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http://www.elidor.freeserve.co.uk has been updated for the first time since 18th May 2001.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jay-Z piece is great (even though I totally disagree), as is the Skylarking one.

I'll have to read the whole update more seriously later.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:24 (twenty-three years ago)

agh yellow is hard to read

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

oh wow super - 1996.

― jillian (jillian), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oddly enough I've just been reading some books by Genovese, mainly The Southern Front, and his impassioned defense of Southern Conservatism against northern liberal technocrats who immediately associate it with race reaction reminds me of you somehow robin. Have you read him? I think you'd like him.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll try to ignore Jillian's comment; let words overpower image. and besides the old red-on-black - now only surviving in a few isolated places on the site - was far worse, surely? for a lot of people round here, the old-school plainness of the current site will be a relief after the failed amateur aesthetic adventure (for that's what it was; the typical blogger's response to red-on-black was to write "eye-bleeding colour scheme" with a thinly-veiled sarcasm) of the old one.

Sterling, your first point is exactly the sort of response I wanted! As for the Genovese comment - are you getting at the rural resettlement stuff etc being presented ***in the same context*** as the Timbaland/Brandy/Jay-Z etc etc? Because I don't think the UK has the sort of divide the US has on this front but, yes, I can see the analogy. Because I am "urban" pop-culturally but not personally or geographically I sometimes find myself caught in the crossfire, but I always know that both extremes are actually firing blanks. Somehow I doubt whether I could sustain the same position in the US and feel so culturally and personally safe. I really should read what you suggest ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i am very glad this is back robin.

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:56 (twenty-three years ago)

At last! Pour on the intellectual justifications for Brandy! That album *is* amazing. Okay she's a bit of a dullard elle-meme, but the record is like a document from our R''n''B alien overlords indicating what the future sounds like... I remember noticing a sly reference to 'what about us?' in a some A+R guy at matadoreurope.com's list of best 2002 records and thinking how rare it is to hear a good word for Jerkin's output from the indie crowd. Quantize is dead ! Long live j-j-j-jerkins! ;-)

― Lex, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, Gareth. It feels very good.

I don't think I know you, Lex. Hmmm ... a Steeleye Span reference from someone who loves the Brandy album. Why am I thinking this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship :) ?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

or in other words, you are the closest Elidor has to a target audience (not that I like that phrase or that concept)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha I thought this was going to be about MBV)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I would have long since made you aware of that, Dan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Genovese is a historian of the slave south & a good one but over the course of his career is ideology transformed rather dramatically (although his historical insights only deepened). He is apropos of nothing, musically (probably has a high-cult adoration for Handel et al. just as a guess) but is v. thoughtful historical issues in the u.s. which seem to have roughhewn parallels to yr. political project.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

a Steeleye Span reference from someone who loves the Brandy album. ??? ;-) if so, an unwitting one! although I am now rocking back in my chair to "Countdown to Ecstasy" so you were nearly there...

― Lex (Lex), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rocket Cottage" was a Steeleye Span album in 1976 ... where did you get the title from, Lex? I know it was one of the suggested band names on Go-Kart Mozart's "Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture".

Thanks, Sterling. I keep thinking of a comment that one of the other contributors to my site made on a newsgroup once; asked whether he was a farmer or a "metropolitan business type" he just said "I'm a hybrid" (which is correct; he has fingers in many pies). I find it hard to imagine a lot of people saying that in such a matter-of-fact way in many sectors of the US ... though, as ever, I could be wrong.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

why won't my browser let me look at your site, Robin? Grrr.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Great stuff Robin. The Sweet piece is fabulous - you say everything that needs to be said! I also enjoyed 'Skylarking' - I need to listen to the album again now.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rocket Cottage" was a Steeleye Span album in 1976 ... where did you get the title from, Lex? I know it was one of the suggested band names on Go-Kart Mozart's "Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture".

Ah, thought it might be. The choice was indeed the result of swapping ISP's and a close reading of the Go-Kart Mozart liner notes all in the same week. Still... better than candidabriggsandhertroublesdownthere@blueyonder.co.uk n'est-ce pas?
;-)

Lex

― Lex (Lex), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Were you named after the Dawn song or John Betjeman's daughter, Lex?

Charlie - is my site working for you at the moment?

Thanks again, Dr C.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 8 February 2003 06:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Were you named after the Dawn song or John Betjeman's daughter, Lex?

no. its a shortening of the English formulation of my Russian name, Sasha. ;-)

― Lex (Lex), Saturday, 8 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, I see.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 8 February 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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