Friday, July 13, 2007
how the hippies saved america
you tube video of classical japanese dance as done by a geisha. quiet, small, and glacially slow, the movement recorded here has a cold formal balance that is the epitome of arts for arts sake.
Dior Men's collections, Spring 2007
The Giant Squid is lonely, sad, horny.
Beyonce at this years BET Awards
heroic footage of the cramps live at the naopli state mental instution. im amazed that nurses and doctors would view this as theraputic, though i can imagine that the rawness and the anger, could be catharatic. esp when Lux Interior says :"And somebody told me you people are crazy! But I'm not so sure about that; you seem to be all right to me."
Worlds Largest Pearl at 14.4 lbs.
The muppets do in the navy. with pig vikings. the 70s were weirder then possibly imagined were they?
Earle Brown, Graphic Notation, where the orchestra responds to the bodily movement of the conductor, which is recorded visually. So if the conducter raises his right hand, the woodwinds play.
sight and sound article on ken russell, and how his visual frenzy made him a kind of outsider auter.
I am glad that his critical reception, the camp aesthetics, the rabid refusal of history, the sexuality and the gender politics, have become to be viewed as good things, as opposed to the worst movie evers, i keep thinking russell as the mother of almodovar, and fellini has called himself the itialian russell.
The glasses make it. From Real Australian Girls.
john dolan the exile writer, makes fun of american books on amazon. Here id an excerpt of the absurd For Common Things by Jerbeidah Purdy:
Valentino controls his fembot army.
Bill O Reilly warns against hordes of Lebian Gangs.
These Gallon Jugs of urine, collected by highway workers, are called trucker bombs.
these musical toys liscended by the blue man group, seem more likely to be used by under grad avant gardists.
phelps clan charged with child abuse.
Hockney, In the Beginning, Graphite and ink on paper, 1967.
atlanta defrocks the prsit of the oldest lutheran church there for being a gay man.
120 African Bishops are threatinging to boycott the lambreth next year, unless the americans are less nasty to queer folks.
the iraqi and afgan veterans of america start talkign about their injuries and lack of care publically.
patrick cates shoots clever and well composed shots of LA's urbanity.
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Tipelo, 1670s
charity from billy bragg that gives guitars to prisoners.
First episode of a 6 hour history of silents. the scale, and technoogical innovation of this film, and the politics of scandal all seem familiar, but to see even smal parts of the films in question, esp, Danish scandals and Italian fantasias, both from the 20s, make the time time comittment well worth it.
Johnathon King, the pederast music producer, records and makes a video, for his new single,which might be the craziest defense for fucking 14 yr olds, perhaps ever (qoutes bosch, hitler, maledus maefecti, the blitz, christina richie, atom bombs and troll dolls)
SoDak is burning, along with a large chunk of the western united states.
a few dozen old vegas postcards
who knew that the north western university had a comprehensive collection of photographs of africa by africans, from the first half of the 20th Century. Of the 7610 Images, they have managed to digitize less than 100, but its still fantastic.
Colin Chrisitan>. relies too much on fashionable fetishes, and low culture tropes that have become cliches, including chthullu, devil girls and anime girls. i still like the slickness of the surfaces though.
latin mass and the whole protestant thing suggests that Ratzinger's desire for pre vatican two catholicism is keeping apace.
Basketweaving 29
Calligraphy 33
Candlemaking 36
Candlewicking .43
Ceramics 47
Counted Cross Stitch .49
Crewel Embroidery 53
Crochet 56
Decoupage 58
Dollmaking 60
Drawing 63
Embossing 67
Embroidery 71
Flower Arrangement 75
Knitting 78
Latch Hooking 82
Macrame 84
Miniatures 91
Needlepoint 92
Oil Painting 96
Photography 100
Plastic Canvas 103
Pressed Flowers 106
Quilling 110
Quilting 115
Rubber Stamping 120
Scrapbooking 124
Spinning 127
Stenciling 130
Tatting 133
Tole Painting 136
Watercolors 140
Weaving 142
Homemaking 147
Baking 148
Budgeting 150
Cake Decorating 153
Camping 155
Cleaning 157
Cooking 160
Fire Safety 166
First Aid 169
Food Preservation 171
Gardening 175
Health and Fitness 182
Home Decorating 187
Hygiene 189
Ironing 193
Laundry 194
Organization 196
Proverbs 31 Study for Girls 199
Scheduling 209
Sewing 214
Soapmaking 216
Knowledge and Skills 220
Biography 221
Computer. 227
Foreign Language 230
Genealogy 232
Library 236
Literature 239
Music 242
Poetry 244
Sign Language 248
Storytelling 250
Teaching 252
Typing 254
Writing 256
Nature 260
Birds 261
Butterflies 264
Flowers 268
Horses 270
Insects 273
Pets 278
Trees 281
Wildflowers 285
Others 287
Bus Worker 288
Child Care 290
Church 292
Ecology 295
Etiquette 298
Family 300
Friends 306
Grandparents 310
Hospitality 313
Letters 316
Love 320
Missionary 325
Neighbor 327
Others 330
Rest Home 332
Special Needs 334
Witnessing 338
List of Badges for Girls, by Keepers at Home, an orgination that was created in opposition to the girl guides.
General David Petraeus, has told the BBC that fighting the insurgency is a "long term endeavour" which could take decades. it has taken decades if you count the first gulf war and clintons bombing missions part of the same war.
the graphic design for terrorist orgs
an excellent essay on why Armageddon belongs in the criteron collection, and an arguement for it as a good film.
ann powers on kelly clarkson, i hope to have my review of this and miranda lambert down this weekend.
John Szarkowski, the innovative curtor and writer, who founded the instuional interest in american photogrpahry as a staff member for MoMa, died last week.
Rachel Friemean's photos of teenagers crusing and hanging out, has been done beofre, but instead of assumptions of terror and violence, ennui and boredom.
south african photog of Musina, a town in the north of that country, near Zimbabwae, look a lot like similar images taken in the southern united states, only a few suggest the odd anglo/commonwealth or v. rarely african notes.
Louisiana Sen. David Vitter's likes whores, according to a DC Madam. He likes to be diapered, according to a Louisana madam. He also loves family values.
horses frolic with pink or blue rubber balls.
jeff brows american typologies, freshly painted houses, suggests what the new topographers would do if they werent afraid of colour.
you tube video of classical japanese dance as done by a geisha. quiet, small, and glacially slow, the movement recorded here has a cold formal balance that is the epitome of arts for arts sake.
Dior Men's collections, Spring 2007
The Giant Squid is lonely, sad, horny.
Beyonce at this years BET Awards
heroic footage of the cramps live at the naopli state mental instution. im amazed that nurses and doctors would view this as theraputic, though i can imagine that the rawness and the anger, could be catharatic. esp when Lux Interior says :"And somebody told me you people are crazy! But I'm not so sure about that; you seem to be all right to me."
Worlds Largest Pearl at 14.4 lbs.
The muppets do in the navy. with pig vikings. the 70s were weirder then possibly imagined were they?
Earle Brown, Graphic Notation, where the orchestra responds to the bodily movement of the conductor, which is recorded visually. So if the conducter raises his right hand, the woodwinds play.
sight and sound article on ken russell, and how his visual frenzy made him a kind of outsider auter.
I am glad that his critical reception, the camp aesthetics, the rabid refusal of history, the sexuality and the gender politics, have become to be viewed as good things, as opposed to the worst movie evers, i keep thinking russell as the mother of almodovar, and fellini has called himself the itialian russell.
