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Sunday, March 13, 2011
consider it a kind of preface or foreword for the anthology of great rockwrite this blog sort of is and isn't--a piece about changes in pop criticism during the 25 years since I started doing it
A Wombat’s Anus
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So I was feeling like it was time to read a *Margaret Atwood* and I
fancied *Oryx and Crake,* having been intrigued by a chapter on it in *Mark
Fisher*’...
Of Instagrammatology
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Had Instagram for ages and ages but never got into looking at it regularly
until quite recently.... the algorithm quickly learned to serve me up
dance m...
Musicophilia
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"What trifles constitute happiness! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music
life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God as a songster."
"I would ...
Fuck Art, Let's Dance / Fuck Dance, Let's Art
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*(a talk I gave at Harvard in 2012 at a conference on Art + Rock) *
“When 'art' walks through the door, it's got 15 suitcases full of very
smelly washi...
faves of the 2010s
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(Tracks not full lengths)
Ke$ha – “We R Who We R”
Ke$ha - “Backstabber”
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, "Round and Round"
Rangers – “Golden Triangles”...
Visual Music - a lecture, by me
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*Visual Music - a talk at the Tate Modern, July 27 2018*
*Presented by 4:3 as part of the Uniqlo Tate Late series*
There is a subset of experimental ani...
angel delights
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https://rada-ve.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-rings-songs
*Go on* - listen to that gorgeous bubble bath of synthtronica!
Another vintage release, with a vi...