Spackle.
I'd like to meet:
People.
Music:
X - The Birthday Party - Fela Kuti - Igor Spectre - Captain Beefheart - Barry White - Einsturzende Neubauten - PJ Harvey - Sleater-Kinney - Dwight Yoakam - The Adicts - Hank Williams - Django Reinhardt - The Yardbirds - The Eels - Sugar - Cabaret Voltaire - Demonika and The Darklings - The Beach Boys - Van Halen - Nancy Sinatra - The Beatles - X-Ray Specs - Fleetwood Mac - Ministry - Theoretical Girls - Johnny Thunders - DJ Shadow - The Vibrators - Secret Machines - Fatboy Slim - Love and Rockets - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - KnuckleFinger - Olivia Newton-John - Kate Bush - Modest Mouse - British Sea Power - Cat Power - Air - A3 - Tom Waits - Black Sabbath - Tom Jones - Talking Heads - Nine Inch Nails - Aimee Mann - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Pixies - John Cameron Mitchell - The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs - Butthole Surfers - Howlin' Wolf - Jane's Addiction - Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Velvet Underground - George Thorogood - The Jesus & Mary Chain - Gil Scott-Heron - Kim Fowley - Grandmaster Flash - Erase Errata - Cat Stevens - Nirvana - My Bloody Valentine - The Circle Jerks - Social Distortion - The Breeders - Michael Nyman - Tina Turner - The Walkmen - Lou Reed - Les Baxter - A Tribe Called Quest - The Germs - Dead Boys - The Flaming Lips - Minutemen - The Dust Brothers - Papas Fritas - Method Man - John Zorn - The Notorious B.I.G. - Stevie Ray Vaughn - Supergrass - Giant Sand - The Kinks - Vera Lynn - Public Enemy - Mission of Burma - Bear vs. Shark - Le Shok - Sixth Grade Salvation - The Knack - Kiss - Fear - The Weirdos - The Go-Go's - Beastie Boys - Confront James - The Sex Pistols - David Bowie - The Catheters - Capital Pusher - Rhys Chatham - Jag Panzer - Violent Femmes - The Doors - The Byrds - Sid Vicious - Sonic Youth - Tea Leaf Green - Wilco - The Plugz - Wim Mertens - Tricky - Primus - The Replacements - Daniel Johnston - R.L. Burnside - Elvis Presley - Joy Division - Radiohead - Megadeth - Tori Amos - Louis Prima - Jimi Hendrix - Richard H. Kirk - Jerry Reed - Dead Kennedys - Bob Dylan - The Polyphonic Spree - Question Mark and The Mysterians - Le Tigre - Stevie Wonder - Hole - Cassandra Wilson - Love - The Lounge Lizards - The Raveonettes - Television - Sigur Ros - John Lennon - The Shins - Ampersand - LL Cool J - Blood, Sweat & Tears - Siouxie & The Banshees - Shotgun No Challenge - Diana Ross - The Clash - Parliament - Coyote Hoods - Hope Sandoval - Bauhaus - Weezer - The Chemical Brothers - Queen - The Soviettes - Ornette Coleman - Lung - Nick Lowe - The Odds - Oasis - Wayne Newton - New Bomb Turks - Thievery Corporation - Nazareth - Nashville Pussy - 400 Blows - The Wives - No Age - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Negativland - Ciccone Youth - Angelo Badalamenti - Elliott Smith - Black Flag - Morcheeba - The Streets - Husker Du - Mike Watt - Beck - New York Dolls - Meat Beat Manifesto - Iron Maiden - The Idaho Falls - Sausage - Mudhoney - Morrissey - Dinosaur Jr. - firehose - The Misfits - Meatmen - Spiderbait - The Muffs - The Slits - The Skulls - Wall of Voodoo - Buck Owens - The Smashing Pumpkins - Morphine - Ryan Adams - Walter (Wendy) Carlos - Iggy Pop - Roberto Vecchioni - Don Ho - Spade Ghetto Destruction - Bruce Springsteen - Voodoo Muzak - The Ventures - MC5 - B.B. King - Wire - The Zombies - Muddy Waters - Public Image Ltd. - Ween - Veruca Salt - Franz Ferdinand - W - Ennio Morricone - Wesley Willis - Blu - Bernard Hermann - William S. Burroughs - Chrome - Whodini - The Boredoms - Lester Bangs - The Fall - Echoboy - Brave Captain - ELO - The Ramones - Guided by Voices - 5, 6, 7, 8's - Massive Attack - Wondermints - She Wants Revenge - Skinny Puppy - Marilyn Manson - The Residents - Otis Spann - Pink Mochi - Ralph Vaughan Williams - Paul Roessler - Teenage Jesus and The Jerks - Savage Republic - Lydia Lunch - Patti Smith - Run DMC - A Taste of Honey - Buddy Rich - The Rolling Stones - John Coltrane - Link Wray - Ray Charles - Leonard Cohen - Tom Tom Club - Cheap Trick - The Adolescents - Melt-Banana - Pere Ubu - Dizzy Gillespie - Soundgarden - The Vines - The Raincoats - The Who - Charles Mingus - Paul Williams - Miles Davis - Peaches - The Archies - Son Volt - Magazine - Tom Petty - Henry Mancini - Sun Ra - Brothers Johnson - Frank Sinatra - Ike Turner - Nina Simone - NWA - Trans Am - Magnapop - Kinski - The Melvins - Concrete Blonde - Clint Mansell - Kronos Quartet - The Bee Gees - Eminem - Eleventh Dream Day - Mississippi John Hurt - John Fahey - TSOL - Underworld - U2 - Pretty Girls Make Graves - Neil Young - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Led Zeppelin - Universal Translators - Prince - Depeche Mode - Gitane Demone - Merle Haggard - Unkle - International Noise Conspiracy - At the Drive-In - DNA - Tortoise - USC Marching Band - The