a dancing star!

29th December to 7th January. Have a great New Year’s everyone!

Memphis Cat has this classic from 20 years ago (!?) streaming online and guess what: Capitol have released a deluxe edition, with 18 demos and rarities. I actually saw Mr. Cole perform (sans Commotions) in Wolverhampton one autumn evening in 1991. The boy could sing.

Spurious: Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false.
Spurious: Learned, tasteful, considered. An exemplary site with exemplary writing.

A bootleg (in the truest sense of the word) recording of their September 1982 show in New York’s “Peppermint Lounge”. This is punk at its best: and there is the tender “You can’t put your arms around a memory”.

If you still can’t understand why, then just participate in this unordinary surf movie. The cinematography is unbelievable; it’s as if you’re on the waves. (15-xii-04)

Another of the randomly selected “music to move apartments” to. A little John Mayerish, which (in my book) is a heinous crime.

High time for hi-jinks. On the move again and what better than to pack one’s worthless worldly belongings with AC Newman playing in the background. This is one of four randomly selected never-heard-of-them CDs that I treat myself to every month and this batch looks - sounds? - good, too. (10-xii-04)

Gillian Rose passed away nine years ago. A passage from Love’s Work:
Metaphysics, which in Aristotle’s technical terms, is concerned with the relation between the universal ‘nose’ and the sheer snubness of a nose, which no term can capture, this remote-sounding metaphysics is the perplexity, the aporia, at how to find the path from the law [...]

How the mighty have fallen. The BBC fell victim to an “elaborate hoax” perpetrated by those Fight Clubesque “Yes Men”. Their logic is ancient:
“Yes men are people who agree with the boss. They are constantly nodding to advance themselves. We agree extra wholeheartedly with people, not to advance ourselves but to make clear what [...]