Lux Aeterna

Keen confesses to being “perhaps a bit of a content snob, although only in the sense that I value skilled labour and appreciate good content”

I don't track this, and only know because a friend posted about it: the annual They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Top 1000.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php

I like their #1 better than Sight & Sound's.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:35 (Yesterday) Permalink

Citizen Keen

ha

Hope no fisticuffs arise from this contention that citizen kane at number one and vertigo at number two is preferable to vertigo at number one and citizen kane at number two

what I really want to know is if The Horrors have swagger

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 12:51 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THE cliché, ‘there are lies, damned lies and statistics’ is a list of worsening criteria for exposing the lack of truth.

RONAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN

Rik Mayall

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/09/rik-mayall-dies-comedian-actor

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, February 9, 2015 7:56 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuck, nevermind. Didn't notice taht was old.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, February 9, 2015 7:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh fuck, and Moebius!

http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-73

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Er, except that (Moebius) is from a few years ago. Never mind.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://portugalfootball.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/guerreiro-raphael.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/15/zlatan-ibrahimovic-tattoos-world-famine

Omar el-Hussein, suspected in twin Copenhagen attacks, loved to discuss Islam and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, newspaper reports.

We went for drinks in the Woolwich Equitable afterwards, the building society premises transformed into a pub, keeping much of the old decor and the curiously lofty, incongruous room shape...it was great, but if that's gentrification then it's a very strange, counterintuitive gentrification, with cheap drinks and an extremely unpretentious selection of books adding to the sense of haphazard improvisation. Posh gastropub it is not - its grandeur feels democratic and accidental, like anyone could walk in and feel at home. They didn't even have a beer menu!

― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Monday, 16 February 2015 16:10 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do they have a crack menu instead?

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 February 2015 16:31 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And I should say at this point that I have never experienced another bit of art, be it film, book or song, that speaks so clearly to my own experiences of being a school age drinker.

Yellow Stars Euroblog

Pro-EU. Pro-Russia. Pro-Dutch. For a free and independent European Union!

The Economist claims that it "is not a chronicle of economics".[10] Rather, it aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".[11]

"If a lute-player has lived eighty years, he has surely spent sixty years tuning."

Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.

What if they'll die without a full body transplant?

then it's okay?

where's that from? that's one of the central devices of my novel haha

And for some handy suggestions, here’s some killer female acts that can, should, and probably will play festivals:

Swearin’
Caves
Bjork
St Vincent
Beyonce
Rihanna
Nicki Minaj
Sky Ferreira
Azealia Banks
Angel Haze
Sleater Kinney
Joanna Gruesome
Against Me
Perfect Pussy
Chumped
Jessie Ware
Sia
Savages
Warpaint
White Lung
Hannah Diamond
GFOTY
Bat for Lashes
Chvrches
Marmozets
Haim
The Julie Ruin
Tegan and Sara
Speedy Ortiz
Missy Elliott
Beach House
Jenny Lewis
Colleen Green
Grimes
Le Tigre
Jhene Aiko
FKA Twigs
Doja Cat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Brooke Candy
Adventures
Katy Perry
Code Orange
King Woman
Pins
Zola Jesus
Tune-Yards
Waxahatchee
Colleen Green
Priests
Paramore
Chastity Belt
Charli XCX
Tove Lo
Courtney Barnett
Babymetal
Lower Dens
Best Coast
Marika Hackman
Kilo Kish
Purity Ring
Little Dragon
SZA
Tokimonsta
Lady Gaga
PJ Harvey
Laura Marling
Tinashe
Shura
Wolf Alice
Lily Allen
First Aid Kit
The Internet
Deers
MIA
Santigold
Torres
THEESatisfaction
Maya Jane Coles
Kelis
Ibeyi
Nightwave
Grouper
Emmy The Great
Natalie Prass
Alice Glass
Milk Teeth
Dej Loaf
Brody Dalle
La Roux

Plus, obviously, a butt-load more.

