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House of Leaves is just one of my favourite reads. Couldn't recommend it more. Hard-Boiled Wonderland's my fave Murakami too ... attempted some of his other stuff but just can't be bothered to finish them ... got as far as the skinning scene in Wind-Up Bird Chronicle but then just kindof read...

Gotta be a Feadship! http://www.feadship.nl/ On reflection, remembering Gene in his loon pants (resembling a cowboy Karen Carpenter), I'm inclined to believe that this whole 'Cosmic American' genre could be found in precisely that unlikely intersection of 'good ol' boy' & 'drag Byronic moonqueen'.

I really like No Other. Gorgeous warm slow-paced countrified rock with vaguely psychedelic lyrics about silver ravens & fate & stuff. Still drag it out occasionally although the expensive production & female backing choir can get a bit sickly, just like Pacific Ocean Blue (a marginally better...

Your remix of 'Just Like a Cunt' is the greatest fucking thing on the plane. I love sticking it on at parties although it's a bit of a pain sweeping all the jaws up off the floor afterwards :cool:

Graham Greene, "Brighton Rock"? Murakami, "Hard Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World"? Jeff Noon, "Vurt"?

For the full late Swans experience, it has to be "Swans are Dead", the double live album of their last tour. It's like late-period Braque or something ... kindof measured & restrained but with this unbelievable weight & presence. Sound as pure physical force; warm as the sun, cold as fucking...

Haha! What's that, Geeks Get God? :D Very enjoyable, cheers! Must be a right moshpit at their gigs, you can tell. I'd be right in there. EDIT: the video is like swallowing 1000lb of semi-digested syrupy-sweet hipster bile though.

Well that's religion for you!

You may have a point there. It is a Hoxton age & I'm probably giving them too much credit.

Well the crowd look shite & the band are probably tossers & have a really really stupid name, but I don't think you need to emulate much of anything to make music like that. I was making stuff almost exactly like this a couple of years ago & the only band I'd heard out of the ones mentioned was...

I don't know ... it's saluting the sun, isn't it? I mean, Boredoms do it, other bands have done it, sure, but there's nothing particularly new OR old about the ecstatic worship of white light ... there'll always be bands like this & they'll pretty much always sound the same. The sun's a...

Cheers lissajou, dunno how much time I'll have left but I'll try & make it down to Spellcaster Lodge ... Quintron seems to be on tour at the moment which completely SUCKS A DOG because if his photos & bio are anything to go by he must be one of the biggest must-sees on the planet. Interesting...

You're an officer & a gentleman.

Tipitinas, gotya. Thanks!

Heading to New Orleans this Saturday & leaving the following Thursday. Won't have a lot of time to play but I'll get Saturday night, most of Sunday, & maybe one free evening during the week. Where's good for music? Is anything left after Katrina did a Kevin Costner on the place?? I'm looking...

I used to hang out with some Indonesian guys & they'd shake hands normally & then, after letting go, lift the same hand diagonally & gently touch their hearts while lowering their eyes slightly. Small extra touch but it was a really elegant little gesture. Even copied it for a bit until I...

I was in a bar in Chicago, sitting at a table where, at the other end, there happened to be an attractive woman on her own, & watched the hordes of predatory men descend. She was forced to deal with them politely as they, quite literally, surrounded her. I don't go to straight 'bars' often &...

Would it be the same as for many women? "Young & beautiful forever"? An unreachable goal of course, doomed to disappointment.

Yeah, with that dobbin, you got no game :D

Yeah, soz, I wasn't trying to be sarcastic & I know it's totally obvious to make an equivalence between homophobic language & racist language, but I did notice on the other thread some opinions of the "'battyman' or 'gay' has ceased to mean 'homosexual' & now just means 'worthless subhuman', so...