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I'm in the middle of a re-reading phase at the moment. Currently on the go are two old favorites Boy Wonder (an occasionally twisted and always very funny book by James Robert Baker) and Among The Thugs (former Granta editor Bill Buford's account of hanging out with football casuals in the early...

Or, if not an 'O' word... Excise?

Occlude?

Just thought of another classic slice of cheese after having the tune in my head all morning and trying to remember what it was ... Atlantic Ocean - "Waterfall"

My experience is the exact opposite. Firefox runs frustratingly slow on my Mac compared to Safari...I also much really miss some of the keyboard shortcuts available on Safari when using Firefox (Cmd key + up or down arrows to tab all the way, Shift + Cmd + left or right arrows to move between...

As far as I can make out from all the eBay auctions I've lost for copies of the "Forward The Revolution" EP, there seems to be an almost unlimited supply of people in France and Germany willing to pay EU100+ for an original Spiral Tribe 12" (even the CDs go for over EU70). I'm kind of amazed...

That works pretty well as a definition for me (except that it means I'd have to withdraw some of my choices). I've always considered one of the hallmarks of truly cheesy dance music to be for the track to seem like it was created specifically and almost solely to be played to drunken audiences...

Trying to think...I suppose any of the mash up guys who didn't already make a living doing music but went on to do stuff commercially (Richard X, Freelance Hellraiser guy) could be said to have broken on the web back in 01 / 02. What's interesting about them is that I can't imagine their having...

I'll have to second Utah Saints "Something Good" (which I've actually been playing quite a bit recently) and Da Hool "Meet Her At The Love Parade"...former guilty pleasures that have had much of the guilt stripped away by nostalgia. Dunno if I'd consider "Dark Train" or "Halcyon" to be...

Can't believe I forgot about this one...I discovered it years after it came out, but ended up listening to it incessantly nonetheless. Got me digging out a lot of Fantazia era tapes I hadn't listened to in years. Agreed 100%. I'd much rather hear something done live...there's a manic quality...

Also, the East River Ampitheater is the perfect spot for this kind of thing. It's a little bit out of the way but the acoustics are fantastic...should have much more of a 'venue' feel than the center of Tompkins Square Park.

I have a soft spot for Laurent Garnier's X-Mix and Richie Hawtin's X-Mix and Mixmag outings, cause I played them to death c. 94 / 95...but none are really all that classic as far as the mixes themselves are concerned (although they do have more then their share of classic tracks). I always...

I hadn't intended to see the current version due to having a similar dislike of Tom Cruise, but my girlfriend (a huge sci-fi / movies-with-'splosions / Spielberg fan) made me go and I actually quite liked it. Not the best summer blockbuster I've ever seen, but far from being the worst...and the...

Rather than investing in equipment, how about submitting a design to a site like threadless.com or setting up a Cafepress store? It might be useful to have an idea of whether it will appeal to enough people to sell before spending a significant amount of money. The cheapest alternative would...

Lots of 80s hardcore / skatecore had a kind of a deliberately stupid thing going on (Descendents / All, The Stupids, Hard-Ons, that band with the ice hockey thing).

I could see this fitting lots of stuff...any intelligent, original, outsider music that just does instead of agonizing over finding reference points for itself. The Fall is a great example (although there's a aura of autodidactic intellectualism that maybe sets it up as a parallel academia?) (I...

I was going to post exactly this. I'll occasionally be blown away by something I've never heard done before, but it quickly pales. Bad enough when recorded...absolutely excruciating live. Don't even know where to start with faster electronic dance stuff...there's just so much to hate; 'funky'...

I wonder what the Australian courts' position on linking to a site like allofmp3.com would be. It provides what I imagine would be considered illegal downloads under Australian copyright law (and much of the rest of the world) but isn't breaking any Russian laws since infringement only exists if...

From yesterday's NY Times: Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod Reading this article gave me serious chills, as it reminded me of a really bad mushroom experience I had when I was 18 or so. I was on my own, and managed to randomly get the trumpet riff from the Beatles' 'For No...

As I recall, Robert Del Naja actually made the name change. He has since stated that he regretted doing this and that it was at the behest of their label but still... Whether it's House of Pain claiming solidarity with the IRA (which earned one of them a kicking from the crowd at their first...