https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/are-we-living-inside-black-hole-universe
And is it balearic?
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Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Set on the Day of the Dead in Mexico as war is approaching, a British alcoholic consul gets progressively more drunk as he deals with events in his life. A wild ride.
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“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life.”
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Reading the excellent, For a New West: Essays, 1919–1958, by Karl Polanyi. It is chilling how much he got right (along with some wrong), about the deification of 'Free markets", that they are inevitable that the marketization would dissolve institutions, ways of life, freedoms and the perfect conditions for Fascism.
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
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That’s quite a book! I think Lowry may have lived in a man-made wooden shelter on a beach near Vancouver. One night his higgelty-piggelty shelter caught fire with his only pre-published copy of Under the Volcano inside. It was years in the writing, so a pretty heavy situation. He saved the manuscript but the shack burnt with everything else going up in flames. My memory isn’t the best, but that’s what I have as his story rattling around.
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That’s some story. There are parts of the book vividly depicting flames engulfing the Consul and the village they’re in - maybe a nod to the fire!?
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Did you ever hear him play? Sounds like a good time. I always found his pop productions derivative and mid AF…
There’s a wee bit about it here.
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Unforgettable book. Need to revisit.
never saw him play, i don’t recall him playing in seattle but i don’t know that i would have been bothered to leave the house if he did.
i played “ooo wee” when it first came out, and thought “here comes the fuzz” was a fun lil’ album, i was still getting a lot of boring corporate and hotel gigs and it made for fairly agreeable tunes. i thought “version” was pretty good too, didn’t love all of it but again, the hotel crowd loves a recognizable cover version.
he always seemed like a pretty good dude, good sense of humor and humility, and it was pretty clear he liked a nice wide variety of tunes.
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I read an extract or summary & he was saying he wanted to document 90s clubbing in NY as it hadnt been written about ( mythologised ) like 70s / 80s
Always seems nice especially as came from rick upper west side music family
Im never sure what he actually did on B2Black but you cant knock Uptown Funk for production as a pop record & like Amy’s cover of Valerie
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Great film as well
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I might have said this before, but I always thought a kind of Kitchen Confidential by a DJ would be a great read. And the New York 90s scene would be the ideal setting. There was such a lot of musical and social crossover. Not read the book yet, but I think that Mark Ronson is a pretty good candidate for the job.
I heard him DJ - he was pretty good tbf. And yeah, seemed a nice dude too.
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It got compared to Kitchen Confidential in the article I read
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I was quite into Chicks on Speed, back in the day …
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Oh! Would like to read that. Have you read Head On/Re-Possessed? Amazing!
Nope, nothing. I’m a Cope virgin.
But not for long.
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