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    Pet word hates

    Roll out. As in: this will be rolled out across all departments. Fuck you, you robot. also Ordinary hard working families.
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    What is so Good About that Pop Music Thread?

    This is pretty much what I think too
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    arabic music

    Cheb Khaled is great - 'Treacherous rai, you made me lose my ways, you made me lose my home' Also Cheikha Remitti - The Queen of Rai
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    Robert Creeley RIP

    http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/31/robert_creeley_78_poet_leader_of_literary_avant_garde/
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    new japanese movies (Miike)

    Oldboy = Tarantino City of God =Scorcese Yes i was talking about the cinematography
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    Henry Flynt

    Purified By the Fire is a goodie.
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    new japanese movies (Miike)

    My wife is from Tokyo and she didn't see any especial significance for the 'Japanese psyche', whatever that means. Miike is interested in parodying Western genres and their reception in Japan, and Gozu is obviously, as someone said upthread, a take on Lynch's suburban surrealism. You could argue...
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    i-D Live @ Cargo

    He was mistaken then, Essentials and Kano were both on after 11 and were the highlights of the night for me. Essentials were incredibly tight and militant, really powerful stuff. Riko was superb throughout, intervening inna ruffneck style into various peoples sets - the crowd went off whenever...
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    i-D Live @ Cargo

    I'll be there.
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    Saul Bellow

    Course it was. Thanks Jazzbo.
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    Iain Sinclair

    I don't think Sinclair can write at all. He's not capable of constructing a sentence beyond one or two clauses composed mostly of adjectives: when he does it his prose loses any power and distinction it might have. The same goes for the overall architecture of his books - there isn't one -...
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    Saul Bellow

    He starts off as a left winger, is there in Mexico when Trotsky gets spiked, yet ends up writing paeans to Allan effing Bloom and coming out with crap like 'Where is the Zulu Proust'. So I have problems with him. That said, Humboldt's Gift, (central character based on Roethke I think?), is...
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    Melancholy

    What do you mean by melancholy? Baudelaire? Benjamin? Warhol?
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    Hunter S. T. R.I.P.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4282865.stm
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    Derrida as Esoteric Political Philosopher of the Right

    on Benjamin and Agamben too.
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    Stories From the Papers

    The best and most offensive headline I've seen recently is on the cover of this week's South London Press, about some lags in Wandsworth prison who've refused to eat food prepared by sex offenders, hence: PAEDO GRUB SNUB
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    Favourite Grime MCs.

    Is this true? Call me naive but I think the gun thing is exaggerated out of all proportion. Murders are hardly rife anywhere in London.
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    Motivation

    holy fuck that sounds sinister
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    INA-GRM / Musique Concrete recommendations?

    Coincidently, he was speaking at the Tate last night: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/lucferrari2072.htm
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    Step up all Rhyme Contenders!

    There had to be some merking somewhere didn't there? :D
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