Thursday, 17 January 2013

On Scientology

'In my judgement it is corrupt, sinister and dangerous'

New David Peace novel on Liverpool's Bill Shankly due in August

Faber has announced a new novel from David Peace, set to tackle the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly.
Peace is the author of The Damned United, about football manager Brian Clough, which was turned into a film starring Michael Sheen.
The novelist described new book Red or Dead as a change from the tone of his previous work, saying: "I've written about corruption. I've written about crime. I've written about bad men and I've written about the demons. But now I've had enough of the bad men and the demons. Now I want to write about a good man. And a saint. A Red Saint. Bill Shankly was not just a great football manager. Bill Shankly was one of the greatest men who ever lived."
The novel, for publication in August, will follow the rise of Liverpool FC under Shankly, until his shock retirement in 1974. 2013 is the 100th anniversary of Shankly's birth.
Lee Brackstone, creative director of Faber Social, bought world rights for the book excluding Japan from Hamish Macaskill at The English Agency, with Rob Kraitt at Casarotto Ramsay handling film rights.
Brackstone said: "A novel about one of the great good men of British football comes as such a tonic and a wake-up-call in these days of extraordinary wealth, privilege and abuse of both in the Premier League. There quite simply could not be a better time, culturally and politically, for this novel.
"David Peace's ninth novel is an epic in scale and ambition. If The Damned Utd re-defined how fiction can make compelling drama and art out of sport, Red or Dead rips up the rulebook and does so all over again."
Peace is also the author of the Red Riding Quartet, which was turned into a series by Channel 4. He has also written GB84, and the first two volumes of a planned Tokyo trilogy, Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City.
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Simian Ghost - Be My Wife

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A while ago Mojo Magazine asked us to do a cover of David Bowies "Be My Wife" for a tribute album they were putting together.
Unfortunately that project was never fully realised. We really like how it turned out though, so we'd like to share it with you now!

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

♪♫ Shelby Lynne - Leavin'

Bonus:

Goths in Awkward Everyday Situations

Don't Poison Childhood

Poster by anarchist youth FIJL more critical of their own than the communists could ever have been. Imperial War Museum in London: "Three uniform shirts, one red with a black belt and shoulder strap (Communist Party), one blue with a red tie (Falange Española de las JONS, the Spanish Fascist party), and the third black with a black tie (Anarchist) are thrust out towards a crying child.
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(Thanx Nick!)

♪♫ Solomun – Kackvogel

Taken from WGVinyl008 Solomun – Kackvogel EP, available on 12″ and Beatport: tinyurl.com/wgvinyl008-on-bp
Mit Friedrich Liechtenstein
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Are pubic lice in danger of extinction?

Pthirus pubis … at risk from 'deforestation'.

Pubic lice (or crabs), are on their way to becoming an endangered species, partly thanks to the popularity of bikini waxes and other down-there grooming trends.
Pubic lice (Phthirus pubis) are tiny parasitic insects that live in coarse human body hair, such as pubic hair and are spread through close body contact, most commonly sexual contact.
According to Bloomberg News, Sydney's main sexual health clinic hasn't seen a woman with pubic lice since 2008 and male cases are down 80 per cent in a decade.
“It used to be extremely common; it’s now rarely seen,” said Basil Donovan, head of sexual health at the University of New South Wales’s Kirby Institute and a physician at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre. “Without doubt, it’s better grooming."
A 2011 study by researchers at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, reported more than 80 per cent of college students in the US remove some or all of their pubic hair.
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The Vial. The Hypodermic

In the same way that JG Ballard updated the signs of the zodiac, I really wish that Futura would update the Lance Armstrong life symbols he did in 2005.

Saimonse - Time of Brock Van Wey (Bvdub Mix)

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Too Little Too Late
Without A Chance To say
Only The Willow Remains
To Live
A Sisyphean Silence
Descent To The End
My Skies Cry Your Name
Nothing You Can say
Nothing Like You
Serenity
9 Winters To Tell You
My Sun Shines Through Your Rain
Love
Make It To Tomorrow
1995 To Forever