What a wonderful series – The Art of Punk. Hidden treasure (for me).
Black Flag. Well, actually this episode is primarily about the artist Raymond Pettibon, who invented the Blag Flag logo and created the unique merchandizing for the band.
Dead Kennedys
Crass
Somewhere on the great Interweb I found a review of Kim Gordon. I did not know the book. It had disappointed this reader. Nevertheless I purchased the book, being a long term lover of Sonic Youth and curious about Kim Gordon’s life.
I found the book very good. Nice details describing Kim’s environment, household things, stuff, music. Written in a loose style. The edition of the book I have – the pocket edition with the orange cover – is a bit grungy. A nice fit with the black and white pictures in the book.
Kim Gordon sketches an entertaining and informative image of punk-rock life in the 80s, 90s and 00s. There seems to be no end to the progress of Sonic Youth, until Thurston Moore falls into an affair with fortune hunter Eva Prinz (the name is not in the book, but it required little research to find out).
The tone turns from melancholic, in the description of het schizophrenic brother, to disillusioned in her marriage with Thurston Moore.
Beautiful book and woman, strange.
An unnerving video by Die Antwoord “I Fink U Freeky”, directed by Roger Ballen.
Can’t stop listening to this song. This live version is cool.
Incredible video for an incredible song.
High in the top 5 best albums made ever: Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation.
Their music in the category “Damn Never Heard Such A Thing Before” culminated from great albums like Evol and Sister in this punk-rock classic.
This idea deserves a ribbon, right? XTACY scent:
https://www.parool.nl/nederland/justitie-lanceert-luchtje-xtc~ba968ae1/
Interestingly, another fragrance with a similar name also already existed:
http://www.ecstasyperfumes.gr/
Potentially problematic?
Muziek that doesn’t sound like anything else, by The Knife.
The third album of The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead, released in 1986, was much later evaluated as one of the best albums of its era.
This album contains the song Frankly, Mr. Shankly, a song that is no longer than 2 minutes (I love – still do – how bands like The Smiths, Ramones and The Pixies fitted most of their songs in an old-fashioned 2 minutes).
Who is this Mr. Shankly, I was wondering?
I google and searched a few books, and Mr. Shankly seems to be the founder of the Rough Trade label, Geoff Travis.
The song is about a frustrated employee who is completely fed up with Mr. Shankly as his boss, and more importantly want to change his life drastically and become famous in ‘celluloid history’.
Has celluloid since become history itself?
