ask lamp

a sure to be popular thread!

Lamp you seem to know literature pretty well! What's yr take on the naturalists from the early 20th/late 19th c.?

thats one of my many blindspots although ive read some zola and dreiser. i suppose i like the idea of naturalism particularly in how important a sense of place seems to be to those dudes and also the idea of using fiction to sort of lay bare the 'social forces' that they perceived to be at work in their world. but in practice i often find my attention wandering a bit when im reading them. i recall w/ some chagrin a conversation where i claimed that 'the wire' was much more zola than dickens & i can kinda see what i like about my idea of the naturalists working 'better' for me in serial television

dear lamp,

who are some of your favorite contemporary poets? looking for recs tbh

sincerely,
markers

Dear Lamp, can I buy one or some of your cassettes?

lamp,

How did you find this forum? What got you posting here? What keeps you posting here? What is the future of physical books?

uh oh

naturalism owns, at least in the lit world (dubious at best as some sociological theory). check out frank norris if you are so inclined

YES!

i've read the octopus and mcteague

vandover and the brute is so crazy, you won't be disappointed

oh man markers thats totally not my field the most contemporary poet whose work id consider myself 'up on' is like marianne moore

stevie - the first two cassettes we did sold out and there are no real plans to rerelease them. tbh im not like superproud of them so they arent on the internet or anything atm i guess that might change. im working on something new now but id really like it to be a lot better before it gets released

tbh the only music stuff ive done since the winter is some djing and couple of mixes...

uh oh im having a fantasy. i found ilm via google searching for 'vampire weekend criticism' and registered to argue some point but i came back to look at it cuz ilm founder t0m ew1ng and i used to work for the same giant advertising/pr/market research conglomerate and he wrote a long article about this place that we got emailed at work then i found out that dom was running an email ballot poll about videogames that seemed like fun. i still post because i moved around a lot of over the last couple of years and dont have that many friends here and my bf works nights and i guess it makes me feel less lonely

xpost used to own the library of america volume, don't currently, still need to read vandover, the pit, etc.

i mean lycanthropy + naturalism, how can you go wrong?

dear lamp,

how do you find the time for all of your hobbies?

i feel like physical future of books is mostly as 'design objects' and that the idea of using screens to interact w/ text will become too ingrained for books to live much of a life as 'things to actually read'. also kinda feel like 'owning books' will be more and more a class marker

ilm founder t0m ew1ng and i used to work for the same giant advertising/pr/market research conglomerate and he wrote a long article about this place that we got emailed at work

― Lamp, Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:33 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

do you still have this

how do you find the time for all of your hobbies?

i feel like mostly by never giving my full attention to any one thing :/ also i probably dont spend as many hours on work as i should nor do i have kids or a particularly demanding relationship which is the stuff that seems to fill most ppls days

also not to be too lame but i am really organized/efficient person for the most part

do you still have this

no i quit that job in 2009 it wasnt really that interesting tbh

lamp/uh oh: this it? http://www.scribd.com/doc/21797466/Confessions-Of-A-Moderator

hope it's ok i posted the link here, if not we'll nuke it

WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE

well, they mention the company name in the document -- lamp, if you want me to have the link removed let me know

it doesnt matter to me i dont work there anymore and ew1ng works for a different subsidiary than i did as well

k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5hjR5_tbfg

ilm founder t0m ew1ng and i used to work for the same giant advertising/pr/market research conglomerate

mind blown

hi lamp, what cities have you lived in?

dear lamp,

a friend of mine is developing curriculum for a new class he gets to teach to aspiring game designers about game history. Do you know of any good books/writing on the subject?

hi lamp, what cities have you lived in?

like major cities? sf, toronto (twice) and nyc.

Do you know of any good books/writing on the subject?

steve poole's 'trigger happy' is p good and is available for free online but its more about 'game design' than gaming's history. i cant think of a really good book that tries to tackle the history of the industry but i liked 'masters of doom' (which read on an ilg recommendation im p sure) quite a lot.

really i think the best bet is magazine articles - theres been lots of good long pieces over the years from the recent nyer piece on miyamoto to the wired (?) piece on microsoft.

i found ilm via google searching for 'vampire weekend criticism'

― Lamp, Thursday, August 18, 2011 1:33 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

loll

http://www.getlamp.com/

Lamp would you like yr name in lights?

http://www.queerty.com/see-your-name-and-message-in-lights-in-times-square-as-part-of-lifebeats-aids-awareness-campaign-20130117/

do u care for raster noton

can I have a job at buzzlamp?

http://i.imgur.com/X0PEOiW.gif

do u like this tweet

https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/669549706838691840

lol yes

Lamp, shld I see Ensemble Economique w/Purple Pilgrims or Dan Melchior w/Kraus live this Sat?

dan melchior i think

used to love this dan melchior und das menace track http://www.indyweek.com/mp3s/stream/dan/no.mp3

lamp what kind of haircut should I get?

something trim but tousled? like late 90s model hair where its artfully messy w/o being at all threatening or 'weird'

that's kind of what i'm thinking! My plan was an undercut w/ no fade, like a very abrupt line, with 1-2" hair on top kind of like a Caesar but slicked forward and kinda messy

with what frequency do you find yourself cold-lampin'?