Sunday, January 27, 2013
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- SIMON REYNOLDS
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- *FOOTNOTES #5* ** *CHAPTER 4 CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York * *[chapter 9 in the US edition]* ** *Page 50* >A British invention The Sex Pistols’s...4 years ago
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Schedules - *In 1996, with movies and TV doing such good jobs of holding the attention of literates and illiterates alike, I have to question the value of my very...1 week ago
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Not made by great men - "History teaches, but it has no pupils.” "You can be proud without being independent: you often have to be." “... At one point in the film, a young...1 week ago
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Dr Phibes, the inverted ventriloquist? - A ventriloquists dummy adopts life through a voice given to it. Dr Phibes cinematic appearance is the morbid inversion of this. The watcher knows that th...2 weeks ago
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Siberian Gold - *"For help was coming from an unexpected dimension. In 1961, the first oilfield had been discovered in western Siberia, and by 1969 geologists - many worki...1 month ago
BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE
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Being Gary Wilson: the cult singer-songwriter discusses Beck, John Cage, and a bright blue baby duck - *Sixteen years ago, Gary Wilson was depressed.* He was going nowhere, working a dead-end job, “the midnight shift out of a bookstore” (and what kind of b...24 minutes ago
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Holy shit, isn't Steve Reich awesome?? - Yeah he is. I don’t know a lot of his stuff but these are my favorites: *Early Works *One of maybe 20 records that completely changed the way I heard musi...5 hours ago
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Music Review: Chris Corsano - The Raw and the Cooked - Chris Corsano x Bill Orcutt The Raw and the Cooked [Palilalia; 2013] by Matthew Phillips Rating: The inextricable link between improvisation and ...6 hours ago
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Sidney Sime paintings - [image: sime1.jpg]Painting of Waves. Most of the art for which Sidney Sime (1867–1941) is remembered is black-and-white or monochrome work, in part because...9 hours ago
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Minging London - *The New Mayhew *was originally published in *Punch *during the 50s as a satirical update of *London Labour and the London Poor*, the great Victorian work ...12 hours ago
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judge dredd mt rushmore! hard to believe you've not done this one before, though. - This is pretty hard, because I tend to think of Dredd more in terms of phases rather than individual stories, but also because most of the stories I HAVE...12 hours ago
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Small Black Soundtrack a Fiery One-Day Stand in 'No Stranger' Video - Speaking to SPIN, Small Black frontman Josh Kolenik described the Brooklyn foursome's second album, *Limits of Desire*, as "more powerful, more confident...13 hours ago
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OBlog: When Google Earth Goes Wrong - Clement Valla is an artist in Brooklyn, New York who discovers and collects ‘anomalies’ within the Google Earth system in his ongoing series entitled Postc...14 hours ago
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Ital and Hieroglyphic Being To Release Collaborative EP - [image: Ital and Hieroglyphic Being To Release Collaborative EP] Following the release of his recent 12", Brooklyn producer Ital has teamed up with Hier...15 hours ago
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➤ Book domino chain sets new world record - ❚ THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY launched the 2013 Summer Reading Program by setting a new world record for the longest book domino chain. The 2,131 books used...15 hours ago
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The Outer Church compilation - IX Tab makes an appearance as the last track on THIS excellent compilation double album put together by the ever-circling, effervescent Joe Stannard & Just...16 hours ago
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The Outer Church compilation - IX Tab makes an appearance as the last track on THIS excellent compilation double album put together by the ever-circling, effervescent Joe Stannard & Just...16 hours ago
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The Data Dealer Kickstarter - *Can’t they get an NSA research grant? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cuteacute/data-dealer/18 hours ago
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changterhune: urbsantiquafuit: me getting work done w/... - changterhune: urbsantiquafuit: me getting work done w/ germanic efficiencyyyyy I’m leaving this on my monitor for the rest of the day.19 hours ago
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marathonpacks: I’m curious about what you mean when you included Random Access... - marathonpacks: I’m curious about what you mean when you included Random Access Memories in that brief list of “difficult-album-as-political-statement” ...19 hours ago
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Lil Wayne - Something You Forgot (off The Drought Is Over 2: The... - Lil Wayne - Something You Forgot (off *The Drought Is Over 2: The Carter III Sessions*, 2007, internets) *pain, since I’ve lost you I’m lost too*21 hours ago
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I'm curious about what you mean when you included Random Access Memories in that brief list of "difficult-album-as-political-statement" w/r/t the Mystery Train quote. That album didn't strike me as either difficult or political. - Yeah, *RAM* is most certainly not difficult in any aural sense, particularly when compared to *Shaking the Habitual* (how more of a “difficult” title is ...21 hours ago
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Psychogeography of augmented realites - > Distorted colors of Google StreetView photographs near electric power lines… Some users...23 hours ago
