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Piran you can get a bus to from Trieste. Trieste is good for passing through, nothing else. From Piran, you can get a boat (back) to Venice. Piran is a little like a cleaned up Venice. Good for a couple of days. Wine - refosk - outstanding.

hmm, isn't it something to do with the fact they seldom have anything to say (of interest at least) rather than the creation of 'mystique'?

Just found this tribute to Deleuze in a second hand store. It's mostly a collection of cod-electronica, drones and beeps. Has a nice sample of Deleuze himself speaking though and glossy linear notes, replete with an essay. Anyway, I like the idea of a musical tribute to philosophers. The...

It's like Heidegger meets Tool Time Tim.

I would say that Doom needn’t be Goth, but that the 2 often overlap. I mean gothic is a matter of content and not form. People overlook this because both gothic metal and Doom metal tend to have similar formal characteristics, i.e. song of epic length, slow in tempo and largely in a detuned...

Natten Madrigal probably is more black metal than doom. But it’s an album which has had a formative influence on bands like Agalloch who I’d really recommend. Besides, Ulver has always been doomish in content even if they’re later records display a non-doom form. Perdition City and so...

Doom Rules!! That's a nice looking list, I’d add the following however: 1. Agalloch – Mantle 2. Katatonia – Dance of December Souls 3. ISIS – Panopticon 4. My Dying Bride – Angel and the Dark River 5. Skepticism – AES 6. Sunn O))) – 00 Void 7. Evoken – Quietus 8. Anathema – Pentecost EP...

That's Nick Land?! Oh how the mighty fall....and then become dull.

. "Just as Kurtz disappeared “up river” into the Vietnamese jungle, the CCRU have strategically withdrawn to their operational base in an apartment in nearby Leamington Spa." Could they still be in the apartment ?