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I had an argument the other day with a chap who works at the NFT. I mentioned that I wrote part of a MA thesis on Fassbinder and got an (often quite funny but anyway) tirade about the evils of film that doesn't entertain and so forth, and on the primacy of spectacle, the box office and whatnot-...

I'm having trouble with the assertion (actually made on the ethics thread, but anyway) that you can separate 'developing' countries and 'capitalist' countries, as if the exploitation of the former by the latter isn't an utterly inextricable part of capitalism, and has been for the past 400...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquiladora obv not mentioned here is the near-slave labour conditions these things tend to have my point was- what necessarily is the point of this particular ethical choice other than conscience-easing? when one is unaviodably embroiled in all manner of other...

not been a good year really- currently i can mainly think of this-

what actually annoys me a little about vegetarianism is its assumption that you can somehow ethically opt out of an inherently brutal system- i.e, all of us in some way participate by proxy in destruction of forests, wear clothes made sweatshop conditions, buy stuff made in maquiladoras etc ad...

'savage messiah' is v good, have a copy behind the desk at the aldgate anarchist bookshop waiting for me- psychogeographical stuff on the elephant and castle, rather too obviously up my strasse. oi martin, surely meeting captain sunday o-----o can't be more fun?

sleevenote to Rapeman's 'Two Nuns and a Pack Mule'- 'we don't hate vegetarians, we just think they're funny' (i was a veggie for over a year, and to my shame what made me break it was corned beef hash...)

actually it wasn't the blasphemy i liked in Curd Cheese, more the chaos and the meta element... Medea is excellent, also Gospel according to Matthew. there's an element of camp that creeps in which i spose annoys people, andI would possibly avoid the later epic things like The 1001 Nights...

the only issue of Vague i've ever read was the televisionaries issue- ended up quoting chunks of it in my MA dissertation. got it in the short lived gower st 'institute for autonomy'... ta for the link labrat, that's slipped my radar somehow

well, the quick answer is get all of them more specifically- the first one is quite rocking. 'ruckzuck' is v motorik but rest is a (quite gloriously i'd say) messy pile up of feedback, noise and flutes. second is one endless motorik thing and a second side of beatless twiddlings, including...

like theorem lots, the scene walking along the sands is awesome-- love the way pasolini integrates an obviously amazingly incompatible catholicism and marxism without it all going totally over the top and mental...the girl in it, anna wiazemsky married godard. but my favourite pasolini thing is...

i rather half-heartedly edit a zine with man like monster bobby. the zine mileu is a fairly dispiriting thing at the mo i think...look through the racks at Rough Trade and it's either riot grrl or indie schmindie, with good and odd stuff quite rare- lots of energy that would go into...

there's a wonderful penman piece on Rhythm and Sound which sadly i don't think is online--they definitely fit the perameters of 'hauntology' anyhow...retro but somehow reconstellating.

in the sense of 'ew'.

heheheh! i was being just a little facetious there. surely tho he abandoned stalinism when it became obvious that stalinism existed, as it were. and what i was suggesting was that this realisation doesn't necessarily entail becoming a miserly godbothering reactionary. do elaborate though on...

further guilt induced bumping... as it's in the spirit of this sort of stuff mebbe http://www.raveflyers.co.uk/

oh ok, i guess if its trying to evoke a rave in newbury or summat :p (note bumping up thread again)

(bumps up thread!) (what is going on with this flyer tho...?)

not the worst, but a few years ago promoting terrible gigs in new cross was a little grim. i am in part responsible for british sea power, as i helped promote their first gig in london- and for that i submit to the verdict of the tribunal of history, no matter how harsh it may be i would play...

niiiiice. today i have listened to gertrude stein things from ere- http://www.ubu.com/ michael mayer- funky handicap chelonis r jones- i don't know fennesz- venice