08.26.05 - 01:00pm
The other night Phil and I got engrossed in an earnest debate about gender politics and we must have lost track of time because he left quite late muttering about how I ought to learn to fuckin’ drive and when I woke up the next morning I discovered I had a really, really big hangover. [...]
08.26.05 - 06:07am
Here’s a recent review of the debut Um single, which can be found at http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/379 :
UM The Man’s Got Me Beat 7″ EP (Strange Lights) One of those cultural differences between England and America: we have far less goofy electronic/sample based musical experimentalists running around releasing records. We have no [...]
08.25.05 - 11:16am
What I hate about Jim O’Rourke is his ubiquity. Him joining Sonic Youth was the last straw for me. Like, why? I’m deeply suspicious of Sonic Youth anyway, who seemed to have marketed themselves into all the rock non-fiction books I read with distasteful ease, if you know what I mean. And when you look [...]
08.24.05 - 09:59am
Now I don’t want to go cluttering up the World Wide Web with a highly personal account of the tedious minutiae of my daily existence, but you know I’m always on about the Voodoo? Do you remember how my minidisk player the Tascam MD-301 MK2 stopped working kinda mysteriously and then started working again even [...]
08.19.05 - 07:38am
I’m a fan of the documentary form, and when reality TV came along it felt as though the format had been created for me personally. I’ve watched almost all of all of every series of Big Brother, and I’ve had to defend myself and my tastes for this fact. Up until about two-thirds of the [...]
08.19.05 - 07:03am
July 7th was my brother’s birthday, and I had my driving theory test booked. I was sitting in front of my PC going through the CD-ROM again and again because I hadn’t actually done any revision until about two days before the test. I was a bit hungover and really, really tired. My dad had [...]
08.19.05 - 04:31am
No, I’m not dead. Just having some voodoo-related travils. Andrew, my PC mechanic, sent me this link, which seems to give some scientific basis to my rantings about voodoo:
http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=f6ebf013-4d44-4f13-90a2-a938292f4739
Fucked up, huh?
I’ve only ever played at The Spreadeagle (Shoreditch) twice, but on both occasions I’ve bought a kebab from the [...]