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Gentlemen take polaroids is also good (not as good as tin drum tho...) But yes Tin Drum best Japan album by a long way. Almost prog-like in its percussive oddness, stylization taken to a point of beautiful grotesquerie... But mainly: Blemish-- best album of the 00s? Definitely. Avant song...

This game is fucking brilliant... my brother and I played it pretty obsessively (the sub games that is) a few years back- the monkey rowing was the best of all tho...

This is fucking brilliant... Though the last bit reminds me of "no uniform day" at school... where obviously I was the only one wearing the uniform... the head of 6th form rightly noting the pure perversity of it... However: I realise I have an urgent need for a safari suit and pith helmet...

Lol...

Oh you zinged me there... but seriously, Zhao its not xenophobic to suggest that zen, just like any other form of religion or mysticism (I don't exclude Heidegger from this, or Christianity etc) is suceptible to being utilised as a technology in the interests of the hegemony of the day.... is...

Heheheh...

Yup its a nice analysis- the stuff about going into "plucky defeat" mode is especially accurate... we demand nothing more than a GLORIOUS failure.

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/007995.html

(1) here is anything but aesthetic. Its fucked England time and time again (specifically the last world cup). Rather than building a team which works (cf Reading- my home team... making the best of limited resources and actually constructing something which at its best is greater than the sum of...

Heheh... By inclination I prefer snooker I must say... however the mechanics (and the machinations) of football are actually fascinating. I'm slowly working my way into it...

Like an alcoholic pissing his life up the wall I can only hope this is England/The FA reaching rock bottom. But unless there are personnel change at the highest level this nonsense is only going to continue I'm afraid.

It must be done through the processes of capitalism, not individualistic zen-mystical mind games or the merely biological. But just as much as altering Capital we alter the human itself.

This is pernicious bullshit! I have no desire to become a body-without organs or destratisfy... or worst of all "become whole" (like whole foods?) Reclaim my self? Next you will be telling me to return home to the humble ekstasis of the "clearing" of Heideggerean being. If anything we have not...

say it ain't so...

This relies on a very settled notion of the human self. And it also reduces everything political to the merely pathological, the psychological. You could just as easily say- it is not capitalism which is the problem, the real problem is us and our pathology---> and hence we must alter...

I'm in total agreement with you as far as the trap of critique goes. As a model it has to be abandoned... Critique alone fails, but to give up on reason entirely leaves us ... where exactly? Your conclusions are utterly, tragically glib. How can anyone take you seriously with such a settled...

Exactly- Burial is not IDM to the extent that his parasitism is antithetical to that of say Squarepusher on Jungle. A necromancer, not someone who thinks he can "do it better but in 3D"... the feeling of failure (glorious interesting failure) is paramount... it: the rave, 2step, the utopian...

The dynamic runs precisely that Capital creates a problem, then has the damn cheek to sell us the solution to that problem too! For example, it creates a culture where the norm is to adopt a fairly sedentary lifestyle, driving not walking, leisure time spent in inaction etc... then sells us the...

I agree with Tim F that Burial is a break with the hardcore continuum, he's a parasitic figure in a sense, an outsider. Too well versed in its traditions to actually be a proper part of them... But I disagree with him to the extent that I would strongly contend that what is more interesting...

Its like a slowly unfolding (but all too familiar) car crash... Dubmugga/ill advised racially motivated user name is the same as he ever was though (obsession with breaks, ludicrous assertions about the London bias of the dubstep scene, endless piss poor self-promotion...)