Recent content by Jamie S

Actually, I am genuinely interested in what his economics are like. The general tone of the commentary has been about America vs the rest of the world, rather like the first post in this thread and I haven't read anything about what he'd actually do in the World Bank. I'm off home now, but I...

Chevez=Chavez ther=their Sorry

I can't believe someone just equated Chevez to Pinochet and no-one objected. As I understand it, Oliver's take on Wolfowitz is that he's the bit of the American administration that actually believes it's own propaganda about spreading democracy. And I don't agree with that, but you know, fair...

Me, I hate the Olympics. I think it's a 4 yearly excuse for people who excel at doing things none of the rest of us care about to get a bit of limelight. All the proper sports either aren't there or have a rubbish Under 23 tournament or whatever. And athletics is just boring. However, I think...

It's an interesting question if you've ever actually tried to do it (make reggae as an all white band). My band used to do a cover of John Public and I wrote a thing for us that musically is quite a detailed rip-off. There's no sufferation shtick in the vocals and no cod patois, but I'm pretty...

Re the impenetrability. I always thought a lot of that was to do with reading stuff in translation. I have this fantasy that these guys are writing the most lucid accesible stuff, that then gets turned into these difficult texts that all you theory bods find so terribly exciting ; ) Has anyone...

I know the etymology isn't really Matt's point but it's fascinating. It set me wondering about the use of 'hot' (Westwood: 'Damn that joint is hot!') and Miles Davis sprang to mind. You get all those albums with heat metaphors (Cookin' Steamin' etc.) and then Birth of the Cool. Had a quick...

The Kosmische club (which Jim Backhouse puts on, I think)had a special evening playing nothing but CAN when the DVD came out. They showed it early on and I was a bit underwhelmed. There was some late live footage from a TV show (which might be the same stuff you're talking about) which reminded...

Yeah. Or stopped having fun, even. There's a thread over at ILM (one of the Grime ones?)in which Martin Clark puts out an interesting mirror image of Alexis's argument. He finds the whole e/euphoria/rave/acid house etc. phenonema so passe that he celebrates the joyless-ness of a dubstep night...

Which isn't great either, is it? Why didn't they get Phil Sherburne in? http://www.neumu.net/needledrops/data/00084_needledrops.shtml Having said that there is a story to be told or a point to be made, which is why it's frustrating that AP fails to make it. Dance music could be said to be dead...

Both Nietzsche's conception of The Death of God and the Lovecraftian take on atheism that you describe share the assumption that the Human OS is both capable of understanding 'meaning' and deeply needful of 'meaning'. Now, I am what you'd probably call an atheist-vitalist, but it seems to me...

Heard this on Radio 4 last night. You can listen to it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml#c (inevitably in a half hour programme) a bit glib at the beginning and end, but some really interesting interviews with some of the players (Dennis Bovell, Tippa Irie and Duke Vin...

(timidly puts head above parapet) I play the guitar for a band called The Articles, who as luck would have it, are playing this Friday night at The Buffalo Bar, next to Highbury and Islington tube. It's our own night, called Farewell Meat, Hello Flesh. £3 to get in. Us, another band, some DJs...

Neur.. not Ner. Sorry Pies! yes!! Where would we be without pies?

"For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyber- space, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh." Neromancer, William Gibson...