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The fifth issue of TB shall be vaguely officially launched tomorrow at 93 Feet East. Edited by myself and R William Barry, it features deliquisitions on Minimalism, The Residents, Jessica Rylan, the politics of zombies, noise and other edifying subjects by a cast of several, including some...

I note we are missing a Scott thread. So here is the space where people can, if they like, argue the cases of winsome-walker bros Scott vs Bergman Scott vs Alcoholic Country Scott vs Nite Flights/post-punk Scott vs 'torture chamber music' Scott. And more to the point where people can discuss...

inspired by two things- exhibition on measures taken deity Moholy-Nagy at the Tate, Kozintsev at the NFT, and big modernism seasons in April at NFT and V&A and the talk on mark's junior boys post and the pop thread on modernism vs the leftovers of pomo the question being- why modernism...

i.e, girls aloud, sugababes, rachel stevens, producers like xenomania, richard X, dallas austin- in general, shiny, bells&whistles gloss-pop, stuff that is popular on Popjustice apropos of this under-remarked upon bit of simon r's defend-the-indefensible arctic monkeys post- I don’t really buy...

(couldn't resist!) is it the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being – a return accomplished...

or vice versa. this is connected a bit with my wittering about the Ghost Box on the blog, and whether or not there's any fecundity or potentiality in this kind of Radiophonic Workshop fetishism -- the question, I suppose, is can a 'backwards' movement in music allow something to go forward...

I had an argument the other day with a chap who works at the NFT. I mentioned that I wrote part of a MA thesis on Fassbinder and got an (often quite funny but anyway) tirade about the evils of film that doesn't entertain and so forth, and on the primacy of spectacle, the box office and whatnot-...

so....riots in all but the must bourgeois of cities, a wierd escalation (usually riots peter out after a weekend, this just gets bigger and bigger), rioters actually shooting at police (which is surely unprecedented)....what on earth is going on here? from where i'm sitting it seems more...

are a group i have always previously dismissed because of certain connotations- 'magick', wire articles every bloody month, the misapprehension that there is anything interesting about charles manson, david bloody keenan- apart from being mildly intrigued by the fact that they'd used a Soviet...

ok, so there's a retrospective at the NFT of (along with lindsay anderson and nic roeg) the only proper film director(s) this foul isle has ever produced. so what should i see? have already seen canterbury tale, i know where i'm going, and a matter of life and death (about 8 times in the...

(provoked by a recent night out in brighton where i was a little shocked to find that some of my friends *didn't dance*) it's the big unspoken, this, it almost got brought up on the pop music thread but not quite- oddly, as we all to a greater or lesser extent like/obsess over 'dance' music- do...

I went to see a few of his documentaries at the NFT last week. had no previous knowledge other than the undergraduate perennial book of 'ways of seeing', so didn't quite know what to expect- it was all remarkable stuff, a few things that stuck out- - so much of this doesn't seem to be talked...

(warning- extremely garbled post follows) heh was going to post this to 'music' but thought it would die a hasty death, ignored in a keruffle of grime discussion.... brecht's non-'literary' stuff- the threepenny opera, happy end, mahoganny, kuhle wampe- seem an interesting way of seeing the...