links for 2008-02-15

• Jeanette Winterson imagines a reading list for capitalists - Times Online
  "When it goes wrong, we bag a scapegoat, and yap about 'controls'. The Prime Minister gives 'guarantees'. Meanwhile MPs 'forget' to declare donations, or spend public money on nightclub research for their kids."
  (tags: society culture risk control rdlaing capitalism)
• John Darnielle on monsters, Black Sabbath and Wyoming | Rock | guardian.co.uk Music
  "I can't write for nothing during the winter. I hate winter with a passion! A burning passion! Because right in the middle of a song I get agitated and nervous, very excitable and my body tenses up and I have to leave the house..."
  (tags: music johndarnielle mountaingoats writing creativity winter SAD)
• State of the union | Pop | guardian.co.uk Music
  English musicians name songs that they feel define Englishness. Eliza Carthy on Half Man Half Biscuit: "The song seems over-clever and flippant, but it's bitter and very funny, which is very English: pathos disguised by wit and emotional detachment."
  (tags: music identity england english elizacarthy halfmanhalfbiscuit)

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