Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. –Denis Diderot
Monthly Archives: December 2007
When It's Perfect
I finished a new song today. Well, not a new song, precisely, but an older one that I sort of re-worked. And it’s perfect. The mix is perfect, the notes are perfect, the sound is perfect. It’s precisely what I wanted it to be, no compromises. I can’t stop listening to it. This is not […]
Interview with Burial
The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article I don’t know anything about this kind of music, but I love Sam Cooke. I don’t know what it was about his songs, but he’d have some songs, and things on the surface were normal or happy, he’d be singing about having a party, there’s cokes in the […]
The Islam Problem
In an essay for the Guardian UK, writer Ronan Bennett takes novelist Martin Amis to task for his alleged racism towards Muslims. We can dispense with Amis’s polite fiction that he is talking about “Islamism”; there are just too many generalisations (“The impulse towards rational inquiry,” Amis wrote elsewhere, “is by now very weak in […]
RIP Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer Stockhausen is dead – Yahoo! News Stockhausen’s electronic compositions are a radical departure from musical tradition and incorporate influences as varied as psychology, the visual arts and the acoustics of a particular concert hall. I was never a big fan of Stockhausen from a listener’s perspective — his work isn’t very accessible — […]
Wow, That's An Unfortunate Domain Name…
Apparently “kiddietoothfiddler.com” was taken. (Seen at a bus stop here in Vegas.)
I Got A Raw Deal, So I'm Looking For The Steel…
I never knew they made a video for this: Tricky’s badass cover of Public Enemy’s “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos” (renamed here simply “Black Steel”). This is one of my favorite tracks of all time:
Name This Song
I’m usually good at titles, but I’m at a loss with this one. So I’m reaching out to you, my loyal and deeply loving fans, to name this for me. This is a demo version — there might be another recording on the album, since I just did this in my living room — but […]
Hey Washington — Can You Stop Embarrassing Us, Please?
US says it has right to kidnap British citizens – Times Online The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. Legal experts confirmed this weekend that America viewed extradition as just one way […]