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my local polling station (in the hall adjoining a cathedral) last year (first time voter!) was staffed entirely by fearsome old tory ladies. they were just about sentient enough to tell that my protracted scribbling sounds could signify only illiteracy dementia or infantile ballot spoling...

ha! (i tend to sympathise with padraig re psychoanalysis) tangentially, has anyone actually undergone 'orthodox' psychoanalysis (as opposed to some derivative thereof)

tis a good thing edit/ not too sure about the background it's like ironic flock wallpaper and it hurts my eyes

i forgot all about this thread i was being a little ingenuous, having read simon reynold's review of the cold vein so yeah, is that it?

this leads me to wonder what would happen to a self professed holocaust denier in the same position (just being inquisitive, you understand)

today's profound insight #12413a in hebrew, they must have to be the other way round ,'(

absurd as it is to think a broadsheet will cover music to the satisfaction of anyone likely to be posting here, i do agree there is at least a sense of naive enthusiasm in the telegraph's coverage that elevates it above alexis petridis and the like.

surely not ;0 that execrable u2 fellating twat, smug nonsense about how we should be very happy because of british music selling again, classical reviews that might have been archive reprints from the 30s 'vaughn williams, splendid, rich, colourful' and so forth although there was a piece...

who came up with the term and when? thanks :s

isn't it legititmate to decide they're not_a_good_thing just from pictures of them? or the opening paragraph of a broadsheet newspaper article about them? in the observer? a few weeks ago the subtitle of a puff piece described them as publicity shunning, followed by several pages of pictures of...

are microstoria worth a look?

The notion that AFX post rdj (or hangable auto bulb) is a sort of teleological end in western music is amusing but I can sympathise with it. As a kid dismisive of 4/4 techno, jungle etc, those and the subsequent 90s releases were very important, the abuse and appropriation of those popular...

the second one is excellent

two people from the contortions apparently that fucking holland tunnel track is catchy as....

wow, loads of stuff there i think i'd like (gotta avoid 'need' lest i slip into feverish slsking) can anyone suggest a sort of primer for stuff like the acen 'trip to the moon' track?

i thought the last books album was comparatively ignored until i saw it was the wire's album of the year

vertov could definitely be considered avant garde, if you use that as a catch all for various early-mid 20th century artistic movements, i don't think you could situate sirk and dozvhenko in that way. the 'sirk industry' claim can dismiss the 70s criticism, the fassbinder-brechtian side of...

in the sense that vertov or dozvhenko were still making films for 'popular' consumption, as were the weimar expressionists, even if they were from an avant garde background. the same could be perhaps be said for sirk in the fifties.

could you expand on that? also the art/mainstream dichotomy didn't really exist in the 20s (nascent surrealism etc excepted)