I have two moods when I’m out with people that I don’t know that well. Mood One: Absolute silence and discomfort. Mood Two: Aggressive, over-the-top and vulgar. See if you can guess which one I was in last night? [clue]
Rollcall: Luke, Meg, Jen, Katy, Matt, Catherine, Dave, Kylie, Dan, Mo. Thanks to Meg for the gallery.
Important news for all right-thinking people:
THE REAL DEALS
THE BREEDERS played a secret show in LOS ANGELES last night (December 12), the first time KIM and KELLEY DEAL had played together in over six years, NME.COM can exclusively reveal. Following the show Kim Deal explained to NME.COM that she and sister Kelley had moved to Los Angeles midway through 2000. She also revealed that they were planning to go into the studio in early 2001 with Steve Albini to begin recording a third Breeders album.
There’s an extremely interesting article [“Escribitionists”: Web Diaries and Self-Representation] on weblogs and subjectivity that I read this afternoon which has me thinking once more about the nature of this medium that we call blog. I’m not going to go into my thoughts on the matter immediately, because I want people to read it before I have my say. I’ll amend this post later with my full thoughts. [via metafilter]
Blue Posts (1): Despite my almost total exhaustion (a direct result of a combination of going for a drink with David, Matt, Jen and Dean last night, waking up at 3am convinced that someone had climbed up the scaffolding and was trying to break into my flat and having to get up at 7am in order to go to the loo before the builders turned it off for twelve hours) and almost total penury (DVDs, credit card bills [New York] and exhorbitant phone bills), I will still be attending the Blue Posts extended weblogging pub crawl this evening. See you there?
Derek Powazek expresses his anger at Neale‘s AmIKottkeOrNot site. Then he starts posting to the Discussion part of Neale’s weblog (8.12.00).
Jason doesn’t seem that phased by the whole thing, and frankly I don’t blame him – it seems to me that the whole enterprise is flattering at best and slighty cynical at worst – it certainly doesn’t seem to be personally offensive to anyone concerned. One thing is clear from this, however. Derek probably would not respond well to a weblogger doing a parody “Powazek, the Web Avenger” site.
I don’t know how many times I have to tell people that at the heart of Buffy is a rigorous and well developed cosmological and philosophical system that (of course) does not leave huge inconsistencies like “Are all Vampires naturally evil and should they all be killed?” vs “Oh, we like Spike”. For clarification on this, and many other pertinent issues to the budding slayerphile, the “Powers That Be” created: All Things Philosophical On Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
[We interrupt the extended Buffy marathon on plasticbag.org for a brief Disturbing Search Request]
I’m getting a little frustrated with the way that Buffy and Angel videos and DVDs are being released. So I own all the box-sets. I’ll come out and say that from the beginning. It’s important that you know that. But now they are coming out on DVD too. Clearly I’d rather own the DVD box-sets.
But I’m not prepared to wait for them to come out – I mean amazon.co.uk has Season Four Box Set 2 up there just waiting to be pre-ordered (on sale March). But on DVD? No. In fact only the first season is available on DVD at all. And that only came out a couple of weeks ago. What’s a boy to do?
OK. Fuck it. In the spirit of Des Esseintes I shall give in to my darkest lusts and declare today to be officially Buffy day at Plasticbag Towers.
I’m not obsessed. Really I’m not. But then I’m not sure it is possible to be obsessed about Buffy. You know – just like it’s not possible to be arachnophobic, because a phobia is an irrational fear and everyone knows that spiders are malevolent and will kill you if they get half a chance.
So Channel Four have received eighty complaints about the Buffy spin-off Angel. These complaints have been upheld by the ITC. And Channel Four are apparently surprised. Standard English snobbery comes into action once more – if it’s got vampires in it, then it’s “cult” and suitable for teenagers only. We’ll put it on at 6pm. That’s three hours before it’s on TV in America, where it is very much a post-watershed show. It’s insulting, frankly.
