PROG ALERT! PROG ALERT!
so TWANBOC admits there's a big prog special on the way, and reading at blissblog suggests more to follow, and apparently a southern hemisphere-based personality may be weighing into the mix soon enough on the same topic___is it too late for me to develop an ardent interest in Jethro Tull?
goddamnit, i knew really, even as a 7 year old, i shouldn't have scalped all those rare-as-hen's-teeth Gentle Giant sides of the old man's down M&VE just so's i was able to go to the panto...
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
okay, so the following url is obviously biased, it's bill o'reilly sucks
but check out this here, it's quite interesting. i read the issue of the new yorker in question and here is the column.
i mean, o'reilly makes me laugh, but you know, that's not so nice.
this is a very good column on the subject of American television punditry/
but check out this here, it's quite interesting. i read the issue of the new yorker in question and here is the column.
i mean, o'reilly makes me laugh, but you know, that's not so nice.
this is a very good column on the subject of American television punditry/
a big sanddune, hundreds of feet high, you have to make like a snake to get up there, sandshifts from side to side and your feet go all gawky and splayed like a rift valley flamingo's in terms of fragility-
from the top there is everything, a prehistorically great big lake, little white spurs and caps out on the water which is not just glassy like a flat lake should be, after a few minutes of intense focusing little semi-transparent white platters of a cottony material start to float around, beguiling you and disturbing you simultaneously, in the background over your shoulder is a wooded scene reminiscent of somewhere like the appalachians, with power lines of an odd looking size and makeup trailing away into the distance, out of the corner of your eye is a huge furnace that is part of some powerplant deal and when they were younger the small children called it 'the cloud maker' feeling it responsible for the beauty of this vast sky, and the sand is always shifting, little creatures like tiny spiders and bigger ones like large flying ants joust with each other, avoiding dogs tongues and small boys rolling down the slopes, the sunset turns the silhouettes of the fossilised trees first a cheery yellow, then an intense orange and finally the maudlin and powerful purples take over as you scurry away from the gaze of the lake
which was a little misty and a light haze in the air, meaning no manmade architecture for your ocular pleasure that day, but it could have been worse
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right, i should stop this before Private Eye come here and slap a Pseuds-Corner arrest warrant on my azz
from the top there is everything, a prehistorically great big lake, little white spurs and caps out on the water which is not just glassy like a flat lake should be, after a few minutes of intense focusing little semi-transparent white platters of a cottony material start to float around, beguiling you and disturbing you simultaneously, in the background over your shoulder is a wooded scene reminiscent of somewhere like the appalachians, with power lines of an odd looking size and makeup trailing away into the distance, out of the corner of your eye is a huge furnace that is part of some powerplant deal and when they were younger the small children called it 'the cloud maker' feeling it responsible for the beauty of this vast sky, and the sand is always shifting, little creatures like tiny spiders and bigger ones like large flying ants joust with each other, avoiding dogs tongues and small boys rolling down the slopes, the sunset turns the silhouettes of the fossilised trees first a cheery yellow, then an intense orange and finally the maudlin and powerful purples take over as you scurry away from the gaze of the lake
which was a little misty and a light haze in the air, meaning no manmade architecture for your ocular pleasure that day, but it could have been worse
-
right, i should stop this before Private Eye come here and slap a Pseuds-Corner arrest warrant on my azz
i do actually like Dylan, i still prefer one off singles to his ouevre in general, and i've not owned anything by him for years, but the good folk over at it's all in your mind of course nailed it and then battened down the hatches; dylan's about the sonix int' it. wide open spaces and migrants moving to this great big free land (hey, i forgot Woody Guthrie or Leadbelly!), whirring leaves off special trees, cicadas, stirring a pot of some strange black tea at your camp on a musky night and your kettle is whistling a strange little beguiling old-country tune under the big moon, yeah, that's the main deal with bobby d.
-on a related note, i wish it's all in your mind would post more, they are definitely one of the (a) best blogs; and
(b) cleverest blogs
(tho' they might not like the second description)
though they wanted to stop i gather, but there again wishing for Rundgren is a truly fine desire.
