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Crikey! Did you really think so? I thought it was very funny wher I caught it last night, and pretty brutal. Bernard Hill played him like an evil idiot savant, which I think is fairly spot on. Every time he did that laugh I found myself cringing. BUT - I am excited to see "The Thick Of It" -...

"The End" by John Carpenter - sounds like biker-electro-vampyres driving into to town...

There was a Berlin thread running in the Music section a couple of months ago. <a href="http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2130&highlight=berlin">Maybe check that out too.</a>

I suspect that this is precisely the point at which the problems start. As individuals, we have to make decisions in our everyday lives, thereby following the existentialist either/or imperative every single day. This is what lies at the heart of what Milan Kundera termed the 'unbearable...

I think the reality is that you can't have the greatness of his more 'accessible' stuff - ie. the stuff that's being namechecked by Tim's 'emerging concensus' - without his more experimental Radioboy/Wishmountain work; elements of which crop up time and again on his subsequent Matthew/Herbert...

Matthew Herbert's the fucking man, as far as I'm concerned. I don't necessarily like everything he does. I take your point about his Radioboy output. I find his recordings under that particular moniker to be a bit clever-clever. BUT: if watching him *perform* as Radioboy is something else...

Ditto :) Can't get enough of his album at the mo - "Radio Caca" in particular. And the beast needs feeding!

This is, of course, entirely and unarguably true :) What I intended in my original post, however, was that religious faith has - up until relatively recently - softened the blow, so to speak. And, of course, another proviso... when I spoke of 'we', I was speaking of people living in...

The shuffle function is a really good way of getting around this. It nearly always throws up some hidden gem that I'd forgotten about; or maybe even not listened to properly in the first place. I don't find that obvious at all - if for no other reason than a gift is often valued more than a...

I totally agree with that. We've always been missing out on something, but we're being confronted by the reality of that fact more than ever. That's cos it's the only reasonable response to have: to concede the limits of your own abilities :)

Umm, right, so it's got nothing to do with the analogue/digital divide then? If "the machine has them", and this is what drives the completist impulse, doesn't the same apply to vinyl as much as tape? And if money changes hands in the procurement of a digital download, does that make it more...

I think Woebot has a point when he says that it's the weight of opinion and discourse surrounding music that contributes to the problem - to which opinions do you listen? which discourses do you recognise as valid? - but at the end of the day, those opinions count as nothing against the sheer...

Sure, but surely there's room for the subjective in any such venture. Miaow ;) Useful as beginner's guide, yes. But also good for a trip down amnesia lane, I thought. And I found some of it pretty funny; like this bit, on Big Beat: "Ahh, Big Beat. This is the genre that finally made the...

Has anyone seen this? This site looks like it's going to be a piss take... and then turns out to be the work of a total facking genius. <a href="http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html" target="_blank">Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music</a> Nothing new, no doubt, for all the musos on this...

Budapest is beautiful! Kind of like a cross between Berlin and Paris, but with an Islamic taste for the decorative - tho the locals won't thank you for pointing that out ;) I went a couple of times late last year; it was great. For my money, it's almost uncannily like mid-90s Berlin, both...

I've read something similar that suggested that the reason that neanderthal man was attracted to cave-like spaces in the first place was primarily acoustic - that they were intrigued by the echoing of their own movements and voices (well, vocalisations, at least ;)) - and that this, when coupled...

Got to say, I'm really into "Deadwood" at the moment. In fairness, I'm only a few episodes in (getting the DVD boxed set 1 disc at a time c/o LoveFilm), but I'm totally sold on how 'authentic' the whole thing feels - the proto-Yankee accents, the weather-beaten sets and costumes, the rancid...

So, I'm curious - how was it? :)

Ha! In spite of my bad-mouthing Tresor, I will admit to feeling a strange pang of sadness when I read that. It was an amazing venue - what am I saying? it was an amazing club, full stop. It's just doubley-sad that they climbed up their own arsehole long before the wrecking ball got to the club...

It's pushing 10 years since I lived there, so my local knowledge is a little rusty. But when I was there a couple of Xmases ago, some resident friends took me to <a href="http://www.water-gate.de" target="_blank">Watergate</a> and the new <a href="http://www.wmfclub.de" target="_blank">WMF</a>...