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I always thought Beckett's novels were more interesting than his plays, and some of the shorter prose works are quite haunting. Company really struck a chord for one reason or another when I was a teenager (though i wonder how it might read as a less indulgent adult...)One thing I remember...

i'd agree withm Jenks...he is very much like Auster in the way that his books are very light and yet somehow you constantly feel the themes he's exploring run much deeper... (and if this is just a clever illusion then it's an illusion I'm sure him and Auster would appreciate) I'd recommend...

Interesting how far the Krautrock genre can be stretched; never thought of DAF as Krautrock as such (not even the first album) still...it's hardly surprising that most of it is a little crap because most of <em>any</em> genre is a little crap. The interesting, innovative music in any genre...

Incantations "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me..." Maybe these magical incantations lose their power over time? Or when spread over a whole culture? I'm not sure...

Coil used portions of <em>The Sick Rose</em> on Love's Secret Domain... and had a catchphrase: Why be bleak when you can be Blake? which should've rallied the pallid Industrial masses more than it did. And, of course, Jhonn Balance was the nearest we're gonna get to a Blakean figure...I'm sure...

The Etymology of 'Sagely' sort of unrelated but fwiw... i have a very short-sighted friend who, whenever he's asked why he doesn't wear glasses, simply nods sagely and replies: Because I don't <em>want</em> to see the world any clearer. Actually, any ideas of the etymology of 'sagely' -...

Well, you have the others JUST RIGHT but i don't have dreads, just dirty hair.

mmm, i smell another dylan vs keats mash up...

a discussion at work eventually came round to this: is it possible to actually like poetry or do people only like individual poems? i've tried hard and i must have a hundred collections but even the 'big boys' - Hughes, Heaney, Larkin, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire,Rimbaud, Shakespeare - seem to have...

The Locked Groove Ballard is one of my favourite authors but he seems to be locked in an inescapable groove at the moment...the last few books have been good but rather perfunctory, as if he's somehow biding his time before unleashing a new direction. Personally, i think he's found himself...

anonymity seems to me that people are not posting pictures for fear of something akin to self-aggrandisement; they want to be asked to show themselves, they need to be given the freedom of someone else's intentionality. A thread emerges and it's like an invitation to invade the visual space...

England's Hidden Reverse Englands Hidden Reverse is a great read, i've returned again and again to it. It focuses very much on the social interralationships in the 'industrial' scene, taking up where the Coum/ TG book left off and branching out to encompass several lost bands of the era.... my...

50 quid man? haven't spent 50 quid for ages....for what it's worth I think OMM is an honourable (free; important that - we're not paying for it's cultural authenticity) failure....nine chunks better than the NME etc and they're trying hard(ish) with the reviews (the Volga one set me...

Bad Wisdom / The Zelator The memoir, fiction (faction? surely not) 'Bad Wisdom' by Bill Drummond and Mark (zodiac mindwarp) Manning. So far, i've just been unsettled by 1)being reminded of Voice of the Beehive and 2) having to look at those girls in a whole different way... also just bought The...

Anyone see this yet? I moaned about it incessantly at An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming and i still can't quite get it out of my system...somehow the whole thing seemed like a gigantic cosmic wheeze, a series of filmic punchlines left floating...it seems like it's engineered to annoy ( a la...