Plastic Letters - Schoolly D - Lucinda Williams - The Sea and the Cake - Belle and Sebastian - Fats Waller - The Jacksons - The Stooges - John Cage - Dean Martin - Charlie Parker - Redd Kross - Elton John - Bjork - The Sugarcubes - Flogging Molly - Bad Brains - Lee "Scratch" Perry - Johnny Cash - Son House - Derrick May - Aphex Twin - 16 Horsepower - Alice Cooper - Alexander "Skip" Spence - The Animals - Skeletones - Louis Armstrong - Soundgarden - Smog - Bessie Smith - Ella Fitzgerald - Audioslave - Chet Baker - Jeff Beck - Bikini Kill - Glenn Branca - Clifford Brown - Max Roach - Blind Willie Johnson - The Jazz Butcher - Kraftwerk - Saqqara Dogs - Vomit Launch - The Stains - Meat Puppets - Gas Huffer - Tad - The Meters - James Brown - Buckethead - Built to Spill - The Modern Lovers - The Smiths - The White Stripes - Joan Jett - The Runaways - Carter Burwell - Bud Powell - Don Byas - J.J. Cale - Jurassic 5 - Can - Neneh Cherry - Don Cherry - Paul Weller - The Jam - Eric Clapton - The Transplants - Cocteau Twins - Cowboy Junkies - T-Rex - The Cramps - The Trammps - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Devo - DJ Q-Bert - Brian Eno - Richard Strauss - Gang of Four - Suicidal Tendencies - Fred Frith - Free Kitten - Frogs - Dusty Springfield - Spoon - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Tangerine Dream - Interpol - Waylon Jennings - Willie Nelson - Jesus Lizard - Robert Johnson - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Killing Joke
Movies:
OK. OK. Here's a taste of things I see right before my eyes: Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963) - Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - 200 Motels (1971) - M (1931) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - The Blues Brothers (1980) - Days of Heaven (1978) - In the Company of Men - Do the Right Thing - The Wild Bunch - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Santa Sangre - Stalker - The Best Years of Our Lives - Dead Ringers - A Woman Under the Influence - Night of the Living Dead - Breaking the Waves - Alien - Amarcord - All About Eve - An American Werewolf in London - Annie Hall - Animal House - Angels with Dirty Faces - Anatomy of a Murder - Apocalypse Now - Army of Darkness - Bonnie and Clyde - A Clockwork Orange - Un Chien Andalou - Malcolm X - Land Without Bread - Bad Lieutenant - Andy Warhol's Bad - The Bad and the Beautiful - Baadasssss! - Barbarella - Metropolis (1927) - The Beast Within - Gummo - Brute Force - Dawn of the Dead - The Bicycle Thief - The Big Sleep - Big Trouble in Little China - The Birds - Dancer in the Dark - Rancho Notorious (1952) - Blade Runner - Blow-Up - The Blue Angel - Blue Velvet - Boppin' at The Glue Factory - The Bride of Frankenstein - Breathless - The Big Heat (1953) - The Bridge on the River Kwai - Bringing Up Baby - Bullitt - The Butterfly - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - King Kong - Carrie - Casablanca - Cat People - Cat People - Crumb - The Changeling - The Chelsea Girls - Citizen Kane - Chinatown - Hard Eight - Interstella 5555 - Cool Hand Luke - The Control Room - The Collector - Coffee and Cigarettes - Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Curse of the Cat People - The Curse of Frankenstein - Dead Man - Delicatessen - The Deer Hunter - The Decline of Western Civilization - demonlover - Diner - Dirty Harry - Dogville - Don't Answer the Phone! - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Dr. Strangelove - Dracula - Earthquake - The Endless Summer - The Evil Dead - For a Few Dollars More - Fight Club - Scarlet Street (1945) - A Fistful of Dollars - Contempt (1963) - From Here to Eternity - Freddy Got Fingered - Freaks - Friday the 13th - The Ghosts of Edendale - The Ghost of Frankenstein - Get Carter - The General - Full Metal Jacket - Frankenstein - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Gone with the Wind - The Godfather - The Godfather Part II - Gilda - A Hard Day's Night - The Grapes of Wrath - Goodfellas - High Noon - Husbands - Faces - Shadows - Ministry of Fear (1944) - The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - Love Stream - Opening Night - Mikey and Nicky - The Hustler - I Walked with a Zombie - Irreversible - Barry Lyndon (1975) - The Italian Job - Judith of Bethulia - The Big Lebowski - Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 - Laura - The Lady from Shanghai - La Dolce Vita - The Maltese Falcon - The Manchurian Candidate - Manhattan - Maria Full of Grace - Mephisto Waltz - Fitzcarraldo - Midnight Cowboy - Mildred Pierce - The Misfits - Modern Times - Mon Oncle - Motel Hell - Near Dark - My Bloody Valentine - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Notorious - Nosferatu - North by Northwest - The Outlaw Josey Wales - Out of the Past - Phantom of the Paradise - Tarantula! - Patton - Pink Floyd the Wall - Plan 9 from Outer Space - Taxi Driver - Superfly - The