The glasses make it. From Real Australian Girls.
john dolan the exile writer, makes fun of american books on amazon. Here id an excerpt of the absurd For Common Things by Jerbeidah Purdy:
Jedediah Purdy is something Jefferson could never have foreseen: an oligarch in peasant's clothing, the son of upper-class hippies who moved to West Virginia in 1974, just in time to give birth to Jed, whom they bred as a weapon. They knew if their boy-weapon was to be effective, it couldn't be born in their native haunts--Beacon Hill, New Haven, Martha's Vineyard--so they sped south to the deepest, most wretched corner of Appalachia as this bucolic Damien's hour approached. Jed's mother was probably barking like a seal in her tenth hour of labor when their VW van zoomed through Trenton on the Interstate, with her hirsute spouse screaming at her, "God damn it, maintain! Maintain! You want the little brat to be born in New Jersey, for Christ's sake?"
Valentino controls his fembot army.
Bill O Reilly warns against hordes of Lebian Gangs.
These Gallon Jugs of urine, collected by highway workers, are called trucker bombs.
these musical toys liscended by the blue man group, seem more likely to be used by under grad avant gardists.
phelps clan charged with child abuse.
Hockney, In the Beginning, Graphite and ink on paper, 1967.
atlanta defrocks the prsit of the oldest lutheran church there for being a gay man.
120 African Bishops are threatinging to boycott the lambreth next year, unless the americans are less nasty to queer folks.
the iraqi and afgan veterans of america start talkign about their injuries and lack of care publically.
patrick cates shoots clever and well composed shots of LA's urbanity.
alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>Tipelo, 1670s
charity from billy bragg that gives guitars to prisoners.
First episode of a 6 hour history of silents. the scale, and technoogical innovation of this film, and the politics of scandal all seem familiar, but to see even smal parts of the films in question, esp, Danish scandals and Italian fantasias, both from the 20s, make the time time comittment well worth it.
Johnathon King, the pederast music producer, records and makes a video, for his new single,which might be the craziest defense for fucking 14 yr olds, perhaps ever (qoutes bosch, hitler, maledus maefecti, the blitz, christina richie, atom bombs and troll dolls)
SoDak is burning, along with a large chunk of the western united states.
a few dozen old vegas postcards
who knew that the north western university had a comprehensive collection of photographs of africa by africans, from the first half of the 20th Century. Of the 7610 Images, they have managed to digitize less than 100, but its still fantastic.
Colin Chrisitan>. relies too much on fashionable fetishes, and low culture tropes that have become cliches, including chthullu, devil girls and anime girls. i still like the slickness of the surfaces though.
latin mass and the whole protestant thing suggests that Ratzinger's desire for pre vatican two catholicism is keeping apace.
Basketweaving 29
Calligraphy 33
Candlemaking 36
Candlewicking .43
Ceramics 47
Counted Cross Stitch .49
Crewel Embroidery 53
Crochet 56
Decoupage 58
Dollmaking 60
Drawing 63
Embossing 67
Embroidery 71
Flower Arrangement 75
Knitting 78
Latch Hooking 82
Macrame 84
Miniatures 91
Needlepoint 92
Oil Painting 96
Photography 100
Plastic Canvas 103
Pressed Flowers 106
Quilling 110
Quilting 115
Rubber Stamping 120
Scrapbooking 124
Spinning 127
Stenciling 130
Tatting 133
Tole Painting 136
Watercolors 140
Weaving 142
Homemaking 147
Baking 148
Budgeting 150
Cake Decorating 153
Camping 155
Cleaning 157
Cooking 160
Fire Safety 166
First Aid 169
Food Preservation 171
Gardening 175
Health and Fitness 182
Home Decorating 187
Hygiene 189
Ironing 193
Laundry 194
Organization 196
Proverbs 31 Study for Girls 199
Scheduling 209
Sewing 214
Soapmaking 216
Knowledge and Skills 220
Biography 221
Computer. 227
Foreign Language 230
Genealogy 232
Library 236
Literature 239
Music 242
Poetry 244
Sign Language 248
Storytelling 250
Teaching 252
Typing 254
Writing 256
Nature 260
Birds 261
Butterflies 264
Flowers 268
Horses 270
Insects 273
Pets 278
Trees 281
Wildflowers 285
Others 287
Bus Worker 288
Child Care 290
Church 292
Ecology 295
Etiquette 298
Family 300
Friends 306
Grandparents 310
Hospitality 313
Letters 316
Love 320
Missionary 325
Neighbor 327
Others 330
Rest Home 332
Special Needs 334
Witnessing 338
List of Badges for Girls, by Keepers at Home, an orgination that was created in opposition to the girl guides.
General David Petraeus, has told the BBC that fighting the insurgency is a "long term endeavour" which could take decades. it has taken decades if you count the first gulf war and clintons bombing missions part of the same war.
the graphic design for terrorist orgs
an excellent essay on why Armageddon belongs in the criteron collection, and an arguement for it as a good film.
ann powers on kelly clarkson, i hope to have my review of this and miranda lambert down this weekend.
John Szarkowski, the innovative curtor and writer, who founded the instuional interest in american photogrpahry as a staff member for MoMa, died last week.
Rachel Friemean's photos of teenagers crusing and hanging out, has been done beofre, but instead of assumptions of terror and violence, ennui and boredom.
south african photog of Musina, a town in the north of that country, near Zimbabwae, look a lot like similar images taken in the southern united states, only a few suggest the odd anglo/commonwealth or v. rarely african notes.
Louisiana Sen. David Vitter's likes whores, according to a DC Madam. He likes to be diapered, according to a Louisana madam. He also loves family values.
horses frolic with pink or blue rubber balls.
jeff brows american typologies, freshly painted houses, suggests what the new topographers would do if they werent afraid of colour.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Honest Ed attracts squirrels! "At these prices, they think he's nuts !!"
Honest Ed's an honest man. People look at him and say, "Honest, is this a man?"
Honest Ed's a freak! "He has bargains coming out of his ears !!"
Honest Ed's all wet! "But he never soaks you !!"
Honest Ed's fulla baloney! "But his prices are teeney-weenies !!"
Honest Ed's a nut! "But look at the "cashew" save !!"
Honest Ed's embarrased! "He gets caught with his prices down !!"
Honest Ed's a blabbermouth! "He can't keep his bargains secret!"
Honest Ed's a monkey! "You can buy his bargains for peanuts!"
Honest Ed's a shrimp! "He can't see "overhead" !!"
Honest Ed's toothless! "His prices will never put the bite on you !!"
Honest Ed's a flop! "But his prices make you flip!"
Honest Ed's no midwife... But the bargains he delivers are real babies!
Honest Ed's a lazy lout... He won't get his prices up!
Honest Ed won't squeal... He lets his bargains do the talking.
Honest Ed's a freak... But his prices ain't so weird.
Honest Ed has holes in his sox... But his bargains are "darned" good!
Honest Ed's no bloomin' rose... But his bargains are worth pickin'!
Honest Ed's a fat slob... But his prices keep a slim figure!
Honest Ed's got a small "Ed"... But his low prices are his "big feat"!!
Honest Ed's unfair to low prices... They never get a "raise"!
Honest Ed ain't upper crust. "But his bargain prices will save you dough !!"
Honest Ed's no beauty! "What do you expect at these prices, a movie star?"
Honest Ed's: Only the floors are crooked.
Ed Mirvish died today.
Honest Ed's an honest man. People look at him and say, "Honest, is this a man?"
