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dunno. to me the most noticable thing about dubai is that it's everyone from everywhere. no-one there is from there. and the everywhere is expansive

and purpose as well. a load of the emotional / social / etc needs that were filled by films and music are filled by the internet thing now

energy and money

it's not art but it's where a lot of the energy that used to be in music and films has gone

yeah sort of but they're old now. old cities. lots of things established and set in stone. and the numbers aren't the same. dubai is at least 90% migrants and most of them moved there in the last 20 years

even i'm sick of writing that tbh but it's just so obvious

there's a lot of ways to think about it. the angle i'm coming from is as a mad new social phenomenon. migrant cities bashing twenty different cultures together. a human arrangement that hasn't been tried before glued together by all the money in the world

depends what you stick within your parameters of culture i think. if you're talking about the traditional arts then no there's still basically nothing so far as i know. but then most people in dubai aren't western except for a small quite rich tranche so i wouldn't know like if the africans...

dubai is fucked but it's the new york of the 21st century. new money, the new global migrant city. the new order

i've been there for some reason but only have vague memories of a pink hotel and driving across the river looking at houses on the distant fronds

idk maybe i'm totally wrong and he's a millionaire. maybe that what animates craner's stinking convulsive hatred

he's probably a good dude and it's good that someone bothers to write something like this. i dunno if you can write a book about a foreign city without spending a bit more time there. especially a massive monster like nyc. it's a good example of an outsider's perspective. sort of wondered if...

i like him in general coz he's totally mad and goes with it, wandering around derby and trying to write about these ugly buildings like he loves them. in this one he tries to write a whole book about nyc and DC by visiting twice, once for three days and once for about two weeks and he seems...

read most of owen hatherley's new book about new york. it sounds like he didn't have a very nice holiday.

very similar to this. real lies are like if someone took those dissensus-blog related reviews of burial and made them more literal, on the nose

heard in cafe grumpy just now. i've been away for nearly a decade now, it's taken a long time but am starting to see england from the outside. there's this whole tranche of really parochial music, this kind of mid-range, a whole continuum that's been going on for years, this kind of chill...

the NYC 'people who go out' discord is a good window into all of this. the people on the knockdown center and avant gardner bits of it love four tet and that kind of thing. the people on the basement bit are totally different and are mostly interested in having sex with each other i think...

i reckon a press release like that would work pretty well for his audience. it's very wholesome. and talks about the kind of arty guitar music that some of his audience will be familiar with. it has that autobiographical authentic instagram-post thing going on, quite open, no mystique. it's all...

he's an interesting figure. in that he takes up a space in the dance music world, very popular, well liked, one of the big names by this point - he had a whole two day festival in brooklyn last weekend under his name - and the music he makes and plays is totally neutered. he fits into the...