maybe the easiest way to think about the past century is: modernism never ended. the whole thing with “postmodernism” was an evolutionary speedbump, but was basically more of the same. same with “antimodernism”. it’s actually secretly modernism cuz we are in the so-called modern age. the key here is differentiating between the greater thrust of modernism from the early-20th-century modernist orthodoxy (corbu/mies/gropius/tschichold et al). you know how sometimes people who want to differentiate islamic fundamentalists from the overarching concept of islam call fundamentalists “islamists”? well you can do the same here: those guys were modernistists. so to speak.

yeah. postmodernism is basically modernism with stuff on it. like the “decorated shed” classification proffered by mr. venturi and ms. scott-brown. decorated sheds are the order of the day in most of the modern world. take off the decorations and it’s just a shed, a box, in the spirit of mies (but not as sexy of course). the radiant city came complete with an enormous ideology attached; what we have now is more or less the same forms that have adapted (but not really mutated away from their initial conceptions) to current late capitalist ideologies. now the sheds are decorated. if you believe mr. venturi (and I am inclined to in this instance) the future of architecture is in iconography. this doesn’t constitute a new movement per se. it does imply a realignment of sub-disciplines in design, but so fucking what. maybe human beings will have to blow themselves up and/or go to space for a new movement, but “less is more” has a circular logic to it that will reduce most everything to its fundamental pragmas in time.

and if you don’t feel me on all that, consider this: I just got some new conditioner that’s all minty and feels like you’re dumping creme de menthe on your head. I don’t know how I feel about what it does to my hair in terms of aesthetics, but I am inclined to use a lot of it, cuz it tingles.

anyway yeah. I need new music. perhaps you can help? just figure out what the next item in the sequence is and tell me the answer! (even better just IM me the fuckin album, yeah):

• hard to earn
• the unseen
• blowout comb
• stakes is high
• black on both sides
• bizarre ride II
• ready to die
• farewell fondle ‘em
• viktor vaughn vaudeville villian
• midnight marauders
• __________________

• loveless
• fever to tell
• sunlight makes me paranoid
• danse macabre
• de stijl
• eureka
• all time quarterback
• violator
• painful
• good news for people who like bad news
• chain gang of love
• __________________

• tridecoder
• sample this
• folk songs for trains, trees, and automobiles
• real ghosts
• a hundred days off
• drop scene EP
• cashier escape route
• remedy
• suzuki
• __________________

now to do laundry. indeed yes.

-fish

some suggestions:
latest ghostface killah? UM HELLO HYPE
and any spoon album, if you haven’t already…

our endless numbered days - by iron and wine
in a safe place - by the album leaf
transatlanic ep or we are nordic - by nordic

that is what I listen to lately and like.

jesu - heart ache (or one word. not sure)
20 minute tracks, title track goes from heaviest to glorious(est?) at the 14 minute mark.

king tubby’s - in fine style compilation

brian wilson’s smile! yeah, i’ve been bit by that pet sounds/smile beach boys bug.

brian eno - here come the warm jets

You can always go with Latour and say we’ve never been modern…

And there’s no way I’m giving up my Aveda rosemary and mint conditioner - cuz it tingles and I dig that too.

while trying to make a better playlist than il i uncovered some old and new stuff.

first off, you’re never online, so dont pretend anyone can im you shit. :) now the music.

if you want a vocalized follow-up to “real ghosts” and the others in that sequence, check out “The Go-Find - Miami” which is the newest shit on morr music. it is very pretty, melodic, maybe sad, maybe a sad person moving to happy. i dunno, but i like it while i’m floating at see in a rowboat, it just feels right.

on a similar note, the new styrofoam is his strongest work yet in my opinion. of course, nothing will ever beat “short album about murder” because its the best ever. but what can you do.

oh and one last thingfor that sequence. someone has released a 320kbps rip of Boards of Canada’s Maxima, which is the fricking shit and hard to find except in that 192 version I got from joge.

MF Doom has a new album called “MM Food.” I only listed to like 4 songs but they were all good. maybe even great. shouldnt everyone be excited when there’s a new MF Doom??

i assume you have that el-p producto “High Water Mark” . I really like it, well, i really really like half of it so… do the math. if you like the more avant garde jazzy stuff i also have gotten into the bad plus, who are crazy and fun and apparently opening for the pixies on their current reunion tour… didnt know that until now, interesting. anyway, its their first major debut, “These are the Vistas,” that I have grown to love. mostly for the great versions of heart of glass and (i know i know) teen spirit…

for more hip hopping, the new Gift of Gab is pretty hot. I like the song “The Ride of Your Life,” in case you want a specific recommendation. however, they are all really good.

and if you dont have it, there are like 3 great songs on the newest RJD2 even though much of the album you already heard, even tho you never heard it…. it makes me sad when that happens, but sometimes its better than say, metallica’s chronological discography, a.k.a. their descent into suck.

OHOHOH! The new solvent is out! i like it, i do.

besides all that, i’ve been going through old jimi tenor, opiate (the morr music album), the newish ambidextrous has at least 1 great song on it (maybe only one, i cant move on from it), and all of luke vibert’s remixes ever. especially the stereolab and moloko ones.

sorry i cant help so much with the rock. i keep listening to black sabbath paranoid. is there a need for more rock than that?

you bastard! no urls in the comments! you know how long that fricking took to document EVERY artist in the comemnt!!