PhD research issue #3. You write to make an impact: A tribute to Steven Wells (re-post)
Engage, argue, inform, irritate … but above all entertain.
Song of the day – 442: Clag (something wonderful from the 90s)
With its impromptu gargling and glugging, ‘Goldfish’ is a classic of its kind.
reasons to love web 2.0, part 3
Amour & Discipline is a non-profit DIY organization. We don’t get subsidies, nor are we financed by any corporation.
PhD research issue #2. The role of the music critic
I regard a critic as someone who values curiosity over cultural complacency, and knows how to enable this as a practice in others
PhD research issue #1. Trolling
Trolling is a rhetorical strategy that attempts to discredit the conversation or speaker as absurd/obvious or otherwise shift the topic towards some other element of an argument than the one being addressed.
Whitney Houston sings Robert Wyatt (a.k.a. the greatest Whitney cover never heard)
I just thought a few of you might be interested.
Another great band gone. No one notices. No one cares.
They knew the fuck the importance of editing.
There is a Whitney song I like …
Can it really come down to simple tribalism, familiarity? It could, you know. It could.
Song of the day – 441: The Sting-Rays (something wonderful from the 80s)
The aura of menace is palpable, all the better for being kept on a tight leash.
excerpted from an interview with Damon Albarn of Blur, March 1996
I was drunker than a barrelful of Graham Coxons
