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    The Wire is over - discussion, spoilers inside

    so, Homicide is worth seeing? I've been jonesing for some more Simon (GKill was a little so-so, IMO). Have you read the Homicide book too? Any good?
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    Buying records

    anyone sort of feel apologetic when you tell someone you've bought a CD? People my age (25) usually give you a quizzical look, and the youngers look at you like you're absolutely crazy. 16-year-olds nowadays, I don't think, ever bought CDs. So weird... It's not as though CDs themselves are that...
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    Metal Machine Music

    +1 for scanner darkly the novel -1 for cluelessness about hip hop and attendant racism +1 for 21 questions (so sue me, I'm just that romantic) -1 for most fiddy
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    Animal Collective

    +1 dominic: fwiw, having been something of a fan of both AC and GGD, I like both their recent albums best.
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    Liberal Creationism, or: Yippee, It’s Bell-Curve Time Again!

    why does *anyone* still believe that it makes sense to talk about IQ as if it actually measured something real??? Why should/would/could there be a unary measure of "general intelligence"? Has anyone read Gould's Mismeasure of Man? Essential on the story of scientific racism from the 19th...
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    Burial "Untrue"

    I dunno about that. Huge proportion of north american music *fans* would probably find it a bit of a head scratcher, as with most dance music.
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    subliminal brand references in lyrics

    "money on the dresser, drive a compressor" most references to cars and booze are like this...
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    Jeff Mills

    oh my god, that video is awful! I wonder why they had to have the drums be electronic? :) I recently saw a local ensemble do a similar sort of thing where they played electronic-y classics with a chamber ensemble alongside Glass and David Lang. I didn't like the Aphex Twin (how would I...
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    diehard (original)

    i just can't watch movies from this period. there's something so bad about the *look* of these late '80s movies. does anyone know what I'm talking about? I don't really mean the cinematography (as in shots or angles or whatever), but I guess it's just the photography or something.
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    Burial "Untrue"

    shit, I can't wait to pick this up! It was supposed to be in stores here (toronto) on Tuesday, but was apparently delayed at the border (or so two record store clerks tell me). Should be in by tomorrow. oh, and to whoever asked about online sales, it's also on iTunes (in canada at least. I'm...
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    Britney

    Just checking. Is everyone else hearing this to the tune of: "Work it, make it, do it, makes us, harder, better, faster, STRONGER!)" ?
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    can we have a ysi thread

    you've been stating this more and more, and obviously there are connections and similarities, but, well... I suppose I'd like to read something more meaty, have the connections drawn for me. I mean, sure, techno is repetitive, but exactly what traditional musics influenced it, and how? I'm not...
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    can we have a ysi thread

    Zhao. Clearly, you love music a lot. So do I. But how in HELL do you have "most" of that label catalogue???? :)
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    What do you do?

    If we were to rank these results, zhao and martin dust would seem to be the winners, no?
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    Britney

    true, true, I feel that. But I guess I was just hoping for her to give us something.... more? (sorry)
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