Recent content by neupunk

Not only do I wish there was another Gibson interview to read, I would wholeheartedly welcome a Kodwo Eshun / Paul Miller grudge.

He's probably one of those ccru guys incognito, or a dissensus poster. Or maybe the guy who writes boomkat release descriptions.

You're probably being bitten by Word's use of "smart quotes" -- MS-specific characters that do the left\right curvy quotes around sentences instead of the HTML entities for the same, or the generic double tick marks. I'm not sure if it's Wordpress or another part of the chain that's mangling...

Here's what you have to do: Tracks in a playlist have a sort order (the first column of the playlist) that reflected the order you added them to the playlist. You candrag tracks up and down the list to reorder them, and sorting by artist/album/whatever will apparently now kill that numbering...

I think the interest in her stateside is both from the indie crossover segment (they love those british, self-proclaimed indie types do) and the NPR crowd, which is where a few of my friends picked up on her from. Amusing British girl is an angle that sells well, especially when references to...

I'm looking forward to the album by The Field as well. Anyone else hear the live set that's been floating around -- maybe I downloaded it from a link here, I can't remember. He works so much mileage out of short loops. The Junior Boys remix EP that's due out sounds great, and apparently Matthew...

HMGovt's assertions aside, I think it's short-sighted to assume that media theorists, computer scientists, and fiction writers live in separate spheres that in no way overlap. It may prove a point to claim that theory has a fundamental detachment from the reality of the situation and that...

Soulseek is what I think of as a common carrier, like the phone system or internet service providers. They provide a system to search for files, namely music, and give users the ability to establish direct connections to swap data. That's it. They do little to no policing of their network and...

Reducing it to one statement: Anyone with basic music training can crank out a decent-sounding tune, but now anyone with reasonable computer skills and a reasonable ear can crank out some decent sounds. It's a lower barrier of entry to be sure, but that doesn't mean that we're going to see an...

I have a couple of his small art books. Great stuff, and very forthcoming about his ideas and feelings about art and life in general. There's a story floating around online (it may have been in Giant Robot, too) about how he was stuck in jail in Japan for a while after an incident with an...

I ended up seeing her twice in Chicago a couple weeks back - once at Lollapalooza, where she was 20 minutes late for a one hour set (for perspective, there was about an hour of dead time at each stage for setup between acts) -- it was ten minutes before her DJ even walked on. The second was...

The idea of things sticking in your intestines, whether it's meat or "toxins," is pretty much the territory of "healthy" people who think that things like colon therapy, repeated enemas and fasting, and long sauna breaks are ways to somehow detoxify the body. It's a way to lose weight, to be...

There's the question of differentiating between life support - which is a specific term for individuals who are kept alive by specific medical technology, like respirators - and medical maintenance of the body and mind to keep the individual functioning. There are a number of people that...

Actually, the Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" one is by Chris Ott. Colin Meloy did the one on The Replacements' "Let it Be."

I'd agree if women in southeast Asia were being obviously paid to have children for export, but isn't it more a case of children with no home being adopted by adults who want a child? I think there are some cynical elements here, but I have trouble trying to justify wanting to care for and raise...