Postman Always Rings Twice - Battleship Potemkin - Pulp Fiction - Psycho - Rebel Without a Cause - Raging Bull - Repo Man - Revenge of the Creature - Reservoir Dogs - Rififi - Rosemary's Baby - Repulsion - Rocky - The Adventures of Robin Hood - Saturday Night Fever - Save the Green Planet! - Shaft - Shane - Sideways - Slapshot - The Shining (1980) - Some Like It Hot - Son of Kong - Paths of Glory (1957) - Spellbound - Squirm - Suspiria - Sssssss - Student Bodies - Summer of Sam - Sunset Boulevard - Tarnation - The Fly - The Fly - Terror Train - The Terminator - I Was a Teenage Frankenstein - The Tingler - The Third Man - Thelma & Louise - The Wild One - The Origins of AIDS - The Toxic Avenger - Village of the Damned - Vault of Horror - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - The Warriors - When a Stranger Calls - The Yes Men - The Killing (1956) - The Wolf Man - Zombie - I Stand Alone - Running Stumbled - Bleak Future - Battle Royale - A Man Escaped (1956) - Diary of a Country Priest - Other People - Thaw - Transaction - Naked Lunch - The Isle - Need - Stroke -
Television:
The development of television technology can be partitioned along two lines: those developments that depended upon both mechanical and electronic principles, and those which are purely electronic. From the latter descended all modern televisions, but these would not have been possible without discoveries and insights from the mechanical systems.The word television is a hybrid word, created from both Greek and Latin. Tele- is Greek for "far", while -vision is from the Latin visio, meaning "vision" or "sight". It is often abbreviated as TV or the telly.The German student Paul Gottlieb Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1885. Nipkow's spinning disk design is credited with being the first television image rasterizer. However, it wasn't until 1907 that developments in amplification tube technology made the design practical. Meanwhile, Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900. Perskeyi's paper reviewed the existing electromechanical technologies, mentioning the work of Nipkow and others.In 1911, Boris Rosing and his student Vladimir Kosma Zworykin achieved a television system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images" over wires to the electronic Braun tube (cathode ray tube) in the receiver. Moving images were not possible because, in the scanner, "the sensitivity was not enough and the selenium cell was very laggy." Zworykin later went to work for RCA to build a purely electronic television, the design of which was eventually found to violate patents by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave a demonstration of televised silhouette images at Selfridge's Department Store in London. But if television is defined as the transmission of live, moving, half-tone (grayscale) images, and not silhouette or still images, Baird achieved this privately on October 2, 1925, and gave the world's first public demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution and a newspaper reporter on January 26, 1926 at his laboratory in London. Unlike later electronic systems with several hundred lines of resolution, Baird's vertically scanned image, using a scanning disc embedded with a double spiral of lenses, had only 30 lines, just enough to reproduce a recognizable human face.In 1928 Baird's company (Baird Television Development Company / Cinema Television) broadcast the first transatlantic television signal, between London and New York, and the first shore to ship transmission. He also demonstrated an electromechanical colour, infrared (dubbed "Noctovision"), and stereoscopic television, using additional lenses, disks and filters. In parallel he developed a video disk recording system dubbed "Phonovision"; a number of the Phonovision[1] recordings, dating back to 1927, still exist. In 1929 he became involved in the first experimental electromechanical television service in Germany. In 1931 he made the first live transmission, of the Epsom Derby. In 1932 he demonstrated ultra-short wave television. Baird's electromechanical system reached a peak of 240 lines of resolution on BBC television broadcasts in 1936, before being discontinued in favor of a 405 line all-electronic system.In the U.S., Charles Francis Jenkins was able to demonstrate on June 13, 1925, the transmission of the silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion from a naval radio station to his laboratory in Washington, using a lensed disc scanner with 48 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second. AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories transmitted half-tone images of transparencies in May 1925. But Bell Labs gave the most dramatic demonstration of television yet on April 7, 1927, when it field tested reflected-light television systems using small-scale (2 by 2.5 inches) and large-scale (24 by 30 