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Good job, but it would be interesting to ask her where she heard the tapping in the Lightning Bolt and if she was sober when she heard it. :)

Maybe you could have avoided the invective for the Joy Division, maybe you could have done a social invective, as was typical of the Division... let's face it, they are the product of unemployment, of no future, of the looming presence of Thatcher. An Ideals for Living, any one, rather than the nothingness of post-modern society. I believe it's pointless to vote for these compilations... they aren't albums, they are heterogeneous blends... sure Still, like Substance, are beautiful... but I can't listen to them as I would to any other album.

Beautiful page... my Huskers end with Flip Your Wing and start with Metal Circus. Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse don't excite me. There's a bootleg of one of their concerts from '85 circulating online, and it's a show... what years and what a band. Well done!

For me, true Hardcore ends in '83. In '83, those who were able to evolve did so... take Husker Du, Black Flag, Bad Brains. One anecdote about the lack of ideas from the majority: in '83, when My War was recorded, Ginn ran out of money to press it... they could have gone on tour, made money from live shows, and pressed My War... but they didn't because they were convinced that everyone would copy them since it had already happened... as soon as Cadena switched to guitar and Black Flag went to a two-guitar lineup, everyone did it, including Minor Threat. Change happens spontaneously; not changing, to me, seems like a sign of either lack of ideas or an adherence to an orthodoxy of nothingness that I just can't comprehend. That said, this "Start Today" is genuinely Hardcore... I recommend giving it another listen; I'm convinced it won't disappoint you... especially because it has that melodic vein that I think you'll really like... but who knows :) Anyway, I feel the influence of Bad Brains heavily, maybe it's just my impression... but I feel it.

crazy is crazy :)

Too leaning towards the vulgar? But have you read the book? Did you read the part where Bandini masturbates in the closet, surrounded by cut-out photos of various models from magazines? Vulgar this Fante, try writing him a protest email.

okei, kill it :) regarding contemporary literature, I am absolutely ignorant and every approach I take convinces me more and more to just despise it. Also worth mentioning is the preface of La strada per Los Angeles written by Sandro Veronesi, who I don't know who he is or what he wants, but the preface is nice, nice. The one for Chiedi alla polvere is written by Baricco and it's chilling, getting lost in bar chatter about how much money a writer can make and how much Fante desired that money... sad character Baricco. But wouldn't it have been better to leave Bukowski's? Because even though he’s no genius, at least Fante felt it in his gut? Anyway, I haven't finished with Fante yet ;)

Perfect, the only way to review McLusky who are, perhaps, the best rock and roll band of this decade.

reduce is not ugly. it’s stupid, and I’m not saying this because I’m indignant about Ferretti's current position... also because you only need to look at what he was saying twenty years ago to sense this transformation. he's always been like this; it’s the habitat that has changed. anyway, I wouldn’t recommend reduce as reading even to my worst enemy. moreover, it’s poorly written. writing lyrics, beautiful lyrics like Ferretti’s, is one thing, but delving into prose is a whole different ball game. literature is for serious people.

of course, I don't like the idea of Mishima as a conservative. It diminishes him. It would be more appropriate to define him, if one must define him, as a reactionary... someone who commits suicide in protest against the modernity that invades and violates his nation cannot be a conservative... an aesthete, gay, who seeks to make art of his body cannot be a conservative, and the two terms, conservative and reactionary, while they may sometimes overlap, certainly do not coincide. As far as I'm concerned, Ferretti hasn't changed... he is the same as he was then. It is the world that has changed... he was a situationist, he remains a situationist. of course, always reasoning through the absurd.