In June 2010, just after the Blow Parade was put to bed, I produced some new station imaging for triple j – one hundred stings, sweepers and IDs for announcers to play between tracks. The music is all original stuff, created in the ABC studios with a band made up of Jamie and Jerry from Bluejuice (bass and keys) Mick from Kid Confucious (drums) and Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall (guitar). The band improvised over loops I’d created earlier – some of them (like the recording of the wind-up penguin from The Penguin Cup) were kept, most of them disappeared. The recorded results were further looped and cut-up and generally messed about with, vocals came courtesy of Xannon Shirley (The Tongue), Shantan Ichiban, Brendan Maclean, Ange Lavoipierre (triple j newsreader), Darren Scarce, Marianne Mettes and some year ten students from Manly High School.
There’s no samples in the music, but some of the voices were taken from weird old records found in the ABC library, or given to me by friends. The word ‘music’ comes from a record of a British actor reading poems by Keats (“fled is that music…”), and the letters of the alphabet are from a Morse Code tutorial LP. There’s a few rock star appearances in there too – the phrase ‘dirty and direct’ comes from the same Peaches interview featured in Acceptable in the 80s, ‘this is what we want’ is from Mel and Charlie’s chat with Interpol in 2003, and that’s Julian Casablancas asking you to ‘come to my show’.
"Churches once held sacred are now but heaps of dust and ashes; and yet we have our minds set on the desire of gain. We live as though we were going to die tomorrow; yet we build as though we were going to live always in this world. Our walls shine with gold, our celings also... yet Christ dies before our doors naked and hungry in the person of his poor."
"Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure of beauty is curious. It aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds. Hence it tends toward a judgement of its own validity. And like every other rational judgement, this one makes implicit appeal to the community of rational beings. This is what Kant meant when he said that, in the judgement of taste, I am 'a suitor for agreement', expressing my judgement not as a private opinion but as a binding verdict that would be agreed upon by all."
roger scruton | immanuel kant | jack black | high fidelity
"Few people would fall in love had they never heard of love. Passion and expression are not really seperable. Passion comes to birth in that powerful impetus of the mind which also brings language into existence. So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends toward self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.
pre-raphaelites | denis de rougement | love | passion | beata beatrix
"When I want to make a statue of a beautiful woman, I have a great number of them undress; all offer both beautiful parts and badly shaped parts; I take from each what is beautiful."
'When faced with the myth, the questions to ask are not about women’s faces and bodies but about the power relations of the situation. Who is this serving? Who says? Who profits? What is the context?
