Keep trying to read this and struggling to get through it…€20k vip spot and 30 shots of tequila during a set and I’m thinking “oh do F%&*k off” 
Can Domingo is a nice restaurant though to be fair…
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My adage is that if a music or scene is featured in the New Yorker it invariably sucks. Classical music excepted–Alex Ross is a terrific writer & critic. But the whole Solomun piece reads as a kind of parody. Also for a magazine so dedicated on fact-checking/house style (“d.j.”, “reëlection”) the writing is just sloppy:
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Amanda Petrusich is a good writer, her pieces are usually interesting and well written.
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Tim Lawrence essay on recent Louis Vuitton use/misuse of Mancuso & the Loft (!)
https://www.timlawrence.info/david-mancuso-and-louis-vuitton
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Tim Lawrence told me off once at the loft because i was showing a picture to someone on my phone whilst stood on the edge of the dance floor. His mate was doing a rolly polly in-front of us and almost kicking a woman in the face in the process. [Edited for not being mean reasons]
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Oof… I’ve enjoyed his writing but it does have something of the museum piece about it in the overarching desire to preserve. We took him to dinner when he was here in Seattle a few years ago, nice fellow otherwise.
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Yeah…the point is love is the message and I would think telling someone off on the dancefloor would be pretty antithetical to that haha
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Yeah. This is how my house music is organised on shelves. Four sections. Good house / Detroit / albums / everything else. The good house section is obviously amazing.
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Any good ? Her interview with Adam Buxton was interesting
Just finished reading this. For those who may struggle with procrastination, resistance, perfectionism and all that. Found it really helpful and now will be my go to book when I get myself in a pickle.
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great read, got it on pdf 
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I really like her, have yet to read any of her books though so will add it to the list
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Yeah, I’m a big fan of hers and a bit of an economics geek, and her writing is good.
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As a non-economics geek I read Doughnut Economics which I really liked, but also Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism which kind of broke my tiny brain
Feels like we should all develop more of an opinion on this stuff, especially just trying to follow the news at the moment (gilt markets???)
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Definitely. I did a couple of modules at university in economics around the time of the financial crash in 2007/8, which made it all very real. Like most subjects like this, it’s all about finding an author that knows the subject but is also a good writer.
Joseph Stiglitz is very good. One book that made a big impact on me, and is very relevant to the current situation, is False Dawn by the philosopher John Gray.
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Nina Simones Gum by Warren Ellis. A really interesting read, nor sure how you would categorize other than good. A bit autobiographical I suppose.
I found this quite useful earlier (though I had to read the yields and prices bit a few times):