Dirty, Sweet, and a Little Metaphysical
I found this picture while doing an image search for Michael Hurley's Armchair Boogie. Thanks, Crooked Arm! (Turns out it's the blog of Nathaniel Russell, the artist who did the cover for the new Neil Halstead album.)
[Edit: Momus posted an article that also mentions Nathaniel Russell mere minutes after I posted this. Weird.]
I was actually looking for this album:
By this guy:
I'm really into this song right now:
Michael Hurley - open up eternal lips
Big night tomorrow:
- Lamb spit roast
- Grouper show at Hoko's
- No Gold, Basketball, and Secret Mommy at Peanut Gallery
- Sze Wann's birthday at Bad Kids/The Met
Apparently there's a party at the Monte Clark Gallery, too.
The Adbusters Hipster article is the talk of the town. Shrewd marketing strategy by Adbusters, if you ask me. As per usual for them, I thought it raised some valid points, but they were overwhelmed by poor writing skills, a lack of proper historical perspective, a general sense of teeth-gnashing petulance, and a crucial void where they ought to be putting some actual theoretical framework. One of that magazine's fundamental problems is that the social ills they critique largely stem from the lack of an educated, adult, politically-aware intellectual culture in our society (outside of the insular world of academia) that they're not helping to ameliorate because they prefer outrage and sloganeering. Pursuing a grassroots approach, they end up looking and sounding like a zine produced by (unusually savvy) teenagers. Kalle Lasn needs to get over situationism.
I'm a lazy man, but the amount of talk this business has generated makes me want to write a response article. Pester me so I actually do this.