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  1. K

    Who are the best music journalists currently/ever?

    i think over egging your visceral reaction to music is pretty crucial for reviews but i suppose that conveying any genuine commitment might be pretty impossible if youre a resident advisor style hack. my favorite "proper" reviews from the last couple of years were probably on the low company...
  2. K

    English Rasta by Michael Jackson.

    init it is fucking wicked. have been prancing all over the shop listneing to it someone in the coments posted this might help https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6FfOzR92xCHeP8eco8LX0u?si=-GhJ8rq7T8S5TTvE5iU_Dg&fbclid=IwAR27i_6a0Nsae6A7FlC9Fu7R-14JBTcGRK0psYP7e6Zdc7GC3uLxcJijziA
  3. K

    'The Infamous' 25th anniversary edition

    in the all time top 5 things made by teenagers this is on the temperatures rising 12 i got one saturday morning when i was 15 at haggle vinyl on essex road. for those that dont know it was reluctantly managed by a geriatric dickensian crank who always wore a fez and pencil moustache. he was a...
  4. K

    "The Great University Con"

    yeah partly that, partly not knowing what to do with it, how it could be more interesting than idle scribbling in the margin of your spanish textbook
  5. K

    A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

    making spurious references to "plenty of people" in these posts so bear in mind i only know about 3 in total
  6. K

    A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

    also, boringly, with the more vacuous elements of the way this hysteria is performed youre talking a lot of the time about the socials of 21 year olds, it wouldnt be fair to expect them to be completely brushed up on the history of attention paid or not paid to marginalised peoples in the art qworld
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    A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

    and the hysteria, while completely unhelpful, doesn't seem like a completely cynical disingenuous marketing ploy, i think plenty of people who have spent decades fighting dirty for an established curatorial career probably had to be ignorant of the historical functions of their entire industry...
  8. K

    A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

    the picture being painted of hysterical self flaggelating collective breakdown in new york is intriguing and im not going to argue with your lots experience but, relatively, the chronic attention paid by art institutions to marginalisation and colonial complicity is a pretty recent thing still...
  9. K

    Tarkovsky

    i loved hard to be a god, its the most disgusting medieval caper ive seen, the whole film is covered in poo, very impressive
  10. K

    English Rasta by Michael Jackson.

    my mate sent me this earlier and you can do this exercise with all the music on here, replace nona hendryxs voice with mark stewart in your head or even better play this at the same time as this
  11. K

    "The Great University Con"

    i did an art degree which fucked me off in lots of ways but on balance was not a terrible thing to do. certainly get more bang for your buck than any essay writing course. i stopped painting and drawing obsessively as soon as i started which was curious. someone would regularly come and do a...
  12. K

    The pit.

    there is nothing on earth more powerful than a sexually viable fat guy
  13. K

    The pit.

    one person i have been very inspired by recently is bfb da packman who has said many times that he is still a 9-5 postman and only bootstrapped his recent success by spamming celebrity accounts on twitter with his music
  14. K

    The pit.

    but you can try and have it both ways, in fact that is the only way
  15. K

    The pit.

    clearly there is something pretty stinking about the thought of a society comprised of millions of weirdos hunkering down in the respective bunkers putting the finishing touches to their lifes work rather than becoming empathetic nurses or school teachers
  16. K

    The pit.

    what would i do instead, watch the crown season 3
  17. K

    The pit.

    to which you can only say, with indignant dismissal, well yes, actually, i love model trains
  18. K

    The pit.

    you might as well be doing model trains
  19. K

    The pit.

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