torpedo the ark

Get Off Your Knees and Hear the Insect Prayer   I.    When I came across a reference the other day to the Ant People, I immediately thought ...

Jordan as SEX punk (1976)  and Worlds End pirate (1981)   'Twas a sunny day when I went to play down by the deep blue sea   I jumped abo...

Fig. 1: Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K. (EMI, 1976)   Fig. 2: Kazimir Malevich: Black Square (1915)      I.   It's hard to resist lov...

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

Image adapted from one used as part of the Wake Up Punk project  conceived by Joe Corré and Nigel Askew     I.    When I was a young child...

(EMI Records, 1980)     Consisting of seven original tracks written by Malcolm McLaren and the trio of Ants he'd persuaded to abandon Ad...

Lucien Freud: Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995) [1] I.    According to the 15th-century English monk and poet John Lydgate: 'You can ...

Paris est toujours une bonne idée     I.    I'm currently reading a big fat book of essays, short stories, and poems by over seventy aut...

 I hope that insect doesn't see me / He's not renowned for his courtesy [1]     I.   There are numerous films in the so-called bug ...

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...

A lover of mine / From down on the Rhine Whilst for most of the time in 1987 I was holed up in Blind Cupid House reading poetry, ass...