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BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE

Tribune

For the Elite, the Parties Were Never a Secret - In Frank Herbert’s space opera Dune, conflict within the ruling commercial-feudal aristocracy is governed and contained by a set of rules known as kanli....
43 minutes ago
It starts with a birthstone...

Bobby Gillespie - The Tenement Kid - # 16 Primal Scream - Weatherall transforms *I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have *into *Loaded *and *Screamadelica *and essentially Primal Scream as they want to be, are bo...
2 hours ago
Suspended Reason

ACiM is a natural extension of cybernetic theory - Previously, on communication as manipulation: “Consensual and Non-Consensual Manipulation,” “All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation,” “All Communicat...
11 hours ago
Hate Meditations

Beyond the North Waves: shifting the narrative of 90s black metal - Following on from the article ‘Death metal for the general listener’ – an attempt to recast death metal as an inherently experimental form of music – I wan...
17 hours ago
Blog - Peter Stanfield

Matched Pairs in Monochrome: MC5 and J. Geils Band 1970 - A love letter from The Garage Band Appreciation Society, Maidenhead, May 1976 Just 18 catalogue entries separate the MC5’s Back inthe USA and The J. Geil...
18 hours ago
History is made at night

The Sanctuary - Hardcore in Milton Keynes, 1991-2004 - Milton Keynes Gallery has been hosting an exhibition on the famous MK club The Sanctuary (it closes on 23 January 2022). 'How did an unsuspecting Milton...
19 hours ago
Modernism Unbound

Top Five Albums of 2021 - In this article, Jon Lindblom lists his top five albums of the year. 5. Loraine James – Reflection (Hyperdub) Reflection by Loraine James To someone like m...
1 day ago
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

Book Review: The Siege of Harlem, Warren Miller (1964) - 2/5 (Bad) Over the last year, I acquired three near-future SF novels exploring issues of race conflict in New York City written by authors of different rac...
1 day ago
xenogothic

The Royal George - A post that got caught up in my 2021 backlog… Photos from a weekend stay with Natasha at her glorious pub, the Royal George, back in October 2021 (featurin...
1 day ago
Lost Turntable

Weird covers on moog, koto, and harpsichord (and more) - Happy new year? Eh, yeah right. I hope you’re all doing better than me, I’ll just leave it at that. If you’re subscribed to my YouTube channel you’ve proba...
1 day ago
Eliminated for Reasons of Space

How We Wrote - Inspired by a December New Yorker piece on “distraction-free devices” — i.e., apps designed to help writers focus — longtime Boston music writer and critic...
2 days ago
it's her factory

When did vibes become a Thing? - When Gawker editor-in-chief Leah Finnegan put “vibe” on her publication’s list of banned words in October 2021, it was clear the term stopped being cool an...
4 days ago
Real Life

Seeing Without Looking - Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one's privacy than collecting one's image
4 days ago
GreilMarcus.net | Writings by (and about) Greil Marcus

Playlist #7: “Mole” - Available to stream: “Mole“, a Greil Marcus playlist, “made up for fun” in 2018. 1. Bob Dylan, from “Memphis Blues Again,” Blonde on Blonde (Columbia, 196...
4 days ago
ELECTRONIC ORGY

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 00/830 (CONTEMPORA CON-TINOUS SERIES 00/830, MIX SOLOS 1-36 (379+525+764) ENDTIME, CD ALBUM, 31.7.11) (FLAC) - *DOWNLOAD*
4 days ago
Trevor Barre

My “High Fidelity” Moment? - I actually worked in and eventually managed a record shop in 1976-81, at a time that I suppose could be termed “the Golden Age of Vinyl”. I tried to alwa...
6 days ago
lunarlodge

When logic breaks down - logic breaks down when it encounters probably-not-truths
6 days ago
It's Full of Stars

Benge's Buchla 100 Labelled -
1 week ago
BLDGBLOG

Luminous Dreamlight - I spent part of the weekend down in Orange County, looking at birds, then the better part of an hour scrolling around on Google Maps, trying to figure ou...
1 week ago
Blue Labyrinths

From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future - Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Continue reading →
1 week ago
The New Vulgate

Issue #158 (January 11, 2022) - *Westhampton, New York* Photograph by Jane Stokes ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Sources...
1 week ago
Wyrd Britain

