Lux Aeterna

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"
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (502 of them)

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

epicke

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

Ian Staples 2h ago

There are bands out there that are political but its in the interests of the mainstream media to ignore them. My band The Psychedelic Raiders have a number of political songs and have offered our services to the Green party to raise funds.

Sartorially brilliant, he appears to have been birthed by the same clandestine sect we have to thank for the dark-stain presences of Ian McCulloch, Roy Orbison and Harry Lime – although I’m unsure how he’d feel about those comparisons. If, as it happens, you’ve never caught a Meades film, then you’re yet to encounter how startling it can be to receive a dose of television presented by a critically lucid pontificator who simply refuses to remove his Ray-Bans, all the while affecting a kind of stolid, critical pedestrianism that’s perfectly calibrated to defamiliarise and make strange the overlooked and obfuscated elements of our built environments.

Ascending the line of gradation, we come at last to the white European, who, being the most removed from the brute creation, may ...be considered as the most beautiful of the human race....Where shall we find, unless in the European, that nobly arched head, containing such a quantity of brain....Where that erect posture of body and noble gait? In what other quarter of the globe shall we find the blush that overspreads the soft features of the beautiful women of Europe ...? Where that nice expression of the amiable and softer passions in the countenance; and that general elegance of features and complexion? Where, except on the bosom of the European woman two such plump and snowy hemispheres, tipt with vermilion? 14

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/WMN-Letters-Noble-fish-bide-time/story-26313029-detail/story.html

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Eine Symphone Des Graunes, 3 Mar. 2001
By A Customer

This review is from: Volume Contrast Brilliance (Audio CD)

The monochrome set are one of those band that are very difficult to categorise and even harder to explain why you like them.
There sound can best be described as indie but song like Alphavilee (strangely not on the greatest hits album) echo the film of John Luke Goddard more than any punk rock anthem. The under produced guitar sound provides and excellent backup drop to the clever if slightly incomprehensible lyrics of Bid.
The grating percussion on He Frank is sill a sound to be equalled while there are some week track on the record (so only 4 stars) it still contains the classic "Lester leaps in" the anthem "fun for all the family" and the extremely witty and relevant "Jet set Junta"

And a lot of their best songs work on several levels - yeah, a lot of their songs are plain fun, but they DO bear up to scrutiny - look beyond the fun and frolics, and there's a musical sophistication there.

http://i.imgur.com/69ln1V4.jpg

The habitation of Shompens is the Great Nicobar which is the largest among the Nicobar Group of Islands. Like the Nicobarese, they belong to the Mongoloid race. The Shompens have two divisions, the smaller division being known as Mawa Shompens. They inhabit areas very close to the coastal region along the river valleys. They are very shy. They are quite intimate with the Nicobarese. The major group of shompens are the hostile Shompens living in Alexendra and Galathia river areas and also on the east coast of the area in the interior of the island. In the past, frequent attacks are believed to have been made on the Mawa Shompens by the hostile Shompens. But now such hostility has stopped. It is probably because they have been largely reduced in number due to various diseases. The Shompens are the victims of disease, and physically very weak. With the establishment of the settlement at Campbell Bay in Great Nicobar, Shompens have been visiting the settlers and they are gradually shaking off their shyness and indifferent attitude towards the civilized people.

x_x

omg are you guys still talking about this

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:46 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it all just reads like "growing up is so CONFUSING" whininess to me

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:28 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's totally real I just don't care about how "authentic" it is relative to other lifestyles

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:35 (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I somehow don't think we'll catch him on Mastermind either.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:29 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wd enjoy the matey banter with john humphries bit

― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:32 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wouldn't be surprised to see them on Crimewatch though

― groovypanda, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"You've chosen as your specialist subject, 'Slags'. What was it that first got you interested in slags?"

― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:34 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

auschwitz-survivor-explains-why-she-shook-hands-with-a-former-nazi-prison-guard-and-then-the-strangest-thing-happened

i hope the strange thing that happened was the survivor ripping off the nazi's arm

^^^

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/us/dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-lawyers-prepare-to-argue-against-death-penalty.html?referrer=

hmm, death penalty or life in solitary for a 21 year old? go america

― k3vin k., Monday, 27 April 2015 22:36 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he'd have > 18,500 hours of life out of solitary if he lives into his 70s tbf

― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 April 2015 22:54 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm fine with either.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:29 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup. no biggie, imo.

― how's life, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:41 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love those posts or leave 'em imo

the posting equivalent of a big dogs t-shirt

Euggghhh the fake nonchalant quality of those posts is like a billion times worse than people who actually defend cruel and unusual punishment with passion.

otm

xxp
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maaxleX7gQ1qz4vjio1_500.jpg

xxp a votre service

the posting equivalent of a big dogs t-shirt

― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Monday, April 27, 2015 10:37 PM (Yesterday)

i was thinking a sleeveless cut-off operation ivy shirt w/ dryer holes and bleach spots but ya

think those posts are prbly much more what if my eight year old dadness posts than 'merica posts, though

how about a ridiculous thought experiment, because hey it's tuesday afternoon.

imagine we colonize another planet. the planet is earthlike, except that it's unoccupied and pristine and isn't a shithole. (don't worry about the practicalities of space colonization. just imagine it's almost like an earth-annex, or a newly discovered continent, that's easy to get to and develop)

do you think that we'd colonize in a deliberately sustainable way, net-zero energy consumption if possible, taking care not to obliterate local biodiversity and to avoid overpopulation? or do you think we'd just trash it? would the answer change if there were numerous new planets to colonize?

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:34 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Use it up, find another.

― Jeff, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:42 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://assets3.tribesports.com/system/tribes/images/000/002/337/original/20130818223742-go-hard-or-go-home.png

http://files.niketalk.com/smilies/pimp.gif

I support the posts-in-the-style-of-a-t-shirt matching game, but that appears to be what he thinks would happen and not necessarily what he'd want to happen

People often forget that if you are in your 50s or 60s you grew up with punk; you don’t have an automatically staid view of the world.

Travolta currently has a few upcoming films to promote, including the drama The Forger and the crime drama Criminal Activities, in which he raps!

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:04 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Misread that as "...in which he naps!"

― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:06 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there an "e" missing in that sentence?

― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:09 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my wild conjecture was the future perfects could be some cryptic derrida pastiche.

might as well post that in this thread, directly.

(i.e. future perfects by sarahell & nakh obv; knew nowt of nult; in this thread bc me = mockable)

General election 2015
Comment is free
Russell Brand has endorsed Labour – and the Tories should be worried
Owen Jones