Posted in Art, Music, Politics, tagged Hardcore, Music, Punk on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
American Hardcore was a decent book and film documentary. I’m interested to check this out and see how it matches up in similarities and views on subjects and events. Radio Silence offers a new one, let’s hope it makes a staple.
Hardcore music emerged just after the first wave of punk rock in the late 1970s. [...]
Posted in Art, Film, Politics, tagged diane arbus on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the 20th century’s greatest photographers. She was reknowned for taking shots of normal and socially maladjusted citizens and framing them in scenes of unrest.
Posted in Art, Film, Politics, tagged skinheads, national front on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Vice continues to feature incredible articles on sub culture across the globe. Here we have one featuring photographs and interviews of black and white skins in a turbulent time following the National Front party infiltrating England’s punk and skinhead cultures in the 80’s.
Posted in Art, Literature, Politics, Sport, Travel, tagged 100 must-read books on June 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a bit late by other blogs standards, and more than half I assume most readers have delved into once or twice from grade school to the present. However, here’s The Art Of Manliness’ (The go-to site for classic know-how from the elder’s wisdom of life) guide to the 100 Must-Read Books. There’s a [...]
Posted in Fashion, Politics, tagged Boys Club, Cambridge on May 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Over at Vice about 2 years ago, I read the Gangs issue and it had a couple of very good articles ranging from the nearly correct football hooligan fashion to my personal favorite, the Cambridge University Clubs. The interviews and pictures are brilliant. Makes you wish you had a daddy with expendable income, eh?
Posted in Literature, Politics, tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Guardian on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is another incredible interview featured by The Guardian with F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the best America’s ever read.
“Then the reporter asked him how he felt now about the jazz-mad, gin-mad generation whose feverish doings he chronicled in This Side of Paradise. How had they done? How did they stand up in the world?
“Why [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged billy graham, Harmony Korine, j.spaceman, Mister Lonely, spritualized, sun city girls, Woody Allen on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Another great moment in Woody Allen’s career in making us laugh. Here he interviews the other side of the spectrum in Billy Graham.
2. Mister Lonely, by Harmony Korine, is a soundtrack done by J. Spaceman of Spiritualized in conjunction with Sun City Girls. Over at The Playlist, there’s a few tracks from the soundtrack [...]
Posted in Art, Politics, tagged Army, Iraq, Rothko on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
1. This is a great article on shit house poets in the U.S. Army. Some ’sad but true’ kind of writings, and a couple of funny ones as well. <Walrus>
2. Thanks to Sean and Dosty, I spent a good deal of time watching this BBC documentary on Mark Rothko, a 20th century abstract, expressionism artist [...]
Posted in Fashion, Politics, tagged Obama, Osama, AP, l.l. bean, blucher, moccasins, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Waits on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
1. I swear this is the last of the numerous YouTube videos, but I just could not help myself. Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a clip from the chairman of AP saying Obama Bin Laden by mistake. Doesn’t get any better than this.
2. Last year, GQ displayed L.L. Bean’s Blucher Moccasin’s and while [...]
Posted in Art, Film, Politics, tagged cocaine, gary busey, meth on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Gary Busey, what an actor. It’s not a secret that his career has taken somewhat of a dip over the past decade due to alcohol, drug use, and just poor choices overall. However, it takes an all new low to dip to the level that this article includes. <Wired>
2. Viral advertising usually works due [...]
