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    Class

    the problem is the 'obsession' (hyperbolic, anyway) or the system?
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    War In Iran

    ha! confined that would be, when it was of consequence, you know? i'm sure the suddeutsche zeitung was anti war in 1946 (sighingly) and where does that 'sense' come from? maybe institutions like the bbc, commonly regarded as the most trustworthy such organ in the uk, and widely trusted...
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    War In Iran

    try this from the avowedly pro bbc tehguardian their claims to impartiality are as disingenuous as your doesn't matter which side it comes from and, naturlich, can't resist a junior ministerish swipe at (err) 'extremities', those aetiolated ephemeral factions who still natter on about human...
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    Class

    there is an abundance of discourse that's hardly sublimated, and even in metonymy it's commonly and acutely understood and i think it's not just jamie t-oliver fucks who try to disguise the signifiers, sometimes i find myself talking in several slightly different accents in the same...
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    Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

    the conformist i would like to see, i got the xvid but haven't got around to it also out in xvid this week 'the tarnished angels' (sirk) and 'performance' (cammell/roeg) the latter is really something else
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    Jamie T

    there are so many sticks
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    Jamie T

    maybe not
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    Jamie T

    there is plenty of shit like hardfi that seems very lower middle class and hasn't there always been an upper middle classish contingent in english pop, the difference now is that the signifiers are so easily smeared
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    what did you listen to today?

    these are astonishingly good i agree, as is often the case with string orch compositions they are related to some of his quartets, also exceptional, the first is written in schoenbergian language quite distinct from the others someimes i wonder how many other composers/writers and suchlike...
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    Jamie T

    that seems syllogisic and unfair, aren't uppity poshkid tellitlikeitis singersongwriter cunts an archetype themselves Calm Down Dearest - Jamie T Genre/Lang. : Hip-Hop Big bang, where we going? What we doing this night? Feeling drunk already, Maybe drink got spiked But, more like the other...
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    Hip-Hop - breaking news, gossip, slander, lies etc

    although arguably london is even more ethnically hetereogenous and complex than new york eg something like 40% of the population was born outside the uk.....
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    plants, they exist

    though it has to be said that daffodils are complete shits
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    plants, they exist

    that might have something to do with the plants not being fed? i used to be very close to plants when i was little, possibly not hyperbolic to say i could name many dozens of varieties when i was about 4 years old, but i can't recall anthropomorphizing them the finest among them were always...
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    Reynolds' Pazz & Jopp essay

    that was a reference to lacan talking about freud (and i think it may have been a paraphrase of someone else) so you are lacan, i hope that's acceptable :-) this thread is now moving into more interesting territories - about the double bind, are you thinking of the hypothetical schizophrenia...
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    Joanna Newsom --- "Ys"

    that is the worst song ever
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    Reynolds' Pazz & Jopp essay

    this is like 'it is up to you to be gekians if you wish, i will always be reynoldsian!' (cf return to reynolds) :-)
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    Rock Music - let's be honest

    the thing about consumer identity i'm not so sure about, that comes across as a preoccupation in a lot of your posts! maybe as you get older it changes, or becomes more a process of negative definition wrt modernist literature in english speaking countries, the interesting stuff is completely...
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    Rock Music - let's be honest

    that is very well observed, i used to think everything was shit in adolescence so i suppose that isn't so much a problem for me try witkiewicz' insatiability very strange futurist novel
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    Rock Music - let's be honest

    !! so you've read most of gadda, broch, huysmans, gogol, bely, svevo, pirandello, gaddis, oe, tanizaki, pavic, o'brien, coover, bachmann, celine, gombrowicz, witkiewicz etc etc? there's a vast amount of stuff within or on the periphery of the canon of 19th/20th century novels alone, i feel...
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    Reynolds' Pazz & Jopp essay

    that's a 17m mp3 you got through in less than 10 since i posted it further proof of the destruction of newtonian space time, in new york at least :-)
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