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    Time: Is It Bullshit?

    you missed the best bit >>> Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
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    Deep House and Garage

    Woza twennyteeeeen... really was a golden year in SA house... peak Afrotainment, DJ Clock etc
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    adele vs amy winehouse

    I worked in a cheese factory for a bit, they piped in radio, same songs every hour... every time certain songs came on the girls on the brie counter would do a little dance.
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    Music

    isn't poetry the sound of one hand clapping? yknow that idea that if you play babies mozart it calms them and it helps their cognitive development? it was assumed that mozart had some rare delicate harmelodic cadence that fired the synapses. I remember reading that someone did a mega study on...
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    Essential Directors

    Julio Medem 1991 - 2001 Vacas -> La Ardilla Roja -> Tierra -> Los Amantes del Ciclo Polar -> Lucia y El Sexo A good run
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    The Trevor Horn Sound

    The pitch bend on the chaching is created by toggling the guitar whammy/tremolo bar while the harmonics sustain. That's the metal thing sticking out underneath the strings here.
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    The Trevor Horn Sound

    chaching guitar harmonics through one of these
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    China Mieville -- Questions

    On a bit of a Mieville burn at the minute. I liked The City and The City and Kraken but King Rat is the best so far I reckon. Perdido Street Station next, probably. It does that thing where other writing becomes unappealing while you're in it.
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    Poetry

    Es muss sein
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    The Right to Be Cool

    it's particularly cool on Thorstein Veblen's early 20th century critique of capitalism, conspicuous consumption etc I remember reading somewhere that Jay Z never wears a pair of shoes twice.
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    The Right to Be Cool

    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3536614.html#:~:text=Cool%20Rules%20traces%20Cool's%20ancient,of%20the%201950s%20and%20'60s. good book
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    Hinkley Point

    Good book this.
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    Hinkley Point

    yep. my mate lives in Nether Stowey which is a tiny town in the glow of Hinkley Point... in terms of ambient lighting it's a bit like having a massive full moon every night and there are hardly any stars.
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    Hinkley Point

    A very ugly building, Dungeness B
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    Water

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