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Yes, and also by doing interviews that interrogate the interview form itself, that talk about culture etc rather than just music... yup, though I haven't got any hope that the next album will be any better; their current output is beyond useless. Can't help thinking that feller would have been...

Another phrase almost as bad as 'it's all subjective' is 'it's just semantics'... what, just the meaning of words, that trivial matter?

Another issue here is that matters of taste become the model for everything (i.e. all disagreements come to be seen on the model of 'I don't like chocolate') rather than arguments with reasons (i.e. 'I hold this belief because...') It's almost impossible to get students, for instance, to accept...

Yes and one of the results of that is just the sort of thing I described. This survey, admittedly not that representative, by the Mirror confirms the truth of this 'propaganda'.... Surely it is well-known, though, that Americans are in general massively insular by comparison with, say...

Reminds me of Zizek's remarks on porn in Looking Awry, where he asks what would happen if, say, a mainstream film like The River Runs Through It included an explicit sex scene. Zizek says that the film couldn't incorporate the real of the sex... any such scene would fatally destabilize it, make...

Think you're being a little bit hasty there... the film is massively flawed, no doubt, but it did make a serious attempt to capture the Cornelius schtick... some quite impressive Rauschenbergian Pop Art sets as I recall... Amazing that a film like that could be made in retrospect...

I've just discovered the pleasures of the 'Ignore' list...

Not particularly interested in Barrett, but can't see the connection any way beyond the fact that they were both songwriters... Reed, I guess Dylan was an influence, maybe on lyrics, but as to vocal style, can't see that either... Bowie, I suppose Dylan was one influence amongst many... but...

That would be because he's not British, he's French... Point is not that NO good British films have been made, and obv all of the above are great examples, but that these remain the exception, and the amount of good British films is shockingly low, really.... (and yes Francesco the original...

Much as I enjoy your trolling, Paul, it would be nice to see some evidence of EITHER (1) Some of the knowledge of which you boast or (2) Our lack of knowledge. btw, the point about Americans not being able to find Iraq on the map is not xenophobic, unless it is xenophobic to report known...

So, by that logic, Paul is a supporter of 'traditional leftwing ideas' then? Odd, given his stated disdain for 'lefties'.

How's that? Being anti US foreign policy isn't the same as being xenophobic. such as?

Whereas bombing a country which most Americans couldn't even find on a map indicates a healthy and positive attitude towards other nations and cultures, I suppose?

Powerful if obvious savaging of 'the Feel Good Brit Flick' in the The Times today, a fulmination inspired by (someone call out the divebombers) ' a new home-grown comedy about a London transvestite saving a crippled Northampton shoe factory'. 'The Germans have given us the paranoid depths of...

No of course not...

yes, brilliant....

This is really a great idea...

OK, I'm MASSIVELY intrigued... is there any chance of you copying that CDR for me Martin?

Thanks!

:)