18.9.24

After twenty years in, I'm so naïve I was under the impression

That everyone wrote their own verses

It's coming back different and, yeah, that shit hurts me

I'm humming and whistling to those not deserving

I've stumbled and lived every word

Was I working just way too hard?


4.9.24

Buñuel) did so many films on the impossibility of sainthood. People trying to be good in Viridiana and Nazarín, people trying to do their thing. In "The Weight" it's the same thing. People like Buñuel would make films that had these religious connotations to them but it wasn't necessarily a religious meaning. In Buñuel there were these people trying to be good and it's impossible to be good. In "The Weight" it was this very simple thing. Someone says, "Listen, would you do me this favour? When you get there will you say 'hello' to somebody or will you give somebody this or will you pick up one of these for me? Oh? You're going to Nazareth, that's where the Martin guitar factory is. Do me a favour when you're there." This is what it's all about. So the guy goes and one thing leads to another and it's like "Holy shit, what's this turned into? I've only come here to say 'hello' for somebody and I've got myself in this incredible predicament." It was very Buñuelish to me at the time.[22]

15.8.24

 
 
Base
Star
Gesture
Texture 

Look like a bird could fly through it
dancing


13.8.24

I hear you calling from the riverbankI will be coming when the air is blackAll my time is lying on the factory floorAnd all my time is lying on the factory floor
 
Some say messiah coming got to get it rightSome say messiah coming give me back my timeAll my time is lying on the factory floorAnd all my time is lying on the factory floor
 
I hear you callingI hear you callingI hear you calling
Up until 1998, when some people reissued my albums, as far as I was concerned, I was gone, deleted. No one was listening. But then I got the shock that people remembered my music. I was doing some gardening, and listening to some of my songs on cassette, and a part of me thought they were quite good. I thought, "Maybe somebody will hear them someday." That same evening, 14 years ago, I got a call from a music writer telling me that my two albums were being reissued. A shock is not gonna get much bigger than that, David [...] It was astonishing to me. I won't ever really be able to believe that it happened. That's how I feel about it. I had come to terms with the fact that I was deleted, but that I had always kept writing songs anyway and that was good enough.[4]

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Q: Of all your songs, from both Smiths and solo material, which song are you most proud of lyrically?

A: It's impossible to answer this because I'm proud of most of them. There are only a few that make me shudder – such as "Get Off The Stage," "Journalists Who Lie," "I Don't Owe You Anything".... But most of them, I think, somehow stand the test of time. Of course, some songs are better than others....

 

Bought on stolen wine A nod was the first step You knew very well What was coming next 
 
Did I really walk all this way Just to hear you say : "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" ? "Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"
Oh, but you will For you must 
 
I don't owe you anything, no But you owe me something Repay me now 
 
You should never go to them Let them come to you Just like I do Just like I do 
 


 

10.7.24

I went down to the river to watch the fish swim byBut I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, oh LordAnd then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry
 
I'm gonna find me a river, one that's cold as iceAnd when I find me that river, Lord, I'm gonna pay the price, oh LordI'm going down in it three times, but Lord I'm only coming up twice
 

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9.7.24


Screw said, “All y’all out there crumbsnatching. If your name’s Joe, that’s a Joe tape. If your name’s Mike, that’s a DJ Mike tape. If your name Paul, then that’s a Paul tape. My name is Screw.” It’s not a Screwtape unless Screw did it.

Kyu Boi, South Park Coalition
 
 “They doin’ it now because of Serato, and all these other programs that they got that tell you the beat count. But doin’ a blend? Screw was doin’ that straight off his own mind. There was no machine that was showin’ him how to do it. The turntable didn’t have a beat counter on it. Nothing had a beat counter on it. He was just actually listening to the song through his headphones and hearing a beat count in his mind. There was no such thing as BPM to him.” 
 
where you could hear the music being torn apart as it rushed by, where you could count the letters of every word being spoken like they were being spoken to you. The storytelling came alive, and the vibration beneath it was built from a vast library of hip hop, funk, soul, reggae and R&B records that Screw would rope together and drag down to the same level, no matter the origin of the sound. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNbE6dIBbE

5.7.24

For Crash, you intentionally stepped into the role of a major-label pop star, like cosplay. Is the new album’s direct approach a reaction to that?

