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like most things, racism was way better before it got all popular and shit.
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julian house exhibition in kinsale, co. cork: http://jimjupp.blogspot.com/2010/07/super-impose-kinsale.html?spref=tw
hmmmmm
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No mention of the new triple pack LP from Mala Digital Mystikz yet?! For shame WATMM! I love love LOVE the really 80's style synth splashes on this album... sounds like a bleaker, updated Bladerunner soundtrack with mountains of subbass... perhaps that's just me.
it's fucking brilliant - and intense. i love the sorta deep roots thing dmz (or at least mala and coki) bring even when they're using the harshest, most synthetic noises. getting six tracks of mala in one go is a treat, dmz release so little in relation to other dubstep labels. but everything they've ever released has been superb.
Coki ruined dubstep with midrange wobble. All the old dubstep fans were in denial so they blamed it on America.
everyone knows caspa and rusko ruined dubstep.
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re-reading bill bryson's 'a short history of nearly everything', as i do every couple of years. the best overview of the history of science ever written for the layman, imo. this book should be used in every secondary school in the world.
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i got lost in it for months, and listened to very little else during that time
i love it
in fact imma listen to zauberberg now
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super happy dog
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that is also a perfectly respectable alternative
after cloud atlas, i think i'll try austerlitz again - it'll be my third attempt but cloud atlas segues nicely into the weird proto-danielwskiness of austerlitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerlitz_(novel)
again like tolstoy and solzhenitsyn he's an author translated (this time german to english) and i get the feeling the translation is like a filter on the perception.
and with this book, that's very interesting to me because sebald does loads of fucking about with typography and images and such... maybe some jonathan safran foer in there too.
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First, I just happened to read about Tolstoy's totally fucking weird trajectory from aristocracy to strict religious asceticism and parts of his life story sort of resonated with me. My father-in-law: wealthy, single and likely looking to draw the ladies in, bought this massive, leather-bound, gold-leafed set of "books-one-ought-to-know-about" e.g. Odyssey, Iliad, Great Expectations, etc. I noticed that "Anna Karenina" was in there and then reading that the entire fucking world thinks it's the best fucking novel ever so I've been givin' 'er a go a page at a time since summer school gets most of my time. Sure enough, it sucks you right in. I can just "taste" some Russian-English translation issues but still a great read thus far.
you should stay russian and read some solzhenitsyn after - cancer ward; or maybe the gulag archipelago (if you're after something a bit more cheerful, lol)
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nearly finished cloud atlas
i'm back to the outermost 'layer'
- i was a bit meh at first, but once it gets going, it gets going.
the structure is very clever and original, but the way you see the structure reflected in little bits of plot and exposition here and there is even more clever
most prominently the 'cloud atlas suite' frobisher writes in the second part of the second 'layer'.
- but more importantly it's a right page-turner as well.
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umberto eco is such a master of this incredibly florid, detailed description thing; i seem to remember a description of an altar in the name of the rose being about five pages long in the trade paperback i was reading, and it was all completely fucking fantastic and tripped me the fuck out.
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incidentally:
On July 8, 2009, Publisher's Marketplace released word that a deal had been struck for the publication of REAMDE, a new (Stephenson) novel. The deal was made by his lifelong literary agent Liz Darhansoff with publisher Jennifer Brehl at William Morrow. The novel is slated for publication in 2011.[4] -
i haven't read the cobweb, but i really, really injoyed interface. stephenson's uncle kinda takes some of the nerdy edge off his writing, i think
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I'm in the middle of re-reading Foucault's Pendulum and it's fun!
i saw this post and was immediately intrigued, thinking "shit a michele foucault book i've never seen or heard of", yet it turns out to be a book about another foucault i've just never heard of! nonetheless i was left just as intrigued after reading the plot summary of pendulum as i was upon being mistaken of the works original author lolz.
EDIT: i'm not sure how i've never heard of this book now... it seems very popular, lots of info on it.
The best part is once you've read it you're legally entitled to throw a hardcover version at people's heads when they mention that they think the Da Vinci Code is either well-written or well-researched. Since that happens frequently, you get a lot of no-liability battery opportunities.
it's also the more academic, less discordian cousin of illuminatus!
