April 2018 – Lott-mudd

Dogs blast off, 4-0, played well, thanks.

GENERAL NOTES
I’m the only one in the stands. All the rituals seem especially devoid of theater. I found a loose ball on the way to my seat, I’m coyly wondering if I should strategically sling it onto the court to disrupt a point. What if I’ve just been feigning neutrality? What if I love the dogs so much I’m not even going to drink throughout this match? A fan that just cried out sounded like Sissy Spacek, I suppose there are others here. So I’m not needed.

THE AVANT-GARDE OF HOG-DOG
Playing the razorbacks, shortened to “hogs”, which rhymes with “dogs”, sometimes there’s a rhythmic following of one by the other, hog-dog, dog-hog,
Go hog
Go dog
Dog hog
Dog dogs
Hogs dogs
Go hogs go
Dogs

Here’s a playlist of avant garde musical pieces I imagined mapping this sonic scheme onto.

1. The fact that David Attenborough is the only person to win a BAFTA for programs in black-and-white, color, HD, 3k and 4k is insignificant.
2. You can’t be too careful with respect to David Attenborough.
3. David Attenborough uses tons the way Carl Sagan used billions.
4. Attenborough’s theory of language, centered on supremely radical literality and words-as-concrete-structures, means that (to him) a miscalculation of fish amounts to raining blows down on the miscalculated fish.
5. Have you ever heard David sing a song during a program? Even one? Very curious.
6. David Attenborough throws around “tons” like the world’s most famous naturalist throws around money.
7. Attenborough’s brute tonnage recedes inexplicably into the zebra image.
8. David has the camera zoom in on a papier mache praying mantus.
9. Time lapse photography shows David Attenborough doesn’t leave the house for months.
10. Consider the outtake of David Attenborough saying, to footage of absurd amounts of caribou moving as if an algorithm, “I’m not made of atoms, you know…”

Month: April 2018

Notes from UGA Women’s Tennis vs Arkansas, 20180413

David Attenborough Variations