Even though any unconditional statement is invalid in itself. i'd still say 6FU is the best TV i've ever seen in my life and would always hold its unique position, in which...

1. love is warmer than death.
2. as a component of Clause No.1, gay love is convincingly presented as a valid type of human affection, as opposed to the cheesy funny clowns in <sex and the city> that imply the blatant biase of the author. highly recommended to BL / GL / Lily-fans of japanese anime as a simple test to verify their true desires to embrace those ideas.
3. missing or compromised in many works, family, the escape raft for everyone drifting in the stormy ocean of the modern society, is brought back to the center of stage, where the more relentless the contradiction among its members may seem, the closer they eventually become, as we all couldn't help but deny at some point in our lives, yet end up expecting in our subconsciousness.
4. under touchable agony, the characters constantly talk to themselves, strangers, and the spirits of the dead, and make last-minute decisions according to conscience, much like in <EVA>, instead of resorting to close friends as a safe vent and then repeat stereotype mistakes. every character is a troubled and troublesome creature, an educated animal, ever-restless just like us.
5. the dialogues and lines are devoid of the hopeless moaning that petty bourgeois embraces. there are enough words that we would all spit out when we feel our knowledge frequently challenged, our egos seriously offended, and when we are so scared to pee.
6. a perfect example of the general dichotomy of the japanese tv and the american tv displays itself: while the former often opens up a re-interpretation of a single piece of concept, a plain but rarely visited page of the thick book of life, after abandoning all the other context that may hinder the advancing of the partial deductions / imaginations, the latter, however, tries to view life as a self-explained complex system and the solutions lie in the web, in the self-organized struggle-within.
7. mental activities such as memories, dreams, and expectations (positive or negative)  are completely integrated into narrations. why not? isn't this the "reality", merely the entangled and contradictory mental existence of us? why do we need to separate them all the time with increasingly hi-end digital production techniques, say, a "flash" or texture modifier?
8. the interpolated commercials are sized into meaningful short-stories about death or darkness, creating a seamless environment that reinforces the immersion of the audience. shouldn't this be a way of the effective propagation of information and concepts through the channels of mass media, where heterogeneous programs are considered as a whole, where certain information is transferred in a chain of unit filters to project a smooth envelope of a desired shape to the subjects to attract focus, without deliberate impulsive emphasis placed upon any one of the units? actually, this trick is the essential quality of single instances of artworks on a microscopic timeline of events. 6FU presents an attempt of the macroscopic extension.
   
9. however the sound-production or the visual art lacks prudence or even basic concerns such as panning and source positioning, it has effectively removed the lush rhythmic loops and the painted colors in the name of mass production from stuff like <sex and the city>. the occasional static images, distant shots, and sound-clips intruding after long silences, influenced by the indie scene, arrive in time every once in a while.
   
10. a tacit and wonderful acting cast makes decent efforts in accordance with the various aspects of the unconventional design.

From Cunningham et al. 2005

"What's the worst song ever?"

Important factors:

• lyric quality
• the “earworm” effect (songs stuck in your head)
• voice quality
• the influence of associated music videos
• over-exposure
• perceptions of pretentiousness
• associations with taste cultures
• associations with
  unpleasant personal experiences

Earworm songs

• the song is overly repetitive, either in tune, lyrics, or both
• the tune or the lyrics lack complexity
• the song contains incongruous or unexpected elements
• e.g. irregular beats, unpredicted melodic patterns, or unusual effects.
• the song does not resolve, or the resolution is not as predicted by the listener
• e.g. a participant says, “Anything by Phil Colins or Genesis” because their albums frequently include “Tunes that don't resolve properly, or when I expect.”

Voice quality "we" hate:

• ‘annoying’
• ‘yowling’
• ‘monotonous’
• and ‘whiny'
• ‘sickly sweet’
• Over-dramatic vocal effects
• ‘relentless vocal gymnastics that spawned a generation of Pop Idol wannabes who compensate for their inability to sing by turning one note into 144!’ (笑, 心声啊)
  

Love / hate thru exposure

• "The most widely accepted theory states that repeated exposure to a song tends to increase the degree of ‘liking’, until a peak is reached. After that peak, continued exposure to the song is associated with a lessening of ‘liking’.....
• In the acquisition of CDs for a personal music collection, a new purchase is played frequently (‘thrashing’) until saturation is reached, at which point ‘sickness’ sets in and the CD is set aside. The song may become more acceptable when (or if) the sense of over-familiarity wears off."
  