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Haha, yeah. . . I'm debating on just going back and reading the Baroque Cycle --> Cryptonomicon--> Anathem (narrative-chronological order, I guess)
actually, wait wait wait.
one of the four cosmi that the avout encounter is earth, more or less - the laterrans. they talk about godel and speak french and in a bit i nearly pissed myself laughing reading, raz talks about the laterran who infiltrated the convox 'talking about cheese for ten minutes'
when they get launched into space in a rather slapdash manner. so jad wouldn't be root, but rather a root from an alternate narrative, or else it reinforces his hints that root possesses the ability to move beween narratives. actually
hurr durrrlol. I'm with you.
I should have said Root is a laterran/antarct Jed analogue, if not an actual alternate. Or maybe, rather, the Societas Eruditorium is a Thousander analogue, in some stage of development. There was a moment that I thought the text highlighted/made the connection, if vaguely, but I'd need to re-read Anathem to find it; could have been some post-reading unconscious dream fill-in anyway. Because I want it to be the case so much!
the more i think about it the more i reckon the connection's there. and that mightn't even be conscious on neal's part - he tends to use these archetypical characters, always has - and i reckon root is just a small bit mary sue as well. we need another half-chapter tangent on the ideal preparation of cap'n crunch in his next book, i think. or another algorithm for arrangin inherited furniture as a 2-d scatter graph in your yard. neal stephenson.
this is a very underrated book.
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Haha, yeah. . . I'm debating on just going back and reading the Baroque Cycle --> Cryptonomicon--> Anathem (narrative-chronological order, I guess)
actually, wait wait wait.
one of the four cosmi that the avout encounter is earth, more or less - the laterrans. they talk about godel and speak french and in a bit i nearly pissed myself laughing reading, raz talks about the laterran who infiltrated the convox 'talking about cheese for ten minutes'
when they get launched into space in a rather slapdash manner. so jad wouldn't be root, but rather a root from an alternate narrative, or else it reinforces his hints that root possesses the ability to move beween narratives. actually
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i spent a whole day at work reading this before: http://www.drummerman.net/shining/
this dude is crazy fucking obsessed. some interesting observations in there all the same.
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finished anathem, which was fucking great. started david mitchell's cloud atlas, which is interesting. i like the way the first part ended mid-sentence.
Man, I loved Anathem. I read it about a year ago and I'm getting the urge to re-read now.
edit: Fraa Jad is totally Enoch Root lawl.
i thought the same!
stephenson is such a fucking nerd, i love the fact that enoch is 'root'. damn, i think i wanna reread cryptonomicon. and i never finished quicksilver. you heard the cd that accompanies anathem? some of the weirdest music i've heard in a while.
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finished anathem, which was fucking great. started david mitchell's cloud atlas, which is interesting. i like the way the first part ended mid-sentence.
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Im sure its mentioned here somewhere but I couldn't be arsed finding it.
But are the Grime and Grime 2 compilations on Rephlex a good buy? 2 has kode9 on it so it's prolly deadly.
it's very early kode and mystikz and stuff. some of it is kinda primitive-sounding, but it has its charm.
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Ghost Box is about to release the first two parts of a regular series of seven inch and download singles.
The first two singles will be available from the Ghost Box shop from the 2nd July. Study Series 01, titled "Youth and Recreation" is the result of collaboration between Belbury Poly and Moon Wiring Club.
Study Series 02, "Cycles and Seasons" by The Advisory Circle, features a special vocal version of the Advisory Circle track Seasons, called Seasons Change by Hong Kong in the 60s.
The series will feature new work from the Ghost Box artists and feature new music, collaborations and remixes by a variety of guests including Mordant Music, Moon Wiring Club, Jonny Trunk, Hong Kong in the 60s, Xylitol, and James Cargill & Trish Keenan (of Broadcast).
Sharp eyed collectors will have noticed that the Study Series name and design is an homage to the series of BBC schools albums of the 1970s.
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still reading neal stephenson's anathem - i've made it my bathroom book, something it's weirdly suited for. seeing as it's basically large chunks of discussion/thought on philosophy/quantum physics/linguistics/orbital mechanics kinda bound together with a few pages of plot development here and there, it actually works great. take a shit, read a little contemplation followed by a little plot...
that being said i headed downtown and read in a beer garden in the sun with a few excellent guinness the other day, and it was wonderful. nearly done now, next up is john fowles' the magus, i reckon.
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don't know if it has been mentioned already, but theres a typo inside my copy of Oversteps
when i play it on my cd walkman (fuck ipods) and info comes up on a li'l screen, it says:
"AURECHRE"
is it a japanese import copy?
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you guys heard this?
hurr durrr
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aaaaaaactually; would anyone be able to take a photo of all the artwork laid out on the floor for me? i would like to add a picture to the wiki article i wrote...