression that a soft light was coming from inside her head. When I read aphasia, I can’t help but remember Baudelaire, mind still active in a b

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Orgy paintings were common on the walls of Roman villas. Sex was not taken to be as much a private matter at that time. These painting were displayed in public areas, not in private bedrooms. Many of the Minoan “Bull-jumping” frescos seem to have a sexual element. Public orgies were as much a part

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
turbation > etc. occurs among the > primate and a number of other animals. So it's a > question of representa- > tion. So I would imagine that masturbation would be > presenced everywhere - > even an absent discourse would indicate a > problematic around the act. > > -

Re: Uncanny Valley

2006-10-12 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Philip K. Dick became a robot and then someone stole his head. Little girls are not made of sugar and spice and everything nice and do not want to grow up to be robots. Some of them do want to grow up to be Barbie and become just plastic enough, with or without plastic surgery, to make some of us w

Re: Dead

2006-11-16 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Milton Friedman died today. --- Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dud > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Halvard Johnson wrote: > > > Dad > > > > > > blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, > CDs, books/etc. see > http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Tyranny of the whacked-out psycho-minority

2006-11-30 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
http://clips.mediamatters.org/static/audio/savage-20061128-ellison.mp3 My favorite is the blue shirt with the plane dropping BoMs. I was wondering if many of you have noticed the same dirty trend going on? I would like to present a new idea that will not only fix the long-standing problems of bein

Re: received?

2006-12-07 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
I have it. --- Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this never showed up in my inbox - just testing > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Dec 7, 2006 3:25 PM > Subject: test message > To: WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu > > just checking >

Re: throat Anita Berber

2007-01-28 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
These were a sort of secret until now. Then I was listening to NPR today and heard the story of a man who became a physicist because he wanted to build a time machine and go back to tell his father, who dead young, to get some exercise and stop smoking two packs a day. He kept the reason behind his

Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal

2007-02-02 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
Alan, I’m hearing audio on this when I play it in real player but can’t get images to show. Michael --- Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Droste and Berber in rehearsal > never before released footage from the original > production > with new tabla accompaniment especially commissioned

Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal

2007-02-02 Thread Dr. T. Michael Roberts
in Quicktime - it's using Quicktime > codices (H 264)- Alan > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Dr. T. Michael Roberts wrote: > > > Alan, > > I’m hearing audio on this when I play it in real > > player but can’t get images to show. > > Michael > > > &