Lux Aeterna

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer: an audience with geek royalty

Musician Amanda Palmer and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman met, fell in love, toured and have now made an album. The misfit heroes of the alt scene share their lives with millions of Twitter fans. What's public and what's off-limits? Hermione Hoby joins them for gluten-free crackers and a chat

yall ready for some lux aeterna

*THUNDERCRACK*

in every way, shape and form!

^^^the new "Lux Aeterna!"

don't be a tease

*stands upright and salutes* On duty SAH

mondegreen madness

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Ivan Okhlobystin, a popular star with fiercely conservative views, told an audience in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk that all homosexuals should be burned alive. According to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, in comments translated by the Hollywood Reporter, Okhlobystin also compared homosexuality with fascism.

"I would put all the gays alive into an oven," the one-time Orthodox priest has been quoted as saying. "This is Sodom and Gomorrah! As a religious person, I cannot be indifferent about it because it is a real threat to my children!"

Okhlobystin later tweeted to confirm his comments. "The meaning was rendered correctly," he said.

footballers of the world take note

Okhlobystin belongs in Siberia.

gonna definitely raise this point over dinner tomorrow

livestream?

Today, all of the machines dedicated to mining Bitcoin have a computing power about 4,500 times the capacity of the United States government’s mightiest supercomputer, the IBM Sequoia, according to calculations done by Michael B. Taylor, a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Can I sub Joost van der Westhuizen in for Fernando Ricksen in some creepy one-of-their-MND-prognoses-is-worse-than-the-other tactic?

― ailsa, Friday, 3 January 2014 18:01 (4 days ago)

first part reads like a subjuctevisten post!

The "bands are unfashionable" line is a misleading assertion. Really, the story is: the big record labels cannot afford to sign and develop bands. Or, rather: many bands simply cannot survive because everyone is stealing their music for free. Yes, stealing. So labels don't bother with them any more.

Tellingly, as a music journalist the big thing I've noticed this past year is the sheer number of bands I've interviewed during their lunch breaks while working jobs at, say, the local council or in the admin office of universities. These are bands with several albums out, who tour America on their holidays. Once we'd have chatted for hours – now interviews are squeezed between sandwiches and that meeting with Sandra in Accounts.

But great bands still exist, so why does the list not include Nottingham quartet Baby Godzilla, currently the most exciting new heavy band in the country, or unhinged rickets-stricken Dickensian urchins Fat White Family? Why no head-bending skronk jazzers Melt Yourself Down? Because all are too volatile and fringe for an industry-backed poll that relies on fiscal success to keep its job. Solo artists are easier to manage and cheaper to sustain.

― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 December 2013 01:26 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bands

― a beef supreme (dog latin), Monday, 9 December 2013 10:17 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which black/woman should be in the list and isn't you think?

― nostormo, Saturday, 18 January 2014 22:15

not for me to say who 'should' be in a list created by polling a large number of people - this is more about opportunity than anything else, about who makes the movies in the first place. there are way, way fewer female and black directors to start off with, at least making widely-distributed films

― lovely cuddly fluffy dope (imago), Saturday, January 18, 2014 2:24 PM (3 minutes ago)

just post that whole thread here & be done

haha

this isn't necessarily good but i don't feel any particular urge to take a stand against it

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:28 PM (1 minute ago)

Arctic Monkeys!? Arcade Fire!?

*Fonzie-jumping-over-shark.gif*

― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:52 AM (54 seconds ago)

The empty buildings include a row of 10 mansions worth £73m which have stood largely unused since they were bought between 1989 and 1993, it is believed on behalf of members of the Saudi royal family.

Exclusive access to now derelict properties has revealed that their condition is so poor in some cases that water streams down ballroom walls, ferns grow out of floors strewn with rubble from collapsed ceilings, and pigeon and owl skeletons lie scattered across rotting carpets.

