I'm holidaying in the world's capital city and yet i still find time to harvest the blogs! Actually writing indigestablely huge amounts daily to my handheld. I'll bosh some of it up. Pleased to see there's aktivity at http://k-punk.blogspot.com. Mark doing a wonderful job of disinterring the retro impulse. His notion that these movements problematically FREEZE the past sinks the nail. However isn't it these motivational "Golden Ages" which always provide the idealistic impulse throughout history whether its Greece or Rome, Grease or Romo? I'm not certain whether the worryingly over-analysed "Retro" instinct is anything new. Certainly I don't remember it as ever being any different. Though perhaps with the record industry in recession we're pillaging the larder a little more.
Posted by Woebot at June 17, 2003 01:56 PM