When I was on the cusp of my teenage years, some thirty years ago now, a combination of 2000AD, Men Only, Iron Maiden, and films like Escape From New York and Mad Max had convinced me that the above picture was an accurate representation of what the future held in store for me. And, despite [...]
Punk Rock Guilt
I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilletante’s and ah… and ah… heartless manipulators, about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything [...]
Again, Speedwolf
A couple of week’s ago I finished the ‘Speedwolf’ painting (see original post) but I was never completely satisfied with it. I know Bernie Wrightson has convincingly argued that no painting is ever finished, merely “abandoned” but usually when I think I’ve taken an image as far as I can, it releases its hold upon [...]
All Beauty Is Our Enemy
There is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld
And this is strange enough for me, thank you very much.
Merzbow & Genesis P. Orridge – All Beauty Is Our Enemy
How To Blow Yourself Up
This show is happening right now at the Subliminal Projects Gallery in LA. 5000 miles is a bit too far for me to be bothered, but if someone is going to blow themselves up for ‘art’ – which was my initial assumption when I read about it – then it’s would be sure to make [...]
Black: Implication Flooding
I mocked-up this cover a while ago, and remain so pleased with the result that I thought I’d share it with you all. The album itself is - if you’re at all familiar with the ouevre of Keiji Haino - pretty much par for the course, with Boris adding little except increased volume. It’s the usual absurdly exagerrated [...]
Idol Thoughts
I know, I know, Billy Idol was/is/always will be “crap”, a joke, a self-parody and an exemplar of all that was wrong with the 1980’s. But this picture suggests otherwise – a failed third division late-to-the-party punk rocker who came good amidst the phantasmagoric smogs of Los Angeles. A life far more interesting than that [...]
Mate, Spawn & Die
Hair by mail
Tit jobs for teens
Go broke appearing rich
Searching for rosebud in the fire
Pop stars fingers in the fans
The therapist you wish you had
Crucifix or lubricant
Government by fad!
I know it reads like a selection of newspaper headlines, but this is just the opening verse to Lard’s epic ‘Mate, Spawn & Die’, which is arguably the [...]
Double Fucked By Two Black Studs
I was at Sophie’s Bar on Fifth Street
This woman was trying to impress me or something
She told me she had done it all sexually
She had heard it all
She had seen it all
And she had done it all sexually
She said she was jaded
So I asked her if she had ever been double fucked by two black [...]
Full Grown
You must surely recognise the film being referenced here in this fine photograph. I’m normally dead set against the idea of remakes but if she was going to play Varla in a new version of Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!, then I’d be all for it. In fact, I think I’ve already found the perfect theme [...]
