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  1. "A generous family man, & a hard-drinking shockwave rider" Rick McGrath’s Letter From London: The JG Ballard Memorial: http://bit.ly/5SRDIO
  2. Soon on ballardian.com, Rick McGrath's Letter from London reveals that Ballard once planned "a novel based entirely on black box recordings”
  3. "partial mammoplasties of elderly housewives carried out by chromium louvres of windshield assemblies" Ballard, Crash http://bit.ly/8PDUOQ
  4. "Light melt: heat - damage - abstraction" (@centrifugalcity) http://bit.ly/7nkOvs
  5. "Brake-lights flared in the evening air, glowing in the huge pool of cellulosed bodies." Ballard, Crash - http://bit.ly/79ZP20
  6. Melbourne, Automobile City, where the tarmac meets the sea and the smell of guzzoline is always in the air... http://bit.ly/4vzvs6
  7. RT @poeia_onomato: near the end of social networking? "you have to go back to 50s science fiction for what's next." http://bit.ly/4u1lKB
  8. Hell hath no fury like a Kraftwerk fan scorned.
  9. RT @johncoulthart: Chris Martin: the Kevin Costner of music.
  10. Dear Chris Martin: “I’m giving you a choice. Either put on these glasses or start to eat that trash” (John Carpenter, They Live)
  11. Chris Martin: Bono-in-waiting. Kraftwerk cover/sample - check. Eno production job - check. Mugging with Gervais - check.
  12. World's worst praise: “One really has to applaud Coldplay for making Kraftwerk sound like stadium rock" - http://tinyurl.com/yzf7fkg
  13. What planet does Chris Martin live on? "They're Kraftwerk but nobody really knows who they are. They're like the original GORILLAZ".
  14. @jomc Mein gott! I thought you made that up! But he actually said it! I'm sad.
  15. @tammois Take detailed notes! Sounds interesting indeed.
  16. Still pissed off w/ Coldplay for ruining my experience of Kraftwerk's Computer World. Should be acquisition takeover controls outlawing this
  17. @jomc @WillWiles I'll explore Wave soon, I promise! I've an invite but am yet to play. The fact that you both enjoy it is a good incentive!
  18. ...of course, that could also be the lingering effects of the flu. Hard to tell.
  19. #SOI09 conference was great, well organised, lovely people, etc, but failed to relieve me of sinking feeling in pit of stomach re: academia.
  20. Back from Sydney. Delivered my paper, found Brutalist monoliths, traced Blue Murder locations, fell foul of goths, got the flu, lost my mojo