You can find Ryan Bassil on Twitter: @RyanBassil

Tune-Yards is half male iirc

oh it's from the guardian

but this article will inspire a shitty YA novel within months. i need to get on with it

poll idea: which procedure will humanity successfully execute first: a) transferring someone's consciousness into a totally new body, b) the severed/reattached head concept?

Severed Heads are p dope

totally underrated band

http://images.classifieds2india.com/140058_2013020006.jpg

Ringo Starr today told of his disgust over British jihadis being given nicknames based on The Beatles.

The drummer said he was saddened that the fanatics — led by a man dubbed “Jihadi John”, who is suspected of beheading two American journalists — had been labelled with the names of the Fab Four.

Starr, 74, told the Standard: “It’s bullshit. What they are doing out there is against everything The Beatles stood for.

obviously doesn't remember Magical Mystery Tour

"The Beatles"
Allegiance Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Role Kidnappers
Guards
Torturers
Killers
Size 4
Garrison/HQ Syria
Nickname The Beatles[1]
Colors Black
Commanders
Ringleader "George"[2]
Members "Jihadi John"
"Ringo"
"Paul"

http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2011/05/04/OBLx-large.jpg

The murders horrified Russia, because they smelt of something worse than murdered children – a rotting state.

poll

Parkes was most closely associated with bands he described as "unafraid of their own intelligence", including Saint Etienne, Pulp and Manic Street Preachers, and was an occasional champion of the avant-garde, writing favourably about Post-rock.

did you read the whole piece?

Samey Winehouses singing forgettable songs in videos shot in poor areas. The willing and eager, the would-be stars, have no interest in their own experiences, of anything, so they go for the loot and the useless awards and hide behind shiny plastic walls made by fashion houses. DJs are so safe they ought to be holding seminars on fucking traffic awareness when crossing the road.

― da croupier, Saturday, 7 March 2015 20:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well I wouldn't necessarily say they are talking shit but anyhow I find this kind of discussion and topic - whether I agree with it or not - more interesting than say who will be the next host of XFactor or what the latest lounge suite colour might be. Also better to hear some unfriendly fire rather than the kind of talk that comes out as muffled and bland from being safely squeezed between the two fat dripping buns of commerce and mediocrity.

― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:08 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what was the deleted post from the real thread?

Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To Clarkson" is one of Penguin's "best books of its kind to be published in recent years"
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You're going to need to be more specific as that description covers a lot of white men.

― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:47 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can they not just keep the internationally celebrated cars & racism hour going just with the other two shit racist car dudes

― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:57 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can they not just cancel Top Gear?

― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:04 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/SO53yU3.jpg

I wonder what Clarkson would have to do to lose the support of the Top Gear fan base.

― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:29 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

be reasonable.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:30 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heartfelt commitment to environmental agenda, adopt enthusiastic homosexual relations with ever-changing group of dreadlocked eco-warriors

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:33 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have sex with Nigel Farage

― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:44 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One can’t help wondering what Debord, who died in 1994, would have made of the iWorld that we now inhabit

Jeff Turrentine is an editor at OnEarth magazine and a critic who writes frequently about fiction and music.

https://www.google.co.uk/logos/doodles/2015/st-patricks-day-2015-5203623298465792-hp.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFtBM990GQ

an honest to goodness celebration of upbeat release

ilm turning ever more into a savage parody of itself

http://i.imgur.com/Wi0F3OP.jpg

TRIPLE TERROR THREAT
Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, ISIS
training together in Africa

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00440/VIDEO_SARAH_VINE_PH_440756a.jpg

this is p good but even if it wasn't I wouldn't care much because it'll wind up lots of different kinds of dorks

― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:06 (Yesterday)

Oh, for fucks sake...

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:22 (Yesterday)

http://www.thisfestivalfeeling.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-hero-image/14b9e37b09b3a81268660144.jpg
http://www.theedgesusu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/85217520Getty170311.jpg

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh, dislike that Les Rallizes Dénudés intensely. A dull, lo-fi guitar jam is all I hear. An epic should, you know, DO something with it's running time. Hope there's not too much more like that in the countdown.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:47 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink