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Oh and before I forget, there's also a very convincing (in my opinion) argument for the moral validity of meat-eating in the introduction to the River Cottage Meat Book. :) Tho he does stress it should be from small organic producers. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall... I so agree with his views and...

Lol, so did I. Well, 8 years to be precise. I think one of the main things was that I was fed up eating cheese sandwiches. So I moved on to tuna sandwiches and felt much healthier. (Was living in a college room with no cooking facilities at the time.) Now I like rare steaks... Yeah. An attempt...

Arf. :D No contest there tho: it has to be the cow pus. If there is such a thing as liquid cardboard, I'm sure it tastes like soya milk.

Hmm. The Darkness. Surely they're just Guns 'n' Roses in a new, slightly camper guise? And posted on the mtv.com Yeah Yeah Yeahs microsite: 'New Yeah Yeah Yeahs LP Is Conceptual Record About Karen O's Cat'. Nuff said. :)

Oh I see. You are talking about reproduction as (as opposed to just production/composition per se). I think that's an interesting idea - relates to the fact that with electronic music, the producer and the 'performer' are generally the same person. And 'presence' is a good word. I suppose you...

Ok fair enough. Sorry if i came across a bit harsh there. It's true that computer production can be a bit lonely, but it doesn't have to be (too many producer/DJ-duos to mention). And writing music for acoustic instruments can be a lonely business as well. So the individual-social dichotomy...

Nah. I really don’t want to agree with labrat (see below) but that is crap. More ‘worthy’? On what basis? Sorry but I’m not gonna let this one go. How many classical musicians do you know? How much classical music have ever you been exposed to (bearing in mind you feel able to dismiss it all...

oh well if you've said it before it must be true. dismissing any art form in its entirety is small-minded and stupid; a "music fan" attempting to dismiss all of clasical music is...well, very small-minded and stupid indeed. but anyway, this may well fall flat, but it's an intruiging idea and i...

this happened to me during an erol alkan set at the end. out of the standard house beats emerged this pulstaing, joy division-esque bassline and me and my mate - sitting there bored, the only ones in our group not dropping - sat up and took notice. then he mixed in this ridiculously...

I hear music in dreams. Sometimes it's so loud it actually wakes me up; it's as though I am *really* hearing it rather than aurally visualising it, as I would in waking life. Sometimes it is so beautiful it makes me cry. I can usually remember it when I wake up, but it never seems to have the...

Solution: wear earplugs. Seriously uncool I know, but it filters out a lot of the high frequencies. And with a shit soundsystem it even makes the music sound better. Trust me. :)

It's not Syd Barrett is it? :)

yeh i think you're right there -- it's hazy but from what i can remember about greek catharsis it involved physical elements...and i remember being told that 'it's much more complicated than a simple therapeutic outpouring of emotions'....can't quite remember how tho! and i agree with you...

this did happen, to an extent, at the rephlex rave at jacks the other week, when kode 9 and the mystikz played alongside dmx krew, luke vibert, cylob etc. it looked great on paper but in fact there wasn't much interaction between the different scenes: the elctro-heads crammed into one room to...

Sorry to butt in to what seems to be becoming a fairly personal discussion, but this is really interesting. I'm not sure I agree that politics - at least on the surface - has come to be articulated entirely in negative terms. Surely the time to get suspicious is when the politicians DO start...

Especially the part where he woefully misunderstands dialectics: 'you simply cannot believe two mutually exclusive things at once...' Doh. I attended a lecture this evening where I was told to go home and read some Hegel. I might direct the same comment at Jamie Whyte.

yes, animal farm has been widely read. so has mills and boon. it does not endow it with literary value. the reasons animal farm is widely read and widely loved are: 1) the ideas it communicates are simple and 2) the manner of the presentation is simple and sentimental (poor Boxer! poor, poor...

I agree. But I don't know whether McClary's explanations should really be read as *descriptions* of how the majority of people listen to music, so much as memorable, if idiosyncratic, critical constructs that can change the way the music is heard. Their aim is not to describe, but to create...

[ Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being ... and everything else Tolkien - Lord of the Ring Coehlo - the alchemist any other suggestion? ok with the tolkien...as for kundera -- i really couldn't disagree more. the unbearable lightness of being is a superb novel: intimate, funny, tragic...