{"id":493,"date":"2006-05-26T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2006-05-26T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T09:28:00","slug":"things-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Things in London…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Douglas Coupland – Reading\/Talk<\/b>
Wednesday 31 May [7pm]
15 Gordon Street<\/p>\n

Douglas Coupland has always had the uncanny knack of catching a certain zeitgeist and preserving it for generations to follow. Generation X, and Microserfs are two of his best known novels dealing with life and culture in our gnu-technological environment. JPod, his newest book, returns to the same theme of technology culture as pop culture.<\/p>\n

My favorite Coupland book is “All Families Are Psychotic” which tells a story arc of a family that has half it’s members with AIDS and the other half dealing the best they can. Say what you will about DC – I do find his writing poignant and in parrallel with what is in the back of peoples minds.<\/p>\n

If your in London, try this link<\/a><\/p>\n

Desmond Dekker, RIP<\/b>
Desmond Dekker, singer\/songwriter who helped introduce ska music to the world, died of an apparent heart attack in London on Thursday. He was 64.<\/p>\n

Dekker’s biggest hit, 1969’s mournful repatriation song “Israelites”, went to No. 1 in the UK and reached the top 10 in the U.S.– the first worldwide Jamaican success since Millie’s 1963 bubble-ska single “My Boy Lollipop”. Unknown to most music heads, Desmond himself had been introduced to a mass audience in 1968 as the inspiration for the Beatles “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da” (“Desmond works a barrow in the marketplace…”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglas Coupland – Reading\/TalkWednesday 31 May [7pm]15 Gordon Street Douglas Coupland has always had the uncanny knack of catching a certain zeitgeist and preserving it for generations to follow. Generation X, and Microserfs are two of his best known novels dealing with life and culture in our gnu-technological environment. JPod, his newest book, returns to the same theme of technology culture as pop culture. My favorite Coupland book is “All Families Are Psychotic” which tells a story arc of a family that has half it’s members with AIDS and the other half dealing the best they can. Say what you…<\/p>\n

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