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I think the 24 hour news channels are a terrible development aswell. There is no need for everyone to know what is happening all the time. Not only is time filled with endless repetition and mundane chat but in the rush to get stories onto the screen before anyone else, fact checking often goes...

no, but that was kind of the implication wasnt it? Sorry for misquoting you. Authenticity is very problematic so perhaps it wasnt the right word to use but i think its related to what you were talking about. You were saying that it sounds like these producers have learned too much about the...

Was I being too harsh? i get where hes coming from and agree on a few things. was just highlighting that in a way he (/this forum) is guilty of the same thing he was criticising, ie being to knowledgeable and theoretical about music. And that while there is a difference between making music and...

yeah i would agree to a certain extent, in my own production I have been guilty of over thinking but i feel like im getting past that now. Also some of my favourite producers make what I would describe as well thought-out and detailed tunes which may seem overly studied to others, objekt and...

It sounds to me like you know too much about the subject. I get where your coming from but why not just take the music for what it is instead of trying to work out how authentic it is and how well it fits into the nuum model (although admittedly the music is presenting itself as a very nuum...

Dont really follow new hip-hop much, only hear things my friends play me and Im not that keen on most of the stuff I've heard coming out recently. Love this one tho, its from last year but dont think its been mentioned here, (couldnt see anything in a search) its free on their bandcamp too.

I met one of these people a few weeks ago, his entire job is posting on facebook and twitter for phillips and he seemed to be doing pretty well from it. My first question was 'why would anyone like phillips on facebook?' apparently enough people do to keep him busy. He said hes had to delete...

It only opened last summer. Just across the water from Centraal aswell so easy to get to. Cinema is wicked, great acoustics.

It was a local bar/cinema called Kriterion. Their main screen is good but this one was pretty small and the picture was really obviously cold and digital, could see the pixels pretty much. You can bring beer from the bar into the cinema though, which is nice. I saw Life of Pi at leicester square...

I hadnt read the book and it was a bit too complicated for me to follow, also no doubt due to me getting stoned before watching. I did enjoy it though and there did seem to be a coherence in all of the different stories. One I'd like to watch again, especially because the of the low quality...

Wasnt impressed by 'The Master'. It was quite immersive and intense, but there wasnt much in the way of a story, not much changed really. Not necessarily a bad thing but it didnt work for me. It relied too much on close-ups on the phoenix's intense facial expression, which were powerful but...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colonial-shame-slaveowners-given-huge-payouts-after-abolition-8508358.html Seems quite relevant here. On a related note, I wonder where Mr Tate got the money for all those paintings?

oh of course, I was merely suggesting that the seperation of autochtoon and allochtoon is a pretty blunt way to do things and extrapolating to why perhaps the british dont do this in the same way. You're taking it pretty far there, just because racism is expressed differently doesnt mean its...

oh ok, slightly misunderstood you there. Yeah, I agree. I think perhaps it reflects the dutch tendency to not beat around the bush as much as the british. Whereas many British people may feel similarly they tend not to express it so bluntly.

Im not sure that the use of Allochtoon is that one dimensional. It reflects an attitude and perpetuates the same attitude through its us. I didnt mean to say that this alone makes dutch people more racist than others its just a telling example. Its probably not very useful to try and compare...

'Somehow i have a hard time picturing a Belgian, Dutch, German, or citizen of any other former power making quite such a proud proclamation in public... ' I think I would agree, I definetly haven't sensed much pride or nostalgia from dutch people when talking to them about their colonial past...