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I am curious Yellow gets my vote. more on this when my hangover lifts

oh, fake as fake can be. i've lived in london (south of river- first new cross, then peckham, then camberwell/brixton hinterlands ,and deptford for the last 3 years) for 7 years but am originally from Southampton. Seeing as I'm 24 though that does mean I've lived in london my entire adult...

well i wouldn't go that far- but yes it is a very underrated film, incredibly menacing- starts a period of claustrophobia and horror also encompassing the similarly undervalued Lost Highway (which haneke has obviously copped an idea or two from) it was apparently totally hacked to pieces by the...

beautifully put. hmm, i really must go back to this...i do absolutely love moroder's midnight express soundtrack, but i've never actually seen the film, partly deliberately, as it can't possibly be as good as the neon dystopia evoked by the music. similarly not a huge fan of the schrader cat...

i guess they just seem...tossed off. not nearly as witty as they think they are, riven with pomposity, and musically utterly four-square and drab (as people have pointed out, the smiths did actually have quite a rhythm section-'the queen is dead' utterly thunderous... note also the hi-life...

right then. i'm as 'synth-bound' as anyone here and i would like to come out and say- I LIKE THE SMITHS. i've said it now (sighs. it's like a weight off my shoulders!) my reasons being- -yeess, so the smiths were 'retro', so you might have been better off listening to jam & lewis or marshall...

i went there in december and it was lovely- very wintry. in the rain i imagine it'd be grim as all hell though. anyway, for stuff to read- the pdf i link to here http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2006/04/old-ultraviolence.html is interesting, as is the book 'back to the future- a...

in a similar vein, this wonderful thing in bloomsbury which i had always thought was originally a swimming pool, but was apparently a garage when it was built in 1931...is a v good spot there- senate house at one end, the brunswick centre at the other, the brutalist Unison building, british...

ho ho. can i be the first to say though that, at the very least at a formal level, i fucking hate that building. ta for the hoover building pics luka. my dad's from round there...

i had a couple of things to say about this ere http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2006/04/food-and-revolutionary-art.html sadly there are no peans to suet pudding that i know of can i nominate, then, the upsetters' 'kentucky skank', which always evokes memories of my fried chicken...

parliamentary cretinism yes, this is genuinely terrifying. but part of the point with the idea of 'reflexive impotence' is the element of truth in it. i genuinely don't want to be dismissive of any sort of action, but surely there is nothing more futile, more pre-emptively pointless, than...

hurrah! fingers out, you lot

this is true. on the one hand the leninist, 'everything is connected line' is very attractive- but painting matthew freud as being in any way as significant as anna, sigmund or bernays is hmm, not entirely convincing. also would have liked some more marcuse in the 60s stuff, specially his...

founder peter the great used to live on my street y'know. but for me it'll always be leningrad... ...can i get a postcard?

roughly 200 lps/12s/7s and 600 cds, also about 100 tapes am due something of a purge...

i was suggesting that following their logic, one could make a similar assessment of capitalism's brutalities. naturally one can critique US capitalism without necessarily roping in, say, scandinavian forms of capitalism (though a case could be made (though not at 3am!) that capitalism's very...

(see above, apologies for my glibness)

book length=research and quality, interesting thesis. no, i admit not to having read its 900 pages. but large swathes of the left have always been against stalinism, maoism and its derivatives. the tendency to conflate them with say, the sandinistas, ho chi minh, tito's yugoslavia, allende's...

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