attn: minx, goatschool, fellow pseudo-intellectuals

[xfer]

have you read last week's new yorker? it has a LOT of very good articles, including a big and detailed piece about Bjork (with lots of information about her compositional techniques), a WWI thing, and an Oliver Sacks essay about the perception of time and neural influences on it.

the Oliver Sacks thing was REALLY interesting to me because i'd been musing over one of the issues he touches on the week before i read this! about how the brain, in certain situations, perceives things as "frames", rather than a continuous flow. i had been wondering about that myself, and had concluded that we couldn't perceive stuff in a continuous flow, so our "frames" were "moments of perception" that our brains put together...and according to Sacks I was mostly right! of course he thought of a zillion things i hadn't, so it was the perfect article: informative and also personal/engaging.

 

[azal]

Oliver Sacks

 

[minxnim]

i have interesting stories about mr sacks. he's a very smart guy. i didn't see this article, but i think, reading this thread alex, you would find douglas hofstadter really interesting and/or life altering/threatening.

 

[minxnim]

also, i somewhat disagree with o.s. about a lot of perception memory issues.

 

[goatschool]

i have that issue laying on top of the trunk that holds all of my old godzilla collection. i've read the movie reviews so far.

 

[mindspell]

Is the New Yorker worth a subscription or just picking up when it looks good?

 

[goatschool]

i do the latter, but mos def worth a sub

 

[xfer]

it's worth a subscription--so much so, in fact, that my house gets TWO subscriptions so both me and bill can always have the current copy in our backpacks to pull out on the T or wherever.

 

[minxnim]

see i just ordered vogue instead i am a total fucking jerk.

 

[xfer]

i honestly find at least four really, really good pieces in each issue of the new yorker--sometimes seven or eight or more!

 

[azal]

I was so fucking stoked when my brother brought 5 new issues of Star over last month.

 

[avi]

my mom has a sub and I steal copies from her pretty often

 

[xfer]

i can't believe your mom reads Star.

 

[azal]

is this going to turn into another war for the hand of avi's mom?

 

[chupe666]

i used to read the NY when i was a freshman in high school at the allergist's office.

grow up already people.

 

[NAD]

my mom has a sub and I steal copies from her pretty often

I do that as well. Steal copies from my mom that is, not yours.

There's usually something interesting, but even if not the comics are always top notch.

 

[lizard]

I only subscribe to WWII illustrated.

 

[minxnim]

of course.... my subscription to vogue is one of the many reasons i can hand out good fashion advice... so maybe it's not that bad.

 

[avi]

my free subscriptions to 'brew your own' and 'vegetarian times' are about to end and I doubt I'll renew either. we didn't stick with the subscription to 'Cleanrun', the dog agility mag either.