Honest Ed's a freak! "He has bargains coming out of his ears !!"
Honest Ed's all wet! "But he never soaks you !!"
Honest Ed's fulla baloney! "But his prices are teeney-weenies !!"
Honest Ed's a nut! "But look at the "cashew" save !!"
Honest Ed's embarrased! "He gets caught with his prices down !!"
Honest Ed's a blabbermouth! "He can't keep his bargains secret!"
Honest Ed's a monkey! "You can buy his bargains for peanuts!"
Honest Ed's a shrimp! "He can't see "overhead" !!"
Honest Ed's toothless! "His prices will never put the bite on you !!"
Honest Ed's a flop! "But his prices make you flip!"
Honest Ed's no midwife... But the bargains he delivers are real babies!
Honest Ed's a lazy lout... He won't get his prices up!
Honest Ed won't squeal... He lets his bargains do the talking.
Honest Ed's a freak... But his prices ain't so weird.
Honest Ed has holes in his sox... But his bargains are "darned" good!
Honest Ed's no bloomin' rose... But his bargains are worth pickin'!
Honest Ed's a fat slob... But his prices keep a slim figure!
Honest Ed's got a small "Ed"... But his low prices are his "big feat"!!
Honest Ed's unfair to low prices... They never get a "raise"!
Honest Ed ain't upper crust. "But his bargain prices will save you dough !!"
Honest Ed's no beauty! "What do you expect at these prices, a movie star?"
Honest Ed's: Only the floors are crooked.
Ed Mirvish died today.
Monday, July 09, 2007
From a Poptimist LJ Thread, i think my thesis might be correct, but need more info
strange_powers
2007-07-06 11:03 pm UTC (link) Track This
My point is that Sinatra wasn't part of adolescent culture because there was no adolescent market to sell to in the forties. But I don't think adolescent culture defines the boundaries of pop.
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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 04:08 am UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
depending on how you define adolsecent, but there was war cash in the forties
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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:20 pm UTC (link) Track This
sinatra was totally a bobbysoxers scream idol in the early 40s -- he had to reinvent himself as an adult concern, via films and the capitol sleeves and so on, and the fact that he was able to was a very big deal in fashioning a conception of "adult" sophisto-pop in the early 50s
(swing -- esp.white swing, like benny goodman -- had its first big success among students and fairly young adults)
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Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 07:24 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
he was also considered both louche and dangerous in the 40s, not doing his duty and stealing the girls from boys who did.
then his adult sophisto pop was not a reboot or a newness, but turning a bug into virtue...
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Re: Really?
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:49 pm UTC (link) Track This
more than this -- it was about key elements of a generation seeing themselves as kids-no-more but rather adults, so it was also a kind of "coming of age" music, rooted in the earlier style but more mature in content and manner (LPs were new and aimed at non-kids; 45s were new and aimed at kids; teens -- who obviously already existed -- were now targeted as a specific market)
i'm fairly sure this idea of a generation aware of itself maturing was new, as a marketing thing and as a point of social discussion (pop sociology as a thing that got into the papers was also a new and widespread thing in the early 50s)
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Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont think the pop soc thing is nessc accurate, cant almost all yr claims also cover the 20s?
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Re: Really?
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:24 pm UTC (link) Track This
i can't think of a development in film or music which manifests this, can you? age-distinct tastes obviously predated the 20s, and the jazz age was a manifestation of a generation defining themselves by taste-choice, but i can't think of the arrival (in the music; in movies) of a realisation that "look we jazz agers are older now and this is what we've moved on to liking" (if there is one, what is it?) (conscious niche-marketing really didn't begin to evolve until the 30s, and it was still broadly regional and cultural)
i think the idea of pop culture having a historical sense of its own movement is a 50s things
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Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
Niche Marketing is what happened w. the entire career of Clara Bow....
and in europe esp, when swing moved from an american import of pleasure into something more radical with the rise of nazis, wouldnt that be similar:
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
John Savage Teenage, pg 272
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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:56 pm UTC (link) Track This
ok, i think you're right about the notion that particular stars were favoured by particular audiences and age groups maybe -- and that that's the first manifestation of niche marketing -- but there wasn't a general sense of a "youth market", so much as a sense of a "clara bow market" who happened to be young? the specific analog to what i'm talking about would be more like, who did the clara bow audience move onto AFTER her (and did these latter films contain consciousness of the having been crala bow fans at an earlier time)
(jon may say difft, i haven't read his book yet, but isn't it largely about teens rather than ppl who were formerly teens but now aren't?)
swing in germany: no, that's not the same thing at all (adoption of a music or a look or whatever as badge of political difference long predates the 20th century -- besides, what yr describing doesn't contain a sense of the fact of change over time as part of its content, at least as you've stated it)
obviously generations have aged and their tastes changed since time immemorial -- what i'm saying is that the marketing towards that generation didn't (prior to the 50s) depend in any significant degree on their knowing that they were collectively aware of what their tastes had been and had now become
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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 09:26 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont know the answer to the clara bow question, the hayes code was constructed to avoid youth from enjoying the sex and death--explotation and b movies were made and marketed to youth, post hayes, and there was some interlocking b/w those and war films during wwii...but that isnt music...
you are right about swing, i think
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another direction
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 10:04 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
what about pulp sf and fandom?
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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 10:16 pm UTC (link) Track This
sf didn't really divide internally into niches until the 60s, i don't think -- when the new wave arrived, elements of golden-age content became straight kids-stuff fare (for example andre norton increasingly wrote for children; i don't think she'd set out to when she started, and her sf style didn't really change)
reflexivity and nostalgia-for-my-own-tastes-as-a-teen maybe arrives with star wars in movies (lucas recapping HIS tastes as a teen, but not as a "matured teen"; so it's not like capitol-era sinatra's rlationship to late 30s swing); matured reflexivity becames SF's "thing" with william gibson's "the gernsback continuum", tho arguably delany -- a very reflexive and self-aware writer -- had gone there a lot earlier (but i don't think he took many readers with him)
the sf and monster movie stuff in the 50s is more consciously adolescent in aim than the same material in the 20s or 30s
strange_powers
2007-07-06 11:03 pm UTC (link) Track This
My point is that Sinatra wasn't part of adolescent culture because there was no adolescent market to sell to in the forties. But I don't think adolescent culture defines the boundaries of pop.
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 04:08 am UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
depending on how you define adolsecent, but there was war cash in the forties
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Re: Really?
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:20 pm UTC (link) Track This
sinatra was totally a bobbysoxers scream idol in the early 40s -- he had to reinvent himself as an adult concern, via films and the capitol sleeves and so on, and the fact that he was able to was a very big deal in fashioning a conception of "adult" sophisto-pop in the early 50s
(swing -- esp.white swing, like benny goodman -- had its first big success among students and fairly young adults)
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 07:24 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
he was also considered both louche and dangerous in the 40s, not doing his duty and stealing the girls from boys who did.
then his adult sophisto pop was not a reboot or a newness, but turning a bug into virtue...
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:49 pm UTC (link) Track This
more than this -- it was about key elements of a generation seeing themselves as kids-no-more but rather adults, so it was also a kind of "coming of age" music, rooted in the earlier style but more mature in content and manner (LPs were new and aimed at non-kids; 45s were new and aimed at kids; teens -- who obviously already existed -- were now targeted as a specific market)
i'm fairly sure this idea of a generation aware of itself maturing was new, as a marketing thing and as a point of social discussion (pop sociology as a thing that got into the papers was also a new and widespread thing in the early 50s)
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont think the pop soc thing is nessc accurate, cant almost all yr claims also cover the 20s?
