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On General, Music

by tim @ 6/9/2006 9:46 pm

Things which aren’t exactly theses, but which nevertheless you should write. I don’t imagine my co-editors at Critical Sense are familiar with the works of Girls@Play [MP3], but I’m hoping I’ll be able to persuade them to title an issue “‘He watches TV, I read my books’: Why Academics Observe Pop Culture.” Although, we’ve just got a new computer and we can finally print háÄ?eks, so maybe we should do a Žižek special issue. We could accept one article and print it four times.

Meanwhile, in honor of Daphne and Celeste’s “Never Been to Memphis” [MP3], someone should write an attack on the Democrats’ turn to “values” called “Eww, we’re in Kansas,” while somebody else (possibly me) should write a history of the relationship between the DIY protest movement (Earth First!, Reclaim the Streets, etc) and the traditional left called “Marching in Line, What Are You, Sheep? Do You Need to be Told How to Move to the Beat?”

And “Star Club” [MP3] is obviously one of the finest records ever recorded.

 

5 comments

  1. it’s incredibly hard to google “girls@play” and get anything meaningful…

    Comment by geo @ 6/13/2006 7:45 am

  2. That Zizek joke is funny. If someone made a Zizek generator it’d be great to run off fake special issues. Actually he’s probably already got one. Someone should write a piece on finding coded messages in Zizek’s stuff based on what gets repeated and in what order.

    Comment by Nate @ 6/13/2006 9:24 am

  3. I guess Girls@Play are just slightly too old to have a Wikipedia entry; and they only released two singles, so their Internet presence was probably not that big even at the height of their fame. They did support Boney M at “Party in the Park” in Cambridge about five years ago, though.

    I wonder if there’s any room for a kind of kabbalistic Žižek scholarship - attempting to reassemble all his writings in different configurations to produce the secret name of Lacan, or something.

    Comment by tim @ 6/13/2006 9:33 pm

  4. who is boney m? i bought a record of his in spain when i lived there, and have since used his name as indicating the crazy records that exist in the world…

    Comment by geo @ 6/14/2006 7:56 am

  5. If you have to ask, you’ll never know. Well, you could look on Wikipedia, but I don’t think that really conveys the cultural weight of Boney M. “Oh, those Russians.”

    Comment by Tim @ 6/14/2006 9:51 pm

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