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  1. I just found 17 gigs worth of mostly great music that didn't make it from my old lap top to my new lap top for some inexplicable reason.  I mean, this is good news, but how did I fuck up so bad when I was transfering to begin with?  The entire Autechre folder was absent!!  I got this new comp almost two years ago, which means I've listened to almost no Auetchre in all that time.  Unfuckingbelievable.  How am I still alive?

     

    AND I have less than 13 gigs left on my new HD, and that's with cleaning up as much as I thought I could afford to a couple weeks ago.  I guess some decent files are going to need to perish.  There's no other way.

     

    Autechre are kinda forgettable imo

     

     

    I mean, what does Exai even sound like? I can't remember. Can anyone?

    :emotawesomepm9:

     

     

  2. Yeah, I've read Cloud Atlas and know how well he copies the era / form of a period, and I think he did it perfectly fine in Atlas. But here, even if he's copying a certain style, it just reads so cliché, far too much to get across his point. Tempted to read the other sections and see if they cause a similar feeling. If they don't, maybe I'll read it. But even Cloud Atlas didn't really offer much other than six separate stories tangentially linked together (and not very well in some cases). Not feeling it.

  3. Finished Underworld by Delillo. Spent most of the book thinking he'd forgotten to edit but the ending section brought it all into focus nicely enough. Still too long though. No wonder every book after that is 120 pages.

     

    For the first time in a few years, I don't really have anything to read, nor do I feel like it. Started The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell but the first thirty pages are so cliché ridden I have lost all interest in it (even though I suspect the clichés might be intentional...or I'm giving him too much credit).

     

    A copy of Don Quixote is staring at me though...

  4. Have you guys heard about Danielewski's new 27-part novel called The Familiar? Each book will be 800 pages, and is made to resembled a TV series in structure (each book has an intro, advert breaks, credit sequence, etc). I like the idea of it, but bugger if I'm reading all that.

     

    Sometimes, the idea is more interesting than executing it.

     



    Alan Moore's Jerusalem. 100 pages in, this will not take me long to read at all. Come and step into Northampton with a guided tour by the man with a magic stick.

     

    Have fun! I spent two months last year reading it, and loved it (even the Lydia Joyce chapter). Book 2 is my favourite, and I was sad when it ended.

     

    edit: also lol:

     

     

    Since the release of The Familiar, Volume 1, Danielewski has been doing small tours for the release of each volume[16] and releasing merchandise related to House of Leaves and The Familiar on his website.[18] He has also not been seen publicly without donning a cat shirt since at least 2010

     

  5. As far as these not being original, I'm happy to have them on vinyl, and support a good cause too. If a similar type of release for Plaid were to happen, that would be spiffy. :)

     

    Hang on. Hang on just a minute.

    I think I’ve heard these tracks before? Can anyone confirm if these were released previously?

     

    Previous Touched comps contain these tracks.

  6. You had to phone them? I was told if I was needed when I left each day. Sucks, man.

     

    Not that this affects me personally, but this ISA from TSB is depressing:

     

     

     

    What is the interest rate?

     



    Interest rate with bonus

    (includes a fixed bonus of 0.25% for the first 12 months)


    0.30% AER/Tax Free (variable)
    Interest rate without bonus (applicable after 12 months)
    0.05% AER/Tax Free (variable)

    You'll earn interest on balances of £1 or more. Interest is calculated each day and paid once a year on the 31st March.


    What would the estimated balance be after 12 and 24 months based on a £1,000 deposit?

    Based on a £1,000 deposit, with no withdrawals made from the account, and variable interest rates remaining the same:

    Year 1

     



    Initial deposit
    £1,000
    Interest earned at 0.30% AER/Tax Free  (includes a bonus of 0.25% for the first 12 months)
    £3
    Estimated balance after 12 months
    £1,003

    Year 2

     




    Interest earned at 0.05% AER/tax Free (variable)
    £0.50
    Estimated balance after 24 months
    £1,003.50

    This is an example only and doesn't take into account your individual circumstances.

     

     

    So, you can save all that money for a year...and earn £1. And then, on that £1, earn 0.05%. I mean, how do they offer this with a straight face, and a tone that suggests I'm getting a really great rate? Two years to earn £3.50! Banks man, fucking hell

     

    (my ISA is with the Coventry, whose interest rate is kinda crud but way better than this shit) (also if you don't save money, please start. Always good to have some tucked away somewhere!)

  7. Me too, but I also like not carrying 4000 pages of melancholic French literature around. But then again, what would build better muscles than a log with words printed in it?

     

    I read paper too, but when it's something that's free, like Moby Dick (read it on kindle), I see no reason to buy a £12 copy. I mainly bought a kindle for books I could not get for a reasonable price, and that I could download and transfer to that. It's a nice option, but not essential.

     

    (That said, some of those hardcover editions of the classics sure look lovely...)

  8. Keep seeing really old editions of The Brothers Karamazov on Amazon for dirt cheap, tempted to get one and see how moldy and rancid they are.

     

    Also, Huuge, if you have a kindle or digital device, all those books are available for free from their digital store. No copyright and shit. I have Karamazov and Proust's In Search of Lost Time, for zilch.

  9. Here is a conversation between two AI bots that developed their own language:

     

     

     

    Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

    Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

    Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

    Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

    Bob: you i i i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

    Bob: you i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

     

     

    Conclusion: they pose as much threat as your average meme shit poster

  10. Many books read, few I have mentioned here. Let's go:

     

    Finished John le Carré's The Looking-Glass War and A Small Town In Germany, completing the omnibus collection I had. Both excellent books, if slightly over detailed, especially A Small Town.... Will continue to read further le Carré books, yet to be betrayed by his work. Also booked a ticket to watch a live-screening of an interview with him, which will be my first literary event. Looking forward to it.

     

    N W and Changing My Mind: Collected Essays by Zadie Smith. I had suspected N W to be a book trying too hard to be out there and weird as some reviews had described it as, but such suspicions were unfounded. Really enjoyable, with a few genuine funny moments.

     

    H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker. Very strange, with another somewhat sudden and not so satisfying ending, although not the worst. Her books just stop, in a way that does not feel quite right. Only Darkmans had a satisfactory ending, considering the content that came before it. To me, the ending of a book is like the last bite of a meal: if you fuck that up, that's all you remember.

     

    Just begun reading Villages of Britain: the Five Hundred Villages That Made The Countryside by Clive Aslet. Consists of short stories about (guess what) villages, and their inceptions. Pretty interesting, I could do with learning a little more about my own country than reading another American book.

     

    Speaking of Americans, I started reading Underworld by Don Delillo at work. Disappointed it has nothing to do with English rave but I think I'll enjoy it.

  11. I like Rain Temple but there was such hype for it and then they repressed a ton more... bet the same thing will happen with this one... 

     

    Curious why people think Birth of a New Day is so genre defining? Maybe it is but I honestly don't know much about this stuff... 

     

    I have no idea about genre defining, but I simply really like that album. Vaporwave or ambient or whatever, it's a really great electronic album.

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