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Lists are created for creating discussions, it's free linkage for the Grauniad. I don't mind lists, they can be helpful - but the endless lists of lists just make it all seem so impossible. All this music, all these films, all these books, all this art (Grauniad had a 1000 pieces of art as well...

http://www.avantgardeproject.org/ is well worth a look as well

For me:Psychedelic = cosmic guitar boogie, ie like Steve Hillage's strong run in the '70s (it's 30 years since I picked up "Green" in a sale for 2 quid, played it to death along with Kate Bush, Hawkwind and all the punk).

had to look this up (the sort of word sometimes picked up from the broadsheets), the other day, "Bathetic" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathetic "... now used more broadly to cover any ridiculous artwork or performance. More strictly speaking, bathos is unintended humor caused by an...

Cheers for that.

Re-listening to DAF, Wire, Magazine and A Certain Ratio as they are all coming to London over the next few months. I've given up on last year's effort to mostly go and see new stuff. It wasn't pointless - but there is no point in living here if I cannot go to see aging (art-)rockers.

From today's reviews in The Observer, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/18/biology-swarm-insect-super-organism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

More Opposite of Goth (that is a band name right there? searching for beach volleyball images seems to bring up an endless parade of fingers behind bums). GPO, I saw him on stage back in '99 with Psychic TV down the South Bank, ? and the Mysterians, Durutti Column (?) and Quentin Crisp via...

or right on cue [for those not affected by the big crunch], YSL's unisex collection: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article5419661.ece

Spent the last hour or so on having a look at stuff around this thread. DJ Roc's work seems to be quite self-referencing, and load of tunes (obviously) in the genre has "work" or "juke" in the titles. And some if it is quite grimy as noted, ie the "Jukezone Blackout Mixtape" like "Drop...

Hmm - sounds like a cracked up Avalanches track for the first 3 minutes, must be a mix?

Excellent stuff and some Jute/footworks tunes (which is totally new to me) are available on iTunes+ and Amazon MP3 shop, DJ Solo - Chicago Juke Music Vol 1 DJ Thadz - Chicago Juke Music Vol 2 Dj Roc - Juke City Series - ie DJ Thadz Police crashing a party - and this guys channel...

Two examples from today "Frequent Flyer Programme" - the practice of moving the inmates at Guantánamo from cell to cell every hour to deprive them of sleep. "Style Drift" - hedge fund managers facing expensive divorces and thus thought by their clients to face distraction in running the fund...

Watched half of it before I gave up on the "edgy" camera angles and zooming and panning. I was getting dizzy and it wasn't that much was being said. Ozwald should have - er - taken out his scissors and cut this program in half ...

Well seems like the UK sales numbers for 2008 are out. These are software sales (so does not include consoles etc). According to The Times, * films on DVD: £2.34 billion (-0.4%) * games sw: £1.9 billion (+23%) * music: £1.33 billion (estimated, -10%) I guess we'll see musicians make the...

or there is always http://www.lulu.com/uk/ for getting it all out in hardcopy with a proper ISBN number and all. Just did a quick calculation. 500 pages in hardback (I guess this will be quite an epic?) and a run of 50 copies will set you back around £/€750 ($1350)

The in-game soundtrack to GTA IV is pretty impressive, they must have spent a fortune on getting the rights, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_soundtrack [Edit: they would have been better off with RSI radio for the reggae station]

On a more serious note, this is lifted from The Times today. When the recently deceased Helen Suzman (what a remarkable woman) was accused by one apartheid minister by asking questions to embarrass South Africa overseas, she replied "It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa. It is...

I'm too much of a hoarder to make this apply to me (ie still got my original Walkman II, my Commodore 64 that got me into technology, clippings from the NME (late 70s/80s), stacks of The Face from the 80s and so on) - but I guess for some people this list might make sense (from...