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I Feel Like A Wog: Part 9 - European Females - If "Euroman Cometh" had been mostly preoccupied with the weighty subject of the political destiny of a continent, there was still room for some chauvinist...23 hours ago
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Pure Science – Give a Little Darkness - Here’s a moody jungle number from 94. The artist behind this (Helen T / Pure Science) collaborated with DJ Nut Nut on a couple nice singles which are simil...1 day ago
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The long “Good-Bye” - According to Martha Tilton, a featured singer with the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the late 1930s, Gordon Jenkins wrote “Good-Bye” — which became Goodman’s ...2 days ago
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"Negroes invented rock music, dance music, and free jazz and psychedelia. At least that’s what mama says". Interview with Rudy Tambala, A.R. KANE - (on the event of the issue of "The Complete Singles" in 2012", from The Quietus) *“when I think of you, everything goes crazy”* Libraries give y...2 days ago
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"Sorry dude, but you lost me at the 'human' part..." - Sometimes there are parts of the fairly-recent past that just seem so quaintly alien that you just don't know where to file them. Like an obitthat reads ...2 days ago
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Resolution Way extract Graeme 2 - The train that arrives is either 28 minutes late or seven minutes early and Graeme is fairly sure which of those two it is most likely to be, even though ...2 days ago
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Pattern Recognition: The Evolving Architecture of the Underground - The second instalment of my new monthly column for Electronic Beats, Pattern Recognition, is on the changed and changing nature of 'the new music undergro...2 days ago
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Primary school tapeworm experiments (1970s) - Back in the 1970s there was no way of ascertaining how some medical products might affect humans. Rabbits, chimps and other animals were needed for dark ri...2 days ago
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Buchla 700 Video Log - I forgot I had made a little video of the 700 when I was at Rick's:3 days ago
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“Hydro Theory”Drexciya A highly secretive project of... - *“Hydro Theory”* Drexciya A highly secretive project of Detroit techno musicians James Stinson and Gerald Donald, Drexciya was a concept band based on a ...6 days ago
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Polis - I. Look at the flower-like structure of the universe: how unlike living it really is. Couldn’t a child tell the difference between the beauty of the Io...6 days ago
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Enter Matrix House – the Phenomenon of Nev - Causing a stir in medialand is a BBC3 documentary about a call centre in Swansea. Its lead man is Nev Wilshire, a garrulous yet big-hearted multimillionaire ...6 days ago
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The Uncanny In The Everyday: Kemper Norton Interviewed - Sussex resident Kemper Norton's music tells tales of community conflict and tensions between urban and rural worldviews. He tells Russell Cuzner about pran...1 week ago
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Hello Friends - Hello friends. I had a good time in Montreal. Sort of. Dreams are freedom, dreams are oppression. What I mean is that, ok, I have always been haunted b...1 week ago
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LONDON AND ENVIRONS - Another hastily assembled diatribe for the Guardian. It's all about the way in which London is becoming like the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz while eve...1 week ago
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Frame by frame: the art of animation (excerpt)Examples of direct... - *Frame by frame: the art of animation* (excerpt) Examples of direct animation and time-lapse techniques set to suitably frenetic electronic sounds. Paul ...1 week ago
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On PRISM, or Listening Neoliberally - So, here’s a rough, first pass at theorizing one aspect of what’s significant about PRISM. It’s very preliminary, and I would love your thoughts and feedba...1 week ago
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Top 10/Bottom 3: June 2013 - Top 10 Things I Believe (in no particular order) Hockey players are the best athletes in the world because they have to be fast, strong, tough, nimble, d...1 week ago
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Game of Thrones and Dialectics of the Internet - In response to this: http://snippets.voyou.org/post/52160165378/peter-dinklage-deserves-another-emmy-for-last-nights I think the imposition of liberal va...1 week ago
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Saturday night dancing in 1950s London - Steven Berkoff - Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney (his father was a tailor...1 week ago
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the view from suburbia: Dead Kennedys, Washington DC, 6-5-83 - It’s been said 14 is the influential age in the development of our musical tastes. That was the case for me: I find I regularly return to the music that I...2 weeks ago
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Rural-Urban split - Very interesting article from Phil. Some points: The article implies a model for the development of musical forms based on vampiric theft of 'vital essence...2 weeks ago
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No Time for New Years - Fact Mag over here composes a long list that is oddly poised against rhetorical question "Has there ever been a year Quite like 2013?" It's perhaps rhetori...2 weeks ago
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THE WRONG WRONGNESS: Excerpts from Email Correspondence, 27.05.13 - * * *[These slightly re-written excerpts from emails written at various points today are here posted as an expansion of and sequel to the 'RADICAL MURDER'...3 weeks ago
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FEATURE: Crystals - FEATURE: Crystals Dark Shark@Facebook • Dark Shark@Tumblr • Dark Shark@Twitter3 weeks ago