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:24 pm UTC (link) Track This
i can't think of a development in film or music which manifests this, can you? age-distinct tastes obviously predated the 20s, and the jazz age was a manifestation of a generation defining themselves by taste-choice, but i can't think of the arrival (in the music; in movies) of a realisation that "look we jazz agers are older now and this is what we've moved on to liking" (if there is one, what is it?) (conscious niche-marketing really didn't begin to evolve until the 30s, and it was still broadly regional and cultural)
i think the idea of pop culture having a historical sense of its own movement is a 50s things
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
Re: Really?
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
Niche Marketing is what happened w. the entire career of Clara Bow....
and in europe esp, when swing moved from an american import of pleasure into something more radical with the rise of nazis, wouldnt that be similar:
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
John Savage Teenage, pg 272
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:56 pm UTC (link) Track This
ok, i think you're right about the notion that particular stars were favoured by particular audiences and age groups maybe -- and that that's the first manifestation of niche marketing -- but there wasn't a general sense of a "youth market", so much as a sense of a "clara bow market" who happened to be young? the specific analog to what i'm talking about would be more like, who did the clara bow audience move onto AFTER her (and did these latter films contain consciousness of the having been crala bow fans at an earlier time)
(jon may say difft, i haven't read his book yet, but isn't it largely about teens rather than ppl who were formerly teens but now aren't?)
swing in germany: no, that's not the same thing at all (adoption of a music or a look or whatever as badge of political difference long predates the 20th century -- besides, what yr describing doesn't contain a sense of the fact of change over time as part of its content, at least as you've stated it)
obviously generations have aged and their tastes changed since time immemorial -- what i'm saying is that the marketing towards that generation didn't (prior to the 50s) depend in any significant degree on their knowing that they were collectively aware of what their tastes had been and had now become
(Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 09:26 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont know the answer to the clara bow question, the hayes code was constructed to avoid youth from enjoying the sex and death--explotation and b movies were made and marketed to youth, post hayes, and there was some interlocking b/w those and war films during wwii...but that isnt music...
you are right about swing, i think
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another direction
anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 10:04 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
what about pulp sf and fandom?
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sf didn't really divide internally into niches until the 60s, i don't think -- when the new wave arrived, elements of golden-age content became straight kids-stuff fare (for example andre norton increasingly wrote for children; i don't think she'd set out to when she started, and her sf style didn't really change)
reflexivity and nostalgia-for-my-own-tastes-as-a-teen maybe arrives with star wars in movies (lucas recapping HIS tastes as a teen, but not as a "matured teen"; so it's not like capitol-era sinatra's rlationship to late 30s swing); matured reflexivity becames SF's "thing" with william gibson's "the gernsback continuum", tho arguably delany -- a very reflexive and self-aware writer -- had gone there a lot earlier (but i don't think he took many readers with him)
the sf and monster movie stuff in the 50s is more consciously adolescent in aim than the same material in the 20s or 30s
Sunday, July 08, 2007
artpeice:
The Words Utopia in Ten European Languages
language peice on carved white limestone.
1) Utoopiasse (Estonian)
2) Idéalement Parfait (French)
3) Luogo Immaginario (Italian)
4) das Luftschloß (German)
5) Utopista (Slovak)
6) ут опія (Ukranian)
7) DÜŞLER ÜLKESİ; GERÇEKLEŞMESİ İMKÂNSIZ DÜŞÜNCE (Turkish)
8) beskrivning av en idealisk framtid (swedish)
9) المثالية, الطوبى مكان خيالي (Arabic)
10) ουτοπία (Greek)
The Words Utopia in Ten European Languages
language peice on carved white limestone.
1) Utoopiasse (Estonian)
2) Idéalement Parfait (French)
3) Luogo Immaginario (Italian)
4) das Luftschloß (German)
5) Utopista (Slovak)
6) ут опія (Ukranian)
7) DÜŞLER ÜLKESİ; GERÇEKLEŞMESİ İMKÂNSIZ DÜŞÜNCE (Turkish)
8) beskrivning av en idealisk framtid (swedish)
9) المثالية, الطوبى مكان خيالي (Arabic)
10) ουτοπία (Greek)
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
scooter libby goes free, and no one is really suprised.
A Woman Polishes Her Cunt on Stalin's Head.
Fantastic video for the newish Merle Haggard single, lets rebuild america first, with a strong isolationist angle.
From a European Supplier of Modernist Furniture, 20 bucks, hiart.
you know those conversations you had about the meaning of life, at dinner parties in the first year of college, where eevryone was either drunk or stoned, and everyone thought they were changing the world by being v. v. clever, apparently bush is having those salon style in the oval office, w/o the drugs. and compares the iraq imperial adventure to the american revoultion. john howard refuses to acknowledge the connections b/w petro dollars and the war.
48 Minutes of Sontag talking about Regarding the Pain of Others.
Cover for MIA's new album Kala. I am thinking of writign an essay about the folk culture of 8 bit nostalgia, but dont know where to sell it.
a one minute video from Ryan McGinley, funded by Puma. Its two people riding a bicycle naked thru a verdant green field in what looks like the south of france. isolated, pleasurable, and deeply a political, it lacks the erotic frission of his early work, but has a back to the garden gorgeousness. reminds me of the idealazation of woodstock as presented by mitchell, as opposed to the real muck of the concert:
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
the best things about these altered book peices, is not the narrative constructed by absence, but the visual construction that binds them together.
This Weiermer has a genetic condition called double muscle disorder.
great murky photos of commonness, by will rogan.
new jason panels. including this one:
Shot at 2007-07-06
the transition b/w outside adn in, in the fourth panel, told mostly thru colour, is outstanding.
apparently the biggest seal hunt int he world is in nambia.
Count Gottfriend Von Bismark infamous german decadent, finally overdosed on heroin. the telegraph obit is so dry and really quite bitchy--the last sentence is a must read.
This video was in the New Yorker. The idle rich, etc.
Wong Kari Kai is remaking Welle's The Lady From Shanghai.
chicago poster designer aesthetic appartus, makes these gig posters, that move b/w being legible and redectivley elegant, and noisy, scummy mess ups. really excellent work.
this one is my favourite.
South-African composer Philip Miller debuts his multimedia opera about the dissolution of apartheid. The performance blends image projections, recorded testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, the voice of opera star Sibongile Khumalo, and a 100-person choir.
From New York Magazine...I want to hear this.
Albini answers questions about music on a chicago poker story.
more violence in a pakistan mosque.
biafra is thinking about doing a ethopia/ereteria thing with nigeria.
our favourite madam has been given permission to release the names of her 15k clients,.
Josh Duhamel, Still From Transformers.
He looks so intense and vietnammy here, but instead of maoists he is killing giant robots, its bizarre.
Claude Cahun, 1936. (i wonder what the tapestry in the back is, it looks like a rothko or something)
A Woman Polishes Her Cunt on Stalin's Head.
Fantastic video for the newish Merle Haggard single, lets rebuild america first, with a strong isolationist angle.
From a European Supplier of Modernist Furniture, 20 bucks, hiart.
you know those conversations you had about the meaning of life, at dinner parties in the first year of college, where eevryone was either drunk or stoned, and everyone thought they were changing the world by being v. v. clever, apparently bush is having those salon style in the oval office, w/o the drugs. and compares the iraq imperial adventure to the american revoultion. john howard refuses to acknowledge the connections b/w petro dollars and the war.
