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I'm really fond of Ashby, and I adore Harold & Maude. It's badly dated, sure, and a bit "quirky", but still a funny and moving movie..

I've got the Gigaworks T20s and I'm really happy with them, although i'm not exactly an audiophile

Went to the very bizarre but actually wonderful Vintage @ Goodwood festival this weekend, not often do you get to see People Like Us, Terry Riley's In C, The Rezillos, John Shuttleworth and Tony Hatch in the same day. For me the highlight was staged by the inimitable Johnny Trunk. Instead of...

in a reversal of the thread's intention, I'm saying goodbye for a month or so. Packing up the flat right now, moving my chattels to a small Northumberland village (after 20 years round Brixton way :eek: ) and then going on the road for all of August, DJing at some festivals - Endorse It...

lots and lots of Slim Cessna's Auto Club - 16 Horsepower-related southern gothic with a stomp

oh, and the MIGHTY Sonic Manipulator this is some shonky footage i took on Sunday night (i was mashed). Hold out for the "scratch rod" at the end

a couple of new (or at least recent) Optimo podcasts - the Godcast (fantastic mix of gospel etc) and Acid Eyeful, saturated with 303. A lot of driving lately (most recently to Secret Garden Party this weekend) sees me repeating the Surgeon and Optimo Fabric mixes, a home-made hip hop mix full...

all good stuff, a lot reflecting what came up in our drunken pub ranting. I think his hands are tied somewhat by his desire to make aesthetics seem less of a "soft option" in terms of rigour, the problem being that it kind of IS - to teach the course seems to involve claiming a degree of...

as unlikely as it seems, any Shellac fans need to skip to 3 minutes into this and rejoice.

I love the new Books album (but that's no surprise, loved them from way back)... Digital Mystikz have made the best On-U Sound album since about The Pounding System... the remaster of Godflesh's Streetcleaner is as blistering as you'd expect.. and I've got my hands on a cheeky copy of Mogwai's...

when i was about 8 i used to live in a crescent which meant that all the gardens met at an apex in the bottom (like half a piechart or something). Every day for quite some time I'd go to the end of the garden bearing a single egg. I'd spin round really fast and fling the egg as far as I could...

Newport.

that defies all known laws of the universe.

yeh, i think that'd be good. And maybe some beatboxing followed by the teacher himself making some random mumbling noises. One is "music", one, allegedly, isn't...

and they do have the Shakira seal of approval, which I guess must count for something :)

cheers - he's trying some Cge already but I will suggest the MMM. and that Christian music site is great, thanks :)

I just don't see the XX thing at all. It's like Slowdive have heard a dubstep record or something - ditchwater dull indie pepped up with some secondhand beats

i think the only taste it can reflect is some Sunday supplement music critic's. Banal doesn't start to cover it. Give to Wild Beasts, at least they're trying

excuse the preamble: my best friend is an english teacher out in Singapore who's introducing a basic Theory of Knowledge unit for certain GCSE-equivalent students. They're covering all the basics in that regard but his main push is regarding aesthetics, which he feels is taught as being...

This seems to be the consensus, but everyone I know who's tried to read it has LOVED the first chapter - it's breathtaking writing - and then given up about 20 pages into chapter 2.