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How terribly anti-supersuper-semitic. Can't you see she's expressing the pain of a nation through her unique style & music??

My family on my mother's side is from Rotherham. All former coal-miners who worked at Silverwood Colliery until Thatcher shut it, along with all the others. The Flint of 'Roger & Me' represents about 1% of the unemployment & loss of pride suffered by entire generations in Sheffield when the...

Jesus, I saw them live a couple of years ago. One giant doom-steeped chord every five fucking minutes. Tranced out something horrid.

Er, of bands with lyrics & 'songs', but expressed more originally: TV on the Radio (Young Liars EP is the best). Later SWANS stuff, obviously. Slapp Happy's 'Desperate Straights' collaboration with Henry Cow was pretty cracked structurally if you can take Dagmar's voice & if you can, then Art...

I always thought that the subtext of the humour in Cunt was the over-the-top nature of Charlie Brooker's hatred of Nathan Barley. The ludicrous obsession with Barley's relatively commonplace offensiveness was made clear in the series. In the original, we don't get to see the narrator, but in...

I got sent to a public school for a single term when I was 11. After lunch, every day, we did sports for the whole afternoon. Athletics, field sports, team sports, the works. That's five four-hour stints a week. Parents came to pick up the day boys at 7pm, & we all had lessons on Saturdays...

As Sartre said, L'enfer, c'est les hipsters, sur champignons... :eek:

Definitely. Of the new stuff, China Mieville? Perdido Street Station definitely has a steampunkish feel

Yeah, the clubs there are all rubbish honeytraps. Shoreditch is all about holding as big & exclusive a night as possible in some crappy old boozer & kicking out at 3am for afterparties in all the hipster-rented houses in the area. You can walk down there in the early morning & just gatecrash...

It's right next to where I work, so it's my local. Lovely comfy ripped-up sofas, good beer, squat-filthy, a nice grubby baby grand you can tinkle on & they don't mind two guys necking (it's probably 'hip') . I have NO fucking clue about the punters. 'Beautiful people' they're not unless...

...stoner? :D

Who needs lung power when you have Celtic Twilight? ;) Those Irish pipes are so complicated, I was watching a tutorial on youtube ... you have to squeeze bellows with your right elbow which feeds a leather air-sac under your left arm, which you press with your left elbow to feed a continuous...

Good god ... haven't had shivers down my spine like that since I saw throat singers in Mongolia. That John mcSherry vid knocked my socks off, all those microtonal pitch bends. Timestopping. I'd love to learn to play something like that, although it looks as hard as wrestling a wriggling cat &...

Never had anything like that, although my handwriting is tiny & Se7en-esque psycho-cramped with my left writing hand arched & hovering over the paper to avoid smudges. Parents or teachers must have tried to change my handedness pretty doggedly because I play violin & guitar right-handed, eat &...

... & I'm amazed nobody ever battered my third eye into the back of my big fat head. How do 'spiritual masters' ever make it into their 30s?!?

Ohhhh.... what, the rotatingspinninggreenoccult thing?? That's great. Disappointing to hear they were notthatmuch tho. I was hoping that clicking on the link would be the beginning of my spiritual becoming, etc. Doh!! I should have known!!! Stupid internet. By the way, wasn't...

Wow ... what an unbelievably depressing thread. Lots of raspberries being blown weren't there? What WERE those original occult pictures that blew up childoftheblogosphere's pineal gland & prompted all those knowing winky smileys? They seem to have disappeared. I want a 3rd eyegasm too!!

Me too. Left-handed, left-eyed, right-footed. Wonder if they'll find a gene for total utter lateral confusion?

That's beautifully put. I'm like that. But I don't think hipsters are. They're just forever searching for credibility. & status. & laffs. Nothing romantic or melancholic about that. Great art doesn't emerge from that kindof quest, just great tossers.

Incidentally, the idea of body movement being related to the structure of beats seems testable, so someone must've done it, surely. & you should be able to work backwards, converting the movements of dancers back into beats, with all this motion-capture, rotoscopic technological paraphenalia...