Archive for May, 2005

Music Baton

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Via interbreeding.

Total volume of music files: 2566 songs, 9.2 days, 15.82 GB. (Not including CDs and records, which I don’t tend to copy onto the computer).

Last record: Hard to measure, but recent acquisitions, all on vinyl, are Autechre, Confield; Mono, One More Step and You Die and New York Soundtracks; Prefuse 73, Surrounded By Silence; [...]

Sound and Fury

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Sydney boasts an utter dearth of record stores stocking anything for anyone whose brain hasn’t yet been blasted away by dancefloor four-four. So thank God for whoever is behind Sound and Fury, the new record store just off Taylor Square. I walked out the other night with Autechre’s classic Confield and the two recently pressed [...]

Spreading The Word

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Normally I refuse to buy books with pen or pencil marks in them, but tonight I bought a second-hand copy of Simon Blackburn’s Spreading the Word from Gleebooks which has pen marks and notes in the margins all through it—and indeed, Gleebooks had it marked down to next to nothing, presumably for that reason. But, [...]

Bankers Embrace “Golden Skeleton” Mascot

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Two weeks ago at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited, two “Dow representatives” described a new Dow computer program that puts a precise financial value on human life.

The 70 bankers in attendance enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which described various industrial crimes, including IBM’s sale of technology to the Nazis for [...]