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I just watched the second half of Scorsese's Dylan documentary. Predictably, I found myself admiring Dylan only for the way he dealt with imbecilic journalists and the organo-folk nazis; I remain mystified about the appeal of his words and music. Admittedly I am the most prejudiced possible...

All of this is true, but it's still like Noel fucking Gallagher :) (must admit I was collapsing the song into the Quoasis plod of the other one, with the hideous grammar of 'how does it feel like' eeurgggggh) well he did make the first Daft Punk video, which I still think has merit; but it...

Yes, but a gift and something you pay for have more in common with each other than things you can simply take as and when you want.... I'm not convinced by this; a new completist drive comes with the filing software of the new technology. Plus it isn't YOU who is the completist, it's the...

yes, that's a great example... brilliant video...

No, I know, I was only teasing... Yes, but something unanticipated happens when the form matches the content - inexplicably the content turns to shit! Plus P2P is on such a vast scale compared to home taping really... the fact you could only tape one album at a time, in real time; restrictions...

Wow, I bet you're the sort of person who turns off TV after they've finished watching the programme they sat down to watch too! :) As soon as something is taped, I find it almost impossible to find the energy to watch it (unless it is something ephemeral or trashy like Big Brother which I...

Are you joking? The bourgeoisie are the biggest freeloaders ever, they never pay for anything :)

all of which shows that culture is more ephemeral, existence less so...

What, we're being confronted with the ephemeral nature of our own existence more than in WW1 or the year after, when millions died in the Spanish Flu? Or in WW2? Surely ephemerality is the one thing we're NOT faced with now... our problem is that everything is recorded and filed, forever...

Well, no, because you errrrr can't record onto vinyl... point would be that you can record a film without watching it, that's sort of possible with an LP onto cassette tape but not as likely as downloading an MP3 without ever listening to it ... the issue is how easy it is to acquire the thing...

This is also worth adding into the mix, it's especially poignant on the difference betweend downloading and buying: 'A cd or a record that I bought fixes itself in my memory with more ease - it has a cover, sleevenotes, an image comprised of all that and all the factors that combined to make...

Bit of a confession, but don't think I've ever seen that video.... Soft Cell, 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret' Basement Jaxx, yeh the obvious 'Where's Your Head At' but also the fantastic 'Plug It In' (complete with fembots) Moloko, 'Indigo' (odd and unsettling) Japan, 'Visions of China' (did they...

It's all there on Hyperstition for those who can be bothered...

I thought it had longeurs, but didn't find it cringe-inducing, no... Mind you, I would read Invisible Cities before I dismissed Calvino, honestly... Couldn't get through Foucault's Pendulum, although Dan Brown obviously learned a thing or two.... I recall rather enjoying The Name of the Rose...

There are some marvellous passages in that book, especially at the start, where Calvino writes about the reproach of your bookshelves... all those books that will never be read.... But Invisible Cities is something else again... a haunting series of parables that is also a meditation on Venice...

Hmmm, four out of the top five threads Grime again... but at least now all the events spam has a forum of its own, the fantasy that this 'sometimes leads to interesting discussions' is finally exposed as a sham... replies 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0 etc etc.

Gibson seems to be getting a bit of a bashing on this thread.... Well, he only has one masterpiece (Neuromancer) but that is surely a masterpiece... I think Nick Land is one of the few to have really understood the appeal of Neuromancer lay not in its eighties hipness but in its highly Gothic...

No, just silly. 'Invisible Cities' surely one of the most powerful works of the last half of the twentieth century. But I've never found much to like in Delaney either; just seems like bog standard SF to me... distant planets, spaceships, with this faint patina of uniteresting post60s rock...

Isn't that a deadly accurate prediction of the way that music can't imagine music of the future tho?

What's the nearest tube? (bumps up thread agaaaaaaaaaain)