A kung fu fighter in a disco

But given that ILM is both typical (of the kinds of ways people think they ought to talk about music in public) and not at all typical (because overly jaded, aware of talking about music in public) I wouldn't draw too many conclusions based on observing it. More than ever I feel that it represents an alternative observation post on the 'centre', at the point where everything is happening at the margins. Most people on ILM speak from the disappointed middle, rather than as passionate advocates of their particular localism. (e.g. they are the old Marxists rather than the new social movements, and we await a Foucault of music-talk to think it out (or rather, pay more attention to Chuck and (sort of) Frank)).