Luca Bazzoli
@lucabazzoli.bsky.social
If Trump wants to impose tariffs, he will impose tariffs.
Don’t mistake a casus belli for coherent reasoning.
Don’t mistake a casus belli for coherent reasoning.
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
If Trump wants to impose tariffs, he will impose tariffs.
Don’t mistake a casus belli for coherent reasoning.
Don’t mistake a casus belli for coherent reasoning.
The answer to the question:
“If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would it be?”
“If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would it be?”
Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether
The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
https://buff.ly/42Gt7PS
The Strange World Of… #Fugazi
https://buff.ly/42Gt7PS
February 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The answer to the question:
“If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would it be?”
“If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would it be?”
Actually, the split between what was then called “race records” and Country was a marketing idea devised by record companies.
It makes sense musically only up to a point.
You know, rich people splitting poor people in two, watch them fight and making tons of money out of it…
It makes sense musically only up to a point.
You know, rich people splitting poor people in two, watch them fight and making tons of money out of it…
February 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Actually, the split between what was then called “race records” and Country was a marketing idea devised by record companies.
It makes sense musically only up to a point.
You know, rich people splitting poor people in two, watch them fight and making tons of money out of it…
It makes sense musically only up to a point.
You know, rich people splitting poor people in two, watch them fight and making tons of money out of it…
Nonsense!
And in a world ruled by fairness, equity and moral righteousness, Fugazi would have been twice as big as them.
And in a world ruled by fairness, equity and moral righteousness, Fugazi would have been twice as big as them.
February 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nonsense!
And in a world ruled by fairness, equity and moral righteousness, Fugazi would have been twice as big as them.
And in a world ruled by fairness, equity and moral righteousness, Fugazi would have been twice as big as them.
In the beginning there was just music: you couldn’t tell where blues finished and country started, and viceversa.
Then the record execs said there was a music for the white and one for the black folks.
They divided people in order to make money.
Does that remind you of something, ahem, more recent?
Then the record execs said there was a music for the white and one for the black folks.
They divided people in order to make money.
Does that remind you of something, ahem, more recent?
February 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
In the beginning there was just music: you couldn’t tell where blues finished and country started, and viceversa.
Then the record execs said there was a music for the white and one for the black folks.
They divided people in order to make money.
Does that remind you of something, ahem, more recent?
Then the record execs said there was a music for the white and one for the black folks.
They divided people in order to make money.
Does that remind you of something, ahem, more recent?
“We have been instructed that the billionaires are the heroes.
All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now.”
All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now.”
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“We have been instructed that the billionaires are the heroes.
All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now.”
All of this work was preparatory to the coup that is going on now.”
I always thought that “pretentious” was the extrovert brother of “I don’t understand it”.
January 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I always thought that “pretentious” was the extrovert brother of “I don’t understand it”.
“Capisce?!”
“I understood everything, apart from “capisce”.”
“I understood everything, apart from “capisce”.”
January 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“Capisce?!”
“I understood everything, apart from “capisce”.”
“I understood everything, apart from “capisce”.”
…and now we understand why The Orange points the finger at DEI.
January 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
…and now we understand why The Orange points the finger at DEI.
Oldies but goldies!
January 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Oldies but goldies!
À la guerre comme à la guerre? 🤔
January 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
À la guerre comme à la guerre? 🤔
Not my cup of tea, but no one can reasonably say that they were a bad band, or even a mediocre one.
There’s just that thing about them - ahem - “borrowing” other people’s work without giving proper credit.
Also, they’re a perfect case for the whole “great art made by horrible people” conversation.
There’s just that thing about them - ahem - “borrowing” other people’s work without giving proper credit.
Also, they’re a perfect case for the whole “great art made by horrible people” conversation.
January 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Not my cup of tea, but no one can reasonably say that they were a bad band, or even a mediocre one.
There’s just that thing about them - ahem - “borrowing” other people’s work without giving proper credit.
Also, they’re a perfect case for the whole “great art made by horrible people” conversation.
There’s just that thing about them - ahem - “borrowing” other people’s work without giving proper credit.
Also, they’re a perfect case for the whole “great art made by horrible people” conversation.
Einstürzende Neubratwurst.
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Einstürzende Neubratwurst.
“We’re at the beginning of the end of American hegemony.”
Yup!
Yup!
‘The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.) Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“We’re at the beginning of the end of American hegemony.”
Yup!
Yup!
Reposted by Luca Bazzoli
‘The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.) Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.) Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I know. It’s just that lots of people do, and it sort of frightens me.
January 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I know. It’s just that lots of people do, and it sort of frightens me.
I totally agree: Gaiman needs to get into the sea.
I don’t think his work needs to get into the bin as a consequence, though.
I don’t think his work needs to get into the bin as a consequence, though.
January 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I totally agree: Gaiman needs to get into the sea.
I don’t think his work needs to get into the bin as a consequence, though.
I don’t think his work needs to get into the bin as a consequence, though.
I’d go as far as saying that you need to read the bad books in order to understand why the good ones are good.
January 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I’d go as far as saying that you need to read the bad books in order to understand why the good ones are good.
Those are exactly the same words that my dad uttered when he caught me listening to Sonic Youth back in 1988. 😉
January 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Those are exactly the same words that my dad uttered when he caught me listening to Sonic Youth back in 1988. 😉