Fair enough:
Why Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren wrote me out of his will Why Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren wrote me out of his will
Burning Dad’s things may be needed therapy
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“Raise The Dead”
Hank Williams died when I was five
He sang I’ll never get out of this world alive
Now it’s been a long time since I was that kid
And I’ve seen a lot more than Hank ever did
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I’m pretty sure most of the people at libcom.org would disagree with you on that, but they are political anarchists, unlike Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols.
Anarchist organisations like Freedom Press need to function in a world of money, not in a moneyless commune. The trick is to undermine the system before replacing it, not abandoning it completely.
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The trick is to undermine the system before replacing it, not abandoning it completely.
That’s called being a Republican congressman.
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The anarchists don’t care which bathroom you use though.
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Good band name.
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Oh no not that! Anything but thatl!
From my favorite band, one of their mantras is Rip the System.
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Yes. But McLaren also considered himself a cultural jammer and something of a situationist (or at least influenced by them).
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Shades of Gahan Wilson’s The Cleft.
Neither does my Mayor - nor The Real President. Gonna miss that guy badly.
Give it four years, maybe Bernie will run again.
Anyway, we’ll at least get some good comedy out of this.
Not only that, but wasn’t his father a, er, bit of a marketer? From what I’ve read punk may have gotten away from him and become something of a real thing, but it was originally intended (by him) to be a good way to market fashion.
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And the first time this over wealthy git complains society has turned its back on the poor or similar, I hope someone shows him this video of his own personal potlatch.
One of the stupidest things to protest I can think of. More than a bit authoritarian to tell people what they may or may not be nostalgic about.
“Here, you lot, stop doing things differently than how I think they should be done ans having different values than what I think is proper. I warn you, there’s a lot more of my stuff I can burn if you don’t.”
Basically Trump with a safety pin through his nose if so.
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More narcissist than anarchist AFAIC…
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Yay! That was going to be the first sentence of my comment, almost word for word. It is nice to know one or two of them still live. This one was in a sheltered habitat. There may not be a breeding pair anymore, so they will be a s gone as the bonobos. Which was the whole fucking point, right?
Me, I’m not that hardcore. I would have kept it all. But I can admire what is right.
What does that even mean? Their version of “Indian Giver,” to cite just one, is entirely faithful.
Plural?
I have recorded a number of covers. Nostalgia had exactly zero to do with any of them. Some of them were songs I had been familiar with for mere weeks. A great song is a great song, it can fit into any timestream.
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Agreed about the “whole fucking point”. The way I see it, you have a movement which was appropriately reactionary for the times - not the bands or the music especially - but more the social upheaval stemming from youth’s nihilistic point of view, particularly in the UK. There’s just no way the 90s or later decades could even conceive of recreating that origin and atmosphere.
I think maybe it would have been better to put the items on museum display, but somehow I think this perverts the original concept.
At the very least, Corre has managed to block any wholesale “theft” of the items for commercial gain (à la the Barnes Foundation art collection - can you imagine the sons of the Salon des Refusès laying the torch to their father’s works?), which would have been an ultimate insult to the punk movement.