Bloody New Year - It's 1987 and in an improbable series of events five English teenagers and one American find themselves shipwrecked on an island after fleeing an angry t...
1 week ago
streams of expression

Fanfares from the Abyss: Bill Dixon's Late Style - *(Bill Dixon/ Aaron Siegel / Ben Hall --Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch, 2009))* Last night I dreamed that I had to organize a conce...
1 week ago
Pushing Ahead of the Dame

Changes75Bowie - Changes (demo).Changes. Changes (live, Glastonbury, 1971).Changes (live, 1973).Changes (live, 1974).Changes (rehearsal, 1976).Changes (live, 1990).Changes ...
1 week ago
History's Dumpster

The Garfield Telephone - 1986 ad for the Tyco Garfield Telephone The 1986 Tyco Garfield telephone perhaps would have been another '80s pop culture relic were it not for a phenom...
1 week ago
Jason Phereus,

Someone has done the world a great service - Here.
2 weeks ago
Breakfast In The Ruins

BEST FIRST TIME VIEWINGS: 2021 (part # 1 of 3) - I realise I’m getting started on this list pretty late this time around, for which apologies, but, we’re all living with delays at the moment, right? Pos...
2 weeks ago
cardrossmaniac2

BEST OF 2021 - *DEATH TRIPPIN IN THE VIRAL ZONE 2021 STYLEE* *ALBUMS* *Dagara: Gyil Music of Ghana's Upper West Region** -** Dagar Gyil Ensemble of Lawra* *Winter Visit*...
2 weeks ago
More Dark Than Shark

Brian Eno Updates • January 2, 2022 -
2 weeks ago
A Year In The Country

1877: Ms Jessop – The Corn Mother 1/52 - I’ve lived here all my life. It’s the only place I know. Some folk from round here talk about going to live elsewhere, of jobs in the city but that’s not f...
2 weeks ago
thebluemoment.com

A period of silence (2) - To my amazement, this blog is now 730 posts old. I’m grateful for the interest of those who’ve been reading it since the start in January 2013, or who’ve c...
2 weeks ago
underscore__

The underscore__ 2021 Reading Roundup - *The reader became the book; and summer night* *Was like the conscious being of the book.* —Wallace Stevens I hold my hands up: in last year’s roundup, r...
2 weeks ago
Nina Power

new year, new work, new teaching - Video A variety of new things: a discussion with the very interesting Alex Kaschuta entitled ‘Men & Women at the End of History’. A discussion with the lov...
2 weeks ago
New Critique

[Review] The Year in Books 2021 – James McLoughlin - "As always, reading gives us the chance to escape, to imagine different worlds with exciting possibilities. Or sometimes it simply reflects the extant worl...
2 weeks ago
Kieran Press-Reynolds genreologist at large

My Top 20ish Songs of 2021 (Plus 15 HMs) - Here's my top 20ish songs of 2021, plus 15 newly added honorable mentions. Honorable mentions (alphabetical) *67 – “not me mix” I was deep in a SoundCloud ...
3 weeks ago
555 Enterprises 2.0

Second Look at 2011's Best Music - *2011 ALBUMS REVISITED* Partial originals here 1. Rustie - Glass Swords 2. Destroyer - Kaputt 3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons 4. Grouper - A I A: A...
3 weeks ago
Chart Music podcast (David Stubbs, Neil Kulkarni, Simon Price, Taylor Parkes, Al Needham et al)

Chart Music #63: December 28th 1972 – Thank God For Belgian World In Action - The latest episode of the podcast which asks; Singleton Noakes Purvis and Judd, or Baxter Woollard and Rodd – who was the better Prog band? Santa has come ...
3 weeks ago
Musical Urbanism |

favorite music of 2021 - Wasn’t “music to reflect a pandemic” the theme for last year’s end-of-year-lists? 2021 finds us really thick in music that was made in the pandemic. My sel...
3 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Council Housing in Devon in the 1920s: a Local History Project - My apologies again for lack of recent posts – I’m writing a book – but normal service will be resumed … Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
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It/Ich/Itch: The Insufficiency of Georges Bataille - “I am only an empty irritation” Georges Bataille, Inner Experience Perhaps, on being confronted with the history of philosophy, it is a reasonable reactio...
4 weeks ago
Ace Linguist

