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People who think they can get other people to "feel" what they like by inviting them to stuff that the other person doesn't really care about in an attempt to change the way they do things, with the vague reasoning that it may "open their minds" and make them "a better person" when the bottom...

Always had Caspa and Rusko at the lightended end of Dubstep - those guys seem to enjoy their stuff, its a bit of a laugh after all, calling your tunes "Big Headed Slags" and "Jeffery and Bungle" - much needed humour in a sea of fanboy wankery - and it shows that getting your name out there and...

What do you see then? - its neat, in a 1 dimensional way, nice progression of the build up and down of the tune, and very cyclic, as is the nature of trad jazz.

Grandaddy are in there (The Sophtware Slump), so I wonder if Mercury Rev will be as well. Anyhoo, utterly pointless list, usless as a guide, only relevant in a UK/US sense.

Beth Gibbon - Portishead - reference back to raising hairs of neck...

I can relate to this principle - perhaps its my upbringing, but I have always respected the written word, and hence the writers enough to feel slightly obligated in finishing books, though over the last few years I have found that I'm less likely to finish a book if I cannot get into it - I give...

Its important to use modern examples to highlight or link to abstract issues, but most contemporary writing cleverly (or perhaps not) hints at deeper meaning rather than exploring them, and you can fall into the trap of presenting an example like Fight Club to try and explain the male condition...

I think we are more on the same page than not actually. Justin Robertson and Carl Cox were probably 2 of the best DJ's in the period (went regularly to the Justin Robertson techno monthly in Manchester around that same period), but they were always relegated to the backroom if I'm not mistaken...

"you aren't going to the right places, listening to the right music or going to the right dealers then mate, simple as that." This was back in the early to mid 90's - I'm that old now I wouldn't even think of taking an E anyway. I have a few "younger friends" who are coming to the same...

In the Banking sector, most of the 10 top tier got caught out believing the hype of packaging good debt with bad (CDO) to make a fast buck - the trend for the last 5 years has led to huge returns (and huge rewards for those who did it), but that now has come to a crunch. Most banks have taken it...

E is fraud of a drug - it totally removes your critical faculties and gives the impression that you are having the best time of your life, without actually changing your perception of the world at all - I gave up going clubbing with E-heads because usually the night would be probably one of the...

I know this is playing into borderpolice's hands, but I would like to have seen his brand of hyper-righteous finger-jabbing around 1940 in Nazi Germany. I find borderpolice's posts in this thread extremely crass and deliberately contentious to the point of being sociopathic. Obviously for...

Went to a Henry Rollins spoken word once - that was intense, just like the man himself - describing what it was like having his best friend shot dead in front of him.

I was being intentionally facile with my comments - its was hard to get across what I meant in trying to identify that stereotypes are the recourse of the bigot and sometimes of the perceived stereotype themselves, and therefore equally harmful to both (one side exclude the other, while the...

Well, I'm sure we have all met "people", I assume, so whether they are Jewish is not is totally irrelevant as you cannot know all the Jewish people, so I wouldn't let a few narrow experiences form your judgement, negatively or otherwise. Wouldn't it be great if we all lived like this because...

Is Mr Tea actually trying making a point, or just a drawing an observation from his experience? I know there are many levels of "Jewishness", possibly extended by where you were actually born, raised, and lived, but I don't find that to be any different to any other faith, other than generally...

Thanks - its nice to hear a description from someone who as actually listened to it. Having never listened to any Jazz other than Trad, am I missing something?

I have no idea what any of you are talking about - care to enlighten me on what musical style/period this relates to?

using the email system to write essays (its a messaging system, idiot) - people who write in the 3rd person - groups of people who stand at the bar to drink - people who send out those Christmas messages with an essay on how their life has been over the last year with a cocksmug picture of...

Scuse me if I'm wrong for thinking that you don't drive or own a car and don't feel the need to either.... Car usage is not something that most people can give up without totally changing their routines and lifestyle. I don't use the car much in the week, but my wife (with 2 small kids) would...