January 2009
Rod Hart - “CB Savage”: Idolator is...
The Tao Of Blogging
“He would compress certain terrible truths into a flashing retort and would cast them into the hubbub of conversation, each time taking the chance that people would not understand them. But Talleyrand… had an abiding and magnanimous faith in at least one thing: in society as an echoing salon in which at least one ear is always hiding, ready to receive the word.”
- Roberto...
Distributed network storytelling →
“I had the idea to develop an approach to comic narrative that would actually benefit from becoming entangled in internet fan speculation, gossip and research. So Batman R.I.P., with its huge canvas of potential suspects, its central mystery story (“Who Is The Black Glove?”), which has driven all kinds of inventive speculation, and its references to old stories and obscure Tibetan...
In which the second half of "Say You Will" becomes... →
cureforbedbugs:
Very nice article from Tom about Robots. But he didn’t mention Margaret Berger’s “Robot Song,” which is pretty much the greatest song of all time. I’ll upload it whenever it is they let me; for now you just have to enjoy Rhiannon.
Yeah, there’s one where Robyn’s boyfriend is a robot too isn’t there? In fact there is a great deal of HOTT ROBOT ACTION I missed out....
808 State ft Bernard Sumner - “Spanish...
somesongsconsidered:
“I Found that Essence Rare” –...
Valentine Brothers - “Money’s Too...
The Loving Kind →
“While the excitement might not be totally palpable amongst the under-twenties, regarding the idea of Girls Aloud doing a song with the Pet Shop Boys that sounds like St Etienne, it has to be understood that to some people this is like some kind of pop fantasy made manifest and thus completely exciting beyond all belief.”
Sinker on Beatles
“i think in 65-66 it was still a race of potentially near equals, and that this was part of the thrill: beatle-success had opened a door and a generation of groups were jostling through it, in friendly rivalry; what skewed it was the speed with which the beatles in particular drew vastly far ahead of everyone else (in terms of sales rather than sustained quality); by 68, they’d kind of...
Sparks - “When Do I Get To Sing ‘My...
500: 47-63 →
More of me liveblogging the Pitchfork 500. (No, I hadn’t abandoned the project! It’s just been crazy busy as far as getting sit-down time to listen to music goes.)
Tharg vs Miss Haversham →
It’s an interesting theory, I guess. From my own point of view I think I’ve ended up like every other mid-30s music critic, balancing a dripfeed of new stuff against comfortable touchstones I keep returning to and puzzling over.
I know desire's a terrible thing, it makes the...
“When in the twelfth century unsatisfied desire was placed by the troubadours of Provence in the centre of the poetic conception of love, an important turn in the history of civilisation was effected. Antiquity, too, had sung the sufferings of love, but it had never conceived them save as the expectation of happiness or as its pitiful frustration. The sentimental point of Pyramus and Thisbe,...
Charles Jackson - “Passionate...
“I hate electronic music,” says Katy Goodman, the trio’s bass player, over an...”
– Vivian Girls, Punks - The All New Issue — New York Magazine Oh dear God, I despise them so so so so so much. Do I even need to elaborate on that, with a set of quotes like this? (via perpetua)
They may like music that sounds like music, they just don’t make it. But it’s not as if... 