Speedy Linguistics Book Reviews - I'm always interested in 'pop science' books that cover linguistics, because that's about the most the average person will ever know about linguistics. ...
5 weeks ago
Tank Magazine Podcast

In conversation with Tao Lin - In conversation with Tao Lin In this episode of the TANK podcast, Tao Lin speaks about his latest article for TANK, “Partnership Before Sexism and War...
5 weeks ago
The Interregnum Navigation Bureau

Coda - I will now be wrapping up this blog, as I've pretty much said everything I wanted to say. Even when I first started blogging with the "Decades" blogs all t...
1 month ago
Found Objects

Ecclesiastical Modernism (slight return) - an amuse-bouche for the pictorial contents of this...
1 month ago
A Shiver in the Archives

Poetic Elves in the 1920s - I was discussing "twee" with a friend and remembered a nifty poem I read about thirty-five years ago. Of course I had to go find it, and it's as good as...
1 month ago
For Your Pleasure

(No Pussyfooting) - (No Pussyfooting), Fripp & Eno, 1973 ‘The Heavenly Music Corporation’Recorded at Eno’s Studio September, 1972 ‘Swastika Girls’Recorded at Command Studios A...
1 month ago
God Is No Longer A Dj

Liner Notes on 2021 – Part II (Anniversary & Special Editions / Re-issues) - “…because there’s nothing like an epic soundtrack to transport a viewer to another time and place, bring a theater full of strangers to tears, or complemen...
1 month ago
The Pirate Archive

Passion FM – Bristol - Passion FM first appeared on 106.2FM across Bristol at the end of 1994. At first it catered greatly for Jungle, as well as Reggae and Soul. Over the firs...
1 month ago
davidtoop

Spheric resonances / eggflutes - Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them ...
1 month ago
➢➢ Shapers of the 80s ➣➣

2021 ➤ So what’s the Bowie premium as Judi’s Ashes hat goes for sale? - Updated on 6 December 2021 ❚ A FAMOUS OWNER can certainly bestow prestige on a work of art. Indeed when Bowie’s own contemporary art collection went for au...
1 month ago
joy of speed

Circuit des Yeux - Dogma -
1 month ago
The Pinocchio Theory

Abel Ferrara, ZEROS AND ONES (2021) - I initially posted this on Facebook, but I thought it would be good to present an expanded version here. I just watched Abel Ferrara’s new movie, ZEROS AND...
1 month ago
Blackadelic Pop

- Acclaimed writer Jeffery Renard Allen (Rails Under My Back, Song of the Shank) has launched a new online literary magazine called TaintTaintTaint https://...
1 month ago
We Are the Mutants

The Lonely, Horny Prophecies of Lynne Tillman’s ‘Weird Fucks’ - By *Sam Moore* What’s prescient about *Weird Fucks* is how everything both is and isn’t a matter of life and death; violence is an undercurrent, and every ...
1 month ago
The Pink Temple

- Maximum Joy Surn orver crest kill the curdled abortion that one was a mistake. Brighter now and happier cabbie waves cap outside the window wound-down Alri...
2 months ago
WOEBOT

Unsound Talk -
2 months ago
Hyperstition Arrays

Protected: Hardt and Negri’s Optimism and Subjectivity - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
2 months ago
Pop Theory

Books I Didn’t Read During Lockdown: III - But we all should…
2 months ago
Ericland

Hey Hey They're The Monkees! - The Monkees TV show was first shown in England in September 1966. I was twelve at the time so it was ok to like it. I was instantly a fan. ...
2 months ago
Airport Through The Trees

In lieu of Twitter part ghzd/fkjw - A doctor refusing to treat a patient who is unvaccinated and a police office shooting someone who is unarmed are doing the same thing.
3 months ago
Sounding Out!

