Woebot
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this will no doubt cause blissblogger intense embarassment and awkwardness.
TOUGH SHIT SIMON.
he is likely perfectly happy NOT being the subject of any hagiography.
"it's not a competition" he might say in all sincerity - typical of his self-effacing modesty.
but we're going to do it anyway. [in a small but durably sticky way].
and the reason is because the record needs to be made straight.
time and time again we've seen simon manoevred into singing the praises of,
well,
just about everything good...!
as a talking head on tv shows,
quoted in books or magazine articles
and as a participant in roundtable discussions.
recently he's found himself the go-to man in any discussion about k-punk.
endlessly generous about mark.
this last i've thought odd because no-one seems to realise that:
for many of us,
for mark himself too arguably,
the real colossus was simon himself.
the gen z crew:
SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
off the top of my head all of the following:
irvine welsh,
mark fisher,
kodwo eshun,
tariq goddard,
steve goodman,
martin clark,
owen hatherley,
john eden,
carl neville,
luke davis,
droid,
the sad bartman,
catherine backhouse,
[obviously] me,
owe simon a debt of influence - usually a large one - but never a negligible one.
sure we all have other important "influences"
but how many of those people deign to humour us?
bother to engage with us?
the thing that [perhaps] nixes the gen z/social media understanding is that
THIS IS JUST MUSIC JOURNALISM
[it is][is it?][it isn't][it is]
the best and clearest analogy i can use to clarify my own appreciation of the reynolds oevre is with science fiction.
in the early days this was seen as churned-out throwaway pap.
no-one took it seriously.
but as we know from the nuum itself, it is in the cultural gutter that the real things happen.
in terms of his influence, his vision,
i see reynolds as being equivalent to the likes of JG Ballard and Philip K Dick.
new book please.
[EDIT: there's a galaxy of people i could have added to the list of *auteurs* "influenced" by simon. most i didn't include because it seemed presumptious of me. likes of: dave stelfox, oliver craner, jim clarke.]
TOUGH SHIT SIMON.
he is likely perfectly happy NOT being the subject of any hagiography.
"it's not a competition" he might say in all sincerity - typical of his self-effacing modesty.
but we're going to do it anyway. [in a small but durably sticky way].
and the reason is because the record needs to be made straight.
time and time again we've seen simon manoevred into singing the praises of,
well,
just about everything good...!
as a talking head on tv shows,
quoted in books or magazine articles
and as a participant in roundtable discussions.
recently he's found himself the go-to man in any discussion about k-punk.
endlessly generous about mark.
this last i've thought odd because no-one seems to realise that:
for many of us,
for mark himself too arguably,
the real colossus was simon himself.
the gen z crew:
SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS
off the top of my head all of the following:
irvine welsh,
mark fisher,
kodwo eshun,
tariq goddard,
steve goodman,
martin clark,
owen hatherley,
john eden,
carl neville,
luke davis,
droid,
the sad bartman,
catherine backhouse,
[obviously] me,
owe simon a debt of influence - usually a large one - but never a negligible one.
sure we all have other important "influences"
but how many of those people deign to humour us?
bother to engage with us?
the thing that [perhaps] nixes the gen z/social media understanding is that
THIS IS JUST MUSIC JOURNALISM
[it is][is it?][it isn't][it is]
the best and clearest analogy i can use to clarify my own appreciation of the reynolds oevre is with science fiction.
in the early days this was seen as churned-out throwaway pap.
no-one took it seriously.
but as we know from the nuum itself, it is in the cultural gutter that the real things happen.
in terms of his influence, his vision,
i see reynolds as being equivalent to the likes of JG Ballard and Philip K Dick.
new book please.
[EDIT: there's a galaxy of people i could have added to the list of *auteurs* "influenced" by simon. most i didn't include because it seemed presumptious of me. likes of: dave stelfox, oliver craner, jim clarke.]
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