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alexsarllWhile I think Popjustice may have gone slightly overboard as regards Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad, it really is a lot closer to being consistent and consistently very good than most R&B/pop albums. And when you've got something like 'Umbrella' which could so easily make even pretty good tracks seem like irrelevances by comparison, that's no small achievement.
I used to draw images of tanks and bombers all the time as a child, but I recall no international court taking that as evidence of war crimes in the Midlands. And mine had robots, sorcerors and Cthulhoid entities to boot.
When The Shield returned a month or so back, I was worried that it might suffer by comparison with The Wire after my recent binges on the latter. I needn't have; their moral universes are sufficiently different, the violent disorder and brutal corruption of LA is more than the width of North America away from the inertia and decay of Baltimore - even the hopelessness has a different flavour. But there remain, inevitably, points of connection. I have to avoid watching them too closely together simply because the gang slang of one tends to throw my ear for the gang slang of the other. And in last night's Shield Vic finally twigged that Shane was responsible for Lem's death. Not that I'm accusing either show of copying the other, but the confrontation which followed necessarily had resonances of that which came when Avon Barksdale found out that Stringer was responsible for D's death in prison. I do not say this lightly - but the Shield scene was better. Absolutely staggering.
Relaxing at the moment, in the knowledge that I have a real flurry of activity coming - Paul St Paul & the Apostles at Stay Beautiful tonight, then two Tubewalks tomorrow running straight into the free New Royal Family/Low Edges/Luxembourg show at the Bloomsbury Bowl tomorrow.
I used to draw images of tanks and bombers all the time as a child, but I recall no international court taking that as evidence of war crimes in the Midlands. And mine had robots, sorcerors and Cthulhoid entities to boot.
When The Shield returned a month or so back, I was worried that it might suffer by comparison with The Wire after my recent binges on the latter. I needn't have; their moral universes are sufficiently different, the violent disorder and brutal corruption of LA is more than the width of North America away from the inertia and decay of Baltimore - even the hopelessness has a different flavour. But there remain, inevitably, points of connection. I have to avoid watching them too closely together simply because the gang slang of one tends to throw my ear for the gang slang of the other. And in last night's Shield Vic finally twigged that Shane was responsible for Lem's death. Not that I'm accusing either show of copying the other, but the confrontation which followed necessarily had resonances of that which came when Avon Barksdale found out that Stringer was responsible for D's death in prison. I do not say this lightly - but the Shield scene was better. Absolutely staggering.
Relaxing at the moment, in the knowledge that I have a real flurry of activity coming - Paul St Paul & the Apostles at Stay Beautiful tonight, then two Tubewalks tomorrow running straight into the free New Royal Family/Low Edges/Luxembourg show at the Bloomsbury Bowl tomorrow.
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Re: Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys
Date: 2007-08-04 06:03 pm (UTC)Mmmmm, gin...
Underwater Moonlight really is an astoundingly brilliant album, but even so the concept of the second disc of rough versions &c fills me with fear.
See you tomorrow then, maybe. Have fun in the fens!
Re: Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys
Date: 2007-08-05 09:10 am (UTC)I've got the Underwater Moonlight reissue but it's still shrinkwrapped due to the same fear you have. I dunno, I think demos and the like will destroy the mystique in a way.
Re: Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys
Date: 2007-08-05 10:01 am (UTC)Re: Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys
Date: 2007-08-05 10:18 am (UTC)What time are you heading down to Bloomsbury btw? There seems to be about fifty bands on.
Re: Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys
Date: 2007-08-05 10:27 am (UTC)I'm aiming to get there for 6ish, which is when the NRF are on. Then I believe it's Low Edges, some other band I've never heard of and Lux, at roughly an hour interval between start times.