48 Minutes of Sontag talking about Regarding the Pain of Others.
Cover for MIA's new album Kala. I am thinking of writign an essay about the folk culture of 8 bit nostalgia, but dont know where to sell it.
a one minute video from Ryan McGinley, funded by Puma. Its two people riding a bicycle naked thru a verdant green field in what looks like the south of france. isolated, pleasurable, and deeply a political, it lacks the erotic frission of his early work, but has a back to the garden gorgeousness. reminds me of the idealazation of woodstock as presented by mitchell, as opposed to the real muck of the concert:
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
the best things about these altered book peices, is not the narrative constructed by absence, but the visual construction that binds them together.
This Weiermer has a genetic condition called double muscle disorder.
great murky photos of commonness, by will rogan.
new jason panels. including this one:
Shot at 2007-07-06
the transition b/w outside adn in, in the fourth panel, told mostly thru colour, is outstanding.
apparently the biggest seal hunt int he world is in nambia.
Count Gottfriend Von Bismark infamous german decadent, finally overdosed on heroin. the telegraph obit is so dry and really quite bitchy--the last sentence is a must read.
This video was in the New Yorker. The idle rich, etc.
Wong Kari Kai is remaking Welle's The Lady From Shanghai.
chicago poster designer aesthetic appartus, makes these gig posters, that move b/w being legible and redectivley elegant, and noisy, scummy mess ups. really excellent work.
this one is my favourite.
South-African composer Philip Miller debuts his multimedia opera about the dissolution of apartheid. The performance blends image projections, recorded testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, the voice of opera star Sibongile Khumalo, and a 100-person choir.
From New York Magazine...I want to hear this.
Albini answers questions about music on a chicago poker story.
more violence in a pakistan mosque.
biafra is thinking about doing a ethopia/ereteria thing with nigeria.
our favourite madam has been given permission to release the names of her 15k clients,.
Josh Duhamel, Still From Transformers.
He looks so intense and vietnammy here, but instead of maoists he is killing giant robots, its bizarre.
Claude Cahun, 1936. (i wonder what the tapestry in the back is, it looks like a rothko or something)
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
30 Words on 30 Singles:
Colbie Callibat—Bubbly
It’s polite, kind of pretty, and lovely. I can imagine it sung better by people who have much more to prove, like maybe Jessica Simpson. It’s still too nice, though.
Justin Timberlake—Lovestoned.
He has such a talent for dirty rythym, and everything that he touches has turned to gold. This is just him coasting, the same sounds, the same grooves. It disappoints.
Kenny Chesney---Never Wanted More.
It’s a response to Tim McGraw’s Last Dollar as sentimental ode to fidelity, to both god and a good woman. I always find this shit more moving then I should.
Posh Spice feat. Nas—Full Stop.
It’s really awful isn’t it? All of those rumours of scrapping her last album as quality control seem completely accurate. Also she has never been a good girl. Fundamentally unlistenable.
Avril Lavigne—When You are Gone
Though tinkling piano’s will make everything better. The song lacks the proper falling apart theatrics for the listener to believe that she is in real pain. Give us the masochism.
Pitbull, etc—Go Girl.
I really love how he manages to draw out every word, the languorous pleasure of power becomes explicit. The lyrics don’t do anything for me, but the delivery sure does.
Akon—Blame it On.
I keep thinking that maybe he should quit apologizing and stand up and do the shit he has promised, but then I am white and in the suburbs, and hypocritical.
KEyisha Cole, Lil Kim and Missy—Let it Go.
I love the whole dump the motherfucker already message, but for these three, who have spent so much time articulating sexual power, they would do something less generic when together.
Blake Lewis—You Give Love A Bad Name
I find the Bon Jovi on the country charts an amusing thing, and American Idols attempt to move away from Ballads even funnier. Conflating the two is just a mess.
Sean Kingston—Beautiful Girl
This is a manipulative piece of psychopathology. You’re so beautiful that if you leave me, I will kill myself, but we can be together all the time, if you stay
Kayne West and John Meyer—Bittersweet
His ego’s engulfed anything that would have been interesting. She cut me like surgery? Is that the great lyric that has been promised? And calling women bitches is just tired?
Citzens for a Better America—Paris Hilton
Tabloid luridness meets old school punk class hatred. For something so played out and immediate, it’s fantastic little pop gem. It’s also more self aware then these things usually are.
Kelly Clarkson—Sober
Exhausting, and very sad, with an ambiguousness that seems very grown up. When she talks about being sober, and grieving, the enmeshment corrals the listener. Does what Avril failed at.
Leanne Rhimes—Nothin’ Better To Do.
The closest we have come to Bobbie Gentry or Jeanne C Riley in ages, no matter how much Gretchen Wilson tries to convince ourselves otherwise. Sexy as all get out.
Brick and Lace—Love is Wicked
They move so quickly, the words overlapping each other, then withdrawing. The percussion and that twee little flute detail all make it more interesting then a standard summer club banger.
Jordin Sparks—
I cant do this, the high falsetto and the theatrics/acrobatics seem not to be good singing as much as well trained academic exercises, the musical equivalent of the Barbizon school.
Amy Winehouse—Rehab (Jay Z Remix)
The verses he has added make the song into both celebrity cautionary tales, and an urbanized context. Some of his rhymes have a tight internal logic, but for what purpose?
Rihanna—Shut Up and Drive.
This is the summer’s single. Complicated aurally, with a wide variety of noisy mechanical detailing. The best thing might be how much control she exudes, and how ahistorical it is.
Lauryn Hill-Lose Myself
Who would have thought we would have found the new single from the queen of afro-centric hip-hop on the soundtrack to a mediocre kids summer movies. It’s desperate and clingy.
T-Pain and Piles- Shawnty
There is almost too much going on here, I think, too much shimmering sound effects and computer blips and beeps, sounds like samples from the tractor beam of Star Trek
Fergie—Barracuda:
The weird thing about Fergie is that we haven’t gotten the obligatory girl power anthem. This respectful cover of Heart’s masterpiece doesn’t have enough ovaries to make it her first.
Lil Mama—Girlfriend
Respectful of the original, without being obsequious, the track compresses the message in a careening and spinning carnival, while still (barely) maintaining control. Lil Mama’s thousand-mile-a- hour mouth, is fantastic.
R Kelly and Usher—Same Girl.
For someone so smooth in delivery (and he has a beautiful, intricate, and tender voice) the sheer chaos of his narratives, and the weirdness of metaphors, never seem to collapse.
Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson—Because of You.
This does sound like a second rate Martina single, and Reba is aging, so the whole powerhouse delivery thing seems to be failing her. Clarkson doesn’t know what to do.
Korn-Evolution
Not cookie monster apocalypse enough to be interesting as pure noise, not hooky enough to be as interesting as pop, will make a fortune on disenfranchised suburban white teenage boys.
Tim and Faith—I Need You
Featuring the latest and greatest in codependent metaphors (esp. drugs and Jesus) imprinted into the usual mentions of geography and cowboying, a tender and deeply erotic ode to married love.
T Pain—Bartender
For all of the fuck odes in hip-hop, I don’t believe that most have sex. This one about bartenders is similar to the ones about strippers, and it’s just silly.
Maroon 5—Can’t Stop.
Would be fairly innocuous MOR pop, if the lyrics weren’t so pathetic, including mentions of making love to a pillow, or how he touches himself like somebody else. Literally masturbatory.
50 Cent—Amusement Park
The same forced metaphors and bored delivery that he has on most albums, he isn’t even trying anymore, and at least Candy Shop was mildly fun to sign along with.
