ihatemusic

The best/most informed goes with interests. I've not read enough journals/magazines to compare contents of more than a few. Foreign Affairs is U.S. establishment press along the lines of New York Times. Lapham's Quarterly isn't monthly. "The founder and editor of Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis H. Lapham ...

for the record, I'm not a troll, if I am I'm not trying to be, but I am relatively uneducated, and very inexperienced in playing music. I just appreciate the discussion developing on these boards regardless of how unaware I probably am about what's actually being discussed, I try to navigate through...

By no means do I aim to disrespect anyone either, this is probably just a large accumulation of my uninformed self which has already been chipped away at a bit. I do detect from my own post a feeling of a gung-ho attitude which I've by no means solidly supported and I apologize for.

Yeah, you're right, I've not had the chance to talk much of anything through with anyone and was wrong about what I thought Obama said yesterday, I thought at the time I wrote my post that he was standing on words such as urging for a peaceful transition to a government order which reflects the will...

Since not one of my Facebook friends seems willing to discuss any recent information about Egypt and because my Mom (whom I live with) disagrees with me, I'll post my note here out of curiosity of how someone else might receive it. After more and more news watching and reading about Egypt the past d...

Derek Bailey & Han Bennink - ICP 004

..listening now

I also listened to Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides FOLIA when it came in the mail a few days ago, being somewhat of an introduction into this sort of music that I very much enjoyed.

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Egyptian protesters

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

If all of life is meant to be to improve on one's self, then all of life should be spent doing something...even the act of sleeping, as far as my comprehension goes, is doing something. There will always be some sort of movement, per say, if I'm doing anything right in "life". And it's when I take m...

Then again, the points being argued in this thread have been enlightening so thanks regardless of where it went

It seems the topic of discussion here became: What is ihatemusic(dot)com for?

"Please, no pathos, my friend! Anyway, did you observe that ritardando? An inspiration, eh? Yes, and now you tolerant man, let the sense of this ritardando touch you. Do you hear the basses? They stride like gods. And let this inspiration of old Handel penetrate your restless heart and give it patho...

Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet, 1990

social realism...the first Mike Leigh film I've seen and a good introduction to his work as I'll definitely be trying to see more of his films soon

Howl released Full Of Hell this year, and it's incredible

[quote="chris himself"]



Would be great if this weren't her car.

Top 50, without order, i'm not experienced enough to make a legitimate 100 list, but i'm looking forward to sifting through those of other users in the near future. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Elliott Smith Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (A double disc album, with the second disc consisting mainly of...