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I take it you won't post this on stillepost then? Whennish is this going down?

(forgive me for saying, but this thread seems kinda surreal to me. I mean, Richard fucking Hell still exists and goes to the post office????? I hadn't thought that he had died or anything, but, well, cool!)

It's ok. It's almost impossible to be a pedant without making mistakes yourself in your corrections! :) AND, your comments on statistics are not only spot on but well worth repeating! Linguistic analysis and statistics are brethren in the sense that people love to blab on about them but always...

Mr. Tea: I think I see what's going on here... you have the words "subject" and "object" backwards. 1) Sam threw the ball. In (1), Sam is the subject, and the ball is the object. (edit: sorry if that example sounds kinda insulting or condescending by its simplicity! Not intended at all! Years...

hmmm... I think you have that backwards, no? Normally "pedants" insist who must be used "nominatively" (i.e., by analogy to Latin, when it is the *subject*), while whom is the objective (used for objects). Your two examples are right by these rules, however. In the first case, who is...

Really? I've driven through a few upstate NY towns (sorry, couldn't name which ones, was stopping for gas, lunch, etc.) where there was a *very* high percentage of houses with US flags. (I'm aware that estimations of the relative frequency might be inflated by the salience of, say, noticing a...

cool, thanks. I'll bide my time then.

has anyone seen the documentary on Wesley Willis? Sad man, but with lots of good friends...

for the non-UK people: where can you get Rules + Regulations? Ukrecordshop has it, but shipping is not cheap...

does that make me a sun person or an ice person, I wonder? sheesh, what dross! :) As for "african american", I think it's not quite as dead as you think, nomodologist. In public/official discourse, I'd bet that "African American" outnumbers "Black" somewhat, and in regular day to day speech...

the thought of my father listening to Associates is just hilarious. What kind of father do you have? My parents don't understand the first thing about pop music, let alone, say, dark maximalist crooning new pop. They simply have no context for anything I listen to! Let alone dance musics!

Just found Associates - Sulk on vinyl for $5, so I picked it up last night (have it on CD), and gave it a spin today. Loved it, as usual, but noticed something strange on Club Country: the extended breakdown 3/4 of the way through! This is NOT on my CD version! Doubly happy I got the cheap vinyl...

I once heard a sweet (literally, drippingly so) reggae cover of Take That's 'Back for Good'. so good.

well, presumably one would.

actually, I'm being quite mean. The CEO posts a lot at headfi, and replies to PMs. He seems genuinely into being connected with his customers, and their customer support is reputedly great. I'm mighty tempted to pick them up ATM....

Saw Valery Gergiev conduct my local orchestra (the Toronto Symphony Orchestra) in a Debussy-Stravinsky program. The last piece was Debussy's magisterial La Mer. I know the piece very well, and I've seen it live once before (James Levine with the BSO), but WOW, it was something else tonight...

their single "Are you gonna be my girl" or some such (bassline a bit from lust for life) was all over the place (including an iPod ad). Good for you missing them!

they're playing at a cinema in my town. I'd love to see it big big.

yeah, obviously it's stupid and short-sighted to think of that sort of violence as a result of gangsta music rather than seeing that music as an expression of what's going on. But I agree there's probably some feedback loop too whereby the glamorization of what's already going on keeps what's...

From the Guttah, Shackleton at Rooted. Mostly just him DJing with lots of heads nodding, but at the end there's a tiny interview with him. Apparently there's a Skull Disco CD compilation of the releases so far coming out. Sounds great for those not sure how much they want to drop on vinyl...