-on a related note, i wish it's all in your mind would post more, they are definitely one of the (a) best blogs; and
(b) cleverest blogs
(tho' they might not like the second description)
though they wanted to stop i gather, but there again wishing for Rundgren is a truly fine desire.
i mean, at least in the USA, there's what, it's like Satchmo, Berlin, Elvis, Parker and Ella and 'Trane and Miles, Copland, Charles Ives, Charley Patton, the Gershwins, Sinatra, Young, Bing (gotta agree with AMG here), etc.
ye gods, sounding all rockist now, danger danger_
ye gods, sounding all rockist now, danger danger_
so that's agreeable of course, very much so.
but this:=
The Iraq analogy arises again. What made Saddam Hussein's Iraq more of a "threat" in March 2003 than it had been during the years of containment?
- you heard quite a bit.
i must admit, i do think this is just useless as a corrective point to be raised.
everyone knows that there is a great many serious things left to be desired about all of a sudden deciding that the regime in Baghdad was 'more of a threat' than in all those years of UN-embargoed containment. unfortunately, surely people asking the question are aware that - with the leaders and their plans the USA or the UK currently has - they're not going to get a straight answer. i don't want to sound like some hawkish slob or spokesperson for a neo-conservative impulse, but you just end up looking naive to your debating opponents, right?
but this:=
The Iraq analogy arises again. What made Saddam Hussein's Iraq more of a "threat" in March 2003 than it had been during the years of containment?
- you heard quite a bit.
i must admit, i do think this is just useless as a corrective point to be raised.
everyone knows that there is a great many serious things left to be desired about all of a sudden deciding that the regime in Baghdad was 'more of a threat' than in all those years of UN-embargoed containment. unfortunately, surely people asking the question are aware that - with the leaders and their plans the USA or the UK currently has - they're not going to get a straight answer. i don't want to sound like some hawkish slob or spokesperson for a neo-conservative impulse, but you just end up looking naive to your debating opponents, right?
chi-town film festival as said before, a source of much rich beauty.
the local broadsheet the chicago tribune is really good, but the reader is better, four massive supplements full of absolutely superb journalism, wonderful phrasing, researched, all left-of-the-field levity, and all completely free.
anyway, their introduction to this year's film festival was preferable to the tribune's, as theirs just waxed compellingly lyrical about the lushness of all these global flicks on other, whereas the tribune film crit did some half-arsed thing about 'oooh, the need to understand the world is greater than even before for us americans', which is - granted, technically entirely accurate - but just irked as some sort of half-arsed shabby parochial thing, as if 9/11 hadn't happened, his readers wouldn't need to be going.
i realise that's a puerile thing to write, as the bloke would - in an alternate reality, not besmirched by the tragedy of 9/11 - still be plugging away about the necessity of the chi-town film festival with its goody-bag of international plunder, they'd probably be able to do it more agreeably to this prissy reader's eyes, but just - well, i guess, just - the tone struck one as the insular way to persuade his readers.
and that ain't that good.
or healthy, one supposes.
=
gosh, what a load of garbage is written at this place!
the local broadsheet the chicago tribune is really good, but the reader is better, four massive supplements full of absolutely superb journalism, wonderful phrasing, researched, all left-of-the-field levity, and all completely free.
anyway, their introduction to this year's film festival was preferable to the tribune's, as theirs just waxed compellingly lyrical about the lushness of all these global flicks on other, whereas the tribune film crit did some half-arsed thing about 'oooh, the need to understand the world is greater than even before for us americans', which is - granted, technically entirely accurate - but just irked as some sort of half-arsed shabby parochial thing, as if 9/11 hadn't happened, his readers wouldn't need to be going.
i realise that's a puerile thing to write, as the bloke would - in an alternate reality, not besmirched by the tragedy of 9/11 - still be plugging away about the necessity of the chi-town film festival with its goody-bag of international plunder, they'd probably be able to do it more agreeably to this prissy reader's eyes, but just - well, i guess, just - the tone struck one as the insular way to persuade his readers.
and that ain't that good.
or healthy, one supposes.
