August 2010
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Aug 23rd
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“Y is for Year Zero: Grunge killed hair metal. Acid house changed everything....”
– Current music criticism, from A to Z. I always had some trouble with the myth that pop music started with network television, somewhere in the 1950s, at the time of Elvis’ or Buddy Holly’s first appearences. (via The Null Device)
Aug 22nd
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Aug 20th
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ZXSpectrum.net →
A huge part of my childhood now fits in a website. To think of all the anxious Fridays, waiting for my dad to arrive from work with a bootleg copy of some new game (back the 80s, at least in Portugal, there was no such thing as ‘piracy’, in fact there were quite a few ‘game copy shops’). To think of all the time spent anxiously waiting for that first load attempt, only to...
Aug 4th
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Aug 1st
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