| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
| 7:06 am |
_fuck_ The Wire (the magazine). fuck them and the indie-OK horse they rode in on
i bought their latest issue, with David Sylvian on the cover, and from reading the article about his newest album you'd walk away with the idea that he hadn't done anything good before Blemish, and that all that 80s and 90s shit was just him trying to make a lot of money with name artist collaborateurs. (!!!) even the albums he did with Holger Czukay (bass player for Can, a krautrock band embraced by the indie-OK intelligensia) are referred to as "meandering instrumental drone 'compositions'". that's right. they put "compositions" in quotation marks. the way you do when you're either directly quoting or being belligerantly sarcastic. i'd grown increasingly dissatisfied with this shitrag for the past 12 years but this was pretty much the last straw. they've relegated themselves to being the print version of Pitchfork Media as far as i'm concerned. anyway, The Wire: go fuck yourselves. sincerely, Suit & Tie Guy. Current Music: sylvian/czukay: mutability |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 10:33 pm |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
| 6:59 am |
Dead Air for Radios
this is such a good record. Kevin, why did you have to get all Indie-OK on us? |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 3:39 am |
great someone else is pissed at me. |
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| 12:34 am |
The A-Team: as scored by Tangerine Dream
OK yeah so this is just as hard as i thought it would be. i've been working on this since noon, and it's getting near done. i'm playing 5 synthesisers, 2 drum machines, and the x0xb0x on it. by the time i'm done with this i'll be ready to score this movie if they hire me. and they should. |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
| 6:01 am |
don't ask, don't tell?
what a typical worthless music journalist. i'm so thankful for the internet for marginalising these assholes: "A good example: though I've always heard plenty of talk about the utter awfulness of such infamous albums as Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (a double album of guitar feedback and white noise) or Deep Purple's Concerto For Group And Orchestra (don't ask), I can now listen to them for nothing, and have an opinion of my own.
They're both terrible, incidentally, but that isn't the point."http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8330633.stmwell let's see the first is amazing because of what it represents, and the second is one of those beautiful things that happened back in the 60s when rock musicians (who at the time had some real skills) wanted to stretch beyond the place culture was trying to shoehorn them into. IMHO The Nice's Five Bridges Suite was far superior and predated it, but Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a fine record. |
| Sunday, October 25th, 2009 |
| 7:15 am |
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| Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 |
| 8:41 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
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| Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 |
| 11:56 pm |
fucking brilliant CS Lewis quote
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." |
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| Saturday, October 17th, 2009 |
| 5:17 pm |
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| 4:23 am |
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
| 1:55 am |
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
| 5:37 pm |
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