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"But there was nothing about the little, low-rambling, more or less identical homes of Northumberland Estates to interest or to haunt, no chance of loot that would be any more than the ordinary, waking-world kind the cops hauled you in for taking; no ~~small immunities~~, no possibilities for hidden life or otherworldly presence; no trees, secret routes, shortcuts, culverts, thickets that could be made hollow in the middle – everything in the place was right out in the open, everything could be seen at a glance; and behind it, under it, around the corners of its houses and down the safe, gentle curves of its streets, you came back, you kept coming back, to nothing; nothing but the cheerless earth."
Thomas Pynchon, "The Secret Integration"

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tomewing:

This is my last column for the Guardian’s Film & Music section (the section itself is ending next week, folding back into the paper - a sad day IMO) - blogging got me the gig so if this does turn out to be the last regular thing I write there I wanted something hopeful but faintly valedictory, and a feature on Tumblr’s positive influence on music writing felt like just the thing. Apologies to the many blogs I couldn’t fit in.

Two points: obviously the contributory content model is nothing at all new, it was being done 15 years ago, but Tumblr makes it simpler than ever to try out these ideas and see which catch people’s imagination. And secondly the other piece of this is that the very best music content on Tumblr tends to be on individuals’ personal blogs rather than necessarily Tumblrs self-identifying as ‘about music’.

Tom is one of the very best music writers we have in 2012, and I’m sad to hear his column (and the section) is going away. It’s a characteristically good one, though, and seeing as how he mentions One Week One Band, I can even technically (very technically) say that my work has been mentioned in the Graunaid.

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