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Simon_FM
Yes! I'm sure I'd read that somewhere. I went on a school trip to the cathedral when I was approximately 8 or 9. I remember very little besides a cross at one end of the derelict section. Apparently two of the beams which formed a part of the roof had fallen on top of one another after a bombing raid, resembling the cross (of Christ fame). They'd since secured them together and hoisted it up at one end. I remember this vividly; partly because it always struck me as odd that they placed such significance on this happening. If two beams fall onto one another, it's difficult for them to resemble anything BUT a cross. I suppose hope was in short supply in those days. I'm afraid I haven't read that, Nathan. I've honestly not even heard of it. Is fictional? Who was its author?
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Simon_FM
Yes, we must. My father (until being made redundant 2 months back) worked in Coventry for over 25 years. I probably don't need to remind you - of all people - but Larkin spent his childhood there, and George Eliot too. Anyway, do let me know sooner the time if you are attending. I hope your sister grows to like the place.
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potentsoap
Oh, I forgot! This might be of some interest as well. http://thedeepfreezemice.bandcamp.com/
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potentsoap
This is said about every band to ever exist, but the Deep Freeze Mice are criminally underrated! I can't for the life of me remember how I discovered them but since then they've been impossible to ignore for long. Alan Jenkins had another band, The Crysanthemums, and they operate on more of less the same level of fantastic sonic absurdity. As for Yeah Yeah Noh, I'm partial to the When I Am A Big Girl 12". I found it in a thrift shop in between Perry Como albums. At the time I only knew that they were contemporaries of The Mice, also from Leicester, so I remember buying it with minimal interest. An unforgettable EP. -Jasminne
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potentsoap
Hey there! I don't know you but your "taste-o-meter" is 100% full and that is wack. I've yet to meet someone in real life who listens to Yeah Yeah Noh (if I did they weren't very vocal about it, anyway). I dig your music taste!
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Simon_FM
Hello Nathan. Unfortunately the BSP concert is only a very tenuous *maybe* at the moment. It happens to fall over the Easter break, and my going depends entirely upon whether I'm in Hull or elsewhere. Naturally, if I am there, you're quite welcome to stay over at my house (if the cost of accommodation was the concern). Likewise, if you just felt like a trip to Hull some other time, my house is always open to you. I finish this summer, so this semester is the time! Merry Christmas, Nathan. Hope you had an excellent day. Rejoice!
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Simon_FM
I adore Mahler. Perhaps I'm guilty of committing a fallacy of equivocation which does absolutely no justice to either artist, but I've equated him with T.S Eliot for some time now. Both seem to capture that terrifying turn-of-the-century turmoil in European culture and society. Eh. I recommend the last movement of his 9th, and the funeral march at the beginning of his 5th. I'm fond of Chopin's Nocturnes as well. Beethoven too, particularly Symphony No. 7 and the piano sonatas. I've so much still to learn about classical music, though. I rarely feel wholly engaged with it; I feel far too lowly and uneducated to appreciate it in its totality. Alas. I read your piece 'Sunday in the City' the other day. Your thoughts on our expectations of happiness are so accurate. I've been planning a (long-overdue) letter to you recently;I've much to tell you, and have many questions, besides. Despite having a million other deadlines to meet, I'm hoping (in a fit of procrastination) to write soon.
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RevolutionECW
Бля. Да нахуй мне это Го маркет. Это Х У Й Н Я. Я может неправильно в прошлом посту выразился!
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scratchmyname
I suppose as an industry it's always going to be a bit shit. Did you know that Lady Gaga was the highest earning musical act of last year? No music released at all, all tour and perfume sales. Pretty scary that, I will admit.
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scratchmyname
My summer's been pretty okay. The perks of having separated parents means that whenever one is bored of their current location I can just up and out to the other for a few days & hopefully return to some nice soup in the fridge & a whole new outlook. Nah, if i'm honest i've pretty much spent the whole summer looking for any sort of job anywhere to no avail. & Plenty of crap tv, of course, which I love so very much. What has the world been promising you as of late?
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scratchmyname
I don't really know. I never really understood the whole people sneering at latitude thing because I generally am too self-conscious of myself & not being as well presented as those around me to find comfort in their perhaps -ridiculous- lifestyles. After all, everyone there has for some reason ended up at the same place at the same time, so in that moment who's to say one's actions are any worse than anyone else in the vicinity. I really don't feel the same way about music today. I mean, of course, Spotify is very bad for musicians & concert tickets are far too expensive, but I think in terms of musicians having to compromise themselves in order to be heard, music today is far more geared towards since and genuine integrity in, obviously not all, but certainly music which wouldn't have ever had the chance to be heard in the past.
