Articles Written By Mike Deri Smith
TMN Editor Mike Deri Smith is no gourmet, he just has an abnormally large stomach. He lives in London.
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Watching
Don’t Call It a Bailout
I think about the bailout and imagine a Wall Street investor flailing about in a kids' splasher pool crying 'cause the big-boys pushed him in. The latter-termed Rescue Package makes...
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Punk Ghandi, Aragorn’s Pax Americana, Palin the White Witch
Bono is blogging about bureaucracy, manga comics, and celeb spooting, tag-teaming Jeffrey Sachs, beating world poverty and global injustice with a steel-chair on a blog for The Financial Times. At...
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Listening
Smile Down Upon Us
Listening to Bjork's entire back catalog early this year, I met five hours of pop music, experimental sounds, lots of magic. After years of shallow appreciation, immersion provided the best,...
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Rusted, Golden, Aged
TV on the Radio's first two efforts were rough and sharp: There was a lot of spirit but a lot of weight in those works. Though, to call them "efforts"...
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A School Daze Refresher
Lessons start again this month across schools in the Western world, whilst Lehman Brother's and AIG got schooled in the pitfalls of unregulated capitalism. Election year guarantees we will learn...
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Do the Swiss Dream of Post-Apocalyptic Rap Battles?
You shouldn't be disappointed that the one in 50 million chance of apocalypse didn't happen this week; you should be pretty damn happy that nothing exciting happened to reward those watching...
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Listening
Ambient Religious Jam
The words "folk," "pastoral," and "Tropicalia" ensure I read the whole piece and listen to whatever music is being pushed my way--"Tropicalia" references the hazy, Brazilian psychedelica to which...
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Watching
Getting Literacy Dun, the Rendition of Bamboozled Pandas With Chinese Accents
Ed Rondthaler, 103, a typographist since the age of five, tells us why spelling is D-U-M, championing simplified spelling in a very smart video from House Industries. He reminds thousands of...
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Listening
And We All Drone On
The music of James Blackshaw, 12-string guitar virtuoso, elegantly drones and is perfect for drifting--in and out of the room, in and out of concentration, between the city, silent trains,...
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Listening
Field-Tested Dub
It took a visit to New York and the combination of disorientation and fatigue to allow me to really enjoy the recently unmasked British musician Burial. I think you really...
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Joyous Descent!
The only words I can make out are “all day holiday” and “parachute”—Shugo Tokumaru sings the rest in Japanese at great speed. Tokumaru’s “Parachute” offers neither serene floating...
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Church Under the Stairs
Broken Social Scene don’t make albums anymore. No, that Canadian group hug now presents, or at least one of their members presents them—gives them a formation, arms them,...