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Archive for January, 2010
Something’s Burning #5
Monday, January 18th, 2010Eno on Zappa & Metaphorical Archery
Monday, January 18th, 2010On Frank Zappa
“Zappa was important to me because I realised I didn’t have to make music like he did. I might have made a lot of music like he did if he had not done it first and made me realise that I did not want to go there. I did not like his music but I am grateful that he did it. Sometimes you learn as much from the things you don’t like as from the things you do like. The rejection side is as important as the endorsement part.
On hindsight
“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.”
Slightly expanded version of the Paul Morley interview that appeared in yesterday’s Observer Review
The Well 2010
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Basically, the political class is waiting for the civil population to come back to the church of the free market and get over the fact that its cardinals walk in public with no clothes on.
You’re starting to see weird forms of acting-out, neurotic displacement activities. Fetishes, even. Sarah Palin, for instance. I could go on about that woman every day. And so can everybody else, which is why they do.
Genocide has much more proven shelf-appeal than any of these hokum Rube Goldberg geo-schemes. It’s by no means easy to kill off half of everybody, but we’ve already invented a wide variety of ingenious ways to attempt that, and almost all of ‘em are much simpler, more rugged and more plausible than putting the North Pole under a tinfoil hat.
Bruce Sterling’s State of the World 2010
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