Ryan Adams—Two
Adams melancholy hand wringing keeps boring me. That he keeps falling into sub-Neil Young vocalisms makes things even worse. He had potential, but I miss Whiskeytown more each solo album.
Colbie Callibat—Bubbly
It’s polite, kind of pretty, and lovely. I can imagine it sung better by people who have much more to prove, like maybe Jessica Simpson. It’s still too nice, though.
Justin Timberlake—Lovestoned.
He has such a talent for dirty rythym, and everything that he touches has turned to gold. This is just him coasting, the same sounds, the same grooves. It disappoints.
Kenny Chesney---Never Wanted More.
It’s a response to Tim McGraw’s Last Dollar as sentimental ode to fidelity, to both god and a good woman. I always find this shit more moving then I should.
Posh Spice feat. Nas—Full Stop.
It’s really awful isn’t it? All of those rumours of scrapping her last album as quality control seem completely accurate. Also she has never been a good girl. Fundamentally unlistenable.
Avril Lavigne—When You are Gone
Though tinkling piano’s will make everything better. The song lacks the proper falling apart theatrics for the listener to believe that she is in real pain. Give us the masochism.
Pitbull, etc—Go Girl.
I really love how he manages to draw out every word, the languorous pleasure of power becomes explicit. The lyrics don’t do anything for me, but the delivery sure does.
Akon—Blame it On.
I keep thinking that maybe he should quit apologizing and stand up and do the shit he has promised, but then I am white and in the suburbs, and hypocritical.
KEyisha Cole, Lil Kim and Missy—Let it Go.
I love the whole dump the motherfucker already message, but for these three, who have spent so much time articulating sexual power, they would do something less generic when together.
Blake Lewis—You Give Love A Bad Name
I find the Bon Jovi on the country charts an amusing thing, and American Idols attempt to move away from Ballads even funnier. Conflating the two is just a mess.
Sean Kingston—Beautiful Girl
This is a manipulative piece of psychopathology. You’re so beautiful that if you leave me, I will kill myself, but we can be together all the time, if you stay
Kayne West and John Meyer—Bittersweet
His ego’s engulfed anything that would have been interesting. She cut me like surgery? Is that the great lyric that has been promised? And calling women bitches is just tired?
Citzens for a Better America—Paris Hilton
Tabloid luridness meets old school punk class hatred. For something so played out and immediate, it’s fantastic little pop gem. It’s also more self aware then these things usually are.
Kelly Clarkson—Sober
Exhausting, and very sad, with an ambiguousness that seems very grown up. When she talks about being sober, and grieving, the enmeshment corrals the listener. Does what Avril failed at.
Leanne Rhimes—Nothin’ Better To Do.
The closest we have come to Bobbie Gentry or Jeanne C Riley in ages, no matter how much Gretchen Wilson tries to convince ourselves otherwise. Sexy as all get out.
Brick and Lace—Love is Wicked
They move so quickly, the words overlapping each other, then withdrawing. The percussion and that twee little flute detail all make it more interesting then a standard summer club banger.
Jordin Sparks—
I cant do this, the high falsetto and the theatrics/acrobatics seem not to be good singing as much as well trained academic exercises, the musical equivalent of the Barbizon school.
Amy Winehouse—Rehab (Jay Z Remix)
The verses he has added make the song into both celebrity cautionary tales, and an urbanized context. Some of his rhymes have a tight internal logic, but for what purpose?
Rihanna—Shut Up and Drive.
This is the summer’s single. Complicated aurally, with a wide variety of noisy mechanical detailing. The best thing might be how much control she exudes, and how ahistorical it is.
Lauryn Hill-Lose Myself
Who would have thought we would have found the new single from the queen of afro-centric hip-hop on the soundtrack to a mediocre kids summer movies. It’s desperate and clingy.
T-Pain and Piles- Shawnty
There is almost too much going on here, I think, too much shimmering sound effects and computer blips and beeps, sounds like samples from the tractor beam of Star Trek
Fergie—Barracuda:
The weird thing about Fergie is that we haven’t gotten the obligatory girl power anthem. This respectful cover of Heart’s masterpiece doesn’t have enough ovaries to make it her first.
Lil Mama—Girlfriend
Respectful of the original, without being obsequious, the track compresses the message in a careening and spinning carnival, while still (barely) maintaining control. Lil Mama’s thousand-mile-a- hour mouth, is fantastic.
R Kelly and Usher—Same Girl.
For someone so smooth in delivery (and he has a beautiful, intricate, and tender voice) the sheer chaos of his narratives, and the weirdness of metaphors, never seem to collapse.
Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson—Because of You.
This does sound like a second rate Martina single, and Reba is aging, so the whole powerhouse delivery thing seems to be failing her. Clarkson doesn’t know what to do.
Korn-Evolution
Not cookie monster apocalypse enough to be interesting as pure noise, not hooky enough to be as interesting as pop, will make a fortune on disenfranchised suburban white teenage boys.
Tim and Faith—I Need You
Featuring the latest and greatest in codependent metaphors (esp. drugs and Jesus) imprinted into the usual mentions of geography and cowboying, a tender and deeply erotic ode to married love.
T Pain—Bartender
For all of the fuck odes in hip-hop, I don’t believe that most have sex. This one about bartenders is similar to the ones about strippers, and it’s just silly.
Maroon 5—Can’t Stop.
Would be fairly innocuous MOR pop, if the lyrics weren’t so pathetic, including mentions of making love to a pillow, or how he touches himself like somebody else. Literally masturbatory.
50 Cent—Amusement Park
The same forced metaphors and bored delivery that he has on most albums, he isn’t even trying anymore, and at least Candy Shop was mildly fun to sign along with.
Ryan Adams—Two
Adams melancholy hand wringing keeps boring me. That he keeps falling into sub-Neil Young vocalisms makes things even worse. He had potential, but I miss Whiskeytown more each solo album.
Twenty Singles for the first half of 2007
1. Taylor Swift--Teardrops on my Guitar
2. Miranda Lambert--Famous in a Small Town
3. R Kelly--Zoo
4. Rihanna--Shut up and Drive
5. MIA--Birdflu
6. Tori Amos-Big Wheel
7. Tim McGraw-Last Dollar
8. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
9. Toby Keith and Jerry Lee Lewis-Old Glory
10. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
11. Gossip--Listen Up
12. Avril feat Lil Mama Girlfriend
13. Porter Wagoner--Committed to Parkview
14. Plain White T's-Hey There Deliah
15. Tracey Thorn--Get Around to It
16. Arctic Monkey's-Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend
17. Rufus Wainwright-Going to a Town
18. Ben Kweller-Today
19. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? That's A Good Question
20. Fergie--Fergelicious
Nine Albums
1. Amy Winehouse--Back in Black
2. Miranda Lambert-Crazy Ex Girlfriend
3. Tim McGraw-Let it Go
4. Spring Awakening OCR
5. Lily Allen--Smile
6. Porter Wagoner--Wagonmaster
7. Grindhouse--OST
8. Alaisdair Roberts-The Amber Gatherers
9. Grey Gardens OCR
10.