Responses regarding over-exposure

• “any song that is at one of the first 5 chart positions."
  
• "i just can't hear something 20 times a day."
• “The very worst about that song is that it was played on the radio all summer
  and you just couldn't hide from it.”
• “all those damn ipod commercials”
• “seems to be in every movie during some cheesy driving scene”
• “Its on nearly every bleeding love song compilation”
• “worst of all its really popular for karaoke”

Love / hate thru taste cultures

• ‘Perhaps I really loath it because I don't like the sort of people that really get into it.’

http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/

惰性的我习惯逆来顺受, 不形式化问题就不会寻求对我而言太激进的办法.

blog似乎给了我良性循环: post一个抱怨, 继而停留在脑海, 缓存一会儿没准几天, 答案出现.

前天联想last.fm和pandora之后, 今天果然在audioscrobbler站上找到了这个非常棒的webservice, 嫁接pandora到last.fm, 虽非client但毕竟省掉我早先手动输入pandora playlist的麻烦, 自动scrobbling, 包括love/ban. 选择顶部高级选项之后可在底部tab浏览recent track, rating等经典last.fm功能. 另外也可在顶部tab切换到PandoraFM的代理last.fm player, 相比之下界面不是很友好, 但能用.

缺点:

• 没有将pandora的thumb-up/down和last.fm的love/ban连起来, 于是rating通常要两个操作.
• 如果用ff之类的tab浏览器, 其余tab如果有密集上下行动作, 播放会有中断.
  

audioscrobbler站上还有大量实用script (python, perl, php)

web-os开始浮现在眼前....

我开始重新思考为什么还是依赖本地client, 除了惯性之外, 当前web-browser的臃肿应该是罪魁. ff和ie现在都严重增肥, 最初只作远程文本浏览的工具现在要集文本, 媒体, 程序于一窗, 我对浏览器的运行效率没有研究, 但总觉不是个好办法. 可能的话, 应该有针对webservice和脚本程序优化的职业browser, 酱紫既精简机构又可令用户能另开一窗维持client手感. 只不过大一统的dd又会触犯多方利益.

再说...我只是希望能一秒钟内打开窗口而已...

P.S. last.fm client 1.1.0发布, 界面改观, 其他感觉不到, 还是不能下行scrobbling :(

似乎建构在语言中.

想起日韩文艺作品中用来卖关子的最后一招就是打断话者令其不能完成最后的关键谓语, 于是爱恨时常不能出口.

主->宾->谓的句法,
首先将事件/局面中你我他的存在摆上台面,
而采取什么动作, 产生什么感情则容后.
提前意识到不只"我"存在,
提前告知对方"你"和"我"共存于这一事件之中,
许多情况下就是良好的一步.

反观主->谓->宾结构,
个人意志先行,
即便是"我很关心你", 也怕是"我要"在前.

虽然论时间开销两个系统都可以实时运行, 没有问题. 但想必会对偶于计算机CPU的endianess一样, Intel的little endian和Motorola的big endian在不同任务下各擅胜场. 个中微妙不知可否与国际形象, 外交手段相挂钩呢...

倘若存在一种自然语言的句法
可如ARM, PowerPC之类切换endianess一般自由切换语序,
不知结果如何.

会形成一种张驰自如还是诡谲混沌的文化呢?

赞一个last.fm的邻居广播功能, 或者叫"同好广播"更合适些 (笑),

没看源码, 但肯定只是根据用户metadata统计和indexing,

非常准确, 昨天随机抓回连续5首都是最近半年内听过的,

全局来看没有出现和我胃口迥异的dd.

跟last.fm相比, pandora输在没有出客户端软件,

last.fm的邻居功能除了当下因为不明原因不能下行scrobbling之外,

完全可与pandora的相似性分析媲美.