“Let’s check in with Marabel May”: Audience Positioning, Nostalgia, and Format in Amanda Lund’s The Complete Woman? Podcast Series - In honor of International Podcast Day on 30 September, Sounding Out! brings you Pod-Tember (and Pod-Tober too, actually, now that we’re bi-weekly) a series...
3 months ago
on the ones

Břetislav Pojar and Miroslav Štěpánek #2: The largely Štěpánek-directed “Hey Mister, Let’s Play!” entries (1966-67) - Watch the films discussed in this article with English subtitles by viewing them on YouTube here! …or, download copies for personal viewing here! When we l...
3 months ago
Cut and Run

Coupling Musical Noise -
4 months ago
Aloysius

review of Neon Screams - [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Maelstrom-Clarke.jpg] Virgil Thomson said that the purpose of music criticism is “to aid ...
4 months ago
The Work Trials

The Podcast! - Okay, so I haven't logged in for ages but just noticed we seem to have been quietly amassing a fair few views over the past few months. I'm not doing the...
5 months ago
blog to the oldskool

Macka B – Salute - Been ages! Here’s a track I bought blind and ripped / sent to a few friends, while searching for random ragga jungle obscurities which I’d never heard mana...
6 months ago
Groupname for Grapejuice

One Eye Gone Black - [image: https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-alt.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ATA063020keaton_img01.jpg?crop=1xw:0.6666666666666666xh;cente...
6 months ago
Velcro City Tourist Board

Solargoth - I keep telling myself I shouldn’t pass public comment on solarpunk, firstly because I haven’t done the reading and legwork, and secondly because I know a f...
7 months ago
I•HATE•THIS•FILM

A magical substance flows into me / Jumana Manna (2015)from the... - *A magical substance flows into me* / Jumana Manna (2015) from the latest Another Screen free streaming programme by Another Gaze journ...
7 months ago
Portals of London

Sky-borne lights: The South Dulwich Woods Beacon - Allotment owners are well-known guardians of city space. They have good reason to be protective. Land given over to thisContinue Reading
7 months ago
Datacide

Nomex: A Life in Full Frequency - When selecting an alias for his artistic persona, Paul Kidd chose the name of the flame resistant material, Nomex. A protective shield suggesting indestr...
7 months ago
8Sided Blog

Equal Parts Confusion and Admiration - [image: From the Notebook - 2021may17] Tyler Mahan Coe has finally launched the long-awaited second season of his podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones. If you’re...
8 months ago
RESIDUAL NOISE

Dark Matter - *Some notes on **Jake Fior’s new novel,* Through a Looking Glass Darkly* (2020)*. In 2011 rare book dealer Jake Fior made a startling discovery. He ca...
9 months ago
64 Quartets

6. The Bangles - DISCOGRAPHY SOURCES PLAY LIST Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview. Her band, which got a #1 hit ea...
9 months ago
The Women's Liberation Music Archive

Some news at the beginning of 2021 - We hope you’re all well and managing the current situation with the help of good music! Apologies if you receive any advertisements in this post – they are...
10 months ago
The Generalist

TRIBUTE TO LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - Just heard that Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. One of the greatest of the Beat poets, creator and custodian of the City Lights boo...
10 months ago
East of Borneo

Portraying Political Ideology and Hippiedom in 1968 Los Angeles: I love you, Alice B. Toklas - By 1968, the movie I love you, Alice B. Toklas (ILYABT), co-written by the ingenious Paul Mazursky, would singularly aim to define the hippie movement alon...
11 months ago
music, etc

Books I read in 2020 - [image: image] More than usual, especially between March and September. So there! Isabel Allende, *The House of the Spirits* Nicholson Baker, *The Mezza...
1 year ago
A CARELESS MAN'S CAREFUL DAUGHTER

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1 year ago
(SF) 365

Chess Dreams - 'Let's play'Beth Harmon is a chess player, one of the greatest ever to have lived. She is doubly orphaned', losing two mothers; she is addicted to tranqu...
1 year ago
Tim Worthington's Newsround

Big John Little John - [image: Big John Little John (NBC, 1976)] *Big John Little John*, a 1976 American body-swap sitcom about a middle-aged man who stumbled across the Fount...
1 year ago
Olympic Mess

Reducing the Input: Gaddis and Beckett - Recently read Beckett’s Molloy and, after reading something of Marshall McLuhan’s son, Eric’s, on the role of art in human survival, can’t help but think o...
1 year ago
A Scarlet Tracery

- I interviewed William Basinski for the cover story of the new issue of The Wire.
1 year ago
ActionTimeVision | Broke the yolk, no joke

Separated at (still)birth #1 -
1 year ago
Rave Archive UK »

