Money
Isn’t everything, but it does make life rather boring when you don’t have any.
October 2010
16 posts
“One of the things that made John Peel so valuable was that he had decades of archived material and sessions of bands that had played live and were only ever heard on the John Peel show. His work ethic was absolutely incredible. He made it a point of pride to listen to every record that anyone sent him. He would listen literally to dozens of records a day. He said something once that I thought was really profound: He said that no one would bother making a record and sending it to him if he thought it was shitty. Obviously, to the people making those records, they are important. If he doesn’t get it as a listener, if he didn’t like it in some way, that’s his fault, not the fault of the people who did something important to them. That’s a pretty amazing, humble insight for someone like him to have. A lot of radio professionals kind of feel like they know the game, they know what’s good. His way of looking at it was much more selfless: there was this culture of bands creating music and he was getting to audition some of it. Then he could spread it out to the rest of the world if it struck his fancy. Just because he didn’t like something didn’t mean it was bad. He was just deaf to it.”
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It’s odd that Steve Albini would choose to bless us with some dead-on real talk in GQ, but I’ll take it. (via douglaswolk)
I genuinely remember crying a bit when he passed. I listened to every show I could and fuck did he play some awful records, but he also introduced me to so many bands that I would never have heard otherwise. An actual hero.
Wahoo! Caned a 20 miler!
Which is good because I’ve not ridden regularly in over 2 months. But yes, went to Newcastle, had a catch up with Amy at the Sheep, did some BRILLIANT traffic bombing and rode back with cramp in both legs!!!
It’s just nice to be out of the house…
September 2010
44 posts
Ah of course you'd have something like that in the UK. Sigh, one day I'll visit and study awesome European design. Lucky butt.
Guess I am pretty lucky! And same goes for America, I’d love to visit! One day….
