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quite simply: THIS version of racism, classifying people according to skin color and putting them in a hierarchy, is what structures OUR world today. You can say that older societies wer also "racist", fine, but there are important differences between those and racism as we know it today...

As art/entertainment which supports, sustains, and furthers dominant ideology, of course a valid comparison can be drawn.

this is where i miss that trouble maker nomad.

that is categorically not racism. that is CLASS-ism. really very bad example, Tea. :) a better example would have been how some ethnic groups in Africa or Asia have traditionally, for thousands of years, considered themselves, or have been considered by many, such as the Masai in modern...

you are dodging the main point: that it isn't racists vs. non-racists -- we ALL live in a world structured by racism. now onto the tangent: Yes, Racism as we know it comes from the theories of racial hierarchy invented with the specific intent of justifying colonialism. So yes, absolutely...

This false dichotomy of who is or isn't a racist is largely besides the point. Because racism is institutional and structural in our western world, in the sense that even the world view of "non-racists" are shaped, fundamentally, by deeply ingrained ideologies of racial difference and the slew...

i had some trinni curry goat roti in brixton and that was the bomb.

i like a lot of this stuff. especially in a place surrounded by so much "polka techno" (massive eyes roll), thank god for stuff like this (even though hardly any of it is play-out-able)

this British co-worker in management once announced in a loud and cheerful voice to the entire restaurant bar where staff was having drinks, when the topic turned to the English breakfast: "Beans and Toast! WE BUILT AN EMPIRE ON THAT!" (and i drily added "and tea. don't forget about tea.")...

speaking as a chinese person, i wouldn't be surprised if they are all real. don't forget you can fit some of those long english sentences into 4 neat chinese characters - and in Chinese might not sound ridiculous.

those are the only people who ever make these claims, and nearly all of them always do, in one way or another.

German release of Woody Allen's 1977 "Annie Hall" has the title "DER STADTNEUROTIKER" edit: OMG put that in google translate as it is, with no space between STADT and NEUROTIKER.

lol i just did the on air packaging for this for sky, and yes, the title did make me chuckle

i'm curious about the "rotten shark soup"... can you enlighten?

had a walk about Brixton on Saturday, had some Trini Jerk Chicken and Curry Goat Rotti, stopped by the little stand which specializes in Congolese Rumba, went to that used book shop, walked about the markets and soaked in the flavors... mentally compared it to mono-culture monotonous...

and IdleRich. i have 2 words for you, well, 1 word and a number: Faust IV particularly the epic opening track definitively called "Kraut Rock". it is impossible to love that tune and be ambivalent about MBV.

blacktulip, if memory serves, we've exchanged about Spectralism, Avant Classical and Free Jazz before, right? how can you not appreciate the daring palette of textures and innovative tonalities MBV brings to rock/pop? the thrilling wall of fuzz and noise which destroys preconceptions of pop...

still dying to see this after all this time... you should catch the band when they play sometime; i have 3 times now: one of them gets out of the wheel chair to dance on his hands, the boy with the home-made-cambell-soup-can-and-rubber-band guitar is all grown up now, and sometimes get on the...

Darius James, who made the "United States of Hoodoo" documentary film, about the rebirth of ancient African gods/spirits/demons in contemporary North America, traces the moonwalk back to West African Yoruba rituals... i need to get him on tape talking about this next time because i sadly don't...