It’s definitely related. The pendulum always swings for me. I think a good artist always has to re-form, reformulate and reclothe themselves, quite literally. You’re right, Crash was about me being signed to a major label [Asylum Records UK/Warner Music UK] and feeling like I’d never played that traditional, stereotypical major-label pop star game. I wanted to play this satirical role, so I was hypersexualizing myself, taking songs other people had written for me and using an A&R person for the first time in my career.

This record is the polar opposite. It’s not collaborative. It’s not me playing a character. It’s direct and honest. I really tried not to write love songs or songs about my romantic relationship. [She got engaged to The 1975’s George Daniel in late 2023.] There are a couple, but generally speaking, I wanted it to feel more gossipy, so it is a reaction to Crash. I’m quite a reactionary person.



This album is very direct. I’m over the idea of metaphor and flowery lyricism and not saying exactly what I think, the way I would say it to a friend in a text message. This record is all the things I would talk about with my friends, said exactly how I would say them. It’s in ways very aggressive and confrontational, but also very conversational and personal. And not in that boring way where artists are like, “This is my most personal record.” To me, it feels like listening to a conversation with a friend

https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/charli-xcx-women-in-music-powerhouse-brat-new-album-1235619161/


2.7.24

Part of a generation of artists who expanded the principles of Brazilian Constructive art, Meireles often plays with geometry in his work. He structured this grid using a mathematical principle of growth known as “cascading bifurcations.” But his simple forms (here, and in the center of the room) suggest other, more local references. This “mesh” originated from the artist’s collaboration with fishermen who created nets from cotton thread. Made during Brazil’s military dictatorship, this work might be understood in terms of the tensions between freedom and imprisonment. The title evokes the openings or spaces of freedom that may remain available even within apparently unyielding structures
Thanks Taber, Rob, Josef and Dali and unknown Addison Lee driver
For taking all the duvets that made up my installation at the gallery to St Christopher's Trust for the homeless. Hope they're insulating someone somewhere that needs it. Thanks Taber for making it happen



24.6.24

People are different, but the media, the world has made them afraid to create their own space around themselves, when they should just close their eyes and trust in themselves. Sometimes a man needs a break from the darkness, and just needs a dose of chirpy, buzzing tunes.


Wire: What did you think when people were saying that you hadn’t produced it all in Sound Forge, it’s a scam.

Burial: Who?

Wire: People on the internet, saying he can’t possibly have done that whole album in Sound Forge.

Burial: Really? Yeah well I did. I'll leave those people to their internet or whatever. Yeah I wish sometimes that I’d gone to college to learn music production, but other times I’m like ‘no, fuck, I’m happy I didn’t’.

I don’t really go on the internet, it’s like a ouija board, it’s like letting someone into your head, behind your eyes. It lets randoms in.

14.6.24

Once Furiosa and her comrades return to the city, Max fades away. The universal hero has no role there. But he was not even that. He was the universal donor. He is a fantasy about a kind of male nurturer who gets the heroine home. He is analogous to the George Clooney character in Gravity or the Matthew McConaughey character in Intersellar. This is not feminist cinema but a new kind of masculinist cinema — as far as it is prepared to compromise. Women (often ‘middle aged’) can figure things out for themselves, but with a little help from the universal donor, giving blood, not milk.

Coming back to this this morning for some reason

12.6.24

narrow tip lacks stopping power and the ability to produce deep, penetrating trauma required to halt an attacker. Its simplified straight profile also fails to provide much visual intimidation or psychological deterrent effect when displayed in a defensive stance