Friday 18 January 2013
Thursday 17 January 2013
MTV, you spineless twerps
The stand-off was big news, and MTV eventually reversed the ban. "This Note's for You" went on to win Video of The Year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
(Source: Adweek, July 1988; Image via NME.)6th July, 1988
MTV, you spineless twerps. You refuse to play "This Note's For You" because you're afraid to offend your sponsors. What does the "M" in MTV stand for: music or money? Long live rock and roll.
Neil Young
[from the wonderful Letters of Note]
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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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!
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
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!)
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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
www.water-gate.de
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Are pubic lice in danger of extinction?
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.
Read more here and here
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