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scratchmyname
Ah, I see. Well, this year was my 3rd visit since 2010 (must've not attended the year that you did- Suede & National year, supidly) (have you heard Bernard Butler's solo stuff?) & this year seemed a lot more couples-with-young-children-&-paisley-trousers based. So not as terrible as it could have been. Though the first time I went I was just going into 6th form, and my wellies cost £40 if my superficial memory is correct, so make of that what you will. I think, as a festival, it prides itself more and more highly on 'variety', but across the years trying to cater for the polarising 'teen vibe' and genuine music veterans has left it a little self isolating. So yeah, the thought of Kraftwerk playing one of their limited shows just meters away from 'The Inbetweeners Play Area' isn't perhaps what the festival had in mind when it first started. Also the recent sponsorship by 6Music definitely had a large influence on the line-up this year, but there could be better bad news.
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scratchmyname
How beautiful of you to ask! (Something less beautiful, we are only 'Very High'?!?! Has this always been the case?!?!) Latitude was all nice but seems very long ago now, I remember quite little of significance aside from the things which I shall go onto list once this sentence has finished. 1) It rained all weekend and I did not pack a coat. 2) I saw 'Tom Courtnenay' and 'Autumn Sweater' by Yo La Tengo live and felt so very happy 3) Lots and lots of good food. That is all! Oh, Kraftwerk were really naff. What have you been up to?
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Simon_FM
If our roles were reversed, and it was not you, but I, who was awaiting the reply to a lovingly constructed letter, I know that I would mind. I rather fear you're being too polite. I shall endeavour to write you soon, and to upkeep our correspondence. It's so pleasant to have somebody detached from one's everyday existence with whom to converse. Hah. I don't for one moment consider you some archaic relic of the English Aristocracy, struggling to exist in the throes of modernity, but you and Sebastian share a certain extravagance (or perhaps refinement?) of speech. You have siblings? That surprises me greatly. You strike me as far too independent for such things. Speaking of siblings, and of Proust, my brother is forever extolling his style; I've yet to find the time, myself. Can you really love England enough never to leave its shores? I've always (foolishly) thought that love was established in a kind of contrast, necessitating experience of some object of hatred by which to compare.
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Simon_FM
Dear Nathan. Many apologies for my incompetence as regards your letter. I have so much to say in reply to it, so many questions, and yet, so little energy. I'm a terrible, vile, creature. The events which have comprised my summer have each been wonderful, but still, I've been unable to escape the feeling that my time is being wasted and that I'm yet to engage in anything worthwhile or substantial. So much of life consists in triviality. Are you still coping with the burden of existence? I suppose you are. I wish we had the time for a long, detailed, and frank conversation in one of Liverpool's tea rooms. I read Brideshead Revisited a number of weeks ago, and it made me think of you. Something in Sebastian's manner of speech evoked your letters and writings. Hm. Not, of course, to imply that you'll end up a drunkard, living in a monastery in Algiers, or wherever on earth he was. How have you spent your summer thus far, Nathan?
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yeoldebard
That's good! Glad you like it. I actually haven't listened to it for a good while! Need to rectify that, imagine I will have by the time I go to see the band in October! Have you listened to any of that Springsteen I recommended you? Listen to this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTyn1rEw1VY
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theheavyroom
Ha! Gotta keep it interesting. Incidentally, check out/do you know the Handsome Family, I think you might like them ('Twilight' particularly)
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Simon_FM
Excellent, Nathan. I have no idea how the system works; I'm actually rather inclined to say we don't have that much in common musically; or at least, not a sufficient number of shared artists to warrant 'Super'. Alas, we've enough else in common to forgo that minor indiscrepancy; I think. I trust that you're in good health and,all things considered, faring well.
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yeoldebard
Nick Cave? Yes, a good number of times. Despite my misgivings, Mermaids is actually the best song on the album, closely followed by the two singles, We No Who U R and Jubilee Street, and another song, We Real Cool. Don't think there's a single up-tempo song on the album. The languid Higgs Boson Blues sounds like it's been lifted straight out of the Neil Young masterpiece On The Beach. Anyway, I do recommend the record highly.
