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Showing posts with label sex pistols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex pistols. Show all posts
12 Dec 2024

A Brief Note on the Punk Is Dead / Punks Not Dead Debate

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I.    There is a big secret about The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle : most punks don't like it [1] .    ...
3 Sept 2024

Fuck Everyone and Be a Disgrace! In Memory of the Dada Baroness: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven  (1874 -1927)   "Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life .. ."   I.    The relat...
17 Aug 2024

Punk's Dead Knot: Reflections on an Essay by Ian Trowell - Part 2: On Big Flavour Wraps and Vicious Burgers

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You pays your money and you takes your choice ...  McDonald's Big Flavour Wraps (2016) [a] Vs Jamie Reid's Vicious Burger (1979) [b...
16 Aug 2024

Punk's Dead Knot: Reflections on an Essay by Ian Trowell - Part 1: I Got You in My Camera ...

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  Sex Pistols on Carnaby Street  Photo by Ray Stevenson (1976)   I.    Ian Trowell's dead knot essay [a] provides a fascinating insigh...
26 Jun 2024

Five Brief Notes on Rockism, Poptimism, and Authenticity (With Reference to Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols)

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Cover by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols' single 'Silly Thing'  released from the album The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ...
14 Jun 2024

Procrastination

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Statue of Pál Pató in Svodín, Slovakia [1]     You know when your procrastination is becoming serious when you choose to write a post on pro...
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25 May 2024

Punk It Up (I'm a Sex Pistol Man Oh Yeah!)

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Malcolm McLaren: screenshot taken from the video for  'Punk It Up' (dir. Ian Gabriel): click here .  A Sex Pistol - that's what ...
17 May 2024

In Anticipation of and Reflections on a Post-Punk Salon (with Dorothy Max Prior and Richard Cabut)

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    In Anticipation of a Post-Punk Salon     This looks like, sounds like, good fun, don't you think?    Regrettably, I don't know ...
24 Mar 2024

But Malcolm, They'll Not Be Able to Find It ...

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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...
23 Mar 2024

Whatever It Is, I'm Against It!

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  Groucho was a punk rocker   I.   I have given several attempts to explain what the polysemic phrase torpedo the ark - borrowed from Norweg...
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22 Mar 2024

André Masson and the Sex Pistols

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The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...
21 Mar 2024

On the Nature of the Ridiculous (and the Ridiculous Nature of the Sex Pistols)

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Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...