Most of us already know, don’t we? (more…)
… are the monday blues?
… is Art Brut?
Maybe it’s the springtime air. I just listened to a mix a friend made for me. I’m head over heels in crush with this song “My little brother just discovered rock and roll” by Art Brut. I’m a sucker for an English accent, a kind of barky or yappy vocal approach, and songs about music. And the it’s got a nice dissonant noisey guitar thing going on (I would have called it an “angular” sound when I was younger and reading music mags a lot). Great bassline as well. Makes one want to bob a bit at knees and neck, with the odd awkward twitch in between (the vestiges of dance-drive left over from years of music that isn’t super dance conducive in settings that are dance unfriendly). Go download it.
ps - in case anyone’s interested, my contribution to the Spivak discussion is online now at Long Sunday.
… is (are?) QTAMABSAWAJAMCATAQ?
It’s/they’re a dumb joke. (more…)
… is new about the present?
Answering, of course, requires being able to say what’s old about the past and what is and is not old about the present. In the context of a longer post, Steve Shapiro at Pinocchio Theory kindly responded to my notes on Deleuze’s “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” (more…)
… do you do to warm your heart during a cold, dark night of the soul?
I listen to Propagandhi. (more…)
… is control?
As in, ’societies of control.’ (more…)
… is prophecy?
Thinking more about some conversations around Negri, and about Marx… (more…)
