We Have Sound

[poliphilo]

 My computer has been silent for a while now. I forget why I made that choice. Maybe it was because of the dreadful plunking noise it made every time an email came through the virtual letter-box. 

But there's more and more video showing up on LJ and elsewhere and I've been feeling frustrated that I couldn't run it with sound. So I let Ailz buy me some speakers on eBay.

The plunking is back. I guess I can live with it.

This morning I watched (and listened) to a clip on the Guardian website. David Lynch hasn't the budget to run a proper Oscar campaign on behalf of his new movie, so he's sitting on the corner of a Hollywood street with a big poster of Laura Dern and a cow. Interviewed by the makers of the video, he says something about how we should eat more cheese and cheese is made from milk and Laura Dern deserves an Oscar. I gather the new movie follows the same sort of logic. 

I can't wait.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Why not just keep the speakers turned off except for when you are starting to watch a video clip? That's what I do - I hate my computer making noises at me unless I've specifically asked it to.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well yes, that's what a sensible person would do.....

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Or turn off all warning noises? You should be able to do that in the control panel of Windows and in your email client preferences. My computer never plunks at me any more, even with the sound turned on.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to figure all this stuff out.

One of the good things about not having sound was it simplified my relationship with the machine. I wouldn't say I'm useless with computers, but they kinda intimidate me.

Here Be Dragons

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Most sounds (such as "New Mail Notification") can be turned off in the Windows Control Panel.

Re: Here Be Dragons

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I really need to figure out how this machine works.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

You can turn off all the WIN sounds and just live with what you want to hear!

I love that sort of Lynchesque logic myself. I could google but do you know what the title of the film is offhand?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's called Inland Empire. Reports suggest that it's going to outwierd anything Lynch has done to date.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I don't have speakers, but keep headphones for when I want to hear something. This has the added benefit, for me, that I don't watch clips unless I can be bothered to stand up and reach for the headphones. Also takes up less space on my desk.

Speakers that turn off is probably a more sensible suggestion, though...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Headphones sound like a good idea.

Now that I'm all tooled up for video nothing worth watching is coming my way.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I suppose someone has told you by now that you can silence (or change) the plunking sound when mail comes in...

More importantly, though: are Dern and Lynch together again in a movie? I still remember the vividly weird Wild at Heart (in particular, the vomit scene and the wonderfully eerie Elvis Song...)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This movie- Inland Empire- is described as a "fever dream". It sounds as if it's the weirdest thing Lynch has yet done.