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.

Here Be Dragons

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[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...

[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...)