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    Worries of Godzilla Vanish with this Mini USB-Powered Zen Garden

    Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!

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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/27/09

    In reply to Worries of Godzilla Vanish with this Mini USB-Powered Zen Garden
    holy crap that would make a killer drinking game. now you wouldn't be able to use liquore, but it would make for some killer power hour. try to keep up with the bamboo doing a shot a beer every time it tilted. word my lush friend.
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    04/27/09

    In reply to Worries of Godzilla Vanish with this Mini USB-Powered Zen Garden
    Now where's the battery operated tampons?
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    04/28/09

    hyewarrior has a serious mis-understanding of what tampons do.
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    Image of cowboyshootist cowboyshootist
    03/31/09

    In reply to Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!
    Something for the truly ignorant.


    The point to silence in music is that is it surrounded by MUSIC. Silence in and of itself is NOT music no matter how much some hoity-tioty artist wants you to think it is.


    It's sort of like, oh look, I took a crap. It's ART! I farted, It's MUSIC!


    Puh - leez.....

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    Image of keronian keronian
    03/31/09

    @cowboyshootist: Okay, now I have to explain it. The idea behind 4'33" is NOT the silence itself. It is to get the audience to listen to the ambient sounds around them. Sounds that one typically takes for granted, ignores, dismisses as nothing more than silence. Thus, no two performances of 4'33" will EVER be the same. Unless you choose not to participate in the experience, in which case, bugger off, your loss.
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    03/31/09

    @keronian: that's one way to look at it, but I think it's more about making a philosophical point than actually having the audience listen to ambient sound. Traditionally, music is sound over time. Cage subverts / broadens / craps on that definition by writing a piece of music that is all silence, no sound.


    To reduce it to coughs and chair squeaks minimizes the point Cage was making, and the whole, subversive, ironic, facetious, fun of it.

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    Image of Sonicare Bear Sonicare Bear
    03/31/09

    In reply to Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!
    This reminds me of that one scene in Pottie Tang. I don't think anyone will get that reference.
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    Image of BeefSupreme BeefSupreme
    03/31/09

    @x49: Hell yes!!!

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    03/31/09

    @ɹǝpılloɔɹǝdns:


    Thanks for reminding me that I need to pickup another copy of "Sine Your Pitty On The Runny Kine".

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    Image of Shane Lloyd Shane Lloyd
    03/31/09

    In reply to Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!
    Oh good Christ it's just like a painting that is just a blank white canvas. It's the pinnacle of the post-modern artist's self-indulgence. They try to make it seem like they have made some breathtaking insight in to life and culture, when really, they just stood silently for eight minutes or left a canvas blank and hung it on the wall. I think the Renaissance masters would be rolling in their grave.
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    Image of John Mahoney John Mahoney
    03/31/09

    @Shane Lloyd: Thanks grandpa!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/31/09

    @Shane Lloyd: Interesting take. I'm not sure I've ever heard that particular critique before.


    A truly breathtaking insight in its own right.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    03/31/09

    In reply to Dealzmodo: 1'46" of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!
    Johnny Cage wins. Fatality.
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    11/21/08

    In reply to Have a Cow With Creative's Zen Moo Moo-sic Player
    This feature is much better than a ZunePass or integration with the iTMS ecosystem. I often find myself saying "What I really want is a cow-shaped mp3 player that is painfully embarrassing to look at."
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Why Zen Software Design Does Not Come From Japan
    I know I have never been in a Japanese cell phone, and there was only that one time that I had one in me, but customs still found it, the wilie bastards.
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