How do you think it feels to always make love by proxy
I ordered Yoko Ono's Yes I'm A Witch and Sandy Dillon's Pull The Strings from Amazon. Because I'm too lazy to go to a record shop. Taking it old school, I also tried to buy the Throwing Muses debut album, but they seem to have a self-titled album and an untitled album, and I'm not entirely sure what the difference is. I'll leave it for now and maybe try and dig out my tape of The Real Ramona, which I still have vivid memories of attempting to transcribe all the lyrics of in my teenage bedroom.
Lou Reed is taking his much-loved Germanic album of domestic violence and wailing children, Berlin, on tour! If you want to hear its mix of lumpen prog-rock and absurd melodramatics, together with such classics as Caroline Says II and How Do You Think It Feels, hurry now! Actually I mock, but it's very nearly the last great thing Reed did. Though I'm sure he'll still manage to ruin it live, just like he does with all his other songs and the Velvets' back catalogue. The article I read suggested the only UK dates are in London anyway.
I missed the death of Jean Baudrillard last week. What do you do when all the postmodernists are gone? He did seem to turn into a parody of himself, but he was probably a sociologist rather than a philosopher in any case. But anyone who pisses off Americans can't be all bad, no?
EDIT: I also ordered The Last Significant Statement To Be Made In Rock'n'Roll EP by The Indelicates. I just checked their website. They did a tour of Germany and Austria last month, but in Britain they've never played north of London (is Bristol south of London?). So that's my best excuse to go to Hamburg, Berlin, or Innsbruck vanished. I've always wanted to go to Hamburg, though I'm not exactly sure why. I'm unlikely to catch John Lennon and Stu "the only cool Stuart in rock history" Sutcliffe jamming in some smelly bar.
Lou Reed is taking his much-loved Germanic album of domestic violence and wailing children, Berlin, on tour! If you want to hear its mix of lumpen prog-rock and absurd melodramatics, together with such classics as Caroline Says II and How Do You Think It Feels, hurry now! Actually I mock, but it's very nearly the last great thing Reed did. Though I'm sure he'll still manage to ruin it live, just like he does with all his other songs and the Velvets' back catalogue. The article I read suggested the only UK dates are in London anyway.
I missed the death of Jean Baudrillard last week. What do you do when all the postmodernists are gone? He did seem to turn into a parody of himself, but he was probably a sociologist rather than a philosopher in any case. But anyone who pisses off Americans can't be all bad, no?
EDIT: I also ordered The Last Significant Statement To Be Made In Rock'n'Roll EP by The Indelicates. I just checked their website. They did a tour of Germany and Austria last month, but in Britain they've never played north of London (is Bristol south of London?). So that's my best excuse to go to Hamburg, Berlin, or Innsbruck vanished. I've always wanted to go to Hamburg, though I'm not exactly sure why. I'm unlikely to catch John Lennon and Stu "the only cool Stuart in rock history" Sutcliffe jamming in some smelly bar.