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Simon_FM
I've not heard of Monica Dickens. What does she write about? 'Fathers and Sons' is interesting. I find Turgenev a little too idealistic, though. Hull is pleasant. I rather like it here, in fact. There's vast swaths of concrete expanse where German bombs fell during the war, lots of hastily constructed, utilitarian buildings from the 1960s; an awfully strong wind almost every day, and it's terribly flat. Where are you from? What is it like? I walked to Philip's grave last year. I didn't shed any tears. Do you like his work?
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Simon_FM
I'm not sure why I used the phrase 'nice' to describe leather. There's nothing nice about it. I suppose I was referring predominantly to its aesthetics; if not the fact that it consists of little more than an animal carcass affixed across a hardcover book. My apologies. Are you vegetarian/vegan?
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Simon_FM
Quite right; it's particularly witty. Sadly, Goncharov's life seems to have been largely forgotten, you're correct. I'm particularly fond of Russian literature; Dostoevsky is a particular favourite of mine, although I'm just as partial to Tolstoy, Gogol or Pushkin; likewise, Soviet writings by Solzhenitsyn, Grossman and Gorky. That's to not to say I don't read anything aside from our Slavic friends; I'm currently making my way through Sartre's novels, after finishing a couple of Mishima's works. What do you read? Stakhonov certainly wouldn't approve of your doing nothing; but then I feel rather like you were employing a hint of hyperbole there. It's quite apparent you read; and that's something to be admired, even if it's not nearly as practical as coal mining. I mostly read as well; my reading is supposed to be conductive toward a degree in Philosophy/Politics at Hull University; but as might be discernible from the authors listed above, it's not always concomitant toward that end.
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Simon_FM
I'm ashamed to say Oblomov is the only one of his novels I've read. I thoroughly enjoyed it though. It was particularly easy to relate to somebody like Oblomov and his refusal to engage meaningfully with the world. I stumbled upon him purely by chance, browsing a second hand book shop in Beverley. I'd a little spare change in my pocket, and Goncharov was somebody who I'd heard of (if only in passing). I suppose the nice leather bound edition of the book helped persuade me, too. Your name is Nathan? What do you do with your life, Nathan?
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scratchmyname
I am well, Nathan, and I hope you mostly are too, despite that ever squatting toad. Any such luck? We've been advised to get on the graduate scheme already, which is pretty loco. I don't even know my way around the bus routes in this city yet. Univercité is grand, I like both -it- and my course a lot, though I am not very good at it. Today we discussed Auden, Eliot and Larkin. I said little. Life is not all sad, but it is certainly not all paradise. Chin up!
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yeoldebard
I mean, there's nothing subtle about that line from Mermaids. Nothing poetic or literary about it. Go back to the mid-1980s, when his heroin addiction was at its most severe, and he was writing lyrics that are ten times better than what he's writing now, all about the three main themes of his career- violence, sex and religion. Check out something like 'Hard On For Love' (a title which would imply something similar to the words in 'Mermaids'): http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858501608/ (a few typos here), or 'She Fell Away': http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858501607/ See what I mean? Both of these songs are taken from 1986's 'Your Funeral My Trial'. As for Bowie, I too love the new track. Are his last few albums similar? I'm not too familiar with his later work. Yeah, it was great the way the announcement of the new album was so sudden. Really looking forward to it!
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yeoldebard
Likewise, I've never heard of this outfit you mention, but I'll keep an eye out. Indeed, I've heard the new Cave track. The Guardian are streaming the album. On first listen, I was somewhat underwhelmed. Too many loops and not enough piano/trad violin. Not only that., but the songs just don't seem to go anywhere. The Guardian page seems to think the album contains some of his most beautiful material, but for me, I can still hear the essence of Grinderman rumbling through. Plus some of the lyrics are truly terrible, to quote 'Mermaids', "she was a catch/ we were a match/ I was the match that would light up her snatch". I mean, this just sounds like Nick Cave caricaturing the sexuality of his past lyrics. Having said that, 'Mermaids' is one of the better tracks on the album. Maybe it just needs more listens. What do you think of the new David Bowie song?
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yeoldebard
Hello Nathan! Indeed, it's been awhile! What happened to your old last.fm account? Where've you been disappearing to? Aye, I'm still in Southport. Still work in Ainsdale. My favourite latest discovery is Warren Zevon. Do you know much of him? If not, may I recomment his self-titled album and the album 'Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School'.
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theheavyroom
Absolutely you can! Glad you like the idea, I've been having a minor crisis of faith since i posted it..
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