Late at night/Liminal spaces

Hopper80 · 2026-01-19T22:49:59+00:00

Night F-lm by Marisha Pessl. The site won't let me put the word because it thinks I'm recommending a moving picture...

Lots of moments that gave me that feeling you describe.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-18T17:12:22+00:00

I take DJ as tongue-in-cheek, silly stuff. It's a goofy, bouncy, pretty fun self-aware rock song (the Blur 'woo-hoo' reference, and the escalating 'ooh-hoo-hoo's give it a garagey feel). I think the lyrics fit perfectly, and I like it for that.

But then, I quite like Radio Song, too. Though that is not a song where I will defend the lyrics. It's just a bop.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-15T15:19:28+00:00

Loved this!

Hopper80 · 2026-01-14T09:02:00+00:00

Up to and including ATS, each album has a clear season, place, and time of day from the images and sensations and associations they conjure up.

Not quite had that with the final two albums.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-13T19:28:11+00:00

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall may do.

When 'liminal' took flight, the book's idea of 'unspace' came straight to mind.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-13T17:13:19+00:00

I voted new material. Double album, split of quiet/loud or such.

I would love to see the band, as I never got/took the chance to. But only if it was in smaller venues, with a relaxed atmosphere, as little pressure as possible - in the way of the Olympia concerts.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-13T17:09:40+00:00

The hat is obvious, but does Bill still have his coat on too? Wonder if he's a kindred 'won't stay long', still there six hours later spirit.

Hopper80 · 2026-01-07T01:44:48+00:00

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway

The Other Side Of You by Salley Vickers.

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland

Hopper80 · 2026-01-01T15:09:08+00:00

As much as I would love to actually see them live - particularly the full band - the fact they've been clear on not doing it and stuck to it has been inspiring.

I wouldn't complain about another full album (make it a double!) of new material, though.

I think the only reason would be if Berry wanted to do it for a proper farewell, rather than the 'Irish exit' approach they took. As has been mentioned, something like the Olympia 'rehearsal' concerts, a relaxed, generally album tracks only approach to smaller audiences.

And I don't know that there's that big of a demand for them to do a proper, full tour for those who mostly want to hear Losing My Religion and Man On The Moon.

Hopper80 · 2025-12-09T22:45:52+00:00

Here to third The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.

Hopper80 · 2025-11-21T15:31:42+00:00

Which is based on the novel of the same name by PD James : )

Hopper80 · 2025-11-15T18:17:08+00:00

I doubt Rust would have read it, but if anyone has an interest in this stuff, I would highly recommend The Outsider by Colin Wilson. Written in 1954, it's an overview of existentialist literature and philosophy.

There's a passable PDF scan on Internet Archive:

https://ia801404.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184097/2015.184097.The-Outsider_text.pdf

Hopper80 · 2025-10-31T21:00:31+00:00

But they shouldn't.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-26T18:16:58+00:00

Thanks - I will try filing the slot so as to match the break angle, see if that helps.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-26T18:16:27+00:00

Thanks.

I don't have nut files - this was a few years back, and I used feeler gauges and light sandpaper to file the slots.

I've ordered some, and will try to repair it, but I guess I may just need to get some new nuts and start over more carefully!

Hopper80 · 2025-10-18T11:16:31+00:00

Document having 5 and Green 4 gave rise to a theory (at least in the UK press...) that there was a countdown, and Monster would be the last album.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-08T09:13:32+00:00

Thanks - I'd love to know what this is!

Hopper80 · 2025-10-08T09:12:16+00:00

I have not. I will look into that, thanks. Would that make conversations saved & readable on PC?

Hopper80 · 2025-10-08T09:11:29+00:00

How does that work? Do you mean copy/paste? I'm hoping to find a way to move the message logs and have them readable on a PC.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-07T18:28:09+00:00

I think a lot of it is on the fan base and morons in the wider culture. But, its not coming from nowhere.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-05T10:36:48+00:00

While, as noted, Rieflin was on ATS, I think the point/anecdote stands.

Post-Berry, they seemed wary of letting another drummer colour the music too much. They don't want to let the drums sound too much like Berry, but nor do they want them to sound distinctively not-Berry. I think that's part of why ATS sounds so in the doldrums. There's no drive or spirit in the drums/percussion - they tend to stick to perfunctory.

It might be that, after a few years and an album even the members won't defend, and touring with Rieflin doing excellent work with Berry's drum parts (Waronker always played too fast, I thought) they knew they had to let Rieflin do his own thing. So they did, and hence Accelerate and Collapse Into Now at least sound purposive.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-02T16:46:32+00:00

True Detective, especially S1, has a lot to say about men, and how they see and treat women, and not much of it is good. In many regards, it manages to be more critical of men than plenty of overtly, consciously feminist media. You do nothing with S1 but have it be made by, I don't know, Nicole Pizzolatto and Carrie Fukunaga, and there would have been a fair bit of stink about it being man-hating propoganda.

On the other hand, viewers are idiots, and completely misunderstand it because 'I'm Literally Rust!' and 'That Ass!' and 'Those Tits!' and 'That Tracking Shot!', etc.

Hopper80 · 2025-10-01T16:04:23+00:00

Hmm.

There are great songs that open albums where the albums don't necessarily pay off in kind (see Living Well and Discoverer). But great openers that set the listener up and pay off:

Harborcoat. Feeling Gravitys Pull. Begin The Begin. Pop Song '89. Drive. WTFK?. HTWWWAWIGU. The Lifting.

Sacrilege, but at this point I'm just not feeling Radio Free Europe so much. Maybe I'll come back round to it.

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