October 2011
1 post
Great Scott
The first time I heard Scott Walker I was thirteen years old. It was a Saturday afternoon, late summer and while I was trying for the umpteenth time to persuade Alan Shearer to join Liverpool on an ancient version of Championship Manager. My Dad breezed into the room and drew my attention to the sound of the radio. ‘Listen to this; the lyrics are really good’. As with most things parents try and...
April 2010
1 post
Ouroboros
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening I’ve been living with this album for about a day now and still can’t shake the sense of crushing disappointment. The right sounds have been made by the right people, the cover is very ‘now’ (now being someplace in late 1985) and the lead single was reassuringly tongue-in-cheek, winky-winky, cutesy-pie dance. BUT. As a whole, it falls short. Eight tracks too...
December 2009
3 posts
“*
* Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”
– Phillip K Dick - The Man In The High Castle (1962)
vom(i)t
2009 brought all of this
abandthatfunctionsnewalbumstolovebystvincentthemanicshorrorsjarviscockerpainsofbeingpureatheartwildbeasts
sugaralthoughthatwasfromthe90’sbutitdoesn’tmatterasiboughtitthisyearandthisismylistdidibecomeawareofmymor
talitythisyearorisitjusttheinsistanceofculturalcommentatorsthatleavesmefeelingthatadecadeisabigdealandnotjust
...
2mins past Eight 16/12/09
We drive.
I say ‘we’ but it is my friend next to me who is in control.
I am a passenger but I feel as integral to the process as he.
The sky is deep maroon, the lights dehydrated piss orange and just as rank. They leak over me, he - us.
We are glorious, we speed away from our captors, the damners, the ill-wishers, the put-uponers.
All roads are open to us and we choose our own...
October 2009
1 post
ACCOUNT
Two men are sat at a table.
One fat, one thin.
There is a plate upon the table.
Upon the plate sits a great. big. bird.
The bird opens it’s beak.
AND SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGS!!!
(stops)
“I like this song” says the fat man to the thin man.
“You like this song, but I do not.”Is the reply.
The fat man regards the thin man.
He rises...
August 2009
2 posts
“[The investors] said to me, ‘Well how can you continue, can you… do...”
AMPHIB/MAMM/DISTRUST inc.
Birds. The birds sit. The birds sing. They fly from tree to tree. Hop from branch to branch. They drink. They bathe. Claude watches. Claude watches from his spot on the arm of the sofa. Proud Claude, Gigantic Claude. Claude King of Cats, of all he surveys. Master. Ruler. God. Claude scowls as he watches. The birds talk to each other. They say things like; “Why does he watch?” “Why does he not...
July 2009
1 post
“baby it’s slow/when lights go low”