unfinished and barely started posts... correspondence shards... jottings... questions, titles, and placeholders for further rumination... the debris of a restless but lazy mind
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brand new issue of* Dancecult* journal, this one themed around "Doing
Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork", i.e. participant-observer, i.e. caning it
first and wr...
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*My Favorite Books Q/A*
*done for Interview magazine Germany*
*2012 *
*- What books are on your nightstand right now?*
I have something like 50 books lin...
"who are you, 2013?"
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talking about retrodance, Martin Clark aka Blackdown takes Disclosure to
task in an open letter
which picks up on a quote Howard from the group said:
*“I ...
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Grammy.com discovers post-rock!
Headline: Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai And Sigur Rós Have Post-Rock Euphoria: The musical science behind the burgeoning su...
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*FAVES OF THE 2000s aka the NOUGHTIES*
*FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE 2000S *
0/ The Streets --Original Pirate Material
1/ Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - The Do...
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I've now added a bunch of bonus material to the footnotes -- FAQ, unFAQ,
RetroQuotes, articles pegged to or related to the book, interviews with the
author...
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*FOOTNOTES #5*
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*CHAPTER 4
CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York
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*[chapter 9 in the US edition]*
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*Page 50*
>A British invention
The Sex Pistols’s...
Holiday Camp
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The very title of *Holiday Camp *gives you a good idea of why it's prime *Mounds
and Circles *material. Directed by Ken Annakin, it 's a production of
G...
The Rotters' Club
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Angus Fairhurst, *Gallery Connections*, sketch for presentation, c 1995
Some straggling thoughts on the New/Young British Art topic of earlier...
The arti...
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...
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...
Bureau Rock
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I do find Coldplay a rather fascinating phenomenon. There's a visceral
dislike of them prevalent among the cognescenti; they're viewed as the
epitome of bl...
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 ...
Contemporary Obfuscation
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'Hauntological House: From Sturm to Stott' appeared in radio form on RRR
102.7FM Thursday 2 May, 7.00pm Melbourne time under the title *Contemporary
Obfu...
Some Music
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Here are some records that have been close to me the past 13 months or so. Some
of them are old, some were released in 2012. They are in no particular
orde...