=
gosh, what a load of garbage is written at this place!
as you can tell, i'm in a linking mood, so there's where i went to uni.
there was a good one, some proper dons amongst the faculty. academics can get slagged off now and again, but they are at least a corrective to ideological poison from axe-grinders sometimes. what i will say, i won't say anymore, that's all legal, but you see that Kyril Drezov, my mate Soph was telling me she went to a research seminar once about something to do with some particular aspect of the Chechen war, and he had some rather rum views, shall we say...
...margaret canovan was one of my favourite members of that department, Arendt specialist, top woman.
god, it's getting all self-absorbed and misty-eyed round here about my schooldaze, seems almost appropriate i was nodding off to blonde 'dawsons creek' boy in that film 'varsity blues' the other night!
of course, the social anthropology department at that place used to be OK, but it was getting broken up (funding etc., the usual) and everyone's favourites lecturers were getting tenure at places like liverpool instead.
~
anyway, must just big up - on the academic tip - cheese like PPG, a nuanced literary chum of mine if ever there were, they're currently doing that, that course handbook is a PDF, interesting document to download if you can be bollocksed, though, and my boi Qasim, who's here, remember the name Qasim Latif he's going to be a famed authority on radical Islamism in the future, i don't envy all those languages he's gotta learn, well, yeah, that's him, when he's not doing stand-up or being just about my finest conversational foil on the subject of international cuisines and cookery.
there was a good one, some proper dons amongst the faculty. academics can get slagged off now and again, but they are at least a corrective to ideological poison from axe-grinders sometimes. what i will say, i won't say anymore, that's all legal, but you see that Kyril Drezov, my mate Soph was telling me she went to a research seminar once about something to do with some particular aspect of the Chechen war, and he had some rather rum views, shall we say...
...margaret canovan was one of my favourite members of that department, Arendt specialist, top woman.
god, it's getting all self-absorbed and misty-eyed round here about my schooldaze, seems almost appropriate i was nodding off to blonde 'dawsons creek' boy in that film 'varsity blues' the other night!
of course, the social anthropology department at that place used to be OK, but it was getting broken up (funding etc., the usual) and everyone's favourites lecturers were getting tenure at places like liverpool instead.
~
anyway, must just big up - on the academic tip - cheese like PPG, a nuanced literary chum of mine if ever there were, they're currently doing that, that course handbook is a PDF, interesting document to download if you can be bollocksed, though, and my boi Qasim, who's here, remember the name Qasim Latif he's going to be a famed authority on radical Islamism in the future, i don't envy all those languages he's gotta learn, well, yeah, that's him, when he's not doing stand-up or being just about my finest conversational foil on the subject of international cuisines and cookery.
anyway, everyone knows that the best writer working in English on the Balkans is not some supposedly 'brilliant sweep of my unconventional prose who shines a light on uncomfortable truths for colluding queasy internationalist liberals' leftist who churns up all before them, but rahter, Misha Glenny [Granta, NYRB].
true dat.
true dat.
and another slightly odd thing about some supposedly scientific far-left, etc., analyses of conflict in the Balkans is that the championing of Serbs, the right for a 'Serbian people' to be regarded with normalcy - the height of laudable intent, after all - is sometimes let down, or degraded, by the less than scrupulously fair attitude towards the plight of the Muslims of Bosnia (if you're going to be criticising a biased media, after all, for focusing attention on the miseries of one group of people behind one line but not another group of non-combatants, you really had better make sure you yourself are above reproach on that score, hey?).
i think Ed Vulliamy was very much accurate when he called, in some ways, the Muslims of Bosnia back in the early to mid1990s the 'Jews of Europe' for that era, in some respects.
this is bringing ethnic politics into play here, and you could say it's descipable of me, but the only half-insightful line, one would argue (well, from memory, so please forgive me Winterbottom fans) in 'welcome to sarajevo' is when Woody Harrelson's character is remarking he can't help but think that the western world would have been bothered to intervene quicker in the Bosnian-Hercegovinan quagmire if the majority of those suffering had not been Bosnian Muslims, (historically, not technically European, in the old conception, Europe as Christendom, and all that guff), but ethnic Serbs, say, Orthodox Christians, Slavs all.
so this is just about the best film to chronicle 1990s catastrophes in the Balkans however; certainly 'welcome to sarajevo' falls down a lot.
