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there's loads of films that i get now that i've been to these massive cinemas with huge leather chairs that go all the way back with a place to put a barrel of popcorn that you drop all over your chest and all over the floor with a screen as big as a ferry. american movegoing culture is quite a...

america never feels like its sleepwalking to me. it feels like relentless bitter contestation, contempt, disgust, vocal opposition. trump feels like power striding across the land. something being unleashed

there's a seam of this kind of thing in the nyc jazz/experimental world (which is still going strong, feels very alive, it's everywhere, a cluster of fifty musicians playing all over the city all the time, it never stops, it's there every night of the week)

or do you mean the uk

hard to interpret isn't it but assuming that things don't change again it is kind of amazing to see how even trump is disciplined by the financial system. to have a uk prime minister and an american president try to go outside the box and get smacked back into place is quite something and...

virgin suicides is like a time capsule now

those vapes make me feel like i'm in blade runner

yeah that's one of the issues. it's slightly extended soundbites. it's pre-longform. a thing of the past very 90s/00s

yeah that's part of how question time works i think. i don't have like a big critique of it. but you get the sense that there's something about how it's set up that the parameters for what can be said are rigid. there's something locked about it. unmovable

yeah it will be i) technical details in his arguments and ii) ad hominem. i'm betting on the latter being the main line. other things that will probably happen: people on the left putting the boot in coz they basically don't like people who look behave and sound like him. being set up to fail on...

gary stevenson's bubbled up into the mainstream over the last two weeks. i have a feeling of impending doom

i used to read jimitheexploder writing on a different website and he wrote in a totally different way like a charming young man

in music terms the main axis is the cities vs everywhere else. a longstanding tradition of the city people imagining themselves as sophisticated in their tastes. the rural suspicion of the fancy city people. and the music needs differ when you live in or out the city. the sounds relate differently

yeah i was hoping she would play this one

the tickets were $100 but the scalpers were selling them for $18 on the day. which is why i showed up

i saw beth gibbons last night, it was quite boring, this whole room of three thousand people sat patiently observing competent musicianship on a stage playing boring songs. she played roads though and it was magic, all these bored people stood up in unison, something happened to the air...

there's this whole cluster of connections i've been trying to untangle. it feels like a revolution is happening. in that the old structures that we grew up with are being taken out, dismantled. the revolution is coming from the right. it's destabilising the way things normally work in terms of...

one of the best things about dissensus is that someone has posted on here for years pretending to be simon reynolds and luka fell for it hook line and sinker