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Showing posts with label adam ant. Show all posts
20 Apr 2023

Submission

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Sex Pistols: 'Submission' (1977) [1]   I.    According to Rotten's recollection, it was Malcolm who suggested the band should wr...
10 Apr 2023

When Melvyn Met Malcolm (A Brief Reflection on The South Bank Show Episode 178)

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Malcolm McLaren - Boy George - Adam Ant The South Bank Show (S8/E9 - 1984)   The South Bank Show is a British television programme which ...
3 Nov 2022

There's No Fool Like an Old Fool: Notes on the Case of Gustav von Aschenbach

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Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice (1971)     I.    For gentlemen of a certain age - let's say over 50 - be they ...
10 Apr 2021

Plastic Ants (There Might Come a Day When They're Treading On You)

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Lasius plasticus   I.    The world isn't actually going to turn Day-Glo as Poly Styrene predicted [1] , but it - and the life that it su...
15 Jan 2021

Colaphology: On the Politics and Pleasure of Turning the Other Cheek

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Iconic image of Tyler Durden  by digital artist Gedo: gedogfx   If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got ...
2 Dec 2017

Lipstick Traces (with Reference to the Case of Cleopatra)

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Zabrena: Historically Accurate: Ancient Egypt / Cleopatra Makeup Tutorial YouTube (8 Oct 2014): click here .  One of the...
11 Oct 2017

On Black Dandyism (With Reference to the Case of Jean-Michel Basquiat)

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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)  The New York Times Magazine  (10 Feb 1985) "Being a black man", says Ekow...
24 Sept 2017

Psychoceramics (Clinical Notes on Cranks and Crackpots)

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We are the psycho-ceramics;  the cracked pots of mankind. A friend writes to complain about my use of the pejorative term  c...
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8 Oct 2013

Queens of the Wild Frontier

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Lady Gaga             Princess Julia             Countess Alex Zapak Female devotees of art-pop seem to have a fascination with...
29 Jan 2013

Too Old to Live, Too Slow to Die

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Adam Ant has a new album out. It's his first in a very long time and it has a very long title. I wish him all the best with it, a...