Ask Nilmar/Nakh

nakh, what do you think of the director Alan Clarke?

No, over a year and a year and a half later, and did not contain Langham

there's a lot of unpleasantness, at its best there was a certain ambiguity about the amount of hate involved and how it worked in terms of sitcom laugh cues, sometimes it doesn't work in a reflexive sense and is just crudely unpleasant

the premise is that satire against the hated political class is essentially conservative and anodyne, so it inverts it by identifying directly with the political class and against the hateful hoi polloi that bemuse them, 'tabards and mean little mouths' etc

it's not a completely coherent piece of work but its subtlety came from presentation of amorality not in a pure will-to-power sense (this became overplayed once sitcom legend tucker became the focus) but more as structural inertia / death drive and paranoia, abbott is essentially vapid and lost, a papery nothing

therefore it's probably the cultural best response to the iraq war and the third way that exists

haven't seen anything by alan clarke, don't have a lot of interest in british films of that era but should probably see 'elephant' which a number of people i rate seem to like

I always preferred Leigh for Meantime, the play for today triumphs and Life Is Sweet. It constantly beats all that "I am the fucking daddy around here" bollocks.

I wouldn't say "Scum" is his best work. I like it but it does have a things wrong with it. His TV stuff is much better than his movies in general. I love "Contact", "Christine" and "Road" a lot.

a *few* things wrong with it.

I like Mike Leigh a lot too. I've been meaning to watch "Meantime" for a while now.

Nakh, what do you think of Dom P and Momus as a) ILX0rs and b) as internet personalities?

good q

momus as an ilx poster was mostly alright and is usually the least embarassing person on any 2001 era threads that get revived where he is doing his titillating lil apercus about lacan and japanese rape porn shtick to an interchangeable cast of belle and sebastian fans on first name terms

as an internet personality he remains resolutely early 2000s and it would be deathly dispiriting to find he is still keeping it going on twitter or whatever

dom p as an ilx poster no longer seems to be quite the same king under the mountain (whoever the italian version of that is) to the remaining spirit-of-'07 posters who have let go of their cause of anarchy that was beyond tenability now that someone like 'how's life' better exemplifies the spirit of the age

as an internet personality he has probably gone onto better things, idk? talented vindictive writer, could maybe develop into some sort of less lyrical jonathan meades type

do chaki next

hmmn

probably the second most interesting mexican jew of the mid 2000s after ariel pink

surprised your so soft on momus frankly

what aspects of momus did u most dislike?

jesus, a possessive vs contraction typo

i think it would have to be his sideways shit-talking imperviously blind way of writing and thinking about everything

that's just my recollection tho

Current Tokyo fashion is reggae style; big woolly hats. I find this a lot more acceptable than trucker hats because the underclass it references Jamaican black spliffed-up musicians rather than American white trash redneck drivers. I mean, break it down:

Jamaican: They are Jamaican. (Left wing poor country value.)
Black: They are black. (Left wing racial value.)
Spliffed up: They smoke dope. (Left wing peace vibe.)
Musician: Creative. (Left wing expressive occupation value.)

American: They are American. (Right wing rich country value.)
White: They are white. (Right wing colonial bastard value.)
Trash: They are lower class. (Right wing populist value.)
Redneck: Not urban. (Right wing 'private property, soil, C&W, patriotism' type value.)
Drivers: Aggressive individualist job. (Right wing occupation value.)

So are trucker hats (no matter how 'ironic') a youth culture trend that could only happen under the Republicans? Why are the Williamsburgers not wearing big woolly rasta hats? Is it because they're not 'woolly liberals' right now?

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:57 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does he ghostwrite for greg gutfield now?

his endearingly naive anti-americanism, insistence on anglo/non-anglo as binary to understand all of culture is quite endearing, reminds me of the cockroach shakespeare dude

so glad i caught up on this thread *rests chin on hands*. i was always secretly pro-momus even when seeking noise approval. who was the cockroach shakespeare dude?

i listened to some of momus' recent surrealist podcast and it was really good imo, propah twilight-zone resonance fm shit

matt, Cockroach News of Cockroach England

ah yes

were you former DiS noize hardman Geirogeirgegege? or do you just share an old username.

yes.

i'm thinking of starting to read fiction again soon -- any recommendations?

lol i am not nor have i ever been a contributor to the drownedinsound site or forums

cursory search suggests that this hardman was simply named 'Gerogerigegege' which is just the name of the japanese noise group, not with the 'geir' modification

tom mccarthy's remainder is so good, also relatively recent enough that i simply have to recommend that

if you want something a bit less obvious, inferences from a sabre by magris is my favourite short novel

thank you!

can vouch for 'inferences from a sabre' — still need to read 'danube'

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Nils / Nakhy, here's an easy one for you:

What are you listening to these days?

things

is there a chinese character for

things

i like the vagueness of the latin res = things, or a lot of other things other than just things

things u like about albums by bands

What are you listening to these days?

― ∞

chiastic slide, dopesmoker, revolutionary pekinese opera ver 128

those are all good albums by bands

The Chinese word for 'things' is 东西 (at least in standard Mandarin)

They are the characters for East and West, respectively

I think it probably is called that because it evokes 'everything between the East and the West' but I am not sure

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UXP5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA901&lpg=PA901&dq=dictionary+of+untranslatables+res&source=bl&ots=yLY-MUuJqP&sig=Y0w_61AqJxz7JKeZwROV9fa_szg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iEyaU-CXEe2V7AaXnYCoDg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=res&f=false

things

dear nakhchivan,

i have listened extensively to a compilation of autechre's first three albums and found its res to be incompatible with my joy

are chiastic slide and lp5 closer in craft to the wonders that followed, and is it in your estimation that i'd relish them?

also, dayo that is more elegant than even 'res', but I wonder if there could be an even more abstract rendering of thingness (as opposed to the liminal haecceity (nakhers taught me that word) implicit in the linguistic allusion even to a 'thing')

have you seen any stupid looking dogs recently?

just thinking baout 东西

― ∞, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 21:26 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chexy's new username strikes me as a decently abstract abjection of thingness that does for an asshole 'things'

try to view autechre less telelogically, they all have good things on their own terms
lp5 is certainly worth having a look at, its sort of glossy and tuneful but with a perverse logic mitigating against that

have u heard new Vatican shadow?

It's ok if you find autechre dull lj

Yeah

Use that as a starting point, it could be your "way in" to their albums

who's chexy BTW

hi chexy