tHanKS MArCEllO

geordie robot you kept your new blog fairly secret, I will add it to my links at the weekend.

Yes, let me join in praise of Marcello's Fleetwood Mac piece. Probably my favourite piece of musicwriting since oh well, Eshun on Drexciya/Penman on Tricky. Cheers.

(thanx b-but actually DJM, I'm gonna start a non-DGF one instead in the near future - will link to you from that)

Like to add my voice to the chorus of praise, that was a great piece.

I am frankly astonished that Fleetwood Mac were able to pull a halfway decent album out of their collective ass at this point in their career, let alone one as awesome as 'Say You Will.' It's the best thing I've heard since the turn of the century.

(Hint: for anyone confused by the acronyms in the original post, this thread is to do with this article.)

i haven't read the FM piece but the yo la tengo one was superb. i don't read blogs that often, but i thought that one was great.

i was actually going to start a thanks marcello thread a while ago but i forgot
anyway,i read something by you about fantasia on a theme for thomas tallis by vaughan williams,and subsequently bought it
and its great...
so cheers,marcello....

Aw, shucks (blushes) :-) thanks to everyone for the kind words (both here and via email). As a special treat (i.e. I won't have time later in the week to do it ahem) I've just posted a looooooong piece on the KLF with special guest appearance by "Metal Machine Music." Hope you enjoy...

Hurrah for Marcello! It's this breadth and commitment of passion to many different musical things that makes Church of Me the joy it is. :-)

It's the shallowness of the poorly justified references and the obviousness of his observations that make Carlin's writing so turgid and worthless.

It's the lack of passion - apart from the self love of the smug dinner party bore - that makes the writing unpleasant to read.

Still at least he seems to have stopped using 'punctum' to the point of preposterousness. The name dropping of Lacan and Debord in the KLF piece are less grating though no less obvious or superficial.

Having nothing interesting to say is what makes his writing so shit though, the KLF piece says all the same old dull stuff, SAY SOMETHING INTERESTING ferchristsakes, go find out about Drummond's interest in Leylines, or his Myron Fagan paranoia or reposition the 'K' in KLF with the views of Lessig and the 'free culture' or any of the 100s of interesting possible approaches to the KLF (clue: none of them require the phrase 'sub-post-debord').

It's apt that Carlin is now getting paid work in Uncut and Wire as these magazines fall into decline, Uncut is now so pitiful that he's not even the worst writer there, and it's strange he gets praise from people on here who are (usually) better writers (though the praise is suspiciously vague and lack a feeling of sincerity).

'bittermail'

Interestingly, it doesn't seem to be a valid address, since I just fired off an email expressing my disgust at the above, and it bounced back. Cheap, Alison, if that's what your name is. Very cheap. Got a few rejection slips recently, have we?

Alison Merrimental = Alison Houston?

ie. was that marcello balancing out the praise with a little self-criticism? if not, apologies, and this merrimental woman is a meanie.

FWIW, it's a first time post from that particular IP address...

yeah i thought the same thing killian

Marcello on The KLF? Coooooool...

Marcello in The KLF? That would be even better....

Thanks, Marcello, for the Uncut review of 'Oskar Tennis Champion'!