EZ

JUST GOT MY HORSEPOWER 4BEAT YARDCORE NEW FLESH REMIX OF STICK'N'MOVE IN THE MAIL

BUT TRUST ME ALL THESE PRODUCERS HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO

IF U LOOK AT D&B WHERE MANS LIKE DIGITAL, SPIRIT, TOTAL SCIENCE, PENNY BLACK CREW ETC HAVE BEEN SPECIALISING PON THESE THINGS FOR THE LAST DECADE, THE DUBWISE D&B SIDE IS SIMPLY LIGHTYEARS AHEAD OF THIS CREW

HOW MANY PROPER "DUBSTEP" RELEASES HAVE THERE ACTUALLY BEEN? LESS THAN 20?

YOUR "BEST LABEL IN DA GALAXY" TEMPA ONLY HAS 6 12"S UNDER ITS BELT .. I AINT GONNA FADE THEM COS I GOT 3 OF THEIR RELEASES + THEYRE HEAVY .. BUT COME ON .. AT THE MOMENT THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL BUT I THINK ITS 90% HYPE AND 10% ACTUAL TUNES

SAW AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN DIGITAL.. SAID HES BEEN MAKIN A BIT OF 139 BPM STUFF.. TRUST ME THIS IS THE MAN BEHIND SOME OF THE SICKEST DUB+BASS TUNES IN JUNGLE HISTORY.. DEADLINE, SPACEFUNK, SKYLINE, WATERHOUSE DUB, GATEMAN, RAS78.. IF HE COMES THRU AND RELEASES TUNES THEN WATCH OUT.. BIG TINGS AGWARN

BUT THE PRODUCTION STANDARD + CONSISTENCY JUST AINT THERE YET WITHIN THE HANDFUL OF PRODUCERS ALREADY IN THERE

EZ

― HUNTA-D, Friday, 5 July 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AND FINNEY I DONT WANNA HEAR A PEEP OUTA YOU COS U RATE APHRODITE AND THAT JUST SHOWS U FOR DA CHICHI U ARE. U WAN COME TEST ILL DICE U UP FASS. TRUS

― HUNTA-D, Friday, 5 July 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WHA BLO WIT CHICHI FASSYMON TALKIN BOUT YARDA MAN

NONE U FASS KNO NUFFIN BOUT THE YARDCORE SOUND

U KNO NUFFIN TILL U HEARD EZ SMASHIN IT IN FLESH AND B-LIVE ROLLIN KRIS OVER A 4BEAT LIK WIT X AMOUNT A CRACKMAN YARDIES MASHIN UP INSIDE THE ARENA

ALLOW DIS FORUM

― HUNTA-D, Thursday, 1 August 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh do shut up.

― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

regards,

HUNTA-D

HOW MANY PROPER "DUBSTEP" RELEASES HAVE THERE ACTUALLY BEEN? LESS THAN 20?

- whiney g. whinegarten, 2011

Or maybe I don't give a shit that every hipster in Brooklyn is involved with the release in some way.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:28 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My perfect album, which if call "Kid Amnesiac":

Everything in its right place
Pyramid song
National anthem
You and whose army
How to disappear
Optimistic
In limbo
Idioteque
Dollars and sense
Morning bell
Like spinning plates
Life in a glass house

― LimbsKing, Friday, 14 February 2014 23:22 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have always wanted to vote Radiohead in a poll.

― LimbsKing, Monday, February 10, 2014 7:37 AM (1 week ago)

5 months pass...

"If You Wanna" is pretty good. The rest of this album is decent, but this is the standout for me.

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:57 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it me, or is there a big Morrissey thing going on with the vocals?

― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:04 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4 months pass...

warmed up considerably to the first album. at least 5-6 very good songs on this.

― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 February 2014 22:00 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think they're an underrated group. I think Justin's a very sharp songwriter, who knows exactly where he and they are going. Heard from several people connected with the group that he insisted on leaving several songs off the second album that everyone else thought were the best, because he insisted they weren't Vaccines songs. And I'm inclined to credit that to a clear eyed view of his audience than blind stupidity.

