Monthly Archives: September 2014

Snikt!

Mike would like to talk with you about snikt.  And sploorp.  And butcher some French while he’s at it.  Today’s subject is onomatopoeia and the visual representation of sound, particularly in comics.

AMONG, BUT NOT ALL, THE THINGS MENTIONED:

  • Proust
  • Magritte
  • Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
  • Roy Crane
  • The fadeout on the coda of Queen’s immortal “Fat Bottomed Girls” on the band’s greatest hits collection, which Mike is correctly peeved about and I’ll just add that it is a goddamn travesty THAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO ANSWER FOR
  • Time is a flat circle/The Handsome Family
  • Deadpool, elephant tusks, and Zombie Teddy Roosevelt

Go to the Reasonably Sound Instagram for more on this episode and to take part in Mike’s #mysnikt project.  You’ll be glad you did.

–Stu

The Cadillacs of Quiet

The stock photo place said these were shooting headphones. Let's hope they're right!

On this episode of Reasonably Sound, Mike Rugnetta considers noise-canceling headphones, whether you use them for cross-country flights or to mute your Simply Red-listening neighbor.  He tells you how they work (and don’t work), why the notion of neutral technology is a bunch of hooey (sorry, Chomsky), and that silence is a lie.

ALSO MENTIONED:

  • Weird warbles
  • Rare factions
  • Oculus Rift
  • Weirdly racist film stock
  • Harvard’s anechoic chamber
  • John Cage’s 4’33”
  • Wearing noise-canceling headphones while listening to John Cage’s 4’33”

—Stu