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Music Shit / Re: Whet Bull Presents: A Bono Scrapbook

« on: December 06, 2014, 05:22:32 AM »

Good enough for Mandela; not up to steven-livingstone-seagal's standards.

I'm sure theirs was a deep and mutual relationship and not just a few snaps for some charity, and of course, Mandela is infallible, much like Jesus or Morgan Freeman.

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Music Shit / Re: Whet Bull Presents: A Bono Scrapbook

« on: October 30, 2014, 02:53:33 PM »

Why not rag on Bono? Because ragging on Bono is not edgy enough? As a hard working father of two without a lot of time to hang out with a bunch of underemployed bums in the creative industries with their tattooed finger on the pulse, I have to put up with normal people and they like U2, they just like it, not as an act of irony. When I read the free paper on the tube, that poof is always in there molesting the third world. He is the sort of guy that represents the counter culture to my bosses who go to see his concerts. He is a piece of shit and is a figurehead for so much that is wrong with our world. If you're so fucking jaded that you can't see the forest for the trees, that's your problem dickhead.

Of course the UV Race and Oh Sees and Ty Seagull are retrograde rubbish, but they're the ones that aren't worth ragging on because they'll be forgotten and cut like the useless inflamed appendix of culture they are.

Come the revolution you better get on the right side of history, otherwise you'll be digging for roots in the Siberian snow with all the other choleric and sensitive artists.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: best real names

« on: October 27, 2014, 02:45:22 AM »

Ton de Kok http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=xJ5pqhAAAAAJ&hl=en

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Utopia (Ch 4 series)

« on: October 22, 2014, 08:22:34 AM »

I hadn't considered at all that Wilson was the right choice for the reason that it will lead to better drama - that's really convincing. Thanks, I can buy that!

Hey now. Sarcasm duly noted. I did make other points, thank you very much!

Haha - sorry, no sarcasm, I really didn't think "they've done this because it makes good TV". I was gullibly getting drawn into the story or some shit. That'll teach me to be earnest :-)

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Utopia (Ch 4 series)

« on: October 21, 2014, 01:35:52 AM »

I hadn't considered at all that Wilson was the right choice for the reason that it will lead to better drama - that's really convincing. Thanks, I can buy that!

I didn't expect the new Milner to be any of the "gang" to be honest. The fact it is one of the gang is not entirely unreasonable in the context of the wider play - one of the great things about Utopia is that it delves deep into motivations of the characters, which in turn means that there's a foundation for the characters to make sharper turns in the story.

For preference, I would have liked Milner to have created a well thought out succession plan - with another firm hand from the shadows in her place. But, of course, that would have been a bit rote. And I suppose getting the balance right between twists and truth to real life is why the writers get paid the big buxx to write and I criticize on a punk rock forum.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Utopia (Ch 4 series)

« on: October 17, 2014, 05:04:30 AM »

Disbelief is most easily suspended when the plot is a small variation on reality. What I thought (think) is great about this show is that it makes fiction out of something that I instinctively subscribe to - small power structures run the world, more or less secretively, i.e. the basis of the plot is how I instinctively perceive the world around me. The big choices made both in our world (eg. Iraq) and in Utopia (eg. Russian flu, population control) require suspension of quotidian morality. Milner addresses this in a conversation with Wilson in ep 5 or 6. But Wilson's partnership with his former torturer isn't amoral or convenient - it's the opposite, it's deeply moral, because he is deeply moral and a believer in the cause. His former torturer tells him that every time Wilson threatens him with violence. It's a historical and literary trope - the idealist is compromised once placed in a position of enacting ideals. While Wilson's internal battle around taking life and compromises of his own morality that he must make in pursuit of the ideal is interesting, what I'm saying is that he seems an unlikely candidate for the role in the first place. Out of all the cold, intelligent, powerful establishment figures to choose as Milner's replacement, an indecisive, self-questioning, emotional, one-eyed loony seems unlikely. I actually find most of the remainder of the plot very easy to digest and consistent, and it resonates with me as reality +/- 20-30%, if you catch my drift.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Utopia (Ch 4 series)

« on: October 16, 2014, 04:00:56 AM »

It didn't make too much sense to me - it's a powerful Bilderberg-like organisation, and the person that rises to the top is a marginal weirdo.

If they make a USA Utopia, it'll be 20 seasons worth of 20 episodes each....starring Calista Flockhart (as Alice) and Lisa Kudrow (as Wilson).

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Utopia (Ch 4 series)

« on: October 14, 2014, 04:37:14 AM »

Did anyone find Wilson's "promotion" and the attention lavished on him by Milner a little incosistent or weird?

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Music Shit / Re: Whet Bull Presents: A Bono Scrapbook

« on: October 13, 2014, 08:11:54 AM »

I like this bit quoted on the Guardian article comments  "Bono turned his attention to a planet of savage injustice, inequality and exploitation and in some ways, helped make it worse."

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: September 23, 2014, 01:54:52 AM »

i opened the link to that chloe sevigny interview. i didn't read it because it was more than 3 sentences, and who gives a shit?

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Music Shit / Re: Ultimate Bonehead needs you // free copy contest

« on: September 03, 2014, 03:50:18 AM »

The lumpen Euro fascination with the version of '70s Americana cliches listed here is well beyond merely stale at this point. I just don't get how something so shallow and inane continues to exert such power over the imaginations of well-heeled Euros talking about DPI and limited edition records.

Doesn't this work both (all?) ways? There are often perceived national attributes that people seek in the sounds produced by members of that  nation. With the gaze upon them, people even deliberately play up to those cliches - recently read a snippet from a singer of a popular Australian band talking about some essentially Australian quality of piss-taking. Maybe it's more of a small nation syndrome, not sure.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 29, 2014, 09:33:22 AM »

Steely Dan - "Katy Lied"

This is my favourite album, along with "The Royal Scam". "Dr. Wu" is my favourite song. I have a great pair of headphones now, and I just want to crawl up inside these songs. I think it also feels like a turning point, there were still some rough edges, the guitar playing is a little looser, and a lot of the texts are quite openly emotive or personal.

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Music Shit / Re: Argument over Madball

« on: July 25, 2014, 07:28:15 AM »

Firmly in the "so bad it's good" basket for me. I'm assuming they all have some IRL prison/crime connection ("to all our brothers locked down" in the liner notes IIRC), but all the tough guy stuff is pretty funny from men heading headlong for their dotage. Also - nothing new there - they've been around for 20+ years, no?

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: July 09, 2014, 02:12:39 AM »

"Requiem" is king of the slow burn titty crunchers.

Best drums at the start, on the 2, and then the slow roll...so fucking good.

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Music Shit / Re: Bands that do/don't sound like their name

« on: June 12, 2014, 08:48:37 AM »

Don't
Godspeed You Black Emperor
The Redskins
Slaughter and the Dogs
Persian Risk

Do
The Frogs
Hampton Grease Band
Hawkwind
Most metal bands of any stripe (or should that be strype)