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Cheers Paul. Let's try The Abington by all means; especially since Mr. Moore could be there! Hhhmmh... since, in his estimation, Northampton is the centre of the universe (pretty unlikely from what I've seen so far!) it's safe to assume that he thinks The Abington is the centre of that centre! I'm all for karma; and his magic may rub off; so - yeh! What time's good for you? I'll try the Apple site re. accessing your films. My computer is telling me we have latest version of QTime, though. So I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'll persist and let you know. I used to read Reynolds in Melody Maker; Rip It Up... looks good. Get round to it one day! His book is a kind of sequel, in an implicit sense, to Savage's 'England's Dreaming', which is excellent I think. Though, I still believe that book of mine is a goer, these days I get more ideas for something dealing with the nature of using improvisation (as a technique) and copyleft (as an ideology) to create something progressive for now. Anyway... that's the argument behind what I call murmury, as exemplified in what I want my band, murmurists, to be. murmurists has a raft of semi-fictitious elements within it - being a play upon moves allowed by recourse to surrealism and black comedy: my two great loves. The blog has shards of that plot to make seeming nonsense read as sense anew. For this, there's a whole distended cosmology of one-liners, deliberate misreadings of philosophy, art, culture, etc., nods at Marvel, nods at sci-fi, nods at politics, social history, landscape, sex, identity politics, radical politics, political history, refs to improv, John Cage. It goes on, in one big soup of associations: a cartoon, a radioplay, a night out, a road movie, a piece of performance art. My aim is to pull this stuff together, as I have previously, and build a practice around it, collaborating with other like-minds up for a bit of art-intellectual fun. All food for conversation...Looking forward to Friday. Let me know time to suit please. Best wishes, Anthony PS: would you mind if I include our email correspondence on my blog, as I have with others? I would, of course, disguise your email if you'd prefer. No problem, though, if not up your street.----- Original Message ----- From: "*" <*@n-spaces.net>To: "Anthony Donovan" <a.donovan7@ntlworld.com>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 6:23 PM Subject: Re: hny> hi anthony>> i've read the reynolds book, and much enjoyed it. i think he's an > interesting journo and much needed in the current environment. but he > doesn't really pay much heed to prog in rip it up so i think you're safe > to get started on that book. if there was ever a year for it, i think it > could be 2006.>> hmm. can't quite get why you can't open the files. frustrating. have you > visited www.apple.com and downloaded and installed the latest version of > the quicktime player? that's all i can think of...>> is picturedrome ok for you? or somewhere nearer you? there's the abington > pub which i haven't been in for a while. pretty easy to walk over from > mine. good for the legs and you tend to bump into alan moore around that > time on a friday too.>> thanks> paul>> On Sunday, January 8, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Anthony Donovan wrote:>>> Cheers Paul. Welcome back; hope you had a good time. Sure you did! Hope, >> too, that tomorrow goes smoothly, or at least quickly...! Fall fan ... >> yeh, in part; not a knowledgeable or thorough fan, as such. But Mark E. >> Smith has an attitude I like... in part! I like his verve; if not his >> bile. He's said some great things. But, I can't claim to be an attentive >> follower. In terms of punk soothsayer, it was always Lydon for me. I have >> this idea for a book I was always going to write, about post-punk, and >> how punk and prog were not and are not inimical. A friend got me Simon >> Reynolds' Rip It Up..., saying '...stollen thunder?'. Maybe! From what >> I've read, Reynolds' is more knowledgeable about punk and its lineage >> than the more difficult and uncool world of prog; so, perhaps, it's a >> goer still! That's the preamble! The Fall, PIL, et al I would include in >> that postpunk soup; all good stuff. The attitude has stayed with me... Do >> It Youself etc. That's why I value M.E.S., Lydon, and their kind. They >> didn't play the game. Both poets, too.>>>> Seminar fodder, eh?!>>>> Unfortunately, I still cannot open your film files. Very annoying! I'm no >> expert in these matters at all, but I've tried everything I do know; still >> locked out. Advice please?!>>>> Friday would be fine; late afternoon great. Where shall we meet?>>>> Look forward to it.>>>> Best wishes, Anthony>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "*" <*@n-spaces.net>>> To: "Anthony Donovan" <a.donovan7@ntlworld.com>>> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:55 PM>> Subject: hny>>>>>>> hi anthony>>>>>> just a quick note to let you know i'm back, ready for all that's about >>> to hit me when i go back to work tomorrow...>>>>>> anyway, let's arrange to meet soon. what about friday? it's relatively >>> easy for me to make time to meet then, though late afternoon's always >>> best since i'd like to get a day's work under my belt etc.>>>>>> checking your site i noticed you're a fall fan. by all means download my >>> fall mix (made for shane in august for his radio show) at>>>>>> http://www.mixupload.com/index.php?act=mlite&CODE=playsong&s_id=4162>>>>>> quite late fall stuff plus my fall cover versions between some tracks >>> which i'm picking up on (as a method) in the commission i'm working on >>> for the wire. also, there's the mark e smith font which can be >>> downloaded via the official fall site at>>>>>> http://www.visi.com/fall/multimedia/computer.html>>>>>> *shameless plug over*>>>>>> cheers>>> paul>>>>>>>>>>>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message.>>> Checked by AVG Free Edition.>>> Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.15/223 - Release Date: >>> 06/01/2006>>>>>>>>> -- > No virus found in this incoming message.> Checked by AVG Free Edition.> Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.15/223 - Release Date: > 06/01/2006>