1. Taylor Swift--Teardrops on my Guitar
2. Miranda Lambert--Famous in a Small Town
3. R Kelly--Zoo
4. Rihanna--Shut up and Drive
5. MIA--Birdflu
6. Tori Amos-Big Wheel
7. Tim McGraw-Last Dollar
8. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
9. Toby Keith and Jerry Lee Lewis-Old Glory
10. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
11. Gossip--Listen Up
12. Avril feat Lil Mama Girlfriend
13. Porter Wagoner--Committed to Parkview
14. Plain White T's-Hey There Deliah
15. Tracey Thorn--Get Around to It
16. Arctic Monkey's-Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend
17. Rufus Wainwright-Going to a Town
18. Ben Kweller-Today
19. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? That's A Good Question
20. Fergie--Fergelicious
Nine Albums
1. Amy Winehouse--Back in Black
2. Miranda Lambert-Crazy Ex Girlfriend
3. Tim McGraw-Let it Go
4. Spring Awakening OCR
5. Lily Allen--Smile
6. Porter Wagoner--Wagonmaster
7. Grindhouse--OST
8. Alaisdair Roberts-The Amber Gatherers
9. Grey Gardens OCR
10.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Porno
documents on the obscenity charges of max hardcore.
Sue Williams, Gaze, Oil and Ink on Canvas, 1992.
the use of obsufcating formal elements to indicate sexual power is typical of williams, and hot.
the jesuits write in favour of pre marital sex, in certain cicumstances, in their journal America.
pretty standard first year art school polaroids, but they are SX70, so the colours are always lovely.
ryan widger almsot takes traditionally beautiful, studio black and whites, in sumpotously elegant tones, but ten makes everything slightly off, they are too blurry, the composition complicates itself unessicarily. the best thnig about them though, is the tension hums tightly, w/o much hiartness.
Tintoretto, Guillano De Medici, Date Unknown
jamie alvarez makes the implicit politics of surivelance in contemp. photography explicit, the lighting is all sodiumy and prisony.
soody sharif a muslim woman born in tehran and now living in houstan, takes the orentialist fantasy of same gendered women in islamic contexts and amkes it wondefully banal.
liz linder wandered aroung america after 9/11 shooting every sign she could see that said God Bless America, kind of scary in a desperate hope, dark america kind of way.
blog entry about the bantu's abusing of the pygmy minority in the congo. he calls is a master/slave dynamic.
more info here and a report from the UN's Inidgeinous Affairs beururo herE
the ebst part of this story of hugh cunerod, the 105 yr old tenor, si that he has kept his husband, who is 40 yrs younger.
the biochemical brigrade contiues to deliver us into the gaping maw of Phillip K Dick, the weirdest oen so far, is that they have foudn a way of erasing spec. memories.
a tragic story of the galopogas tortise, and their dislike of intersepcies handjobs.
Log Drivers Waltz, i should have posted this a day earlier.
china begins its own peace keeping programming in africa.
a large collection of pretty random epeherma, including miltary manuals and graphis collections.
This Man is a Hero, with his carving 750 lbs of cheese.
Monday, July 02, 2007
From John Savage's Teenagers, 2007, Viking.
One of the most haunting moments in Peter Pan...occurs when Peter waits to be submerged in the Mermaids Lagoon. He hears a "drum beating within him" that repeats the phrase "To die will be an awfully big adventure"Although it was George Llewelyn Davies who actually uttered this famous epigram--in 1900 during the Boer War--it was Barrie who had planted the idea in his head, thanks to the relentless descriptions of dead children and the paradisaical Never Never land to which they flew...
82
One of Peter's most fervent fans was an unmarried man in his mid-forties. Robert Stephen Smyth Baden Powell was so taken with Barrie's play that he returned the next day to see it again, recommended it to his friends, and developed a relationship with the actress who played Mrs Darling...
83
The new war madness was defined by the pyschologist Charles Myers, who in Feb. 1905 called it shell shock. Doctors quickly noted a cluster of symptoms that "followed the shock of an exploding shell":paralysis, stupor, amnesia, an uncontrollable jerking of the limbs in a demented echo of Nijinsky's prewar dances. In July 1915, the professor of medicine at Oxford recorded an "orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cant imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men...hysterical dumbness, blindness and anaesthesia galore."...
159
During the first years of the (first world) war, A Manchester gang called the Napoo practiced their own version of American Indian Lore: They'd creep up behind girls and young women int he street" one of their contemporaries remembered, "then they grab the long plaited hair that hung down he back, that was the style of the day, and with a sharp pair of scissors cut off the plaited hair and run off w. it as a souvenir...the Napoo were readily identifiable by their group uniform of pink neckerchief. With their very public "scalpings" they quickly gained a fearsome reputation...
162
As part of the morality drive against the London's debauched nightlife, the young women of "West End Bohemia" were linked with drugs. In a January 1916 column, a journalist named Quex observed the prevalence of "that exciting drug cocaine": "It is so easy to take--just snuffed up the nose, and no one seems to know why the girls who suffer from this body and soul racking habit find the drug so easy to obtain. In the ladies cloakroom of a certain establishment two bucketfuls of thrown away small circular cardboard boxes were discovered by the cleaners the other day--discarded cocaine boxes"
165
...Dr Frank Buchman's Oxford Group set up in the early 1920s, instituted an unaffiliated religious revival. With no membership lists or rules, the Oxford Group practiced a new kind of Christianity;it's young mainly middle-class adherents attended weekend house parties where they publicly shared their sins. The sect pursued both moral renament and pacifism as well as its four point doctrine of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love...
189
Youth was at the sharp end of national breakdown, as the bellicose nationalism of the previous four years turned inward. German adolescents brought the war home, as they engaged in pitched street battles justified by extremist ideologies. George Grosz remembered how "the youth of Germany grouped itself in loose political unites, marching in shirt sleeves and singing 'Croak Jew, while behind them another group chanted rhythmically:'Hail Moscow!" Conflicts inevitably took place. Many skulls were broken, shinbones shattered, and even occasionally stomachs riddled with bullet holes..."
192 (ca 1929)
This was not an entirely spontaneous outburst. (Valentino)'s sudden death had created a big problem for his studio. With two Valentino vehicles on the marker, The Eagle and the Son of Shiek, united Artists was set to lose many millions of unless the star;s name could be kept alive. It later transpired that the whole mob drama in New York had been stimulated by Frank Campbell and UA publicity man Harry C Klemfuss, who stayed around the clock at the funeral parlor to make sure that everything was going to plan...
226
Berlin was well known for its cosmopolitanism, but during the early 1920s the city became an pen house for pleasure seekers for all kinds...as well as the themed restaurants and the jazz dance clubs, there were huge pleasure palaces like the huas vaterladn, which occupied an entire city block and could accommodate six thousand customers per hour. In its Rhineland Wine Terrace, a calm sunny panorama of the Rhine was replaced every hour, by a violent storm that lasted five minutes...Berlin...was the sex capital of the world...the lesbian social clubs, the transvestite balls, and the myriad brothels. The open nature of Berlins nightlife and adolescent male prostate, the Doll Boys an the Line Boys, hanging around hotels and arcades...young Germans flocked to the the capital to join what one former line boy called the "mad carousel line"...
239
Born in 1865 Joynson-Hicks, or Jix as he was quickly nicknamed, came from that very generation that had sent young Britian out to die. When he decalred war on sex in general, homosexuality ino particular, and Londons club life, a section of the yong took up the gauntlet with gusto...
247
...The schoolboy look taken up by working-class girls might have hinted at homosexuality, but (Harold Acton and Brian Howard) were the real thing. At another time, their brutal effeteness might have passed unnoticed, but in the 1920s, it struck a chord. The slaughter had decimated British masculinity: the rigid physical vigour and martial Christianity of the late nineteenth century had no match for the reality of mass shelling...
