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You could maybes add • Check Out My Belief System • I’m Hung Up On A Fairly Limited Canon Of Genre Fiction • The Government Is Great

I like this thread as I now have names and personas I can apply to the circular argument that rolls around approximately tri-weekly in my head…

So this week the Composer Of The Week is The Minimalists ie. a 60's hotchpotch as opposed to the more standard fare wherein a Victorian-Guy-Gets-Academically-Hothoused-Churns-Out-Compostions-In-Varius-States-Of-Poverty-Before-Dying-Of-A-Tuberculosis-Ridden-Spouse. So far it's amusingly fumbled...

i'm not sure if i'm just falling for the bait here but... A dirty bomb is just some radioactive material together with some conventional explosive, it’s just a way of spreading radioactivity over a wide area as opposed to an atomic reaction; essentially it’s a mortar and some old x-ray...

... and i like Madvillany, for what it's worth....

i think it's pretty easy to kick Linklater's movies and i can see that they could be well annoying but i guess i'm a sucker for rarefied, possibly sophomoric bubblegum epistemology – Waking Life really works for me. I Caught Before Sunrise/Before Sunset double bill last week - lovely! - and...

i second Kes, a super super lovely half of music! Akira OST is by Yamashiro Shoji according to the back of Toop's Ocean Of Sound... I caught Before Sunrise the other day and i thought it's use of music was satisfying in it's variation and placement... the last film i saw before that where the...

need to check that Annie record badly. What i've heard is fantastic and i'm slowly wearing away the grooves on my Greatest Hit 12"...

spot on indeed! I can't believe anybody thinks that Radio is worth any sort of a damn. I mean there are myriad pop records which shit on it from every angle; it's just ick. I can't work out who the hell buys Robbie Williams records... i mean they manage to be more annoying and less interesting...

i'm still hung up on Lose My Breath as far as poptasm goes; everytime i hear that first ten seconds of martial break/cut i'm fizzy. It really started to make sense when i heard it, tinny and super-strident out of somebody elses headphones, on my way to work... i also loved the nu-old-retro disco...

intriguing - thanks for the link!

what do you call it? 'Urban'? ;)

i'm not sure that something being trivial is exactly the same assomething being ephemeral. Just because these records and lyrics are in a sense insular and dependent on their immediate context does not mean they completely lose meaning and value. Look at all those old Soul songs and their...

but what a tangent!

i love love love Kodwo Eshun's line about how dubplates completely undo Walter Benjamin's Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction thesis. All these unique, fully half-formed remixes wearing down into nothing...

Isn't Capitalism's strategy (with particular regard to music/culture in general) to hold on to the past? Too freeze it as opposed to burn it? Creating copyrights that will last the length of an organisation’s existence as opposed to the 70 or so years(?) applied to an individual, is essentially...

Seconded. I quite, uhm, liked(?) it but I get weary of films where characters and audience are used like piñatas; about two thirds in I was just thinking ‘what the hell can this guy have done to deserve any of this??’ Not my film of the year for me, but dazzling and grim and fascinating all the...

duh! i didn't mean After The Quake, i meant Underground. I really should triple check these things...

Watchmen for kids, no? I'm only half joking...

love the Ramm:Ell:Zee pick! off the top of my head i'm going with Mark E Smith on Mouse On Mars' Wipe That Sound: I said you don't look like some goddamn singer songwriter to me