"It’s like a school assignment. I like that. Like, I wouldn’t make a short film, I wouldn’t find the time, and I wouldn’t know what to make it about. But if someone says, “You have to make a short film,’ and I’m like, ugh, what do I make it about? And then they’re like, “You have to pick 10 pictures and make a movie around them,” then I’m like, this rules! I do that for other people all the time, like the artists on DFA. I’ll assign them something, like, you have to use only this drum machine, just because I think it’s good to have some things already answered. If something’s already moving, you’re getting involved with a moving project rather than starting from a blank page. Sometimes to be given the parameters really helps."
— James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem
"But the Lord’s joke is a boat in the sea of sadness"
"But where retro truly reigns as the dominant sensibility and creative paradigm is in hipsterland, pop’s equivalent to highbrow. The very people who you would once have expected to produce (as artists) or champion (as consumers) the non-traditional and the groundbreaking - that’s the group who are most addicted to the past. In demographic terms, it’s the exact same cutting-edge class, but instead of being pioneers and innovators, they’ve switched roles to become curators and archivists. The avant-garde is now an arriere-garde."
— Simon Reynolds
you may have beautiful thoughts but you hide them
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