inches) viewing screens over a wire link from Washington to New York City, and over-the-air broadcast from Whippany, New Jersey. The subjects, which included Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, were illuminated by a flying spot beam and scanned by a 50-aperture disc at 16 pictures per second.Although the discoveries of Nipkow, Rosing, Baird and others were extraordinary, little of their technology is used in modern television. By 1934, all electromechanical television systems were outmoded, although electromechanical broadcasts continued on some stations until 1939.A.A. Campbell-Swinton wrote a letter to Nature on the 18 June 1908 describing his concept of electronic television using the cathode ray tube, which had been invented in 1897 by the German physicist and Nobel prize winner Karl Ferdinand Braun. He proposed using an electron beam in both the camera and the receiver, which could be steered electronically to produce moving pictures. He lectured on the subject in 1911 and displayed circuit diagrams, but no one, including Swinton, knew how to realize the design. Although his system was never built, the cathode ray tube did come to be used to display images in almost all television sets and computer monitors until the invention of the LCD panel.A fully electronic system was first achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth on September 7, 1927, although the low-resolution, light-insensitive camera tube limited the image to a plate of glass painted black, with a straight line etched across it, rotated in front of a bright carbon arc lamp. Seven years later, on August 25, 1934, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Farnsworth gave the world's first public demonstration of a working, all-electronic television system, with 220 lines per picture, 30 pictures per second. Over a three week period, vaudeville acts, athletic and sports demonstrations, politicians, and hundreds of ordinary citizens were captured on Farnsworth's cameras in the open air and simultaneously shown on his receiving sets.Farnsworth, a Mormon farm boy from Rigby, Idaho, first envisioned his system at age 14. He discussed the idea with his high school chemistry teacher, who could think of no reason why it would not work (Farnsworth would later credit this teacher, Justin Tolman, as providing key insights into his invention). He continued to pursue the idea at Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University). At age 21, he demonstrated a working system at his own laboratory in San Francisco. His breakthrough freed television from reliance on spinning discs and other mechanical parts. All modern picture tube televisions descend directly from his design.Vladimir Kosma Zworykin is also sometimes cited as the father of electronic television because of his invention of the iconoscope in 1923 and his invention of the kinescope in 1929. His design was one of the first to demonstrate a television system with all the features of modern picture tubes. His previous work with Rosing on electromechanical television gave him key insights into how to produce such a system, but his (and RCA's) claim to being its original inventor was largely invalidated by three facts: a) Zworykin's 1923 patent presented an incomplete design, incapable of working in its given form (it was not until 1933 that Zworykin achieved a working implementation), b) the 1923 patent application was not granted until 1938, and not until it had been seriously revised, and c) courts eventually found that RCA was in violation of the television design patented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, whose lab Zworykin had visited while working on his designs for RCA.The controversy over whether it was first Farnsworth or Zworykin who invented modern television is still hotly debated today. Some of this debate stems from the fact that while Farnsworth appears to have gotten there first as an inventor, RCA brought television sets to market before Farnsworth, and it was RCA employees who first wrote the history of television. Even though Farnsworth eventually won the legal battle over this issue, he was never able to fully capitalize financially on his invention.
Books:
Dostoevsky, Roth, W.S. Burroughs, J. Thompson, DeLillo, Fitzgerald, Cather, Kafka, Twain, Mosely, R. Wright, Fante, Shakespeare, Dick, Ellroy, Carver, Poe, Joyce, Vollmann, A. Walker, Nobokov, H. S. Thompson, Bukowski, Heller, W. Gibson, Kesey, Hemingway, Falkner, L. Hughes, Orwell, Tolstoy, E. Waugh, Dickens, J. Jones, J. Conrad, Remarque, Chandler, Hammett, S. Jackson, A. Burgess, Woolf, Ralph Ellison, H. James, E. M. Forster, Vonnegut, Dresier, Dos Passos, M. Lowry, Eliot, Yeats, Albee, E. O'Neill, O. Wilde, T. Wilder, G.B. Shaw, E. Wharton, Hawthorne, N. West, Updike, Dickey, S. Bellow, T. Wolfe, Sartre, Camus, A. Miller, Beckett, R. Ford, W. Kennedy,
Heroes:
Cowboys...has always been...
