Virtue in Vice

[imomus]

Yeah, yeah, so the cynics will say that the reason Anne and I get 10 in Vice and Devendra Banhart only gets 8 is that I write for Vice and Dev doesn't. But I like to think it's because Dev's record could have been made in 1970, whereas ours really could only have been made now. It's the difference between pastiche and originality, between the timeless and the timely, between the classical and the contemporary. It matters, at least twenty percentile points-worth. Vice are right to point it out. Oh, they didn't. In that case, can I suggest that we got the two extra points for our unremitting European paganism, and that Dev lost his for the sickly Christian imagery. 'Rejoicing in the Hands' indeed! 'Young God Records' indeed! Harumph! Will Devendra's next album be called Ready for Rapture?



Amongst the Japanese people diverted here by Yahoo Japan the other day was an Osaka musician called Electron. I really love his mash-up of Eleanor Rigby.

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robin hood is running endlessly through my head.

[gorillabiscuit.livejournal.com]

i'm buying it, i just rented the Wicker Man and i want to return to that world.

do you know of any other musicians with livejournals?

the spaces between audience and musician are gone at last!

-tomas

[imomus.livejournal.com]

do you know of any other musicians with livejournals?

Just click my Friends tab. I think everybody on there is a musician.