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wouldn't they? it's a *pretty good* argument agin taking drugs, i would have thought. certainly the way otherwise scrupulously fair-trade coffee and organic meat types have no problem with using cocaine has its grimly funny side. i'm not very interested in drugs, so i suppose for me the choice...

this is a post about ketamine i'm not even a very assiduous listener these days, but that shit's crazy. this isn't a thread for the problems of hip-hop's lyrical preoccupations (tho let's not forget that a year ago everybody would have been complaining about kanye being hip-hop for white rock...

got the rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon it's true that the *lyrical* content of hip-hop is impossible to defend, and perhaps things've slowed down a bit, but it's in better nick than what we're all calling 'dahnce' music...

dominic, i don't see your point there? do you think hip-hop hasn't moved on in 16 years (1989 wannit?)? cos, you know, it has...

this is true, but at the same time i don't see why we need Events. i think i used to have Events with movies and music, and don't now, but i don't see any big problem there. after all historical 'events' are often illusory, so why privilege cultural Events? that said, there are still Events, but...

if 'the kids' are united um ah etc... as a younger, it's my impression people (not internet people) still get juiced on music, but it's lost all connection with a 'counterculture' or with politics. partly because there are few political movements among the young. i'm trying to think of bands...

there's a lot of ambiguity in that stubbs post, because he's *not* talking about capitalistically contructive stuff as alternative -- he's talking about "society-changing" stuff. he's come to the realisation that -- shockah -- the 60s counterculture did not end the vietnam war; similarly...

i don't know why i didn'ty like 'the piano teacher', it was a long time ago, but i think it involved: -the french-austrian language/euro-pudding angle -the echt euro-cinema perspective on sexuality. maybe it would be okay if it was the only art-house hit to 'explore the darker side' of the 's&m...

omg roffle 'cwybabies'. pathetic. anyway, i didn't know nick kilroy and haven't read the article but pretty much stick a hypodermic in vice and you'll get find something to hate. like a woman being descibed as 'walking rape deterrent'.

oh, go on, fill us non-east-london peeps in!

technically a polanski well, the awesome ep 5 had sugar ape's 'vice issue', didn't it? with the underage models being molested by the staff but it was okay because they were 'in on it,' only they kind of weren't (and not, in fact, underage). the series totally nailed the 'ethos' of vice and...

stupid people think it's cool i think it's only deep-down earnest people who could fall for VICE really, like if they pull their heads out of the library they will find that in general the country could do with a little more political correctness. academia has turned PC into a pathology...

i think i missed the meeting where penny rimbaud and crass became paragons of the left.

"its irreverent pisstake towards race issues in America is refreshing." yeah amid tell-it-like-it-is blowhards like rush limbaugh it's so... refreshing, isn't it? "Personally I think MacInnes argues a strong case that conservativism has actually become the progressive movement at this moment...

what k-punk said about the internet meaning that you can edit your own blog -- i think that's right. otoh i kind of agree with stelfox on the practical level. more or less every professional writer i've met thinks the net is bad 'for the profession' and i don't think that's just fear of...

from a writer's pov, freelancing is more or less 'for free', ie so badly paid it may as well be. the 'director's cut' thing is presumably why many pros get involved. from a reader's pov: i only really engage while at work, so it's win-win really. the internet 'could do better' perhaps, but...

k-punk: popists (i think i'm one) like drinking in SOME pubs (or bars, even), but NOT the boogaloo, which has strong links with macgowan, pete doherty, razorlight... rockism, in a word. the threat posed by the new wave of new wave of new wave bands to post-punk (franz ferdinand is the more obv...

it was enemy territory: shane macgowan was at the bar. elvis was on the wall. god knows who was on the jukebox. neither popists nor post-punkers felt comfortable there. i think this gave it edge, it demonstrated the threat posed to post-punk by boogaloo regulars like razorlight, the whole'revolt...

if this vote of confidence in the PCF, whose faith was not rewarded, and whose 'communism' was obscene, is 'serious and worthwhile' then here's to mindless, shallow, drink-fuelled kylie-worship.

me using 'strawman 2' is just a way of saying that the binary 'geeza [s'man 1]: thinka [s'man 2]' won't hold, in other words that what thinkas are doing is not all that far removed from what the geezas are doing. i found it hard in your post to distinguish between abstract positions and the...