You’ve just described one of my very serious Spiritland sets 
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Hey, do your thing- im not judging!
Hard to pull off but great when its done well!
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I absolutely love her early stuff (as per the tee shirt 
) but post verspertine 90% of what she knocks out is almost unlistenable imho. Homogenic is still one of my favourite albums and I listen to it regularly.
She’s one of the artists I’ve seen live more than any other and seeing her at glastonbury in about 2004 with Mark Bell she was absolutely incredible (possibly helped by some very potent mud 
)But I had tickets to see her a few years ago at All Points East and never made it, but looked at the set list after and wasn’t unhappy I’d skipped. I’ll probably not bother to go see her live again.
Fair play to her for doing what she wants to do though. Completely unique.
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I helped a mate this afternoon who was hired to do some cool street food 
at Day 2 of some local guys wedding. Fck me what a bunch of W#nkEr$ were at this…
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Car thieving twats. My youngests was robbed from outside her place in Birmingham overnight. Really fucking annoying.
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I was at that Bjork Glasto mud show, 2007 maybe I think? On the Volta tour, was incredible. Also went to the APE show and it wasn’t as good, but was nice to hear her do Human Behaviour.
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That man is carved out of grade A Amazon basin product, it’s amazing he’s still going! I DJed with him once and he was a lovely fella and very generous ….
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He played at the huge Pharcyde raves in Cape Town back in the day and was superb. Was very popular in South Africa, looking cool as fuck didn’t hurt. Never met him but everyone said he was lovely.
I saw Jeremy play only two weeks ago at The Cross basement. It was absolutely mobbed- a proper sweatbox- but not my cup of tea.
I can confirm that he is a very decent bloke- both good natured and pretty self aware…
Has to be oddest HO ever.
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American football/gridiron - more stoppage time than gametime. It seems a ridiculous game. Don’t get me started on the padding. Somebody please change my mind!
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At the NFL level it’s all about tactics and strategy, as much as about athletic prowess. That’s why it’s so popular in the US where ability to squeeze the rules as far as possible to win a game is more important than physically beating the pants off the other team.
I’m not into either of them, but college football is more about the players.
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I’m generally sports agnostic - love getting into a match if I have time, but otherwise there are other things I’d rather be doing.
That said…there is nothing like seeing an American football game in a packed stadium. It’s the Coliseum in ancient Rome. Sheer spectacle. The crowd noise focused on the field (this is the “12th Man” that can make a difference for a team), a well-executed drive, breakaway runs, it can be quite thrilling. We have friends with season tix and get to go a couple times a year. However, watching on television has the paradox of being easier to understand thanks to replays and also dreadful as the frequent stoppage results in more adverts.
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i’m not a fan either. i don’t like the culture, and i don’t like that it’s basically a pipeline that over a lifetime turns abnormally large kids into CTE vegetables.
but i will say this: there’s something about the flow of the game that i find interesting - it’s a series of small battles within the context of one big battle. in that way it’s a little more like actual human war than most other sports. i can’t think of too many other sports that do that. it’s not a game of two halves - it’s the strategizing and execution of about 120 tiny battles a game, most of which end up in a stalemate.
still, not a fan. even with all the armor, it’s a meat grinder.
edit: adding this quote from the great george carlin, it illustrates the football-as-war thing pretty well: "what is football- our national pastime game now, it is. and what is it except eleven people line up, beat the shit out of the other guys and take their land. it’s a ground acquisition game. 'cept we only take it ten yards at a time. that’s what we did to the Indians- work 'em a little bit at a time. “first down in pennsylvania… midwest to go”
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Interesting comment about war/football. Games like this are characterised as invasion games where you effectively have to storm the opponents territory to score. The playbook to do so is probably not too dissimilar to an infantry field manual with specific manoeuvres which can be deployed depending on the circumstances. Football (actual proper soccer football) is becoming similar with more focus on set piece plays and tactical movements to outwit the opponent. I’m definitely more interested in this side of it than I used to be. Maybe because I’m usually sober now when I’m watching!
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Jordan North.
Annoying tit!
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I don’t get how I hosted a radio show for 15 years and developed a very strong following only to have a new station manager and music director come along and deem the show “too cerebral”. It covered a massive spectrum of music and sure some of it had ambient elements but on any given week you’d hear bluegrass, drum and bass, footstep, indie, punk, acid house, latin jazz…etc etc etc.
The shows the station adores play old funk and re-edits which, like mixing only house records, is like shooting fish in a barrel as far as basic bitch behaviour goes. It’s left me really heartbroken and bitter at the way my legacy there was disrespected.
Has anybody got any NTS contacts? ie - somewhere that appreciates real music?
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Sorry to hear that.
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This is shocking to read
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