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I’m not letting anyone off the hook. I’m just saying that one of the few good things to come out of this awful mess is that the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ has few options left but to listen to the saner voices of the world (to which I count Putin and *googles* Hu Jintao, ironically.)

I have heard rumours of a limited — which is to say air force and rockets — attack supposedly being planned as soon as this autumn, but I doubt it. One can never be sure, of course. But I think you would agree that the risk of that happening would have been infinitely greater had not the Iraq...

While he is supposed to be an excellent DJ, most of the hype is about his own tracks. Like: Beck - Cellphone's Dead (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) Depeche Mode - Sinner in Me (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) Rhythm & Sound - Let We Go (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) Ricardo Villalobos - 1º Encuentro Latinoamericano...

I’m trying hard here not coming across as politically naïve, but I do think that your living in the U.S., Gavin, makes you slightly blind to the extent that the current White House’s decisions have handicapped the U.S.’s ability to impose its ideas on the world. For one thing, the U.S. military...

Yeah, that’s an excellent point. However, I think Bill Maher mentioned that about a third of his viewers got all of their news from watching his show, a fact he was quite disappointed with. Still, I think you are right.

I’m getting inspired by reading Gore Vidal’s Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays 1952–1972. He is truly one of the most keen-sighted and witty writers the world has ever seen. Like this typically brilliant opening passage from his essay on Howard Hughes:

I mostly agree with your critique of Gavin’s point — I would side with Turtles in that it’s not necessarily a democracy vs dictatorship issue. (I think that was his idea, anyway.) One thing to remember with regards to your argument above, however, is that even if people in developing countries...

Interesting stuff. Would you mind posting the link? :)

In architecture/literature/whatever — loads of things. My point is that such should be able to be discussed without someone constantly interupting the discussion with facts that are a matter of course.

I like the d&b remix of Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me (No No No)’ (with Bounty Killer on toast duties). And this classic, obviously: S.O.A.P. - Soap Is in the Air

Vimothy and Mr. Tea: the ‘if you prefer dictatorship to democracy why don’t you pack your things and move?’ shtick (and its variations) is starting to get really tiresome. It’s like trying to have a constructive argument over the merits of the 1950s and having some feminist go ‘but what about...

Male: Chris Cornell Andrew Gold Donny Hathaway Female: Peggy Lee Elis Regina Marlena Shaw These are amongst the precious few truly mesmeric vocalists of whom I can think.

;) Aaaaaanyway, here is a Norwegian review of Mungolian Jet Set’s album Beauty Came to Us in Stone — laboriously translated by yours truly. Most of the stylistic oddities are in the original text, so you know whom not to blame. =) Exotica — a genre spawned by Martin Denny’s 1957 album with the...

Apropos of the debate on ILX. i have no idea if this is true or not but i've also always kind of assumed that the freaky trigger group's assumption of the phrase for events and things was kind of a tongue in cheek move, a catchy way to self-identify as being pro-pop and pro-fun, NOT a...

Aight. *topic dropped*

Interviewed on Swedish telly One of them is a pretty well-known photographer: What are you listening to at the moment? Hawkwind, Lindström, 3rd Mynd, Alan Parson Project, Ashra, Peter Gabriel, Magnus Uggla, The Oscillation, Can, Baldelli, Öppna Kanalens nattmusik and The Chills. What...

Ha ha, META!

Unfortunately, as an adolescent, dabbling at the piano, I found that the chops tended to obliterate my ideas. Clearly, that was not the case with Hendrix, Prince and a gazillion other expert-yet-imaginative musicians, but I have a hunch it's a pretty wide-spread malady. I think Swears is wrong...

I read the article on the train, so I don’t remember all the details (though I think it was 4 or 5 sex partners for women and some 3 or 4 more for men, which makes the 75 percent difference seem greater than it is). Two additional hypotheses to the ones already brought forth: 1. A statistically...

Now this is one odd theory: