Because in this cancelled year of our Lord twenty-twenty, you just can’t outdo real life.
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Category: Drugs
They’re probably drinkin’ coffee and smoking big cigars.
Diplomatic escort for David Bowie and Iggy Pop, 1976.
Letters to the Editor, Financial Times, 2 October 2017.
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Links: Students are broke, old 78s, bad VR hype.
And the Haçienda is still in popular culture. And Makoto Kino.
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Links: World’s dumbest terrorist, procedural music, bogus DMCAs, the editorial dictator.
“First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”
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Links: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.
It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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How the Church’s imperial period ended with a whimper, and who did it.
Why Starfish and Gold Afternoon Fix were amazing, and Priest = Aura … wasn’t. Hint: same reason the second Jack Frost album was not so gret akshuly.
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More eyegouging eastern European rap video for your delectation.
After yesterday’s wonder of the pop video maker’s art, we have a couple more. Here’s Russian rap act Little Big, whose dick is very very big.
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The worst video you will see today: “Winaloto” by Tommy Cash.
Estonian rap. The genre is “trap-pop”, apparently. The video itself is probably not worksafe, though technically within YouTube rules.
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Alixandrea Corvyn makes her deserved bid for fame.
This is Alixandrea Corvyn, of Last July and Rhombus and various previous bands. It’s a cover of “White Rabbit”, but with this grasp of imagery she’s on the right track. This video is just made to be cut up into stills and GIFs and reassembled into viral Tumblr posts.
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The return of the Blobby nightmare.
“It has been named as one of the worst songs ever recorded.”
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I threw up on Lux Interior.
It was mid-1986, at the Red Parrot in Perth (name and logo blatantly nicked from the New York club of the same name) in Perth. I was nineteen and had been going out to see bands and drinking in earnest for six months. The Cramps had played (the Canterbury Court Friday 22 August 1986 show, I think) and went there for after-show drinks.
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How to cook squid ink calamari risotto the Blixa Bargeld way.
From ’80s German TV show Alfredissimo. The other dude is Alfred Biolek. You can tell how old it is by them quoting prices in
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Links: Rod Stewart took cocaine up his arse to protect his nose.
Yes, really. Also, psychedelic glasses. And caffeine.
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Do the ostrich.
Hat-tip Lawrence Miles. “I still prefer to remember him this way.” From “Modern Dance” from Ecstasy.
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The function of music in the workplace.
The Quietus’ first interview with a Professor of Sociology of Work. We spend 40-45 hours at work a week, but if you look at
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Science proves it: rock stardom is bad for your health.
You will in all likelihood die before you get old: researchers at John Moores University, Liverpool, present “Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study
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The history of prog.
David Weigel, a political reporter for Slate, is in the midst of a series on the history of prog rock. It’s really quite frightening.
Read MoreSister Morphine grown up.
Amy Winehouse should be so lucky to survive, and thrive, as Marianne Faithfull has done.
Read MoreThere is nothing more irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ethernet binge.
I can’t wait for peer-to-peer drug networks. Those headphone audiophools were onto something. If only Anthony Burgess had thought of “personal stereos.” (spotted by
Read MoreBut I said no, no, no … well, maybe just one.
It’s time to clean up your act when even Keith Richards suggests you may be overdoing it.
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