Last night, I was out at my usual pub... After the people I was sitting with headed home for the evening, I was sitting there, just enjoying my Guinness, surrounded by the usual noise of a night bar crowd... The people speaking, plus the jukebox, plus a game of foosball, all blends together into a basicly unintelligible white noise... (white noise is the presence of all frequencies within the scope of our hearing... think of the static you get when you TV signal goes down... not to be confused with pink noise, which is processed white noise that sound guys use to tweak their sound systems... but there I go digressing again...) The odd thing was that as I sat there awash in the cacophony, I managed to pick up on two words from a conversation three tables away... "Freelance Carpentry" Now, I suppose that I hear those two words put together quite often, just due to working in the production side of the arts... How in the world I filtered out just those two words though, I can't imagine... I even tried evesdropping on the rest of their conversation to see if they were talking about arts carpentry, or construction carps, or something else, but I couldn't make out a single word after that... Someone tell me how that works...
Posted by Backstage at February 27, 2004 04:51 PM