the upstart

Spending the afternoon having an asthma attack and listening to NOMEANSNO.

Probably this means something.

I think there's a certain amount of "public school boy" cringe, which is unwarranted - saw them live when they toured the second album, and they were a very fucking tight unit. Loads of fun

This may be an unpopular opinion, or what the fuck. But. That first Franz Ferdinand album? It's fucking great. All jagged, libidinal, louche? Sweaty and straight-laced at the same time? Fucking great.

These are beautiful. Incredible filmmaker.

Leftfield - Afro-Left
Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop

Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot (Extended 12")
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sum (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts)
Primal Scream - Come Together
Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn
Leftfield - Release the Pressure

90s/2000s DJ loo break trax:

Underworld - Born Slippy (NUXX)
Orbital - Halcyon (& On & On)
Hardfloor - Experience
Phuture - Acid Tracks
Goldie - Inner City Life (album version)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By Her Make Believe Lover (Cuz It's Hot)

#OtD 8 Feb 1921 Peter Kropotkin, famous proponent of anarchist-communism, died of pneumonia in Russia. He took part in revolutionary groups in four countries and was a major contributor to anarchist theory. Works by and about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

I hear you. Theatre can't save us - but it might save someone, and that's enough for me. I'm lucky enough to teach emerging MENA sound designers (and indirectly, other theatre makers), and the drive they have to make *global* change is completely different to everything I experienced in AU.

loot that drops when I die:
- whisky
- synthesisers
- what?

We called it "tropicunty"

My malört is the punch I made with a mate at a legendary house party in Brunswick: Solo, Fanta, Coke, Sprite (to honour our German friends Spezi); tequila, vodka, gin, goon; all the fruit we could find, squeezed into the bucket with our bare hands, cackling like stoned lunatics*

*Which we were

Stephen. Patrick. Morrissey.

Fuck that guy.

Saw it on Friday. Part of an absolutely mind-blowing series of exhibits. Fantastic exhibition design too.

I don't understand it

It has taken me a long time to realise this, but when D.A.F's Gabi is muttering "Why don't we play.../ Let's play like brothers do" I've suddenly realised that maybe he doesn't mean brothers like brothers, but brothers like *brothers*.

Is it possible to graduate from Queer but fail EuroQueer 101?

The problem with living and working in UAE is that if I do take all the street cats home I don't know how I'm going to look after them for the two months I'm shipped back home to AU.

21st century update of classic Oi!

A version of Angelic Upstarts' "Who Killed Liddle Towers?" as "Who Killed Renee Good?"

Octopus. Fuckin yeah. Such a cool creature.

New York Times, so of course it doesn't...

Russian in ma blood like a vodka shot

You adore me
You adore me
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored

There are three kinds of Americans. Cowards, Idiots, and Quislings. It's in the Constitution.

You are so fired.

I bought every copy I could from the cheap tables at bookshops and circulated amongst friends as a kind of weird fiction samizdat... I need to do a proper reread

Oh man... I read the random selection of those novels they had in my local library as a teen (1-4, 7, 9, from memory) and they genuinely rearranged my head. They simply didn't function like anything else. Weird, sexy, inconsistent, crass, satirical...

How does one sign up to be a Wolf in the Throne Room? Is there a celestial waiting list?

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK

AMERICA
DELENDA
EST

Apologies for random drive-by comment, but given that Vampire: the Masquerade gave me permission to be weird and not-quite-goth and queer in my own personal way, I really feel this. As a random internet person, I'm glad you found this.

Yeah fuck Hans Zimmer and all right now. That's some SHIT OF THE BULLS