Showing posts with label PATRICK BATEMAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PATRICK BATEMAN. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

When Yesterday Comes 
and won't stop coming, and coming, and coming...

Bourgeoiseaux with a deep reading of Erika Spring's Eighties-ism (including a cover of Eurythmics's "When Tomorrow Comes")


including the idea of the Eighties As the Decade that Owns Glamour, the music as re-blog syndrome, and Baudrillard's "precession of simulacra"...

Patrick Bateman/American Psycho and Phil Collins's "I Don't Care Anymore" rear their ugly heads too

as does Destroyer's Kaputt

(how i remember the queer feeling that came over me listening to that for the first time,  hearing those very precise guitar-texturings and chord sequences modeled exactly on Prefab's Steve McQueen -  this sweet sickly poisoned pleasure filled my body)

more thoughts from Lindsay Zoladz at Pitchfork

listen to the Erika Spring EP here



further reading: Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulations - II. History: A Retro Scenario