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30 Jun 2023
Short edit of Hayley Theyers' video for INVOCATION by The New Existentialists- watch the full version at youtu.be/ayV0dlQNMMA
#HEAVYMETAL #goblins #thenewexistentialists #anthropocene #thewestwillriseagain
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George D. Henderson retweeted
Colin Wilson pointed out that the USSR gave its people the exact type of music that Ayn Rand was angry about not hearing often enough in the USA.
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Mar 18
This was a butchered report mixing two of his interests introduced to Cobain by Burroughs. Sounds like the newspaper is trying to explain Burroughs’s orgone generator that he let Kurt use.
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Jun 14
This version of White Rabbit from the 1973 TV movie has an organ in it so isn't the classic Jefferson Airplane version that the internet seems to think it is. It's good, so who is it? And what else did they do?
youtu.be/8xSfoXRxg7c
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Jun 14
Ian Macdonald re: Lennon and McCartney’s contrasting styles
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I loved Jane Austen when I was a girl & "love" could be idealized as romantic because it was in the realm of fantasy; but later, it came to seem to me akin to observing beautifully attired, attractive skiers descending a mountain, admiring them without knowing what it is to actually ski. the air is cold, the ground is hard if you fall, your fellow skiers may glide past you indifferently, you may be hurt & all you can do is pick yourself up & try again.
romance is best appreciated from a little distance. do not, for instance, seek out "romance" by watching true crime documentaries.
no comparison, D.H. Lawrence. a rare writer who'd tried to depict, not sentimental "romantic" love, but intensely complicated, erotic love.
Austen never even tried to depict actual, physical love which would have been unthinkable for a woman writer of her time but Tolstoy certainly did, usually negatively.
Lawrence, for all his excesses, in prose & also poetry, tried to depict the love/hate of passion; that commingling of despair that Mellors felt, along with sexual desire, at the prospect of living again through such turmoil.
you have to have lived a while to appreciate Lawrence. Tolstoy is another matter: a man who'd impregnated his wife repeatedly & blamed her for his lust, not unlike Charles Dickens who complained of having at least five "unwanted sons."
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Jun 14
This is gold. There's nothing like finding history written by the people who were there and able to see it
Jun 12
You might find this interesting. LOOK magazine, Jan. 1961. This was right after Payola scandal, mainstream was celebrating the hoped for death of Rocknroll. Though a lot of this article is a little ridiculous part of what motivated Folk craze is the process you’re describing.
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"If I were ever abducted by Aliens...." naturally I'd expect them to speak English like me & take a side in our stupid culture wars.
Jun 12
If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.
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New Zealand is so Americanised that school teachers don’t even say “you look like David Bain” anymore, they just say you look like a “school shooter”
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Jun 12
From 2019 twitter, when you could refer your NZ music questions to the Minister of Finance.
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Jun 12
The next level of wisdom is that longing for an idyllic past that never existed and trying inauthentically to live a dead tradition is, itself, trad and something people have always done
Jun 11
The thing you have to realize about trads is that it’s all fake. Once a tradition is over it’s over. People in the 12th century weren’t trads it was just the lived reality. By trying to be trad you are already not being trad. The most trad thing you can do is just be normal.
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Lee Scott - UK rapper at the top of his game - is playing at the Sydenham Underpass in Christchurch tonight (Fri) - only NZ gig - and I wouldn't miss it if I was in the South Island. Just sayin'. If you liked The Fall or The Streets this is the new thing.
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a brilliant playlist of 80's hip hop house and edm, the very best.
Jun 10
For the Auckland whanau. A few musical memories of my friend, Roger Perry.
open.substack.com/pub/opdine…
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Jun 11
I'm reading The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes and wondering why the so-called canon gets almost all the attention, if not that it's genre lit, why not try for a meritocracy of the other great books on here?
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A 6 minute podcast introducing Lazy Lane, the best little band you've never heard of.
95bfm.com/bcast/a-song-from-…
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An absolutely insane one, as Joy Division sounded like a guitar ritual in hell and Interpol sounded like a fake band that plays a party in act 3 of an episode of Gossip Girl
Jun 10
"Interpol sounds like Joy Division" was one of the first critical observations to turn into a full-fledged meme
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In which I also share my manifesto/mission statement
In the latest edition, I share the first ten episodes of my bFM radio spot A Song From Insane Times, explain the historical significance of my gifted Saturday Spring host Karyn Hay, create a 30-song playlist of the 10 artists described, and so much more.
open.substack.com/pub/george…
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In 1975, in The Art of the Novel, Colin Wilson predicted that The Lord of the Rings, for all its faults, which he'd already listed in The Strength To Dream, would turn out, given time, to be the most influential 20th Century novel.
It's weird isn't it? The attitude is that if you don't love LOTR you must hate books!
LOTR is not even at the centre of the fantasy genre canon.
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Popular music, by definition, doesn't need you. if you find great unpopular music and share it, you are adding something. You are living as well as consuming. And you will encounter more mystery, and won't get so jaded that you say, even for a joke, this thing about Oasis.
Jun 8
the 2010’s hipster aesthetic of hating things because they’re popular is so funny bc popular things are, on average, better than less popular things
Oasis is an incredible band
Tupac is an amazing rapper
Ariana Grande is a great singer
Etc.
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In the latest edition, I share the first ten episodes of my bFM radio spot A Song From Insane Times, explain the historical significance of my gifted Saturday Spring host Karyn Hay, create a 30-song playlist of the 10 artists described, and so much more.
open.substack.com/pub/george…
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It's amusing when anthropologists claim scientists are ideological. It's a field where sometimes even a majority of the scholars reject fundamental scientific principles in favor of ideology and has a 95% leftwing leaning. Evolutionary psychology is in fact a fairly balanced field politically, one of the very few academic fields like this.
Actually, I wrote a long book dissecting key arguments promoted by evpsych. Marshaling an appalling quantity of cross-cultural & historical evidence, I showed that evpsych's appeal is ideological, not scientific. It simply doesn't describe anything resembling universals. /2
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