still.
i think Ed Vulliamy was very much accurate when he called, in some ways, the Muslims of Bosnia back in the early to mid1990s the 'Jews of Europe' for that era, in some respects.
this is bringing ethnic politics into play here, and you could say it's descipable of me, but the only half-insightful line, one would argue (well, from memory, so please forgive me Winterbottom fans) in 'welcome to sarajevo' is when Woody Harrelson's character is remarking he can't help but think that the western world would have been bothered to intervene quicker in the Bosnian-Hercegovinan quagmire if the majority of those suffering had not been Bosnian Muslims, (historically, not technically European, in the old conception, Europe as Christendom, and all that guff), but ethnic Serbs, say, Orthodox Christians, Slavs all.
so this is just about the best film to chronicle 1990s catastrophes in the Balkans however; certainly 'welcome to sarajevo' falls down a lot.
still.
so the mole rojo sauce at this place is stupendous: like refined chocolate, without all that sugary bad vibe, a little spicy, and presentationally inviting, the essence of a tension between an inviting sweetness that does just enough to convince you everything is okay, before the glorious heat chargrills its companions and proselytizes for the delights of textural/sensation triangulation in yo eating (wow! what a pseuds-corner sentence; it really doesn't mean a thing if you deconstruct it, huh). drizzled over my entree, it was just a divine eating experience. and the tableside medium-heat guacamole prepared dinerside, fun-size pestle and mortars abounding, was incredibly moreish.
oh, and the mega-cocoa buckets here are possibly the best one's ever supped.
dunno about the Jeff Buckley tribute though, they were playing some unrecognisable roots when i was in.
oh, and the mega-cocoa buckets here are possibly the best one's ever supped.
dunno about the Jeff Buckley tribute though, they were playing some unrecognisable roots when i was in.
so you see, in early august of 1995 (the 4th), the Croatian army embarked on "Operation Storm" to retake the Krajina. hundreds of Serbs died and approximately 200,000 were displaced. the Krajina had been under the control of separatist Serbs since 1991, when presumably a load of Croatian civilians etc. had been ethnically cleansed from the region in the first place, but you never can find anything hard and fast about that on the internet (i mean, i can't, well, i can, but it's all academic and too boring for the casual reader to link to probably and hidden in the backs of other things) although i remember being told that and discussing that with many peeps in classes etc (keele uni, where i went, had a very well respected balkan studies groove don't forget).
in the aftermath of the offensive, Serbs were summarily executed in large numbers, many people 'disappeared'_____________________________
conclusion:
Franjo Tudjman was vile, essentially modern day fascistic impulses, kissing the flag, bad man bad man
here is an interesting Bard link.
the point is that some far-leftists who opposed any intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina or Kosovo/a, on the internet DO, i feel, get Serbian apologist, for that section of irregular Serbian paramilitary, Yugoslavian-Serb military type and accuse everyone during all the interminable Balkans conflict of being racist towards Serbs and demonising them, and it's been a long time since i was studying international politics (well, a few years) so unfortunately i can't phrase this eloquently and with fiercely packed, o'er'brimming intelligence - which in writing terms - is the very least analysis the subject deserves, but i sincerely believe that's a load of hooey. no one i know ever felt generalising impulses towards "the Serbs" but what you should recognise - and if you are going around SCREAMING that we are all puppets of the USA and their New World Order this might be lost in the mix (the Kosovo/a intervention to build a US military base actually) - is that between 1992 and 1995 there was a concerted effort to create a state comprised ideally only of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, and to ethnically cleanse all the Muslims from the area. it was not really a civil war, so much as it was slaughter.
some far-left commentators in ignoring the pain of others, and being selective with their commentary, and accusing others of being supine fools who want for 'economic globalisation so Uncle Sam can bleed everywhere dry' bleh bleh are, frankly, talking regrettable nonsense.
this is almost a fascistic impulse.
the views of some people might almost be summarised as 'i'll ignore a wide variety of literature from people who all have differing views in favour of this ONE person who says EVERYONE else is ENTIRELY wrong and they are accurate ALONE because they TELL THE TRUTH everyone else LIES LIES LIES'
it's ridiculous, and i genuinely think you could call it morally suspect. there is a real danger with revisionism here.
