I like the way he reprimands himself for not having bought his pale blue pegs from the right shop - “should have been from Lord John or Take Six”. The mod/soul boy obsession with these minutiae is the thing that is most alien to me still. I was once poking around a casuals forum when researching a piece and it was amazing to see how ferociously these middle aged verging on elderly types were arguing about which specific month in a particular year of the mid-80s that a certain shoe came into vogue, or the color of the laces that were de rigeur for that precise patch of time. 30 years on. It’s a kind of mystical investment in consumerism. As an indifferently dressed bourgeois from a bit further into the home counties than Burnt Oak I agree with Toyah - “don’t want to be told what to wear / so long as you’re warm who cares”. Music exists in commodity form but it transcends that and you don’t need to own it to hear it - it’s a common culture. Style culture is all about chasing overpriced stuff that only a few get to put on their bodies, a self-imposed prison of rules and restrictions.

 "If you understood everything I said, you'd be me." 

 - Miles Davis

(via Andrew Parker)

the structure / pay off reminds me a bit of this

Interviewer:  "What is the future of jazz?"

Jazz Legend (tetchily) : "If I knew what the future of jazz was, I'd be playing it already"

I wish I could remember who Jazz Legend was.... I want to say Max Roach but I can find no proof out there this is his quote. 

 "You've probably noticed, grime is having a lot of impact at the moment. That's because it's telling the truth about what's going on in our cities. We were doing the same thing twenty years ago - but we did it with sound"  - Goldie, 2017

 

 “Self-plagiarism is style.” —Alfred Hitchcock

 “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” 

― Ray Bradbury

 

David Lynch, on Los Angeles

Roger Ebert on David Lynch and Mulholland Drive

David Lynch on surrealism in the American grain

Surrealist Cinema BBC Arena 1987 presented by David Lynch