Also … he is incredibly nice. He recently went to my friend's house – whom he'd never met – to record some guitar parts for an album, because I emailed and asked him to. I'm not his best mate or anything - have met him three times. That struck me as an act of staggering decency.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:17 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not gonna win any awards for originality, but it's got a lot of what I look for in music: a combination of fun and melancholia set to jangles and memorable tunes.

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 22:06 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The 50 Most NYC Albums Ever (according to The Village Voice) [Started by Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative) in February 2014, last updated 1 minute ago by Set the Ctrl-Alt-Del for the heart of the sun (SlimAndSlam) on I Love Music] 11 new answers

dealt w/

If you've got issues with management in SF, I can't imagine Miami seems like a greener pastures.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:42 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?

― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:45 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for an unbroken period of 40 consecutive years, the miami dolphins have been the NFL's best run organization, and most consistently successful franchise.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:46 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more like shit pastures

― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 21 February 2014 22:48 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It always kind of weirds me out when I think about how completely humans have so completely and radically changed their environment in only a couple of thousand years. These huge cities used to be forests full of wild animals for millions of years before we decided that civilization was the way to go.

― silverfish, Friday, 28 February 2014 17:53 (Yesterday)

silverfish otm

209 (number)
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← 208 209 210 →
← 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 →
List of numbers — Integers
← 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 →
Cardinal two hundred and nine
Ordinal 209th
(two hundred and ninth)
Factorization 11 · 19
Roman numeral CCIX
Binary 110100012
Ternary 212023
Quaternary 31014
Quinary 13145
Senary 5456
Octal 3218
Duodecimal 15512
Hexadecimal D116
Vigesimal A920
Base 36 5T36

209 is the natural number following 208 and preceding 210. It is written as "two hundred and nine".

this seems exactly to appeal to foreigners who buy into the aggresively parochial / prole art threat wing of uk eighties nineties indie

would usually expect to hate anything described as 'punk fucking rock' but even so, this isn't good

there is an aesthetics of resistance here though exemplified by the person in the trackies with the can of spesh or supermarket vodka lingering in the background, the sort of performative grottiness and debased nihilism that limns its way through most of the other culture heroes namechecked itt, though not as tryhard-commonplace as this lot

shouty bloke reminds me a bit of mid 00s fall copyists prinzhorn dance school who i will sort of rep for

this seems to be getting warm notices due to the bleeding out of the whitebread male provincial fucked off sensibility in current uk pop

― Thanks in anticipation of your opinions (nakhchivan), Thursday, March 6, 2014 5:45 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

edit the ip you fucking worthless mentally defective fuckboy

good looking out, kid.

need i remind you nakhchivan that the mods are all volunteers, and without their hard work this message board we love so much simply wouldn't exist. next time you think about thanking a veteran, thank a mod instead.

I don't really get this... thought people stopped caring about backpack rappers like 10 years ago?? Why is Thirstin Moore getting so much press in 2014????

― 龜, Saturday, 8 March 2014 09:17 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the end of someone's life is always sad, no?

― espring (amateurist), Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:43 PM (3 hours ago)

Is there a thread where the IL Xor user posits the true identity of another the IL Xor user?

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 23 January 2014 20:19 (1 month ago)

Illinois Xor

Rupert Charles Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley, TD, FCA[1] (born 30 June 1957), is a British hereditary peer, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and retired Territorial Army officer.

Ponsonby was educated at Eton College, an independent school for boys in the town of Eton (near Windsor) in Berkshire.

Shit, sorry if I offended anyone. Hetero male here. She's super cute. That isn't a bad thing in the an industry based on selling image.

― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, March 21, 2014 1:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Richard Dawkins was No 1. Now he’s off the list of the world’s best thinkers

By Jonathan Derbyshire, The Guardian

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