In truth I don’t think Disney killed it-the fans did. Why on EARTH would you want to make it if lots of people on the internet are telling you that you’re shit year after year
Go set a watchman is the superior book, Lee had to agree to the edits that went into “to kill a mockingbird” so that white audiences had a purely heroic figure they could identify with in atticus finch
There’s a lingering feeling that meaningful culture HAS to be shaped by an upper middle class patriarch/paternalist, be that tony wilson, Malcolm McClaren or the author of energy flash and retromania
There’s the whole “is paternalism patriarchy?” argument too- the idea that creativity was only fostered by people on the dole and the educational remit of television, the idea that people can’t develop critical faculties without a “benevolently” patriarchal paternalism.
I think we can all agree that it would be much easier to understand quantum mechanics if Stacey Dooley interviewed one or more of the fundamental particles of matter:-
I’m wondering if the “no fuck that” contingent you and I belong to are more niche than we think. I was listening to a louis Theroux audiobook where he talks about listening to a joe rogan podcast like that’s a normal thing to do..
As I mentioned in the Kayla interview on BMTatR, I've rarely been happier DJing than this moment when I got to warm up for Alex Paterson in the foyer of the Cube Cinema in Bristol. Can you IMAGINE?
