A monthly rant on the tepid traits and tawdry interactions of the music business with its rabidly sycophantic ally, the music media. This month Garry Mulholland on the girl-powered death throes of feminism
The British media is full of shit. Hell, its our raison d’etre. But, every now and again, an outstanding piece of shit happens along that stinks so bad, it redefines the entire arena of shitness.
Some of you may have seen The Observer Magazine, dated July 2nd 2006. If so, you may well have been bemused, amazed and downright disgusted by their cover ‘story’. Subtitled ‘An extraordinary and moving story of one woman’s longing to start a family’, it featured an anonymous Sloane bemoaning her failure to ‘have it all’. She had money, top career, tastefully expensive home, health, her own teeth, floppy blonde hair, and the means to spend years in endless therapy and what the navel-gazing bourgeois like to call ‘self-actualisation’. Yes, this woman had been to paradise, but she’d never been to her. (more…)
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Beatmag’s regular technical columnist James Spectrum (AKA Jari Salo of Pepe Deluxe) talks ‘telecommunications’…
When preparing a historical phrase, it’s usually a good idea to come up with stuff that’s intelligible to at least some extent. People might remember Philipp Reis as the silver medallist of telephone inventors had he stated something along the lines “A small sentence for man … etc.” or “I just called to say I love you”. But instead poor Phillip’s historic first telephone words were “Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat”, roughly translating as “The horse eats no cucumber salad”. On the other hand, while he might not be that famous, his immortal phrase does make him a hero of a very chosen few, naturally including the team Deluxé. (more…)
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August 2006
SC-FI OF THE LAMBS
Author Thomas Harris has announced plans for the latest chapter in the saga of his cannibal aesthete creation Dr Hannibal Lecter. After the novel and film success of ‘Silence Of The Lambs’, ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Red Dragon’ (the latter filmed twice), the next book and cinema release will coincide in Autumn 2007. Harris has said that he has been heavily influenced by the ‘Friday The Thirteenth’ sequel ‘Jason X’ where psychopathic killer Jason Vorhees is transported into space many centuries hence. (more…)
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