Getting lost

[imomus]

My second column for Wired is The Pleasures of Being Lost. "It's worth remembering the value of lostness, confusion and delay in the age of the 0.002-second search." The piece proposes complex systems like the Edinburgh Festival, the internet, Apple's Spotlight search tool, automated web translation and Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden as ways to get—more or less pleasurably—lost.

If you're in the Berlin area and want to get thoroughly lost this Sunday afternoon, come out to Schloss Lanke, the tumbledown castle I visited a few weeks ago. Beautifully set in forests and lakes, this former psychiatric hospital is now a place of galleries, art installations and concerts. I'll play a concert between 6pm and 7.30pm. I think it costs €8 to get in. The weather's likely to be glorious, as it has been here all this week.



SONNTAG 11. SEPTEMBER 4pm Goldmund presents
MOMUS / OMO / THE MONOBODY

15.00 live: Jupiter Quartett plays Puccini / Dvorak / Mozart
16.30 live: KRASSNAJAS (Russian female choir)
18.00 live: MOMUS
19.30 live: OMO
DJ set from DJ The Monobody

Directions are here.

Comments

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

Wired goes literary!

My best advice to new arrivals in Japan has, for a long time, been "Get Lost!"

[(Anonymous)]

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

It’s been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, O God, for one.

If I had listened what Mama said, I’d be at home today.

Being so young and foolish, poor boy, let a rambler lead me astray.

Go tell my baby sister never do like I have done

To shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

My mother she’s a tailor, she sewed these new blue jeans.

My sweetheart, he’s a drunkard, Lord, Lord, drinks down in New Orleans.

The only thing a drunkard needs is a suitcase and a trunk.

The only time he’s satisfied is when he’s on a drunk.

Fills his glasses to the brim, passes them around.

Only pleasure he gets out of life is hoboin’ from town to town.

One foot is on the platform and the other one on the train.

I’m going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain.

Going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run.

Going back to spend the rest of my days beneath that Rising Sun.

[tyoma.livejournal.com]

KRASSNAJAS (Russian female choir)? But they're all Germans!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to tell me there's a racial element to national identity?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

By the way, I don't want to boast—well, alright, I do—but these Wired columns are being translated into Japanese (not by me because I only speak elementary Japanese) and carried on Yahoo Japan (http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20050826-00000002-wir-sci) and Hotwired Japan (http://hotwired.goo.ne.jp/news/culture/story/20050826202.html). There's even an iMode version (http://hotwired.goo.ne.jp/i/news/20050826202.html).

[the-bee-box.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with taking appropriate pride in work well done.

When you make posts like the one today and the one you have linked within today's post, all I can think is...why I am I still in Milwaukee...of course there are a multitude of good answers to that...but your posts of this nature and ALL your travel blogs inspire and encourage people to get lost...

I've got to go read the new WIRED article.

Say, Mr. Currie..

[(Anonymous)]

I don't suppose you got my email.. does that old nick@demon.co.uk account still work? I sent it to that one.. it'll be under the name "Andrew Snyder" if you did. Apologizes if you already received it.. just making sure, and I had no other way to communicate to you.

Momus out of Pandora's box

[(Anonymous)]

Completely Off-Topic: have you ever tried pandora (www.pandora.com) on yourself (programs and streams radio station based on artist or song you tell it). For Momus it selects "mild rhythmic syncopation, a prominent harpsichord part and synthetic sonority" as predictive features. (Doesn't pick up on the (tender) perversity of the lyrics, though.)

der.