Yaman Studio Mixes ‘Bailey & Bukem’ - ‘LTJ Bukem – Techno 01 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1991’ Download/Play ‘DJ Bailey – Techno 02 – Yaman Studio Mix – 1992’ Download/Play LTJ Bukem – Hardcore Vol 1 ...
1 year ago
Miraculous Agitations – Daniel R Wilson

Pre-Electronic & Post-Electronic Music in Electronic Sound #68, and Prehistoric Microtonal Scales in The Silo - This month’s Electronic Sound magazine contains my feature titled ‘Parallel Worlds’ examining worlds beyond electronic sound, into pre-electronic and post-...
1 year ago
The Astral Plane

The Soul of the Creative: Free Labor and the Psychopolitics of Control - Fernand Léger, The Builders We are living in an era of smoothness. Smooth movies, smooth design and smooth digital infrastructure form an unblemished carap...
1 year ago
INTO THE SWAMP

COSIMA - Interview, March 2020. - *Back in March, I interviewed Cosima for a fashion website’s summer campaign. Then, y’know, a pandemic kicked off. Then, y’know, I got fired from said fa...
1 year ago
森と記録の音楽

Theory Therapy 08: Tomoyuki Fujii - シドニーのオンラインジャーナル「Low End Theorists」のために作ったミックスが公開になりました。Low End Theoristsは、スコットランド出身のGary Hunterとシドニー出身のDaniel Patrinにより今年新たに立ち上げられたプロジェクトで、主にオーストラリアのインディ...
1 year ago
Tower of Sleep

CVS Learnnet Login Guide - As login over the smartphone makes your work easier and sturdy on the similar time. 5. Hit the login button to get effectively logged in. 5. In case you’...
1 year ago
The Hum Blog

A Power Stronger Than Itself: Sounds For Communal Isolation. Vol. Three - Bradford Bailey – Untitled Collage, 2007. I’m writing from a future, just ahead of most. It’s a present, already the past. More than a month into a life ...
1 year ago
Blue Lines Revisited

Photo -
1 year ago
Disposable Everything

The reification of Welsh rugby - (Also available to read on Medium) A shiver down the collective spine of the Welsh nation: international rugby (or, one presumes, that which is presented i...
1 year ago
darkmatter Journal » | darkmatter Journal

The clamour of nationalism: Race and nation in twenty-first-century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan - The successful upsurge of nationalism across Europe is unnerving, to say the least. The Clamour of Nationalism’s achievement is not in its desire to explai...
1 year ago
The Priapean Logs

Daniel Was Traveling Tonight On A Plane - Danny L. Please can you pick a pre-92 rap album for us to do our listening club to tomorrow night. Thank you very much.
1 year ago
Binary Heap

A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World (PDF) -
2 years ago
Prole Sector

Silver Waves – Tunnelling (Portals Editions) - Abstract, delicate, yet quite wrenching and abyssal at the same time. This one goes deep. Caving…
2 years ago
Rockets & Rayguns

- hangingfire: SO THERE’S NO SHORTAGE OF THINGS TO UNPACK ABOUT *MR. ROBOT* 4.07 but I wanted to talk about the paintings (prints) in Krista’s apartment. ...
2 years ago
Amodern

Construction of Selena Leo Vegas Casino Download World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone - Construction of Selena World Resort & Casino Commences in Primorye Gambling Zone Russian casino developer Diamond Fortune Holdings Ltd. announced that co...
2 years ago
marathonpacks

Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9 - Best Sports Cars Aston Martin DB9
2 years ago
Critical-Theory.com

Listen: Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Is capitalism bad for your sex life?
2 years ago
Sonic Truth

Stop playing the reality management game - A pleasure to have been able to add my voice to the appraisals of the K-Punk collected works, in the FT, and here belatedly is the link. Non-subscribers sh...
2 years ago
Mark Richardson

- Hello—my name is Mark Richardson and I’m a writer and editor. You may remember me from when I was the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of the online mu...
2 years ago
ecstatic apophenia

De Origine Draconum III: Wyrmling - *“With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection. No corner of his body was left to...
3 years ago
Dream Transmissions

New blog - Hey old readers, I'll be blogging here now: Embedded
3 years ago
Boring Old Books

The Design and Placing of High Quality Concrete -
3 years ago
leaving earth

RAVE ALBUMS 1991-1992 - Ever since I almost entirely missed it (I only really got into techno and rave in 1992-1993), I've been fascinated by the short period of time – at most 19...
3 years ago
THE SIXTH EAR.

