Comments on: alba absurdia http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/ Plan B writers' blog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:21:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jim Cassius http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-126 Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:19:45 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-126 Liverpool is a funny old place. Not been to Glasgow but all my Liverpool friends want to have its babies. I loved Edinburgh the few times I've been although I do tend to go specifically for drunken weekends watching great bands, so pah. I think the thing about cities like Edinburgh or Liverpool is that they seem so compact but big and commanding at the same time. The thing I like about visiting London is that it is so stupidly vast, things happening all the time, everywhere. But think that would just make me frantic if I lived there. Re: the lack of opportunity - thank god for the internet. It's a great leveller having people just an email away. Liverpool is a funny old place. Not been to Glasgow but all my Liverpool friends want to have its babies. I loved Edinburgh the few times I’ve been although I do tend to go specifically for drunken weekends watching great bands, so pah. I think the thing about cities like Edinburgh or Liverpool is that they seem so compact but big and commanding at the same time. The thing I like about visiting London is that it is so stupidly vast, things happening all the time, everywhere. But think that would just make me frantic if I lived there.

Re: the lack of opportunity - thank god for the internet. It’s a great leveller having people just an email away.

]]> by: smut http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-125 Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:18:54 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-125 to be fair, Edinburgh's only uptight during the festival, and with good reason. it's cold all year round though. and edinburgh bands suck nuts to be fair, Edinburgh’s only uptight during the festival, and with good reason. it’s cold all year round though. and edinburgh bands suck nuts

]]> by: Stew http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-124 Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:16:01 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-124 "The suburbs force you to cluster ideas and fetishes through sheer lack of opportunity" Yeah, but the lack of opportunity can be frustrating, especially after you've sampled city life and then returned to the suburbs or provinces. I'm only half an hour from Glasgow but I can't wait to return there properly. Then again, I suppose it's all about who you meet, who you can share these ideas with. I love Liverpool too - only been there a couple of times, but fell for it straight away. Like Glasgow, it's not too big, it's creative and it's warm and relatively unpretentious, unlike Edinburgh, say, which is beautiful, but a little cold and uptight. "The suburbs force you to cluster ideas and fetishes through sheer lack of opportunity"
Yeah, but the lack of opportunity can be frustrating, especially after you’ve sampled city life and then returned to the suburbs or provinces. I’m only half an hour from Glasgow but I can’t wait to return there properly.
Then again, I suppose it’s all about who you meet, who you can share these ideas with.
I love Liverpool too - only been there a couple of times, but fell for it straight away. Like Glasgow, it’s not too big, it’s creative and it’s warm and relatively unpretentious, unlike Edinburgh, say, which is beautiful, but a little cold and uptight.

]]> by: Jim Cassius http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-123 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:22:12 +0000 http://planbmag.com/blogs/staff/2004/08/31/alba-absurdia/#comment-123 Cities are fine places to have a train ride away - the suburbs force you to cluster ideas and fetishes through sheer lack of opportunity. They allow you to feel all the more the Hamburg music you listen to and the San Francisco fiction you read, dream it, whatever. As soon as I scrape together enough money to get my flat, I will be so hopelessly Liverpool. I'm yet to see whether I like the idea of cities as city-states in practice. There's that old truism that I think still holds: sea-faring (or musical...) Scousers feel more attached to the coast of Sierra Leone than they do to London. Or, indeed, Brighton. :) Cities are fine places to have a train ride away - the suburbs force you to cluster ideas and fetishes through sheer lack of opportunity. They allow you to feel all the more the Hamburg music you listen to and the San Francisco fiction you read, dream it, whatever. As soon as I scrape together enough money to get my flat, I will be so hopelessly Liverpool. I’m yet to see whether I like the idea of cities as city-states in practice.

There’s that old truism that I think still holds: sea-faring (or musical…) Scousers feel more attached to the coast of Sierra Leone than they do to London. Or, indeed, Brighton. :)

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