Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I agree with Hooton - Reagan and Thatcher were instrumental in bringing tyranny to an end
To bring us the tyranny of the free market, financial deregulation and unemployment?
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to nzlemming,
Thanks for this.
Mark Steel is a welcome discovery. -
Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Nice one! Put some spikes on the wheel and call it soil aeration?
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Hebe,
Yes, there has been far too much, Acres of newsprint. He was an honourable and unique individual ... but enough, already!
I think that when the Queen dies ... or Phillip ...I will need to go hide away in a cave for a week or two.
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I was out last night when there was supposed to be an announcement about BDO 2014 replacements for Blur. Haven't seen any news about it. Anyone know?
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36. Lorde – Pure Heroine
A 16-year old girl not looking to twerk, whine or sugarshock? Meet Ella Yelich-O’Connor, who emerges as a distaff Holden Caulfield, by employing a sangfroid that punches through an acquisitional society which measures worth by a flauntatiousness divorced from meaning. “Royals,” the summer’s surprise lo-fi trance-ish alternative No. 1, finds Lorde ironically checking rap/video staples. She merges Lana Del Ray’s flat affect, Queen-evoking curtains of disembodied vocals and Massive Attack’s electronica over an anything but fizzy electro-pop. Superficiality falls beneath her razor-scrawled lyrics, which skewer the sexualization of violence (“Glory and Gore”), the willfully blissfully unaware (“Buzzcut Season”) and the unattainability/desirability of faux perfection (“White Teeth Teens”). For Lorde, youth is both the ultimate revenge and burden. To know so much, to feel so little and to embrace what is, she illuminates being young, gifted and bored with a luminescence that suggests life beyond Louis Vuitton.—Holly Gleason -
From Paste Magazine Top 50 Albums of the Year:
25. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
Unlike the Frankenstein approach Ruban Nielson employed on the debut—which sounded like a depository for all of the music and pop culture he absorbed as a kid—there’s more consistent musical plasma coursing through the veins of II. That’s not to say there’s not an alien green hue to it as Nielson still taps into future sounds to convey his love for the past. Guitars are more prominent this time around in the form of fuzzed-out strums and more controlled, slinky patterns. “Monki” sounds like Prince partying like it’s 2099, and “No Need For a Leader” takes ’70s arena rock on a rocket to Mars. Themes of isolation—whether chosen or not—become more clear with each listen.—Mark LoreLorde is at #36. Should post thais too.
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Whatever you think of Cameron Slater
Nevertheless, we can allow ourselves just a pinch of of schadenfraude...?
There is an interesting discussion about this going on over at the Kiwi Journalist blog..
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I would think there is a correlation between smoking (of all kinds) and unemployment or under-employment; it provides a non-work related ritual (particularly roll-your-owns) and something to fill in the hours.
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Hard News: Movie Disaster, in reply to Simon Bennett,
Oh, bugger!