http://www.ballardian.com/haggis-backs-down-over-ballardian-furore Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:23:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ballardian.com/haggis-backs-down-over-ballardian-furore/comment-page-1#comment-161 FJ Torres Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:13:24 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/contrite-haggis-backs-down-over-ballardian-naming-furore/#comment-161 ‘If I had half a brain I would have used a better title.’ Not much to add. ‘If I had half a brain I would have used a better title.’
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]]> http://www.ballardian.com/haggis-backs-down-over-ballardian-furore/comment-page-1#comment-160 Ballardian: The World of J.G. Ballard » No-One Dances In Ballard: An Interview with Mike Ryan Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:37:14 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/contrite-haggis-backs-down-over-ballardian-naming-furore/#comment-160 [...] I basically agree. I think Ballard’s direct influence on music has waned, probably due to less people actually reading books. I have a hard time believing he attained some damning ‘mainstream’ exposure, though. When I mention Ballard to regular people they have no idea who I’m talking about. I mention the film version of Crash, which they will probably now mistake for that piece of crap that came out last year, and there is this foggy recognition, and then a sort of uneasiness that expresses a latent disapproval (’Oh…THAT film.’). I mention Empire of the Sun and then I have to mention Steven Spielberg, and there’s the same sense of dredging up a hazy memory. I have a really hard time believing the new wave of underground artists keeps Ballard at a distance because they think he is too mainstream. I think most of them still don’t know who he is, and if they do they think his stories are just about cutting yourself and having an orgasm. The modern airport defuses…tensions, and offers its passengers the pleasures and social reassurance of the boarding lounge … The concourses are the ramblas and agoras of the future city, time-freeze zones where all the clocks of the world are displayed, an atlas of arrivals and destinations forever updating itself, where briefly we become true world citizens”. —————————————————— – JG Ballard, The Observer (1987) —————————————————— [...] [...] I basically agree. I think Ballard’s direct influence on music has waned, probably due to less people actually reading books. I have a hard time believing he attained some damning ‘mainstream’ exposure, though. When I mention Ballard to regular people they have no idea who I’m talking about. I mention the film version of Crash, which they will probably now mistake for that piece of crap that came out last year, and there is this foggy recognition, and then a sort of uneasiness that expresses a latent disapproval (’Oh…THAT film.’). I mention Empire of the Sun and then I have to mention Steven Spielberg, and there’s the same sense of dredging up a hazy memory. I have a really hard time believing the new wave of underground artists keeps Ballard at a distance because they think he is too mainstream. I think most of them still don’t know who he is, and if they do they think his stories are just about cutting yourself and having an orgasm. The modern airport defuses…tensions, and offers its passengers the pleasures and social reassurance of the boarding lounge … The concourses are the ramblas and agoras of the future city, time-freeze zones where all the clocks of the world are displayed, an atlas of arrivals and destinations forever updating itself, where briefly we become true world citizens”. —————————————————— – JG Ballard, The Observer (1987) —————————————————— [...]

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