tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11214312007-01-01T11:35:17.988-08:00MattBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-7147870995686550772007-01-01T11:34:00.000-08:002007-01-01T11:35:18.080-08:00

Hello - most of the sort of nonsense I used to put here has migrated to Vox...

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1138048357921228752006-01-23T12:26:00.000-08:002006-01-23T12:32:37.933-08:00

My Top 25 most played for 2005 looks like it was the year of The Arcade Fire... Oi Frango: Super Furry Animals: Love Kraft Good Vibrations: Beach Boy: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys Neighborhood #3 (Power Out): The Arcade Fire: Funeral Heroes And Villains: Beach Boys: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys King's Lead Hat: Brian Eno: Before and After Science Drink To Moving On: Grand National:

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1136294402287858422006-01-03T05:18:00.000-08:002006-01-03T05:20:02.300-08:00

The song remains the same I am obsessed with what the post-modern motown of "Black & White Town" by Doves would sound like, sung by someone like Beyonce. I wonder what other songs I would like covered...

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1105909272977625322005-01-16T13:58:00.000-08:002005-04-07T01:16:15.300-07:00

My top 20 for 2004, according to iTunes Another Green World Brian Eno Another Green World "I loved this tune before I loved Eno. It was the theme music for 'Arena' I think, an arts show on the BBC in the 70s and 80s, which came on around the time I was meant to go to bed. I associate it therefore with sleep, dreams and art - the immateria. We played this as background music as the guests entered

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1112628299623701102005-04-04T08:23:00.000-07:002005-04-04T08:26:22.933-07:00

When they say "sustainable" do they mean stay the same? Homeostasis ain't an option. What's "The Good Progress" like?

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1112628121612793572005-04-04T08:20:00.000-07:002005-04-04T08:23:26.960-07:00

The architecture is attacking! No! Not the buildings. The architecture. Law and history and influence and culture calcifying around us in slow flows of control. Can't... Escape...

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1111086828450463152005-03-17T11:12:00.000-08:002005-04-04T08:19:50.456-07:00

Raiding the 21st century The next step in cut-up culture Arthouse biotech Wetwork warhols Nanobiological burroughs Performance creationism Xoological situationism Some assembly required Crick, Watson, double-dee, steinski. Intelligent design as artistic statement Playing god, 5 times a week with 2 matinees Oryx Crake Cut Splice Mashup mammals Rip/Mix/Birth

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1104758610998476232005-01-03T05:11:00.000-08:002005-01-03T05:23:30.996-08:00

Enclosure acts We caught the later half of "The Corporation" on Finnish TV this weekend. An interesting documentary, which only somewhat fails in it's somewhat preachy presentation of some disturbing facts. The passages that had the most impact on me, were somewhat predictably, the discussion by talking heads such as Jeremy Rifkin on the extension of 'ownership' and acts of enclosure from

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1104757862517955802005-01-03T05:07:00.000-08:002005-01-03T05:11:02.516-08:00

Slight Return I went on a mini-spending-spree this weekend on the iTMS. I bought the Bluetones singles collection. The Bluetones were hyped by the music papers, well-regarded, but no-one bought them. "Slight Return" - one of their only singles to bother the higher ends of the charts - is however a heart-tuggingly beautiful piece of plaintive pop genius that has stood the test of time well.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1103187877580894552004-12-16T01:59:00.000-08:002004-12-16T01:04:37.580-08:00

Break. I didn't go straight to work this morning. First discontinuity: the book. The ending of the book. The gripping, confusing, ending of the book. Second discontinuity: Ending the end of the book was stopped by the arrival of the tram at the stop where I stop to start the working day. I stopped before I started so I could end the ending. Third discontinuity: I went to the

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1098907246820739502004-10-27T13:59:00.000-07:002004-10-27T13:00:46.820-07:00

Draw her near, draw a breath, think how little there is left of that which makes her not you - and be the one that once was two.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1081541088758807542004-04-09T13:04:00.000-07:002004-04-09T13:08:33.090-07:00

The rubbishest skateboarder in the world

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1080033719777817472004-03-23T01:21:00.000-08:002004-03-23T01:25:20.873-08:00

"Hard as people try to build dikes on the river of meaning, to shore up those barriers with all sorts of reinforcement, still significance pours over the retaining walls and floods our homes and fields" - AKMA on Semiosis

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1077988315802943272004-02-28T09:11:00.000-08:002004-02-28T09:14:45.810-08:00

Where I've been... create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1077221724554435962004-02-19T12:15:00.000-08:002004-02-19T12:18:56.793-08:00

We are so rock and roll. Pictured above, the gold disk of New Order's Republic LP, cover design by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens, in our smallest room... Thanks to Yoz...

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1074241846200254622004-01-16T00:30:00.000-08:002004-01-16T00:32:38.450-08:00

Barely remembered sci-fi, part 47: Into Infinity

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1074072943577858842004-01-14T01:35:00.000-08:002004-01-14T01:37:33.340-08:00

Good Philip Pullman interview, perhaps interestingly, by a Christian website

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1073740683784080902004-01-10T05:18:00.000-08:002004-01-10T05:19:45.746-08:00

The media is the message and thus: The idea is the issage. and further more: The "my dear" is the mossage. The "oh dear" is the ossage, and The "so, dear" is the sausage.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1072957835413463632004-01-01T03:50:00.000-08:002004-01-01T09:19:15.436-08:00

Warren Ellis asked a few people to mail some predictions for 2004 to him to post on his DiePunyHumans blog. Here are mine.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1071830003121805012003-12-19T02:33:00.000-08:002003-12-19T02:42:21.513-08:00

2000 + phwooar. The freed-back loops of pro, semi-pro and amateur global media assume a topological configuration that requires the grid-computing efforts of your Google-toolbar just to figure out what to settle down on the sofa in front of. A resultant crash in fashion results in an impoverished, desperate, ultraconnected global nomad class who can survive on very little other than Ty Nant and

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1071828340132838002003-12-19T02:05:00.000-08:002003-12-19T02:06:55.966-08:00

Kashmir By the Zeppelin would have to be a desert-island disc of mine. It's ridiculous and overblown, but IMMENSE. I dig immense. I have a huge post about immensity, inspired by writings on Al Queda, writings of J.G. Ballard and Grant Morrison, travels in the USA, a window display in UK high-street fashionpalace Top Shop and a music video by The Doves [grabs, dvd]. It is in itself immense,

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1071699816494129832003-12-17T14:23:00.000-08:002003-12-17T15:18:42.856-08:00

No love lost is awesome just as a table of contents. It should be left there, like a magic nodal mirror of our fears. Narcissistic feedback overloop, baby. Begin campaign for Rageboy vs Grant Morrison iambecomedeathmatch memestorm face-off, soonest.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1071699946343830202003-12-17T14:25:00.000-08:002003-12-17T15:02:49.390-08:00

Snowcrashed. Gloved hand raised, and snowflake settled. Fractal focus becomes fixed point. The beautiful basis of a moment.

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1071699837574497692003-12-17T14:23:00.000-08:002003-12-17T14:25:11.246-08:00

Getting wierder here. Like it!

Matttag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1121431.post-1070463424762762422003-12-03T06:57:00.000-08:002003-12-03T06:57:59.043-08:00

The things you learn on 6music Like that one of your favourite songs of all time "Hanging on the telephone" by Blondie was a cover version of the original, written and performed by The Nerves.

Matt