america did well to castrate them. i dont think they will be able to do that to the chinese though.
Yeah, there's that bit in American Psycho where someone says the Japanese will own everything by the end of the 90s.It's amazing when you come across the claims being made for the future of Japan in the late 80s/very early 90s compared to what happened next. From global domination to second tier irrelevance in the space of a few years.
at least one major hollywood film about it. mike davis talks about it a lot in city of quartz.Yeah, there's that bit in American Psycho where someone says the Japanese will own everything by the end of the 90s.
There are dozens of books meticulously exploring how nostalgia affects and interacts with music consumption and production, from Benjamin Filene’s Romancing the Folk and Richard Peterson’s Creating Country Music to the work of Susan Stewart and of course, the amateurish but important Retromania by Simon Reynolds.
They come in and start trying to take over Detroit in RoboCop 3.They were bad guys in a lot of the action movies of the time.
But why are we celebrating artists who don’t know how to properly work their equipment, or take no measures, as simple as they might be, to make their words intelligible instead of garbled, or even worse – who are able to record at a higher fidelity, who have the know-how and the skillset and deliberately deceive audiences with a certain self-representation of amateurism? I think these are important questions to pose.
One thing I am interested in with Gus' taste is this aversion to wrong, like music has to be this immaculate product. I find it curiously bourgeois, but even the actual bourgeoisie are quick to disown this sense of totalitarian completeness, hence their obsession with hipster chic and poverty porn.
There was that weird period of Hollywood films involving the IRA too, like Richard Gere playing an IRA sniper in The Jackal.They were bad guys in a lot of the action movies of the time.
The upside is he has a fantasy image of perfection that he could manifest if he put in the work. The downside is that nothing he listens to will ever live up to it. Chasing the dragon forever. Negative taste (I don't like this because it doesn't live up) vs positive taste (I like this). The former works great when you're, say, reviewing promo CDs at a radio station (a hellish sort of task but in a fun way).he's an interesting case study isn't he sat nav?