这也是集体筛选和内容分析两大阵营的有趣对比.

有时想, 也许两种路线源自创始人的个性, 前者外向, 信奉单人单任务其余诉诸社会;

后者内向, 憧憬个人万能.

仅此而已.

这两路人应该产生爱情啊~~(笑)

在此:

地狱少女ED (TV edit)

录得很随便,

伴奏直接从第8话尾声截取,

完全没消音,

算跟能登小姐合唱吧.

用了比较过分的reverb.

我的last.fm升到1.0.7之后, 上行scrobbling正常, 但听在线电台的时候拿不到电台信息,

也即下行scrobbling挂了, 既看不到, 也love/ban不成, 还不能skip (泪).

写信去问没有回音, 本来可以看源码, 没空...

索性就两眼一抹黑纯粹的听吧, 最坏还可以回头看累计单曲榜,

好在今天听melodic idm台基本上都是超好听的dd.

home is the single boat on the ocean when it is storming outside.

-- strawberry panic

last.fm "new" feature:

• Geographical gig, event notification
• weekly neighbours

Link	Artist	Title	Album
1	水樹奈々	宝物	DREAM SKIPPER
2	水树奈奈	innocent starter	alive and kicking
3	水樹奈々	still in the groove	DREAM SKIPPER
4	水樹奈々	Dear to me	DREAM SKIPPER
5	水树奈奈	panorama	alive and kicking
6	水樹奈々	ひまわり	DREAM SKIPPER
7	水樹奈々	suddenly ~巡り合えて~	MAGIC ATTRACTION
8	水树奈奈	independent love song	alive and kicking
9	水樹奈々	POWER GATE	MAGIC ATTRACTION
10	水树奈奈	cherish	alive and kicking
11	水樹奈々	refrain-classico-	DREAM SKIPPER
12	水樹奈々	砂漠の海	DREAM SKIPPER
13	水樹奈々	真冬の観覧車	supersonic girl
14	水樹奈々	水中の青空	supersonic girl
15	nana mizuki	seiyuu demo 3	seiyuu demo
16	nana mizuki	seiyuu demo 6	seiyuu demo
17	水樹奈々	あの日夢見た願い	MAGIC ATTRACTION

Comments

• 冲刺阶段, 正逢水树奈奈官方推出和我不甚兼容的精选辑和极失败的新单曲, 鉴于今年初live dom的登峰造极, 07年live museum预感再有惊喜之可能不大.自选一辑聊以纪念伴随nana度过的这段光阴. 亦和suede, opeth等等一样, 是不得不一直喜爱下去的东西.
• playlist后面附上两个live dom自截视频, 两首五星rare, 分别在这里和这里
• 理论上该再加入她的声优作品精选, 暂没空.
  

　

　

拿到part-time一个,
做学校的刽子手,
发半自动一把,
每天处决一批学生.

奇怪的是, 每天给我二十个,
最低只需要处决3-4个,
自己决定人选..麻烦:(

第一天, 还好.
第二天, 发现有认识的,
不好办,
扛着枪出去溜了一圈,
还是没决定.
醒了.

来加就没怎么做过梦.
这算第一个有印象的.

firefox的menu editor应该繁殖到所有GUI甚至CLI软件,
我就不明白像cubase之类的context menu已经有将近七八十个item的dd,
那些能实现众多DAFx效果的哥们, 那些有时间给toolbar上皮肤的GUI美术家,
你们能不能给做个menu editor?或者麻烦您露两下scripting?
让我不要每次都要在堆成山的菜单/对话框里面text mining!!!!!

还有CLI软件也是, 求您芝麻开门给屏蔽下option好不好!

快失去意识了, 无责任扯淡一下.

看了中英文版的unix-hater handbook牙笑光之后,
虽然从语言学角度不知该如何细致论证, 但
深感汉语就是语言界的unix, 是属于专家的语言.
我们就是汉语系统的高级系统管理员, 甚至还不是系统分析员...
汉字好比奇形怪状高度精简的unix命令, 翻开汉语的manpage
(又名新华字典), 这些命令充斥各种乱78糟的options.
对外我们会如linux界平行的fq风告诉广大外国普通用户什么
会者不难难者不会.

