Monthly Archives: July 2007

Eskimoes hunting wolves

Back in my halcyon post-art college days, some friends and I put these cool little gigs together. As well as an immense pool of local deejaying talent **cough cough** to draw on, there seemed to be this never ending supply… Continue reading

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everybody knows this is nowhere

  the gap between expectation, desire and cold hard reality is rarely easily broached. which might beg questions about whether those three should ever (could ever) meet. or whether the gaping divide between quixosis and the quotidian it might just… Continue reading

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Positive Reaction (something for the weekend)

A couple of weeks ago I got all hot and bothered about the utter rubbishness of Live Earth. Thankfully calmer heads were on hand to provide a counterpoint to all my green-wash negativity. Kevvy-K from hl fav dilated choonz posted… Continue reading

Category music, something for the weekend

moveable feist

leslie feist sports the kind of bangs so fierce i begin to wish away my blonde ringlets and dream of long, straight dark tresses and blunted fringe but not even a weekend with a hairstylist could engineer me those killer… Continue reading

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Darjeeling Limited

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Transformers and the Death of the American Empire

Visual FX aside, Transformers is by no means a good film, but anything so relentlessly (and in this case, clumsily) attuned to the mainstream is bound to have some interesting things to say about the culture it’s been engineered to… Continue reading

Category film, monologue Tags

scents and sensibility

sometimes, when i think about posting and i’ve not got a track i’m desperate for you all to hear i like to indulge myself and imagine i’ve got a column in a broadsheet – that i’m so witty and erudite… Continue reading

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Sunshine on a Rainy Day

I believe that people have internal ages, which don’t really change: I’ve been something of an old man ever since my mother died. But my father is an eternal teenager. And yet, my father is seventy now, and every new… Continue reading

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les mots justes

a long time ago i put my thoughts into song. sometimes explicitly. sometimes subconsciously. and they weren’t my songs. now, i don’t think its a problem; looking for a way to say things that maybe shouldn’t be said – when… Continue reading

Category music Tags

Make us better

bluenote sleeves at vintage vanguard So teacakes has been busy again. He’s got a whole stack of new edits that are either 90% there or so freshly baked they’re still warm. I’ve been too busy with other things to get… Continue reading

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