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.
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
Song of the day – 439: Eleanor Friedberger*
Everett True hears an awesome song, makes it Song of the Day. Yes sometimes it’s really that simple
