josh blog

Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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28 May '09 08:43:15 AM

'Do your fucking job.'

28 May '09 08:20:48 AM

Deerhunter records are better when the words are indecipherable. I mean this as praise.

28 May '09 07:13:57 AM

O for a record review without a narrative in it.

28 May '09 07:03:54 AM

If there is something that could be called purely musical, I usually feel like Simon Reynolds ignores it as it suits him.

28 May '09 06:50:49 AM

'how perfect the entire system of things'

28 May '09 05:57:34 AM

There are kinds of music that you can only do if you can say 'baby' the right way.

28 May '09 05:04:42 AM

Mark Richardson (Richard-San) as tastemaker. I can't think of many other reviewers I trust implicitly.

28 May '09 04:11:21 AM

Too much fucking tympani.

23 May '09 11:12:10 PM

'Every expression that does not negate is taken as an affirmation; every gesture that does not destroy is interpreted as approval.'