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this is decent. I think I like Morley. He can sound like an arse at times but at least he sounds like he's driven by a sincere love of music.

It's interesting, he knows what he's on about for sure and he obviously loves the subject matter but I find his writing style incredibly prohibitive - having paragraph long sentences doesn't illustrate your point better, it just muddies the water and means you end up having to read the damn thing two or three times, which is a chore. That's my typical complaint with him really, I don't have any particular beef with him except that I find him very difficult to read. Not even Wire ends up at that level generally, so it's always odd to read that in a national newspaper!

And his Darkstar interview piece I find frustrating, it feels as though he's using an awful lot of column inches to not say that much at all.

"North – which is set in a wild, uncanny and unsentimental north, where times goes on, as imagined over the years by those such as Joy Division, early Human League, that part of the Beatles that used the studio to fall off the edge of themselves and Jeff Noon, and it is also set in another opened up world that runs parallel with this north as imagined by the likes of Cluster, Robert Wyatt, Klaus Schulze, Dennis Bovell, Brian Eno, David Sylvian and Tortoise – is dubstep only if dubstep is actually at the very centre a matter of disturbance, and a form of avoidance. It's dubstep if dubstep is a continuing form of research into not just where dubstep goes next but where electronic pop itself goes, and what difference does it make. It might be better to label it gauze, or fallen, or displaced, or post-present, or post-absent, or a force moving in one direction and a force resisting that movement."

It's about Paul Morley. If I want an opinion on dubstep, I'd read someone who knew about and understood dubstep. HE talks a load of incoherant, self absorbed, pretentious, 'if you think long and hard enough about it you can make of it whatever you like' kinda shit.

Or I could just say that I'm not a fan.

what an amazing image.

I always see that fucking Simon price(?) guy from the Independent around Brighton with that twatty punk mohawk thing sticking out of his head. It always worries me that I see him at some of the same gigs as me.

*reads*

'She uses the name Ikonika. This makes her seem like something other, something from somewhere else, somewhere only a few know about, somewhere between the unknown and the unknowable, closer to the dislocated, unattached sound of her music, which is made up of interlinked bits of sound and noise, an impression of music, mating noises, knots and fractures, saliva and layers of skin, a film of lace netting, a crying in public, that seem always on the move, on the go, on the up, floating across a pre-planned pulse, a weird cool emptiness that sounds paranoid and penetrating, a disorientated series of sucks, shivers and cracks, of pressure points and ringing unrest, and she moves from place to place, country to country, from interworld to interworld, avoiding the sun, always on the way to somewhere else, and takes her music with her, a step apart from words, in the midst of a game, a fabricating that involves a sense of trespass and transgressing, fading in and out of a sinister evening, aiming for a sort of balance, and a way of sorting out what happens in her music before and after one moment and another.'

As funny as that is, he does it so often it's just so exhausting. It's like he's trolling you.

*reads some more*

Christ it gets worse! I'm not bothering, it's not worth the effort. That BBC program about why did England do so poorly at the world cup is on.