https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani... - https://raglani.bandcamp.com/album/extinctions Raglani Extinctions released today on Ketu and Bandcamp.
3 years ago
F.U.N.K (Neil Kulkarni)

Agen Tasly Calsium Plus di Jakarta - *TASLY CALSIUM PLUS**Agar tulang anda lebih sehat* Tasly Calcium Plus isi 100 kapsul Kalsium berperan vital dalam kehidupan kita dan merupakan elemen ese...
3 years ago
KID SHIRT - Blog

//ENDS HERE - Something new, I think. No idea what. Or when.Time to rest those old bones. Be well, be safe, all.//ENDS HERE [...]
3 years ago
....:::::....:::::Heronbone:::...::::..

- *The reward for abstaining is revoked for indulging. The punishment for withholding is lifted followi...
3 years ago
IX Tab

Disco Medusae - The new IX Tab album Disco Medusae is available for pre-order now at the bandcamp page for a measly virtue payment of £4.23
3 years ago
Soundboy

I’ve moved this blog to ianhogarth.com - Shout out to my Tumblr/RSS reader peoples. New blog is here: https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/ New post on the geopolitics of AI just up: https://www.ian...
3 years ago
Southern Discomfort

h-h-h-Hanif’s half hour - Now # It quickly becomes apparent that nothing is going to materialise. Once the interview request, itself fielded, to be … Continue reading →
3 years ago
The New Inquiry - Marginal Utility

Save the World - How *Star Wars* films thematize their own irrelevance
4 years ago
Sounds of the Dawn

Sounds of the Dawn Guest Host Northern Ashram NTS Radio December 9th 2017 - Tracklist East – Lélegzet Barry Cleveland – Abrasax Renato Anselmi – Mercato Fenicio Ron Boots – Breath The Living Air Francis Moneyman – Getting Ready Jea...
4 years ago
The Empty Page

Critical Perspectives on Critical Perspectives on Waluigi - The Empty Page Radical Publishing House is not so much an organisation or a company but an idea. Whilst having only published three analyses to date, the l...
4 years ago
Mutant Technology

Dj Deadtrax “Gabber house” – an exploration of European hardcore rave - “The Mover is dark because it’s set in the phuture of mankind. I can’t possibly justify seeing a happy end to this stupid human drama. Darkness is not myst...
4 years ago
The Night Mail

no.8// Twin Peaks the Musical! - *This is one of my ten short essays about *Twin Peaks *Season 3. Click this link to read my introduction to this series.* At the Roadhouse, every night is...
4 years ago
highfunctioninghuman | The blog of Robin Carmody. Liberal humanist, reformed ex-Stalinist and former anti-anti-anti-Semite, melancholy Europhile and romantic-ruralist socialist. Londoner by birth, Kentish Man by upbringing, Portlander by adoption. "More like Roy Harper than Fairport Convention" – Simon Reynolds, 2003. May be the horsiest Leftie in the Anglosphere, but there are many horsier ones beyond.

How to hate the working classes - In 2001, the year Luke Haines recorded the song after which this post is titled and to which I listened obsessively (“a party of our own”, indeed), I did s...
4 years ago
Drumtrip

Win tickets to LTJ Bukem + Fabio @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, April 2018 - Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I come with gifts (well for two of you at least). The guys at Soundcrash are putting on an event not to be missed: The le...
4 years ago
Another Nickel In The Machine

My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals - “I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.” ― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics It’s been two years si...
4 years ago
The Fantastic Hope

A BRIEF GUIDE TO BASIL BUNTING'S BRIGGFLATTS FOR FIRST-TIME READERS - *Briggflatts* by Basil Bunting is one of the great poems of the twentieth century, though it has not always occupied a central place in discussions of...
4 years ago
Rouge's Foam

Slides for talk at No! Festival, HKW Berlin - This past weekend I gave a talk about how, why and whether cultural work can refuse the various alienations of modern society / economics, as part of a pa...
4 years ago
Our God is Speed

Cargo Culting - Christopher D'Archangelo, *Post No Art* (c. 1975) as seen at documenta 14, Kassel, Germany. via Thierry Geoffrey Various graffiti, Athens, Gree...
4 years ago
The M.O.P. Radionic Workshop

