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No such thing as bad publicity. 
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After the Latest Pair of Mass Shootings, Betty White Has Become a Meme and White People Aren’t Happy About It
Betty White is a national treasure, and so is Chris Rock.
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While searching about for a possible article for a class… I ran across this:
http://www.laibach.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/letter-from-Luther.pdf
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I know… I just thought it was funny, as it was our @LutherBlisset that I immediately thought of after reading it…
[ETA] It’s an interesting article, too, which might fit the bill for what I need…
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thanks for that. very much appreciated. and very apt.
we luther blissetts appreciate if someone finds our work … interesting enough.
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I love, love, this book.
although McNeil uses it to revise history in his favor as the first person to coin the word “punk” in reference to the music and respective scene, which is not true. but mostly it’s about other people, and is fantastic.
perhaps the most significant part, in terms of gravity, is the part concerning that certain night at the Chelsea Hotel. A particularly stand-out bit by a scenester I don’t know of otherwise but was present earlier in the night says that someone got away with murder. there was a shady lurker that nobody seemed to know except Nancy hanging around and then the whole thing got pinned on the biggest fuck-up in the world, Sid Vicious.
Sid might have been so far gone on whatever substances that he actually did it, but nobody can seem to account for this particular lurker except he remained when nobody but Sid and Nancy were left. And all the money was gone. Sid was a pussycat and constantly fucked-up beyond functionality, but Nancy was a fighter. If lurker dude waited to rob them until everyone left and Sid was incapacitated, Nancy would’ve stepped to him. I really wonder about that testimony.
Anyhoo, great book for many, many other reasons.
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Agreed! They’ve had a big influence on how popular punk histories have been written, too, which generally speaking I approve of, mainly because they don’t present a straight-forward, teleological narrative, but instead shows a much messier side of popular memory.
The other books I recommend everyone read on punk is Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces, Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming, Dewar MacLeod’s Kids of the Black Hole, and Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s We got the Neutron Bomb.
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I still think of the football player when I see the name
I wish I could find the video clip of Luther Blissett admitting that he was Luther Blissett, and that anyone can be Luther Blissett
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I read a few chapters out of England’s Dreaming because Thurston Moore recommended it to Mike D in an old Option Mag interview and my then-roommate had it. I liked it too. Should really get round to the whole thing.
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The Sex Pistols were really mythologized (by themselves, by McLaren, by the press, by fans, by people who hate them, etc), and Savage manages to cut through all the bullshit to a pretty solid historical account. I’d also highly recommend his recent book, The Searing Light, The Sun, and Everything Else, which is an oral history of Joy Division. If any band from Britain is more mythologized than the Sex Pistols (well, from the 70s punk explosion, at least), then it’s Joy Division.
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That’s hilarious!
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A few years back there was an excellent Australian drama-comedy, Spirited, about the ghost of an English rocker haunting a woman having a mid-life crisis. The ghost seemed to me to be based in part on Ian Curtis.
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