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Well, I don't need to know that the accents are off to hate the Coen Bros (Grand Wizards of empty PoMo bullshit)... but that's another story.... :) Yes, I wondered exactly the same thing when I saw Match Point. Does New York look as fake and stilted to its residents as London looked in Match...

Also this

This looks like it's worth throwing into the mix

skating over the last heresy quickly, yeh, jd alerted me to their stuff; it has a peculiar, uncanny quality. I meant to start a thread a while back asking folk here if they knew anything about them. The oddest, and most ha ha hauntological track I've heard by them is 'Queen Bee', which is this...

that's a bit like what we tried to do on londonunderlondon actually...

The notion of screen memories is not integral; I merely introduced it as a means of moving away from what I thought was an undue emphasis on memory in the conventional sense. I agree that this is indeed - at least at one level - a problem. Given that we wouldn't want to deny that language is...

Absolutely... unintentional naturally, appropriately... yeh, works better in a French accent of course...

A few scattered thoughts, not yet well-formed....(or not sufficiently anamorphormed) 1. Definitions. Whilst enjoying the proliferating list of ghostly and ghost-themed recordings (many of which I've never heard of, still less heard, but would love to), I'm very much in agreement with calls for...

Plastikman - Consumed Luomo - Vocalcity both of the above hear the city as reverberations, spectral whispers Al Bowlly - already haunting and haunted, now - courtesy Kubrick and Potter - the geist/ ghost of Thirties England Roxy - first two LPs (esp Bob Medley - which always puts me in mind...

I agree he's arrogant and possibly deluded (but surely Blair WON'T like the amount of publicity he's getting, actually) but I think that's a world away from financial corruption. It's the attempts to smear him that leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Hmmm, but the most media impact most BB folk have is in the week or two after they leave the house. Let's see if all the highbrow media sneering at Galloway refuse to interview him after he comes out.. What does this prove exactly? The combined forces of the British and the American secret...

Only to trivialize and personalize them, especially in the case of the nihilistic public school guffaw-fest that is which even if it it has absolutely no merit in terms of political analysis or discussion. It reduces politics to BB-style personalised gossip; at least GG is trying to go in...

Another issue is the way in which Bonobo and his ilk have somehow managed to hold onto the idea that they are an - or rather THE - alternative rather the establishment in person. Mick Jagger had to give up that idea when punk kicked him offstage. But what force is capable of sweeping yoU too away?

A very warm welcome Mr Henry. As I noted on k-p, Ed Balls was on Question Time last night saying that Make Poverty History was the right way to engage young in politics (as opposed to Big Brother). (Which makes me think that there's potentially at least something a little frightening/...

why though? This rhetorical move - it's not me but - strikes me as typical of the denunciations of Galloway for going onto CBB. Would be a bit rich to condemn Galloway for snobbery whilst maintaining a totally snobbish stance about his being in there - an MP! on CBB! Why aren't constituents...

Think you're misinterpreting him there... he said (something like), 'for someone of my age and class, it is strange to hear sex discussed in such a way'... I took him to mean working class obv... the point being that licentious sex-talk used to be something expected of posh types (though sadly...

What makes me laugh at that Guardian quote now I look at it again is the idea that 'resurgence of guitar-based British music' somehow refutes rather than proves the original point about Smash Hits for students.

yep, it has the trademark k-p alliteration...

even better memory Marcus :)

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