Yes. Agreed. I think what both of you are saying is fair.
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From Viz?
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I loved Make Some Space so I’ll be picking this up.
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Same author but has very few drawings & just the script
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Some of the reviews are brutal but they all
Agree with him. Tough crowd economists.
Gotcha
It’s really good already. Thoroughly enjoying it…
Just finished the first part of Stephen Morris’ autobiography ‘Record Play Pause’, really enjoyed it, he doesn’t take himself seriously at all and is very self-deprecating throughout.
If finishes just after the shock of Ian Curtis’ death and the first, tentative steps into them becoming New Order.
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I’ve got both of these as audiobooks. Interestingly they contain a fair amount of what sounds like unreleased versions of NO tracks, plus what I assume are Stephen Morris solo bits and pieces.
Very good read/listen! If you haven’t already, check Hooky’s book Substance too
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Yeah, need to pick up part 2 of SM’s autobiography and then the Hooky one which I heard goes into great detail about NO.
Have you read Barney’s book?
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Yes read that too. It’s OK, not as good as Hooky’s and I kinda know whose side of the ‘argument’ I fall on!
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That article is another example of people over analysing balearic again. I’m guilty too cos it is always entertaining pub talk but the truth is it was all an accident. The Spanish played whatever records they could get their hands on and thought nothing of it. An innocent era. My first parties in Spain on the mainland early 90s featured a lot of the same records. Mano Negra, BTribe, Raul Orellana or whatever, so it is objectively daft really to attach too much meaning to it all. I think that’s another reason why De Melero resents the ‘87 landing’ so much, the constant marketing and packaging and wholescale appropriation of what was really just him and a few pals getting stoned, playing random records by the beach.
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i never played minecraft. my daughter is juuuust starting to get into video games, and is playing minecraft. so this caught my eye - it’s a (edit: not so) quick story about the guy who wrote the “end poem” for minecraft, but never signed any contracts on it and then decided to put it in the public domain because of a sort of epiphany about people’s love for it.
Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?
Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.
But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.
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Is cosmo considered an interloper to the balearic world?
Not quick at all! Good read though & v thought-provoking about art/creativity vs commerce, different mindsets. My youngest used to get up on a Saturday morning and say ‘dad… shall we create a new world?’. He meant in Minecraft of course but I kind of loved it. Yes son, let’s create a new world.
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What I meant was that in my mind her vibe is much more NYC/Loft/disco. (Had several great nights with her playing).
But now you use the word “interloper” I need to check myself so it doesn’t sound like I’m some sort of mysoginist/silverback weirdo which was not the intention at all.
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I get you, I like her show (and her sets) but it’s not always what I think of as ‘balearic’ but maybe thats the point? An extremely broad church.
Looking forward to Phil Mison’s Loft Lunches over here.
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I’d tune in 
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