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Yes, but we all knew it was going to be 100% positive, even before clicking on the link. He might as well have not written it in the first place.
by grindall 14y ago
Yes, but we all knew it was going to be 100% positive, even before clicking on the link. He might as well have not written it in the first place.
- tptacek 14y agoSo from your vantage point, how is anyone supposed to write about Fabrice Bellard, or, for that matter, Wire's "Pink Flag"? Do we have to make up negative things about them, or are we just not allowed to write about them at all?
- gruseom 14y ago> Wire's "Pink Flag" http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_seven_commandments_of_art_punk_wires_rules http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_seven_commandments_of...
- tptacek 14y agoI call BS; they routinely break rule 5.
- gruseom 14y ago#4 too, though not routinely – "Mannequin", a song I suspect we'd disagree on, definitely "choruses out". Edit: hmm, I'm not sure what kind of BS you meant to call this but I'm starting to suspect it might be made up. The few Googleable instances of it all go back to a single source that posted it without attribution. Plus, "negative self-definition" sounds suspiciously PoMo... You realize what it means that I posted this, don't you? Must now explode. Edit edit: Saved. The image is made up and the caption was added later but the substance did come from Graham Lewis. http://books.google.ca/books?ei=YMQvUeffEsKWiALI4YG4Aw&id=4FEIAQAAMAAJ&dq=wire+pink+flag+33+1%2F3&q=rules#search_anchor http://books.google.ca/books?ei=YMQvUeffEsKWiALI4YG4Aw&i... Edit edit edit: since when else will this ever be apropos, here is some of the most uncomfortable television ever: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/truly_post-punk_suzanne_somers_meets_wire_on_the_late_show_1987 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/truly_post-punk_suzanne_s...
- tptacek 14y agoCrap, forgot who I was talking to. Should have known a silly comment about Wire rocking out might send you into a fugue state of attribution hunting. I DIDN'T MEAN IT!
- gruseom 14y agoYou can't take the literature grad school out of the boy. But isn't that Suzanne Somers - Wire interview seriously... whatever it is? Come on, who else am I going to get to watch that? :)
- tptacek 14y agoThat was I think one of the greatest videos I have seen in the last 5 years, despite it capturing Wire in their ill-advised Public Image Limited phase.
- gruseom 14y agoOh, I'm glad I checked back in here to read that. A month or two ago Dangerous Minds posted a late 70s Wire concert from Rockpalast (German TV show which is now perhaps the greatest archive of punk-new wave bands at their peaks) and it was stunning. It's been taken down, but there are still clips up.