20120417

Nerf Toys Very good All Round Exciting

All these causes learn a strategy to produce the Vulcan Nerf Gun amongst the list of absolute very best around right now. You might be needless to say to become more than the rest your game need to you do handle to acquire the one particular within the absolute greatest with the several models obtainable. .In case you ever believed that Nerf gadgets had been just softer and protected footballs, soccer balls and basketballs, you have to examine once again. Nerf now offer you a complete line in dart tag, basketballs along with backboards, Vortex Ultra Howlers, Tech targets as well as normal line linked with sports balls. Also Nerf gives this N-strike items that permits players to terminate soft Nerf darts on moving targets proper in your property Television set. N-strike is fairly probably probably the most up-to-date and technological innovation based mostly of this Nerf toy brand. This interactive method shacks as much as your Television set by way of a CD player. A DVD that functions the historical past, mission assignment data, and most preferred is then played relating for the Television. Players fire softer darts at enemies for the display to complete the mission and win the video game. The Nerf Tech target is really an excellent practice target or an electronic score-keeping target to be able to aim at. A few player can have got their score recorded to observe who probably the most advantageous shot is. The N-strike Firefly is a good gift for all those individuals children who want to play outdoors throughout the evening, because the darts in fact glow at evening once they are shot by means of the glowing barrel inside the dart blaster. The huge majority of blasters that Nerf carries will shoot your soft darts just about 30 feet, and with some practice they may be typically quite correct. Should you could be a lot more into sporting actions Nerf has sure terrific new suggestions. They’ve a fabulous Nerf Nite Jam Nerfoop enabling youngster to play basketball at nighttime. The hoop in reality glows, and as a result does the soccer ball. The ball not to mention hoop use firewire technological innovation to light up, and also the outcome is an effortless paced and incredible game, even in circumstances that could generally be considerably as well dark to get pleasure from. Nerf has furthermore perfected a Nerf Temperature Grip Football which will be either orange or yellow. These footballs are created to maintain their grip in even rain or cold climate, and they may be smaller than regulation size that can support smaller hands correct grip the ball. As well as absolutely everyone the new additions Nerf continues to sell a multitude in the favored Nerf balls when for all all round pleasure. These soft too as sturdy balls genuinely are exceptional for younger youngsters that might have problems catching or hurling a tougher tennis ball. They may be for standard size in addition to minis, so even the real hands can care for these toys. The soft materials which up the Nerf merchandise and options insures maximum security when tinkering with all the toys. Nerf has in fact improved the football for children too. The Nerf Vortex Mega Howler could be a football having a tail that permits the ball to assist fly straighter that will aid aspiring quarterbacks learn the skill for passing. Additionally the real Howler tends to make a really wonderful whistling noise under-going the air, adding some excitement into a typical game from catch.

whistling noise under-going the air, adding some excitement into a standard game from catch.



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20120307

Also Kurtág's Homage to Verdi

At first it was a CD
of Shostakovitch quartets
nos. 10, 13 and 14
on replay until I switched
to a sequence of all Derek Bailey.

The sentence keeps repeating in my mind:
"My father's dead." Those three words as
a statement of fact, as if my brain were trying
to convince me. I am not without remorse,
but my brain is dealing with nuts and bolts.
"Do not forget: Your father's dead."

Tonight at a recital of piano music of György Kurtág,
a 90-second song with a libretto taken from
a Hungarian turn of phrase. "We are only flowers,
mere flowers." William Parker too sings of flowers.

My brain is not yelling at me. It is speaking softly,
if insistently. It senses I am working to distract it
and is worried I'll forget that my father's dead.
And so it must, it thinks, repeat: Your father's dead.

The sole single-movement
quartet on the CD
bears the opus number 13.
A baker's dozen, my father taught me.
And now my brain reminds me
that my father taught me.

The delicacy of Kurtág's
"Homage to Verdi: Caro Nome,"
four hands playing what two,
indelicately, could do;
The amplified and distorted delicacy
of Derek Bailey's guitar.

In truth my brain is
taking pity on me,
doing the best it can
to keep me in check
without upsetting me.
We are only flowers,
mere flowers.






Thanks to Katherine Stephens for the photo.

20120218

A Million Random Digits

I was pleased to be asked by the Reanimation Library to write about one of the books in their collection. I chose "A Million Random Digits" published by the Rand Corporation in 1955, and wrote something including John Cage, the I Ching and the nature of arbitrariness, with cameos by Bob Dylan, Enrico Caruso and Arnold Schoenberg. Have a look!

20120208

Upon hearing Lachenmann's Pression for Solo Cello

He had imagined
pitched silence.
Pitch black,
from the sound of
the composer's name.

The cellist introduced
the sounds of Lachenmann
before laying in to
the muscular geometries,
as if rain
fell on rooftops
in deliberate,
conceived and
orchestrated
patterns.

He wondered if
her cello could
have conceived
such a thing
on its own.

20120106

She spoke of Lachenmann, but

She spoke to him of Lachenmann
but their affair had been
too brief to get beyond words and
on to shared experience.

He later remembered
a CD a friend
had given him
of two works
by that same composer
but somehow didn't
feel like listening.

20120101

New Year's Resolution

My new year's resolution is to restart the Bird Cage blog. I hope I do this.

20111224

Videos for Watching

Here's two bit of Christmas cheer from my radio show:



and

A Shelley Hirsch X-mas On WFMU! from WFMU on Vimeo.



Here's a short clip from Patrick Grant's "Tilted Axes" guitar parade that happened on the solstice, but you might need a Facebook account to watch it. I can be seen in the back, wearing a hat.

and here



is the premiere performance of Bitchprints at the None More Eleven Spinal Tap tribute!