LISS/STEPVR Apple Ad

[Richard Romeo]

Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm on a Zillow commercial. A deep spiritual song. Sad

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> On Apr 28, 2020, at 1:15 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I didn't end up going to see Dylan last year. I did end up going to Ann
> Arbor for the Holidays. The place I stayed had the best Clam Chowder I
> think I've ever had
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:21 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> gary webb wrote:
>> 
>> and for no particular reason, I'm going to stick my thumb out, though will
>> need to go more Claudette Colbert, to hitch a ride to this wagon... I'm
>> kidding of course... Is it just me, or does it feel oddly necessary to
>> watch the Apple 1984 commercial?
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
>> Â
>> It's hard to say the PC world was anymore enlivening than the televisual
>> world it purported to replace, and the same could be said of the mobile
>> transformation 20 years later...Â
>> About that televisual culture,
>> 
>> https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/imagine-all-the-people
>> 
>> "That, of course, is not what happened. Modern technology has indeed
>> consummated the televisual era, but with results quite opposite those the
>> imagineers expected. Instead, a curious form of Hobbes’s war of all
>> against all was unleashed. Online, each “netizen†produced more and more
>> opinions, fantasies, dreams, interpretations, and criticism. Marshall
>> McLuhan forecast the situation in his concept of the “global village
>> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226672980/?tag=thenewatl-20>†— not a
>> boundaryless and harmonious Eden sought by the imaginative social engineers
>> of the world elite, but rather a hot, crowded, fragmented, and fractious
>> realm, one much like the “world†that social media, to the shock of the
>> elite, became."Â
>> 
>> 
>> In the MIT press version of McLuhan's Understanding Media the introduction
>> coyly gives a post-60s update on the work's reputation (the MIT version was
>> published in 1994):Â
>> 
>> "The alarms and excursions associated with Understanding Media didn't
>> survive McLuhan's death  (on New Year's Eve 1980, at the age of 69), and
>> perhaps was to be expected from artisans still working in a medium that the
>> decedent had pronounced obsolete, the obituary notices were less than
>> worshipful. Informed opinion had moved on to other things, and McLuhan's
>> name and reputation were sent to the attic with the rest of the sensibility
>> (go-go boots, Sgt. Pepper, Woodstock, the Vietnam War) that embodied the
>> failed hopes of a discredited decade."Â
>> 
>> Let's take it from the man himself (pg.16):Â
>> 
>> "Electric speed mingles the cultures of prehistory with the dregs of
>> industrial marketeers, the nonliterate with the semiliterate and the
>> postliterate. Mental breakdown of varying degrees is the very common result
>> of uprooting and inundation with new information and endless new patterns
>> of information."Â
>> 
>> Televisual culture is ubiquitous for Zoyd & C., so much so that he is an
>> active participant. And like Bigfoot, to whom he is compared, are staged TV
>> moments, not real life random acts.
>> 
>> 
>> -------------a) Tom Wolfe, I think, did a sendup of McLuhan as English
>> professor living the dream of having people actually listen to him. Still
>> think McLuhan made some good points!
>> 
>> b) That net community in the quote, it is like Van Meter's commune behind
>> the Cucumber Lounge: "bickering raised to the level of ceremony"
>> 
>> c) thanks for hopping in - 1984 ad was topical for VL, with the lady ninja
>> throwing that projectile and stickin' it to The Man!
>> 
>> wow, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable!
>> like Prairie "when she couldn't get her hands on a car, she'd hitch a ride
>> and try to talk the driver into letting her take the wheel. She could get
>> anywhere in Southern California as fast as wheels could move."
>> 
>> That's the beauty of the LISS/STEPVR - the president is also a member, the
>> rider can be the driver, the topics are out there!
>> 
>> d) ish mailian made the good point that the new-car smell is still fresh
>> on the radio play. I'm going to break out some 50 year old German skills to
>> try to appreciate it. It's beyond funny how slow this will be.
>> 
>> peterhooper promised a new take after the 1st of 2021, suggesting LISVR as
>> the new title: Love is Strange Vineland Read.
>> ("Love is patient" as St Paul wrote)
>> Seems right amount of elision: epizootic/pandemic by then should have
>> abated, and most people can self-police the size and/or salinity of their
>> topics.
>> 
>> e) did you ever get to the Bob Dylan concert in Ann Arbor last fall?
>> Love to hear about it if you did!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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