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A bit harsh, I think. In the first instance I don't think The White Stripes are indicative of much of anything, let alone an example of what Sonic Youth ought to be doing. Nor do I necessarily think that old and boring have to be big detractors. (Derek Bailey continued to annoy and amuse me...

As in Big Brother, the ubiquitous boorish breeding pair ruins everything . . . Dunno why they evicted that clever bass player! LEE TO WIN! The real reason why Rather Ripped is worse than any SY-related recording since Thurston's Psychic Hearts (I like how The Wire cleverly gets Thurston to do...

I had plans to upload my UkNova version to someone's FTP server. Dunno what happens. Seems to have fallen through. . . . Still have the vid files though.

Keeling House. There is more information and a couple more too-small pics here .

Ah man, I hear you. Lately I have been concerned about malfunctioning thyroid, Gardner's Syndrome (?!), and asbestosis. (Asbestosis is a huge one right now. One of my co-workers disturbed a ceiling tile this morning and I couldn't really handle it, despite no indication the building has asbestos...

Ha ha ... that Thames Barrier pic looks like a bunch of Dr. Who villains up to their necks in water.

That's horrible! I really hope someone gets a throat full of badger claws . . .

Burial Unveiled Pitchforkmedia.com reports that Burial has been unveiled as a collaboration between Lou Barlow and Zed Bias.

Absolutely fascinating post. Have you got any recommended books on the subject for me? I've got a summer's worth of lunchbreaks in which to get some quality reading done . . . As for Thamesmead, it makes my heart glad to see it floating to the surface again. I spent a month there a few years...

the three R's: repetition, repetition, repetition I never thought of it that way, but yeah, I could see how it might remain insulated from/antithetical to the reality principle as it subordinates to the totalizing impulse of capitalism. (If I'm following the discussion right.) But that...

Teddy Adorno on psychoanalysis: "The admonitions to be happy, voiced in concert by the scientifically epicurean sanatorium-director and the highly-strung propaganda chiefs of the entertainment-industry, have about them the fury of the father berating his children for not rushing joyously...

1. Workplaces are conflict ridden because you spend a third of your life there, not because they fail to operate under an imaginary rubric like "transparency." 2. He's an idiot, for fucks sake, and "bringing it into the open and dealing with it transparently" doesn't do enough. Get him out.

Y'know ... I think I'm coming to a new understanding of all this. I haven't heard the Long Blondes but I have heard the Arctic Monkeys and the analysis will probably carry over ... Something in the original post about the LBs sounding like a "16 year old high school band circa 1996" rather than...

I think Humanities departments have lost their natural ability to completely freeze out (and invoke nervous breakdowns in) racist colleagues. (Oops—Mr. Ellis is relocated to the office next to the boiler room; oops—Mr. Ellis' intradepartmental mail keeps getting misplaced; oops—Mr. Ellis'...

Now We're Getting Somewhere

Yeah. How could I post it?

Tell you what, if I hear Chutes too Narrow one more time I'll be on the News. Serious.

I think she's in that band Vetiver.

Weird track, that one. Something like Prince guesting on D.I. Go Pop.

The Purloined Poe is pretty entertaining. It starts off with Lacan's psychoanalytic reading of "The Purloined Letter" and then culminates in Derrida's critique of Lacan's reading. It might be too specific for what you have in mind, but it's great stuff. The "Philosophy and psychoanalysis"...