May 2011
24 posts
New Coldplay Single Out This Week →
“Real talk: If there’s one band that shouldn’t be releasing lyrics before people hear the actual music, it’s probably Coldplay.” (Pitchfork)
Book Review: The Power of Music →
“Techniques that cannot distinguish between hearing an organ played and having one’s organs played with tell us nothing about either.”
This song is in English! That’s important.
Dime-store psychology →
“The number of DSK’s room is meaningful. We should interpret reality as if it was a novel. Had he checked into room 2706 he would not have attacked a chambermaid, he would have masturbated peacefully.” - Arnon Grunberg
The Very Existence of the Queen Is Against Any... →
“The full meaning of the Monarchy is (…) protected from any investigations by ridiculous stories of trivia and wedding dresses and on-again-off-again soap-drama romances.” - Morrissey
Vatican Blames Man-Made Emissions For Global... →
“If the Church can go from forgiving Galileo to accepting global warming in 11 years, I figure they’re on track to admit God doesn’t exist by 2015.”
Oxfam (Hugo Camps) →
“In elf maanden non-onderhandelingen is niet één keer het woord ‘armoede’ gevallen. Ach, ontwikkelingshulp: het zal de Vlaamse republiek worst wezen.”
Feest van de socialisten →
Koen Meulenaere
This song has 243 listeners on last.fm and that is...
Forty Second Song
The Intimate Orwell →
” Even in the heat of battle, and precisely because he distrusted ideology, Orwell remained always acutely aware of the primacy that must be given to human individuals over all “the smelly little orthodoxies.” “
“Happiness” is een grappig woord als...
“No Depression in Heaven”, the Carter...