My Music professor is COOL

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He played Stockhausen today and he and I talked about JOHN ZORN.

Tell stories about COOL PROFESSORS here.

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I had a philosophy teacher with the voice and mannerisms of Crispin Glover.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

my jazz professor from last semester was good friends with lester bowie from art ensemble of chicago and told us stories about having lots of acid secretly slipped into his tea by members of the grateful dead while on a train between tour stops in canada and him and lester getting kicked out of dallas by the cops and told never to go back there again.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

last quarter my philosophy professor talked about big dildos

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

my music professor last semester was really into Heptatitis Youth playing in class and bleeding all over the place/throwing garbage around.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

my freshman physics professor was NASA's first female astronaut (sorry for the lack of liberal arts content).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

what did you major in, Danimal?

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

told us stories about having lots of acid secretly slipped into his tea by members of the grateful dead while on a train between tour stops in canada

There is a movie about that Dead thing .. it was a whole tour:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000305ZDO/103-4204839-3895845?v=glance

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

[insert boring vacuum cleaner robot convention stories here]

one of my profs did claim to know mark pauline of survival research labs, but...
m.

― msp (msp), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

yesterday my current philosophy professor was talking about how he graded our papers and he used the words "A-ness", "B-ness", etc. everybody laughed because they thought he said, "anus"! roffleeeeeee.

also my number theory professor thinks math problems are really funny. he also has the wildest hair i've ever seen and says things like "BALDERDASH!"

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

my english professor had us read goodnight moon on the floor of the school's art gallery. plus, he turned me on to don delillo. and he threw a chair against the wall once. and i hung out at his house once and listened to iron butterfly with him. and he had the coolest thickest glasses i have ever seen. he must have been really blind. plus, he had the coolest name: Dr. Herbert S. Guggenheim. Plus, he was nice enough not to tell me that my poetry sucked. actually, he might have saved me some time there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

oooh! can someone start a thread to talk about Survival Research Labs? All I know is that 3y3 likes them and they had robots

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

DIY

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

MY HAND OH MY GOD MY HAND!=ART

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

my drawing teacher would read us stories from james joyce's "dubliners" while we were sketching. also if he walked passed you and didn't like the sketch you were working on, he'd tear it off your easel in a flagrant gesture and say, "start again." also he had bright orange scarves which he would wear indoors.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

past

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

and a beret? and a lisp?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

"MY HAND OH MY GOD MY HAND!=ART"

is this a ref to pauline?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.07/srl.html?pg=3&topic=

"The show officially starts at 11. I go out to join the line at the ticket door and eavesdrop. (No doubt I could pitch in with the crew if I wanted, but I'm a novelist by trade - I could cut my thumb off slicing a bagel.) The clean cut college kid in front of me is talking to his friend. "Yeah, he blew his hand off and had some toes sewn on for fingers!" I've never read an article on SRL that failed to take note of Pauline's injured hand. His uninjured left hand is also quite remarkable, very sinewy and dexterous, a real craftsman's hand. His left hand is probably the best-looking thing about the guy."

his hand is no more a ref point than sebastian bach's big schlong, but alas... i still think big ass jet plane robots of death are fundamentally cool. perhaps as artistically revelant as a fireworks display choreographer, but i dunno... i think their pulse is as visceral as wolf eyes or something. it's like animal art. punk up the old spidey sense.

at very least, one less dude using his noggin to build machines of mass death.

which reminds me... anybody of the geeky persuasion ever read about that dude that rigged fog horns up as his amplification for an organ? he could be heard across the bay and had to wear some gigantic suit so he would die from his jams. i wish i didn't toss my old wired mags.... oh, wait, there they are... fuck, i'm not gonna read through all that... HOW-TO: google meat.net?

― msp (msp), Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

today he talked about reading that "noise is just music we haven't learned to understand"

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Many of my professors were cool!

http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/people/barr/barr.shtml
http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/people/higson/higson.shtml
http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/people/kramer/kramer.shtml

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Jon was that a real Dead Poets Society moment?

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

he has a lisp, so it was funny!

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I can see how it would be.

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

he gets really excited and lisps really fast; he's a phD canidate.

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

My Film Sound professor once berated another teacher for daring to ask if she would turn down the tape of Apocalypse Now we were watching at peak volume in class.
I fell in love.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Friday, 14 January 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Saturday, 15 January 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I had a music professor who wrote cd reviews for Magnet, wait, ok, that's not cool, but he dj'ed on the college radio station, ok that's not that cool, but he showed us Heavy Metal Parking Lot in class.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

And it was cool.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Dumbass redneck heshers.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Dary-John Mizelle was a professor of mine in college, and was something of a mentor to me and several of my friends. I actually had the honor of playing a gig with him a few years ago. For those that don't know, he studied with Stockhausen and is most famous for his day-long avant garde pieces. He also appeared on the first Tower Recordings album.

Another great music teacher I had was Jim McElwaine, who wrote both the Muppet Babies theme song and the 'we do chicken right' jungle for KFC, along with many more impressive production /writing credits on some kool as hell disco records.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

what are "heshers"?

― Awesome Welles (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

after the asking, they praised google-chan, and she spoketh, repeating their question, "what are heshers?" and said:

http://hessian.org/

― msp (msp), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

My English Professor's a HACK

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 January 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

okay okay, so my friend knows my music professor and according to her he called his cellphone tech support because he couldn't get a stockhausen song composed correctly as a ringtone!!!!!

OMG

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I had an awesome philosophy professor in the UK who wore a bright orange scarf. He took me out for coffee once! And he wrote this book, which is very well-thumbed in my house: http://www.mqup.mcgill.ca/images/books/lyas_tn.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

HE LOOKS A LOT LIKE N1CKALCIOUS

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

my music classes are not nearly as cool this semester. I WANT TO WRITE PAPERS; FUCK THIS "PRESENTATION" BULLSHIT DOODZ.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

NED RAGGETT'S THEME

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

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