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Showing posts with label punk rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punk rock. Show all posts
29 Nov 2023

On Punks, Hippies, and the Boy in the Blue Lamé Suit

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  Joe, Johnny, and Jello in their pre-punk days   One of the defining characteristics of punks back in the day, was that they hated the comp...
20 Jul 2022

Get It On and Punk It Up With Marc Bolan

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Marc Bolan with Dave Vanian of the Damned  and Siouxsie Sioux in 1977   According to Sebastian Horsley, Marc Bolan was super-plastic profoun...
20 Jan 2022

Byromania: The Malcolm McLaren Birthday Post (2022)

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Neon Lord Byron (2020) sophiespostcard.com   "I am such a strange mélange of good and evil  that it would be difficult to describe me.&...
30 Dec 2020

I'll Put a Knife Right In You: Notes on the Case of Sid and Nancy

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Sid and Nancy indulge in a little knife play for the camera Photos by Pierre Benain (1978)  snapgalleries.com     Sex Pistol Sid Vicious ha...
28 May 2020

I Wanna Destroy the Passerby (Notes on Johnny Rotten as Good Samaritan)

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John Joseph Lydon  (aged six) I. Just as Johnny Rotten's self-description as an anti-Christ is rooted in his ethnoreligious...
6 Feb 2020

Mila is a Punk Rocker

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Je ne regrette rien ... I. Does anyone else remember the Dead Kennedys hardcore classic 'Religious Vomit'? It was the ...
24 Dec 2019

Punk Xmas

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'Tis the season to be Johnny  ( Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la ) I. For all its professed anarcho-nihilism and counter-cultu...
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19 Sept 2019

Sheena: From Jungle Queen to Punk Rocker

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Irish McCalla as Sheena (1955) Just like Joey Ramone, I have a penchant for jungle girls in general with their animal skin bikinis...
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24 Jul 2018

Notes on A Glam-Punk Childhood

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20th century boy (c. 1973) I.  1977 - the year of punk - may have been of crucial importance in shaping my tastes, attitudes, and...