Emoji Films: The Shining
How can you not have an ax emoji?! Or a tidal wave of blood? It’s criminal.
On Mumfordization
Scott King’s Take on the state of popular culture in America:
Earlier this year you made a print bearing the slogan “Stop! Mumford And Sons”. What’s your opinion of the band?
They are shit. They represent everything that is wrong with this country today. They are a bunch of public schoolboys pretending to be hillbillies aren’t they? I think that’s quite funny, Etonians taking on bluegrass or Woody Guthrie or whatever they imagine they are doing – the sons of investment bankers taking a genre that was explicitly about poverty and making it into a multi-million pound phenomena. This whole country is slowly being Mumfordised. Even places like Margate now have a Mumford Quarter that sells lattes, vintage posters and rustic lunches. Everything presented as ‘real’ and ‘authentic’- real ale, hand cut chips – gastro pubs stuffed with broken furniture on stripped wooden floors – everything ‘hand reared’ and localised – you can no longer buy mussels, cod, pork or crab in these pubs – only Shetland Isle Mussels, Peterhead Cod, Suffolk Pork and Dorset Crab. There is an overwhelming folksy, middle class, twee faux-local attitude that means many urban areas are rebranding themselves as ‘villages’: people in cities lusting after allotments, going to farmer’s markets in their wellies – the Mumfords are the house band for this desire to create the rural idyll in cities. Bring back The Wurzels, I say. The Wurzels were much better than Mumford & Sons.
Midweek Playlist: 5/7/2015
The nastiest, funkiest playlist yet…
- Funkadelic – “Can You Get To That”
- Parliament – “(You’re a Fish And I’m A) Water Sign”
- Sly & The Family Stone – “Underdog”
- Rick James – “Mary Jane”
- Bootsy Collins – “Bootzilla”
- Funkadelic – “I’ll Stay”
- Betty Davis – “They Say I’m Different”
- The Bar-Kays – “Son Of Shaft”
- The Dramatics – “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get”
- Lyn Collins – “Think (About It)”
- Parliament – “Chocolate City”
- Mandrill – “Mandrill”
Funkadelic // P.E. Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)
music to get your shit together by
Fats Waller & Ada Brown // That Ain’t Right
What is the matter with you? One never knows, do one…
Midweek Playlist: 4/23/15
Reggae edition! Mek we dweet an everyting is irie ♥
- The Slickers – “Johnny Too Bad”
- The Tennors – “Weather Report”
- The Kingstonians – “Singer Man”
- Roy Shirley – “Hold Them”
- Ken Parker – “I Can’t Hide”
- Ken Boothe – “Everything I Own”
- Bob Andy, Mad Professor – “Dubbing Home”
- Delroy Wilson – “Better Must Come”
- The Melodians – “Sweet Sensation”
- Bob Marley & The Wailers – “Selassie Is The Chapel”
- Burning Spear – “Hail H.I.M.”
- The Abyssinians – “Satta Massa Gana”