Top Tens UbuWeb

UbuWeb Top Ten October 2014 Selected by Open Culture 1. Finnegans Wake (1939), Read by Patrick Healy Open Culture: Hear All of Finnegans Wake Read Aloud: A 35 Hour Reading 2. The Craft of Verse: Jorge Luis Borges' Norton Lectures, 1967-68 Open Culture: Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary) 3. Three rare films by Susan Sontag Open Culture: The Filmmaking of Susan Sontag & Her 50 Favorite Films (1977) 4.  M.A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein (1983 / 1989) Open Culture: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Gets Adapted Into an Avant-Garde Comic Opera 5. Aldous Huxley’s Visionary Experience Open Culture: Aldous Huxley, Psychedelics Enthusiast, Lectures About “the Visionary Experience” at MIT (1962) 6. Jacques Derridia’s interview with Ornette Coleman [PDF] Open Culture: Philosopher Jacques Derrida Interviews Jazz Legend Ornette Coleman: Talk Improvisation, Language & Racism (1997) 7. Joey Ramone Sings a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: “The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs,” Open Culture: Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake 8. The Avant-Garde Project Open Culture: The Avant-Garde Project: An Archive of Music by 200 Cutting-Edge Composers, Including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage & More 9. Alice Toklas Reads Her Hashish Fudge Recipe Open Culture: Alice B. Toklas Reads Her Famous Recipe for Hashish Fudge (1963) 10. Jean Baudrillard Sings! Open Culture: Jean Baudrillard Reads His Poetry, Backed By All-Star Arts Band (1996) Dan Colman is the editor of Open Culture, the web site he created in 2006. He’s also the Director of Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program.