'Ear Dis- "Hey Girl" (2003)
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Always thought this one was sort of proto-funky house in that when Funky
House first came out, I thought much of it sounded like this song. I guess
what ...
Toni Basil- "Mickey"
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Toni Basil- “Mickey”
Album Year: 1982
Age: 0
Track Number: 7
And speaking of timelines written out of continuity, we come to Toni Basil,
who is stil...
Message sent, message received
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*I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide*
* *Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have
revealed that US officia...
Dear Disclosure, I wanna bet
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“Even people who think we’re too commercial, which I don’t think we are at all, I say to them: what would you rather hear on the radio, "White Noise" or Dav...
THE THREE CABALLEROS (1944)
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Written for The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S., a
catalogue/ collection put together to accompany a film series at the
Austrian Fil...
Edna O'Brien
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I've been reading Edna O'Brien's first novel, *The Country Girls*, which is
great if you're looking for a new book. It's fun and smart and slightly
tawdry...
katherine st asaph: The Music Writer's Code
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katherine st asaph: The Music Writer's Code:
markrichardson:
If, when casually speaking with someone, you state an idea about a new
record that your conv...
Market Corrections
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"We were no longer the It-boys and -girls, we were no longer hot. ...A
painting valued at $2,000 in 1980 might have sold for $500,000 five years
later at...
retrodance
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*Random Access Memories *hovers at the perfect convergence point between *
Retromania* and *Energy Flash*. Here's my *New York Times* piece on how
Daft Punk...
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Hovering at the perfect convergence point of *Energy Flash* and *Retromania*- Daft Punk's
*Random Access Memories* - here's my *New York Times* piece on how...
Collision-Detection Box Set (remix)
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The inevitable remix of the article at Freq
There’s buckets of finely congealed empathy here, beautifully presented. Front
And Follow is an unusual, old-f...
Nation Equals Rate Times Time
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It is not money that renders the commodities commensurable. Quite the
contrary. Because all commodities, as values, are objectified human labour,
and the...
Anachronism as Responsible Pedagogy
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I am finally back from a lovely and stimulating Kalamazoo. It was great to
meet so many people, and to hear some excellent papers.
I've posted here my c...
Tears in rain (refix)
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Catherine Lupton notes, in her monograph on Chris Marker, that *Sans Soleil
*(1982) is replete with instances of the last moments of things. The one
the f...
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Boxset Review
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Nick Drake
Bryter Layter Boxset
(Commercial Marketing)
*"I think that's one of the problems with Nick's legacy, if there is a
problem. I get sent tapes...
Siberian Gold
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*"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...
Separating the gems from the “gems”
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“Recently discovered long-lost gem! First released on an obscure label in
the 70s/80s, now remastered by Dubplates and Mastering (who else does
mastering?!...
Upcoming Speaking Events in London and Galway
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Transformative Geographies: Critical Reflections on Environment,
Sustainability and Governmentality 45th Conference of Irish Geographers
16th-18th May 2013...
Beyond the Black Rainbow - A film by Panos Cosmatos
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*"Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983,
Panos Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream
inspired by ...
Great Turtlenecks in Culture
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The last time I saw Papa was in Key West. He was having a tea party with
several cats he'd tied down to the table, dressed up in human clothes.
"This is G...
MRS THATCHER - THE GHOST IN THE HOUSE OF WONKS
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How Mrs Thatcher constructed a fake ghostly version of Britain's past, and
then used it to maintain her power. But also how she became possessed and
haun...
A PRELUDE TO DEMATERIALISATION
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Already whinged n whined about it on the 19f3 site, so I am pretty much
over the fucking fact that Posterous (or Twitter - for it was they absorbed
them ...
Three events this week ...
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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....
Damsel in Distress (Part 1) Tropes vs Women
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This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most
widely used gendered cliché in the history of gaming and why the trope has
been core...
A falling fourth or fifth
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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 ...
Yacht Rock
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Yacht.
Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”),
from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghts...
Elsewhere: Sean Ford’s ‘Only Skin’ comics
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The woods in Sean Ford’s comic Only Skin border a simple, recognizable
American town. There’s a post office and a diner. Members of the community
amble abo...
Top 25 Favorite Pieces of 2012
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Posted in Articles
I wrote a lot of words this year, for a lot of different publications. I
haven’t actually counted up the number of pieces I wrote, but ...
Family affair (Disco re-edit)
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Flying Lotus stares moodily from the cover of The Wire‘s October issue, his
third eye caught in a blur as it materialises in the region of his right
temple...
so long, and thanks for all the ssgs
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MNML SSGS began on 11 December 2007. While we definitely had plans when we
commenced the blog, we certainly had no expectation that it would ever
dev...
S a/o B Rides Again
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After a hiatus and declaration of having done with itself, S a/o B has
restarted as an online project, picking up the threads it dropped for a few
months...
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London folk. One of my best mates, the HNW surgeon himself A View From
Nihil makes his live debut tomorrow alongside Vomir and a host of other big
guns fro...
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