mercredi 9 Aoû 2006, 18h36m

So yes, I'm drinking whisky. It must be time for that elusive last.fm update. This evening finds me listening to a track by London's The Vichy Government, described somewhere on the net (maybe it was Wikipedia) as a "casio nihilist" band. Yes, the brogue of Jamie Manners competes with the, er, Casio keyboard of Andrew Chilton to glorious non-effect. I've tagged it "meta-pop", because it is pop music but abstracted and pared down.

In How to Become a Cult Figure, our narrator contemplates his path to this elusive goal while "looking for a crash course in global domination". It's a hard road paved with all kinds of indignities, but it leads him ultimately to where he is now. I think cult figuredom is the no less than Mr Manners and his casio nihilist band deserve. Certainly, there's little likelihood of very much more.