Comments on: …A Country Mule Ready to Kick a Hole Into the Future… http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2009/04/a-country-mule-ready-to-kick-a-hole-into-the-future/ Down Home Radio is a hardcore, unreconstructed, paleo-acoustic folk music program. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:36:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jim cockcroft http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2009/04/a-country-mule-ready-to-kick-a-hole-into-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-6242 jim cockcroft Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:32:34 +0000 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=591#comment-6242 cool reflection, dude, it makes me think. Thanks! jim cool reflection, dude, it makes me think. Thanks! jim

]]> By: Imogen http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/2009/04/a-country-mule-ready-to-kick-a-hole-into-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-6129 Imogen Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:56:10 +0000 http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/?p=591#comment-6129 If we are talking the “matter-of-fact merits based on [its] physical nature”, the typewriter actually retaliates with a thud, a vibration. As a writer, I find that that thump-sound strengthens each word I write, intensifies its impression both literally and symbolically. Yes, I suppose the musician’s equivalent would be the acoustic instrument. Whereas film that requires processing (with the exception of Polaroid, etc.) and LPs are still one step removed, no? Striking a string is to sling a typebar. An LP is to a printed book. Podcasting is to blogging. Somewhere between the silly leisure of cursive and the sterile keyboard stroke … is the glorious typewriter. I move from tiny apartment to tiny apartment toting milk crates of type-written pages. Though often punched with little thought or method, I like to think those pages hold much more weight emblematically than the dozens of scrawled journals and/or the countless Word documents I’ve saved. Just two cents … If we are talking the “matter-of-fact merits based on [its] physical nature”, the typewriter actually retaliates with a thud, a vibration. As a writer, I find that that thump-sound strengthens each word I write, intensifies its impression both literally and symbolically. Yes, I suppose the musician’s equivalent would be the acoustic instrument. Whereas film that requires processing (with the exception of Polaroid, etc.) and LPs are still one step removed, no? Striking a string is to sling a typebar. An LP is to a printed book. Podcasting is to blogging.

Somewhere between the silly leisure of cursive and the sterile keyboard stroke … is the glorious typewriter.

I move from tiny apartment to tiny apartment toting milk crates of type-written pages. Though often punched with little thought or method, I like to think those pages hold much more weight emblematically than the dozens of scrawled journals and/or the countless Word documents I’ve saved.

Just two cents …

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