Leigh on Sea Folk Festival 2017 - Teleplasmiste will be performing at this year’s Leigh Folk Festival, and also participating in Justin Hopper’s audio-visual feast of music and folklore, I ...
4 years ago
A Window on the World

Have-a-go zeroes, Brexit dreamers and a tribune emerges: the 2017 General Election - ‘He would probably have to move to Downing Street. He says: “I am very happy where I live. Others may wish me to move. I did not become leader of the Lab...
4 years ago
Found Objects

About The Author # 2. -
4 years ago
The Compleat Blogger

University Challenge and Diversity - Another year, another rip-roaring University Challenge final, a fitting reward for those who endured the gruelling winter of repechages and qualification q...
4 years ago
Cottage Of Electric Hell !

Picnic At Hanging Rock - 1975 - I'm sure Peter Weir's spellbinding 1975 masterpiece, *Picnic At Hanging Rock*, needs little introduction here. With it's ethereal, otherworldly atmospher...
4 years ago
...and what will be left of them?

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
4 years ago
faces on posters too many choices

- No point in this not being publicly available is there? Especially as setting it up in Blog format was a bit of a labour of love. Apologies for dead links ...
4 years ago
Island of Terror

The Bear You Can Wear - I have branched out into making tee shirts with a friend called *Nick* *Taylor*. The first on sale is *Barney, Karate Grizzly*, the first in our *Power ...
4 years ago
Ghosts in the TV

trefoiled: Blocked Ascension - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper,... - trefoiled: *Blocked Ascension* - Carlyn Wutkee, 2011. Paper, gluestick.
5 years ago
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming

Chicklette - I think it really gripped me when it went black. Then just legs and... I like this. Feels like a tape some kids find and decide to play in the old VCR ...
5 years ago
ZONE OF THE FREE

BULGARIA TEK 2016 - 26-?.08.16 BeAcH aReA (BG) * BuLgArIatEk 2016 * --- 0pEn t0 aLL aRtIstS aNd SoUnD SyStEmS --- iNfoLiNe: +359 877 280 696 PICTURES LAST YEAR: ...
5 years ago
Interstice(ssg)

MNML SSGS party – Saturday 30 July - On Saturday night we have our next MNML SSGS party at Contact. This time we have invited two internationals who will both be playing in Japan for the first...
5 years ago
Speculative past

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Phil Zone

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Internal exile

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up close and personal

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Writing Through the Fog

Doors - A collection of door images from around the world, from Macau to Malta and Granada to Lisbon.
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vexations

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Vexed at the Earth

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Vocalities

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Resolution Way/Eminent Domain

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Acousmata

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The Inkbottle

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Mounds and Circles

Face Fuzz - Racial stereotypes and highly flammable unnatural fibres. Blackpool, 2015.
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noir realism

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Joy Press

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Spectres of Mark

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k-punk

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Dirtnap

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the spectral dimension

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Social Dead Zone

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| Archive of Undercurrents, the magazine of radical science and alternative technology, 1972 – 1984.

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Experimental Music on Children's TV

Sound JumbleSarah & Duck - Sound Jumble Sarah & Duck
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Zone Styx Travelcard

- Thinking about that line in Simon Reynolds' Kate Bush piece about her not quite being cool... That's how I remember it, although I'm roughly a year younger...
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pretty fantasmagorical

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croydon municipal

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From a High Horse

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Rouge's Foam

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Beyond The Wychelm

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Urban Trawl

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Musings of a socialist Japanologist

2013 in Music - Pt. 2 - *Pt. 2 We Going Tech* Right at the tail end of 2012, a thread was started on the music forum I frequent, dissensus, calling for a discussion on "Shuffling ...
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bourgeoiseaux

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Hardcore Phonography

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Cathode Haze

Rewind - Over at AUFS, Adam Kotsko names the problem with the “recap” as a form of TV criticism. (Incidentally Adam, if you’re ever looking for somewhere to blog ab...
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The Tory Imagination

In The Money - 'He then spent two years as a banker at Robert Fleming before following the family tradition by entering Panmure Gordon; he became a partner before the age...
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NewNewMusicalExpress

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k-punk

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Sea Songs

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Mark Fisher ReBlog

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holding out for a hero

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Velvet Coalmine

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