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Always seeing these legendary names popping up Morley/Penman/Kent/Burchill but not really read anything by them Are there archives online? All I could find of Kent is this review of a Pink Floyd gig http://www.pink-floyd.org/artint/nmesyd74.htm

I can't help but feel wistful (steady on barty) for a time when music writers commanded, if not respect, then at least attention BORN TOO LATE I think when I was a teenager I thought I might end up writing for Hip Hop Connection one day. For a living. PWNED.

I wonder if anybody else was led like a lamb to a pile of shit by NME's praising of Jet?

can Jordan Peterson have his own thread - or will that just encourage him?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/07/nme-ceases-print-edition-weekly-music-magazine The NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years, the weekly music title joining a growing list of once mighty magazine brands that now only exist online. The NME.com website will continue...

Obviously I don't listen to enough drill or don't listen closely enough cos it just sounds like trap to me... (doubly confusing as chicago drill is being included in 'trap' there)

This is 'MARCH' on my National Gallery desk calendar and is by DEGAS

I love that luka's insistence on barty providing evidence has now been taken up by barty when dealing with other people :crylarf:

Was it London as a magnet for immigration that I was smugly eulogising?

tracking down the jungle producers origins Dillinja : Clapham, South London 4Hero: Dollis Hill, North London A Guy Called Gerald: Moss Side, Manchester Alex Reece: Ealing, West London Andy C: born Hornchurch, suburb of East London BORED NOW

city pride is like football team pride to me, although it makes a bit more sense but in both cases i'm at a remove from it, a one-man band, ruefully plucking myself

idea for book: author goes on a journey of discovery by tracking down and interviewing the people he's traded words with for years on an obscure internet forum with dwindling membership

I'm fascinated by the idea that your tastes are conditioned by where you come from, perhaps in part because I don't really come from anywhere I'm from nowheresville in the home counties Nothing to be proud of, nothing I feel intrinsically connected to

Yes, that's an interesting topic too I believe I've read that it's something to do with Protestantism vs. Catholicism Albrecht Durer was one of the first artists in Northern Europe to study classical form which you can see in his Adam and Eve etching for example... but as Kenneth Clarke argued...

'By contrast with rave’s Ecstasy-fuelled rural arcadia, jungle’s feral geography seemed as if it was derived from dystopian science fiction. Films were a massive presence, both as the source of samples and as something that coloured the mood and theme of tracks. The Alien films, with their...

K punk wrote Jungle’s heartland was London and the Midlands (Coventry, of all places, was a particularly significant node), and in many ways the music developed out of the disintegration of the rave dream. http://www.factmag.com/2011/02/12/20-best-jungle/

why is the sky blue? why is water wet?

i do find the link between places and the art produced 'by' them quite fascinating e.g. what was it about Ireland in the late 19th/early 20th century that produced joyce, yeats and beckett... Sometimes it's just about where the money is, and the power (e.g. Rome/Florence in Renaissance...

sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms. I see them rising! Save me from those therrble...

the other thing to remember of course is that the media is in London so stuff that happens elsewhere tends to be off-radar perhaps that's one of the reasons the nuum has died - in the internet era nothing in London can possibly happen without being corrupted by attention 'In physics, the...