Comments on: Tuesday Morning Update #15

By: soce, the elemental wizard

soce, the elemental wizard — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:24:49 +0000

OMG, that is so sweet! I was in tears when “Scoe” was taken, as well as “Scoe1″, “Scoe2″ and so on.. I had to resort to using “Scoe000000″ out of frustration, and that has been my AOLIM name ever since.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:21:37 +0000

It's Queixa, brother. Kay-sha. (Click on the little phonograph picture next to the title for pronunciation. Or right here.) Anyway, I mentioned this in one of my first entries, but I'll tell you again cause I know you don't read this shit. When I first signed up for AOL Instant Messenger back in high school, I tried every fucking name I could think of, but nothing worked that didn't have a string of numbers next to it. In desperation, I reached for my copy of "Learn Portuguese In Three Easy Weeks" and flipped to the glossary. The Portuguese word for "complaint" has been part of my online identity ever since. Now ya know.

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:10:54 +0000

I’ve got a question.
How did the name queiza come about anyway, ya crazy haitian frobocop?

By: DanG

DanG — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:07:10 +0000

Well, this raises a serious question about what makes a language. Is a series of nonsensical gibberish words a language if someone intends it to have signifying value? The answer is…no.

By: soce, the elemental wizard

soce, the elemental wizard — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:18:24 +0000

OMG, I *will* go to both the BPC and CU open mics really soon!! I’ve been dying to go to them.. just haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks so much for reminding me

By: kukuberra

kukuberra — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:02:40 +0000

Hey, Don’t forget Monday nights, 10pm, Bowery Poetry Club, at Bowery and 1st street. $3

Incredibly supportive and fun open mic. Open to anyone doing anything on stage. Musicians, actors, poets – all hang out. Also open mics at Collective:Unconcious 7:45 sign up, Wed and Sun $3.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:12:26 +0000

Actually, it looks like what Sigur Ros has been doing is frightfully close to what I’ve been talking about.

From the Sigur Ros FAQ:

“what language does jónsi sing in?

“On the first three albums (von, von brigði, ágætis byrjun), jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but two of them (von and olsen olsen) were sung in ‘hopelandic’. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the ‘invented language’ in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it’s of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it’s rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they’ve decided on the melody but haven’t written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von).”

Evan, looks like you were totally on point with that one. Nice!

By: DanG

DanG — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:58:20 +0000

To be fair to Sigur Ros, they don’t actually sing in nonsense. They supposedly made up their own language called “Hopelandic” that they sing in. It may be nonsense to you and me, but I assure you it is quite meaningful to the people of “Hopeland”, wherever they might be.

By: soce, the elemental wizard

soce, the elemental wizard — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:32:05 +0000

Maybe you will become a master producer.. like me! Producing hot tracks for others to write the lyrics to and sing over. representatum–socetew