Posts by stephen walker
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i thought the marketing machine's desire was to make maximum profit ;-)
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so the industry stats say that there is more new stuff being sold (allowing for inflation) than, say, 25 years ago?
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My point, and it's not a particularly original one, is that Jade Goody's life is like a story.
yes, like a story. but not a story. like one.
maybe i'm nitpicking, but it just doesn't seem right to me, to describe some woman's early death from cancer as "oddly perfect". stranger than fiction, like fiction, eerily like fiction---sure. but describing this person's demise as "oddly perfect" sounds quite callous to my ear. -
She lives, she will die. That much is fact. What happens in between or, more importantly, what you know about it is up to her and her publicist
so you are saying that she and her publicist decided she should die from cancer before she was 30?
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i agree that there is just so much MORE stuff to go back and trall through. and as you say, it is seen as normal now, whereas it was very otaku a few decades ago.
but there is still this strange juxtaposition of much more stuff and greater willingness to look back versus much slower pace of radical change...
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are you suggesting that the life and death of this woman is somehow a "fiction" because it's presented in tabloid newspapers?
i certainly wouldn't suggest that it was "news" in any sense that i understand that term, and i do not disput that the whole thing is laced with real and invented drama. but this person's life and death as fiction? really?
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Simon,
thanks for those clips, very interesting!
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with due respect Mark, in the late 70s/early 80s, if we wanted to check out something old, we made a beeline for parents' record collections or those of other older-generation acquaintances. or we went to one of the many secondhand record shops around town. or the op shop. or the library. there were lots of sources of old recordings, you didn't need much money, just curiosity and the courage to ask or read up. personally, i think the apparent loss of all that historic vinyl is pretty tragic and a lot will never see the light of day as digital files.
but the reason i find it disconcerting that teens seem to love all this old stuff is that (a) they aren't rebelling; and (b) surely it shrinks the market (live/recorded) for new stuff. no?
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Simon,
re your Eno quotation at opdiner, this is similar to what i have wondered about for years (since the beginning of the century). when i was a lad (sorry!) we listened almost exclusively to stuff that was very new from artists who were very young. there were a few exceptions, of course, like Velvet Underground or Stooges, but they were the great inspiration for punk. and we always had a fascination for the 60s, the decade in which we were born. i can't get over so many young things wanting to listen to so many artists that have been around since well before they were born. we had hardly any interest in anything made much before we were born until we were much older (30s?).btw, who is at No. 1? (pls excuse my ingnorance)
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the shit hits the dan?
what the duck?