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#nostalgia #reminiscing

"Even the theoretically flattering reason for my visit — revisiting an album of his — Darnielle found objectionable. 'Is this a ridiculous story, do you think?' is what the recording tells me I asked first, which is unfortunate. He replied, in a kind way, 'I am really, aggressively and reactionarily anti-nostalgia. Like, when people talk about the music that they liked in high school growing up, I just can’t stand it. I hate it.' He paused. 'I acknowledge it’s a reactionary position, because obviously if I didn’t think people who’d been making music for 20 years couldn’t make good music, then I wouldn’t be making music. But I really consider nostalgia toxic.'"

I realized we weren’t just mourning Adam Yauch. As many would agree, we’ve been mourning our memories. Mourning an adolescence that seemed to get over on fifteen years of adulthood, from Def Jam to Grand Royal. Mourning how a record once could finish your thought, and how much that thought would cost once the lawyers realized it belonged to someone else. (The Beasties were sued for copyright infringement the day before Yauch passed.)

Studs Terkel, age 95

"if videogames are going to be more than just a subculture…We need more than nostalgia."

"That chick in the ass pants by the onion dip is the finest thing I've seen since Tibet."

≫ @masterworx: The return of control strip ≪ Good call! @surteesstudios should add that toggle tab too :) #nostalgia

"One of the absolute spurs of starting the new aesthetic project was a profound displeasure and dissatisfaction with the cultural obsessional with nostalgia and retro at the moment - with vintage and all of these things" says Bridle.

Bridle has a wonderful ability to sound both old and young in the same breath. 

"You cannot move," continues Bridle, "particularly in Shoreditch, which is supposed to be the heart of this thrusting new technology, for blackboards and artisan coffee shops with nicely hued counters and people with handlebar moustaches wearing braces and it's all fine but it's not very interesting to me."

Having a pop at the hipsters, this is fun. Why do they love their trucker Victoriana so?

"It speaks of a deep fear of the future, the idea that an authenticity that can only be authenticated in the past, that we've lost faith in a kind a kind of sight for the future, is deeply worrying," explains Bridle earnestly.