Leon Theremin was the secret link between sci-fi films, the Beach Boys, and Carnegie Hall. His self-named electronic musical instrument--the first of its kind--took the world by storm in the 1920s and '30s. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, winner of Sundance's Filmmakers Trophy, explores the inventor's strange life and times, including his mysterious 50-year disappearance beginning in the 1940s. Interviews with theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, and Theremin's contemporaries, as well as clips from movies such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, featuring the unworldly sounds of his creation, show an eccentric genius working toward success until his sudden vanishing in the Soviet Union. Footage of Theremin at 94 years old, finally rediscovered and rewarded for his achievements, brings a celebratory ending to what could be a grim or at least uncertain story, but instead is a fascinating documentary.

anyone see this?
have any interest?

3 entries found for queue.
queue ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ky)
n.
A line of waiting people or vehicles.
A long braid of hair worn hanging down the back of the neck; a pigtail.
Computer Science.
A sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing.
A data structure from which the first item that can be retrieved is the one stored earliest.

intr.v. queued, queu·ing, queues
To get in line: queue up at the box office.


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[French, from Old French cue, tail, from Latin cauda, cda.]
Word History: When the British stand in queues (as they have been doing at least since 1837, when this meaning of the word is first recorded in English), they may not realize they form a tail. The French word queue from which the English word is borrowed is a descendant of Latin cda, meaning “tail.” French queue appeared in 1748 in English, referring to a plait of hair hanging down the back of the neck. By 1802 wearing a queue was a regulation in the British army, but by the mid-19th century queues had disappeared along with cocked hats. Latin cda is also the source of Italian coda, which was adopted into English as a musical term (like so many other English musical terms that come from Italian). A coda is thus literally the “tail end” of a movement or composition.

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queue

n 1: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn: waiting line] 2: (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted 3: a braid of hair at the back of the head v : form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store" [syn: line up, queue up]


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queue



<programming> A first-in first-out data structure used to
sequence multiple demands for a resource such as a printer,
processor or communications channel. Objects are added to
the tail of the queue and taken off the head.

A typical use of queues in an operating system involves a
user command which places something on a queue, e.g. a file on
a printer queue or a job on a job queue, and a background
process or "demon" which takes things off and processes them
(e.g. prints or executes them). Another common use is to pass
data between an interrupt handler and a user process.

The Brian Wilson quote/trainwreck about how 'Good Vibrations' was aimed at children->we're all children->we're all children of God, etc is a classic Brian Wilson moment.

Good, informative doc - saw it a few years ago. If memory serves, Wilson sports a beat-up blue terrycloth bathrobe throughout his interview looking like he just survived a stroke.