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Archive Fever - Looking up an old tutor of mine who had impressed me, to see if his spoor of publications was distinguished in the field, I came across a lengthy t...4 days ago
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Not Feeliesing It Really - *The Feelies / Died Pretty* *ULU, London* *Melody Maker, November 29 1986* *The Feelies* *The Good Earth* *Melody Maker, Sept...4 days ago
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nuumiest of the nuum nuum - Well I did not know this existed until recently (via Pearsall at Dissensus ) An almost remake of this just-pre-nuum classic4 days ago
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vamp in sunlight - Rare sighting of a Goth at the beach - shield your eyes from the pasty white glare! Still, sensibly, Sioux seems to be applying sunscr...4 days ago
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WHEN MATTS MAKE BOOKS - This is quite a long-running series, now! Not talking about the When Mates Make Books posts, of which there are countless, but specifically When Matts Make...1 week ago
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Making More Jessica Samuels : SAG, Pupil Power, and (School)Kids Lib - I can't say *Grange Hill *occupies a specially golden place in my memories, but something or other on YouTube led me to it - and suddenly I recalled a c...1 week ago
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fave raves - I'm not sure what the logic was exactly but as tie-in to Shock and Awe, *iD* asked me to list my seven favorite / life-changing clubs / nights-out-danci...2 weeks ago
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Booker Contra The Future - Christopher Booker's *The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English life in the Fifties and Sixties * was published in 1969....1 month ago
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RIP David Lynch - "Six Men Getting Sick" was Lynch's first exploration into film, made during his second year of study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Phi...2 months ago
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angel delights - 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...2 years ago
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I was wondering when you would get to this in your McCullough retrospective. It is notorious, of course. As I remember it, Tony Wilson and the surviving band members were furious. And there is no denying that the last two paragraphs - in particular, the first sentence of the penultimate paragraph - are catastrophically ill-judged. But I think overall it is better than its reputation suggests. He's writing with raw feelings that are genuinely powerful, and incline me to forgive the points where he gets carried away and goes too far. And he situates Curtis in a place and time better than any other writer before or since. A work of flawed genius.
ReplyDeleteYes it's overwraught but absolutely forgivable in the circumstances I think - and authentic in its heroizing impulse.
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