look at Ed Vulliamy he knows the score, ignore any slurs against him, he is the man in an arena like this, he saw it, some crappy group of deluded neo-Marxists in a backroom surrounded by pamphlets for WSWS meetings and slogans on the walls, nah, not having that
in the aftermath of the offensive, Serbs were summarily executed in large numbers, many people 'disappeared'_____________________________
conclusion:
Franjo Tudjman was vile, essentially modern day fascistic impulses, kissing the flag, bad man bad man
here is an interesting Bard link.
the point is that some far-leftists who opposed any intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina or Kosovo/a, on the internet DO, i feel, get Serbian apologist, for that section of irregular Serbian paramilitary, Yugoslavian-Serb military type and accuse everyone during all the interminable Balkans conflict of being racist towards Serbs and demonising them, and it's been a long time since i was studying international politics (well, a few years) so unfortunately i can't phrase this eloquently and with fiercely packed, o'er'brimming intelligence - which in writing terms - is the very least analysis the subject deserves, but i sincerely believe that's a load of hooey. no one i know ever felt generalising impulses towards "the Serbs" but what you should recognise - and if you are going around SCREAMING that we are all puppets of the USA and their New World Order this might be lost in the mix (the Kosovo/a intervention to build a US military base actually) - is that between 1992 and 1995 there was a concerted effort to create a state comprised ideally only of ethnic Serbs in Bosnia, and to ethnically cleanse all the Muslims from the area. it was not really a civil war, so much as it was slaughter.
some far-left commentators in ignoring the pain of others, and being selective with their commentary, and accusing others of being supine fools who want for 'economic globalisation so Uncle Sam can bleed everywhere dry' bleh bleh are, frankly, talking regrettable nonsense.
this is almost a fascistic impulse.
the views of some people might almost be summarised as 'i'll ignore a wide variety of literature from people who all have differing views in favour of this ONE person who says EVERYONE else is ENTIRELY wrong and they are accurate ALONE because they TELL THE TRUTH everyone else LIES LIES LIES'
it's ridiculous, and i genuinely think you could call it morally suspect. there is a real danger with revisionism here.
look at Ed Vulliamy he knows the score, ignore any slurs against him, he is the man in an arena like this, he saw it, some crappy group of deluded neo-Marxists in a backroom surrounded by pamphlets for WSWS meetings and slogans on the walls, nah, not having that
here you go
Sipowicz was pretty depressed in the first season i guess, he was certainly hitting the bottle
Sipowicz was pretty depressed in the first season i guess, he was certainly hitting the bottle
i also want to post this that i got in the same mail off rebecca, not to endorse it, just to have a giggle in a what's wrong with the wire style:-
mon 27th oct 2003
the 12 bar club > denmark st > london
___________________SKILL 7 STAMINA 12 > brighton 4piece jazz fusion post rock crossing stereolab with the fall - pioneers of the underground COVE > crashing noise rock with time changes and speaker tearing riffs - links with Jonsonfamily records and unlabel ANDREW ROBINS > folk genius in the style of Jim O'rourke on a hangover sunday. release's with the likes of Meets Guitar JASON AND THE ASTRONAUTS > synth noise youngster build a wall of noise. debut single out on Unlabel records now.
be sure to catch SKILL 7 STAMINA 12 eh folks?
"stereolab with the fall"
i mean clucking bell
mon 27th oct 2003
the 12 bar club > denmark st > london
___________________SKILL 7 STAMINA 12 > brighton 4piece jazz fusion post rock crossing stereolab with the fall - pioneers of the underground COVE > crashing noise rock with time changes and speaker tearing riffs - links with Jonsonfamily records and unlabel ANDREW ROBINS > folk genius in the style of Jim O'rourke on a hangover sunday. release's with the likes of Meets Guitar JASON AND THE ASTRONAUTS > synth noise youngster build a wall of noise. debut single out on Unlabel records now.
be sure to catch SKILL 7 STAMINA 12 eh folks?
"stereolab with the fall"
i mean clucking bell
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