开始扯淡,

要在汉字系统下产生实用的, 产生美学价值之外的重要价值,
比如法律/合同, 你会迅速发现已经没在说人话了, 要么
英语化要么天书.

汉语缺少严谨的语法例如时态和内建的虚拟语气, 天然地缺少显式的
假设逻辑系统, 优点是对付简单任务极为有效, 但要构建专业化结构, 就会写出
unix shell脚本之类充斥通配符的天书, 内容只有写代码的人自己懂.
是一种集中而不民主的语言.


在日常生活中操作汉语要极为小心, 正如操作使用千丝万缕操作符的
unix命令, 诸如rm之类的, 稍不小心就着了道, 比如把rm *.txt敲成
rm ＊空格.txt之类.... 都归功于汉语的语言基本码表精简, 语境构建模糊.

如果unix的哲学一样, 不同于字母语言, 汉语的基本单位
汉字和词汇是非常稳定的小程序和程序库, 对于国人这些高级程序员而言,
构建在这些小程序上的pipeline会很容易产生艺术话的表达, 犹如代码编写中的技巧派,
最终汉语文字, 例如各种评论, 网络文章, 成为了程序员之间玩弄编程技巧的交流,
而对其他终端用户的价值/可读/移植性几乎为零. 以乐评为例, 终端用户想知道的时间空间
概念, 在汉语的表达之下就会变成各种循环嵌套和随便命名的子函数结构.

如linux一样, 汉语系统简单, 却有港台新包括内地方言等发行版,
对于深入腹地的普通用户而言 .... 欲练神功, 必先自X.

同unix一样, 汉语命令的简洁也是缘自早期存储/运算设备稀缺的古代.
但现在不同了, 硬件完全不成问题, 所以要在这样一个shell上
构建新的界面, 执行各种任务诸如评论, 讨论, 合同, 等等.
近代汉语不由经历了一个unix到windows的痛苦改革, 在稳定基本系统的
基础上移植概念, 开始试图构建直观的图形界面和组织性活动.

缺少各种公用的內建逻辑控制结构, 汉语的日常沟通和情感交流实际上成为没有语义码本甚至
需要数十年时间交互开发码本的编码解码过程, 或者一个需要中间层(文化?)的图形服务器
客户系统. 这个过程就好像是UNIX有意将X-window酱紫的图形界面建构在原始的字符命令系统之上,
要自如运用图形界面又是一个对基本语言系统的自X过程.

反观linux的KDE, GNOME的设计理念, KDE想通过付出一定经济代价(Qt)把图形界面建构成windows风味, 洋务派; GNOME阵营则是一批根植于传统的观察者, 不知道算不算保守派.

和unix一样, 汉语是高度职业化的系统, 从一开始就是给程序员用的,
不像MS windoze, 不像英语一开始就树立称霸世界的野心,
所以在英语技术殖民一统天下的今天, 汉语如果不痛定思痛,
最终将成为你我自由程序员在blog / 论坛上码字娱乐的GPL小库库...

受托扒个tango若干轨,
相比大一时候攥着随身听裸扒scarbrough fair四个声部外加训练
同学合唱(依然是当时最美好的回忆之一), 有机器和网络的时代幸福多了.

流程:

1. 直接找midi, 一捆垃圾, 偶尔有个把声部ms可用. 保留
2. 找谱子, 寥寥几个版本, 庆幸有个网页用sibelius插件(可直接试听的)谱子和声听起来很不错, 可惜不能直接下载, 遂截图.
3. 用omr软件识别乐谱截图.
4. 进finale手动修正, 输出*.mid
5. cubase编辑, diff和merge来自谱子和直接下载的*.mid和原曲, 加载一些edirol, hypersonic之类过得去的VSIi乐器, 混音输出.

其中手风琴和声还是基本上裸扒了, 呵呵, 有winamp+pacemaker也是大大易过从前(pacemaker用的是频域方法, 减速20%以内音质不错), 此外如果没有以上流程实在会慢太多.

突然想到扒sound art可否不看算法?
也即那套语言系统可否通过训练和听觉建立稳定的映射?
找paper去.