Saturday, 6 October 2012

Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground play backstage at Café Bizarre in New York (1965)

Photo: Adam Ritchie
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Richard Hell & Patty Oldenberg (c.1970)

Richard Hell. The letter on Genesis : Grasp letterhead is dated July 2, 1969. Genesis : Grasp was a small press poetry magazine and press edited by Richard Meyers (Hell’s given name) and poet David Giannini.

Photograph: Bevan Davies
Patty met Richard and “Tommy Miller,” the future Tom Verlaine at the artist’s bar, St. Adrian’s at the Broadway Central Hotel in early 1969. Richard was 19, Patty was about to turn 35, and they were soon living together. It was an important time and an important relationship for both. Richard has written: “The two and a half years from early 1969 through summer/fall 1971 that began when I met Patty and ended with the composition of Wanna Go Out? (a set of collaborative poems written by Tom [Verlaine] and me in the persona of a despairing, faux-vicious hooker named Theresa Stern) were probably my most formative.” Patty and Richard continue to be friends in regular contact with one another.
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Richard Hell, Genesis: Grasp, and the Blank Generation: From Poetry to Punk in New York’s Lower East Side

Noel on Liam

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I can't stand Oasis but have to say that this comment made me laugh when I first heard it.

Martin Hannett and Tony Wilson at Strawberry Studios in July 1980

(Thanx Alan!)
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Friday, 5 October 2012

Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus (1972)

Raised Eyebrow Time

As heroin is so cheap I will have a packet of 20 of the blue stuff thanx. Still not sure I could handle the fugn Moody Blues though. The Moody Blues FFS! I know, I know it sounds better in 5:1 Surround Sound while stoned out of yr gourd ..*yawn*®

Bike Helmets

'Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath, because there are lots more injuries during those activities'

Two points of view:
A sensible approach and a load of bollox and cyclists may I take the liberty of pointing you to this brilliant invention for safer cycling.