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Stockholm’s Suburbs Are on Fire - Here is a translation of two texts about the ongoing Swedish riots that have appeared in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet authored by Megafonen and Pantrarn...3 weeks ago
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“My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.” - Obviously I’m pleased, not to mention surprised, to see my book reviewed in a national newspaper that isn’t the Morning Star. Without wishing to sound ungr...4 weeks ago
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Back soon - The painted wrd is down for maintenance and will return in June. All the best!5 weeks ago
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MUTANT DANCE - A HTV Documentary that aired on 02/06/1997 documenting the UK based Mutant Dance Party Collective and Bristol Free Party Crew gearing up for a free party t...5 weeks ago
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Fragments on Time: Found Poetry in My Dashboard - I have nearly 50 drafts in my blog’s dashboard — waiting, forgotten, abandoned. This week, I encouraged readers at the Daily Post, one of our blogs at Word...5 weeks ago
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RIP Jeff Hanneman - fuck. fuck. fuck. kicking myself for never getting around to seeing Slayer live would almo...1 month ago
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How the internet influences what we wear - I’m always fascinated with how the internet is impacting other creative industries beyond music. On Saturday I took my little sister to The Vogue Festiva...1 month ago
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'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com - 'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com: rogueish: Ridiculous that I wrote a post about *Spring Breakers* without mentioning Britney; ...1 month ago
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Republic 111 @ live.code.festival Karlsruhe - Codelets that create sound patterns are being rewritten while running, sounds can be spatialised by distributing them across the unamplified laptops in...1 month ago
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Penelope Lively - I’ve not watched a whole bunch of kids TV lately. You hear yourself telling some confused inebriate at a party you’re interested in the supernatural, myth...2 months ago
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New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...2 months ago
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ODDS AND SODS AND STILL ALIVE - I figure it might be a good idea at this point to say that I'm not shutting down this blog. I'm hoping to become a little more active again come May, but w...2 months ago
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blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel &... - blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel & Indlekofer for Vogue Germany April 2013 Hair: Jennifer Wagner Makeup: Luca Mannuc...3 months ago
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The Landscape of Power - Sylvia Crowe, P.I.L.A. The Architectural Press: London 1958 Printed and bound in Great Britain by STAPLES PRINTERS LIMITED at their Roches...3 months ago
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Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....3 months ago
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A falling fourth or fifth - Bitterly cold this morning in Queens Wood but not too cold to hear the woman calling her dogs with a fluting falling call – ooh oooh – that reminded me of ...3 months ago
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How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...3 months ago
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Issue #144 (Feb. 6, 2013) - *Centennial Beach, Naperville IL* Photo by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *United States of Nigger...3 months ago
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On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...4 months ago
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scissor lock - churn (self released) - Let’s begin with that cover. Because it’s not so much a cover as a framing device. A freeze frame actually. Taken from the exuberant video to JB’s “Beauty...4 months ago
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Yacht Rock - Yacht. Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghts...5 months ago
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EP MANIA - Perhaps the main problem for poststep, the main reason it isn't recognised as the uncontrolled eruption of revolutionary musical modernism that it is, is ...5 months ago
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“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...5 months ago
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2012 in Music - *2K12 IN MUSIC* Yo, this blog post will be in two sections, Part I dealing with my own personal year-in-music, and the second a more critical look at some ...5 months ago
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Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...6 months ago
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Get Free stuff and Free perfume sampels - Spending some time regarding free gifts on website is always pretty pleasurable. It’s just like browsing increasingly more to acquire maximum variety of ...6 months ago
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Babylon Reggae mix by me - Babylon Reggae Mix by Marc Dauncey on Mixcloud Here’s a new mix I did – a selection of Jamaican roots reggae juxtaposed against UK fast chat, dub and mor...7 months ago
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Freeparty Photobooks - NO SYSTEM Vinca Petersen (Steidl) Vinca travelled around with various teknotypes in the mid-1990s. A lot of these snaps feel like holiday fotos and she...8 months ago
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Decadence and Dying Earth, Part 1.5 - I'm reading Clark Ashton Smith for the first time, and I'm doing so with no knowledge of the writer's personal life or work outside of *Zothique *and the t...1 year ago
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