'She hadn’t opened her mouth to me but I was in. the wind could have turned her head to me, I wasn’t sure. I had just learnt that a father is someone who just fucked your mother, so sex was on my mind, as family wasn’t. For once, I was led down that road. I would sometimes marvel at the comic which had become my life, and the wordplay, bad jokes ( Read more... )

So it hasn’t really been going as planned. now shacked up between nowhere and nothin. Hate writing on a computer. Hate writing on a computer running Microsoft. Hate writing at the moment so just going to do more. Squiggly green lines beneath everything I consider, red undermining my spontinanity. I’ve given up most punctuation, spelling, grammar. ( Read more... )

The key is that for the Fall finitude is the precondition to authenticity. When I say that finitude is the precondition for the oscillations between authenticity and inauthenticity, I mean to make the claim in the transcendental, Kantian sense that I think Mark E. Smith employs, that is, in the sense of what presupposes what. If you're asking in ( Read more... )

"Mark does use language incredibly well. In such a way that perhaps your made to think more deeply about something which you may have previously taken for granted. In a way that a poet or painter would...and you think, actually, i've never thought about it like that before" John Peel.

Now this is fucking acting, De Niro in Taxi Driver...move over?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM718faJ2R8

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blah blah blah talking about the fall killed live journal for us lot or whatever, tomorrow i will (in my own words, no copy and pasting) explain what happened tonight, but i saw the fall at jillys with two very dear friends, met Mark E. Smith, some French buzzer and a lot of other English buzzers and had the gig of my life. It wasnt no pyrotechnic ( Read more... )

so what is the point of interaction? the connection? the difference between a meaningless conversation and one that will follow your every footstep between there and now, another place and home? as me or ridgway would say, mining for carrots is the answer. such a laughable phrase but if you analyze it you would see the meaning. i love interaction ( Read more... )

'A riotous performance by veteran British band THE FALL saw legendary London music venue the Hammersmith Palais close its doors for the last time yesterday (01APR07). During the incident-packed gig, some audience members took offence at frontman MARK E SMITH's refusal to acknowledge the venue's closure, and mayhem ensued as angry concertgoers ( Read more... )

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2371564.ece

Tonight:
Culture Show, BBC2
Transmission, Channel 4