True to modernist form, Noel Coward lived up to the worst possible public perception of him, acting out the principal characters role in a sequence of scandalous press stories. In in the sketch, he was pictured in bed "wearing a Chinese dressing-grown and an expression of advanced degeneracy" As he told the Evening Standard"I am never out of opium dens, cocaine dens and other evil places. My Mind is a mess of corruption"
243
Violence worked. For many of Germany's young, war was perfable to peace..
260
...the "wild clique of homeless youths were very much toughs. They had the depraved and troubled faces of hoodlums" they wore a bizarre costume of Chaplinesque bowler hats. "old women's hats with the brims turned up in Amazon fashion adorned with ostrich plumes and medals: with handkerchiefs or scarves in screaming colours: their ears were pierced with pendants or enormous rings, while their leather shorts with surmounted by immense triangular belts also of leather-both daubed with the colours of the rainbow, esoteric numbers, human profiles, and inscriptions such as wildfrei (wild and free) or Rauber (badnits)" The wild cliques had begun in the cahoots of the great war and multiplied with postwar inflation and post crash unemployment,. Completely without adult control, these "Ring Youth Gangs" ran wild in the outer Berlin districts linked by a concentric riming of avenues. As their numbers were swelled by thousands of homeless youths, these adolescents--mostly aged between sixteen and eighteen--organized themselves into a tribal society that completely rejected civilized morality. They turned their hatred the society that had abandoned them. The names that he Wild Cliques chose illustrated their "unbridled instinct": Blood of the tartars, Blood of the Indians, Blood of the Cossacks, Wild Crime Girls Terror, Red Apaches, Black Love, Bloody Carcasses, Pirates of the Forest, and Schnapps Guzzlers." With no legal earnings or state support these wildfrei lived by homosexual prostitution car theft and burglary. Comprised of both sexes...the cliques exacted regular financial contributions to support comrades in trouble with the police. Secrete initiation violent sadistic group orgies--exposed the true savagery of the Wild Cliques. Living totally outside society, they were able to give full rein to the rampant adolescent sexuality that successive generations of youth experts and warned against...
262
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
(272)
A contention of prewar groups like the Edelwiess Pirates, these gangs existed throughout industrial Germany, In Dusseldorf, the Shambeko Band and the Killesbach Pirates, In Essen the traveling dudes, in Cologne, the Navaho, in Alberg The Snake Club. The names indicated the kind of life they wanted, freedom from the constant harassment of the Hitler Youth and the police, These wild Cliques and boys and girls traveled around the country, hitchhiking and walking as far as the Black Forest, Berlin or Vienna in direct contravention of police controls and travel restrictions...
377
Denounced by the Vichy minister of Education, Abel Bonnard, as "the last vestiges of an individualistic society" The Zazous got their revenge by ridiculing his statement was that Joan of Arc was the perfect example to all young France. This was the perfect example of the crystallised perfume of stupidity: that sent them sourcing the Vichy newspapers for the latest nuggets that they passed around for fun. Inspired "with the spirit of contradiction, we could not stomach the trinity of Travaiil-FamillePartie that they were trying to force upon France. We got energy from the absurdity of the situation..."
388
One of the most haunting moments in Peter Pan...occurs when Peter waits to be submerged in the Mermaids Lagoon. He hears a "drum beating within him" that repeats the phrase "To die will be an awfully big adventure"Although it was George Llewelyn Davies who actually uttered this famous epigram--in 1900 during the Boer War--it was Barrie who had planted the idea in his head, thanks to the relentless descriptions of dead children and the paradisaical Never Never land to which they flew...
82
One of Peter's most fervent fans was an unmarried man in his mid-forties. Robert Stephen Smyth Baden Powell was so taken with Barrie's play that he returned the next day to see it again, recommended it to his friends, and developed a relationship with the actress who played Mrs Darling...
83
The new war madness was defined by the pyschologist Charles Myers, who in Feb. 1905 called it shell shock. Doctors quickly noted a cluster of symptoms that "followed the shock of an exploding shell":paralysis, stupor, amnesia, an uncontrollable jerking of the limbs in a demented echo of Nijinsky's prewar dances. In July 1915, the professor of medicine at Oxford recorded an "orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cant imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men...hysterical dumbness, blindness and anaesthesia galore."...
159
During the first years of the (first world) war, A Manchester gang called the Napoo practiced their own version of American Indian Lore: They'd creep up behind girls and young women int he street" one of their contemporaries remembered, "then they grab the long plaited hair that hung down he back, that was the style of the day, and with a sharp pair of scissors cut off the plaited hair and run off w. it as a souvenir...the Napoo were readily identifiable by their group uniform of pink neckerchief. With their very public "scalpings" they quickly gained a fearsome reputation...
162
As part of the morality drive against the London's debauched nightlife, the young women of "West End Bohemia" were linked with drugs. In a January 1916 column, a journalist named Quex observed the prevalence of "that exciting drug cocaine": "It is so easy to take--just snuffed up the nose, and no one seems to know why the girls who suffer from this body and soul racking habit find the drug so easy to obtain. In the ladies cloakroom of a certain establishment two bucketfuls of thrown away small circular cardboard boxes were discovered by the cleaners the other day--discarded cocaine boxes"
165
...Dr Frank Buchman's Oxford Group set up in the early 1920s, instituted an unaffiliated religious revival. With no membership lists or rules, the Oxford Group practiced a new kind of Christianity;it's young mainly middle-class adherents attended weekend house parties where they publicly shared their sins. The sect pursued both moral renament and pacifism as well as its four point doctrine of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love...
189
Youth was at the sharp end of national breakdown, as the bellicose nationalism of the previous four years turned inward. German adolescents brought the war home, as they engaged in pitched street battles justified by extremist ideologies. George Grosz remembered how "the youth of Germany grouped itself in loose political unites, marching in shirt sleeves and singing 'Croak Jew, while behind them another group chanted rhythmically:'Hail Moscow!" Conflicts inevitably took place. Many skulls were broken, shinbones shattered, and even occasionally stomachs riddled with bullet holes..."
192 (ca 1929)
This was not an entirely spontaneous outburst. (Valentino)'s sudden death had created a big problem for his studio. With two Valentino vehicles on the marker, The Eagle and the Son of Shiek, united Artists was set to lose many millions of unless the star;s name could be kept alive. It later transpired that the whole mob drama in New York had been stimulated by Frank Campbell and UA publicity man Harry C Klemfuss, who stayed around the clock at the funeral parlor to make sure that everything was going to plan...
226
Berlin was well known for its cosmopolitanism, but during the early 1920s the city became an pen house for pleasure seekers for all kinds...as well as the themed restaurants and the jazz dance clubs, there were huge pleasure palaces like the huas vaterladn, which occupied an entire city block and could accommodate six thousand customers per hour. In its Rhineland Wine Terrace, a calm sunny panorama of the Rhine was replaced every hour, by a violent storm that lasted five minutes...Berlin...was the sex capital of the world...the lesbian social clubs, the transvestite balls, and the myriad brothels. The open nature of Berlins nightlife and adolescent male prostate, the Doll Boys an the Line Boys, hanging around hotels and arcades...young Germans flocked to the the capital to join what one former line boy called the "mad carousel line"...
239
Born in 1865 Joynson-Hicks, or Jix as he was quickly nicknamed, came from that very generation that had sent young Britian out to die. When he decalred war on sex in general, homosexuality ino particular, and Londons club life, a section of the yong took up the gauntlet with gusto...
247
...The schoolboy look taken up by working-class girls might have hinted at homosexuality, but (Harold Acton and Brian Howard) were the real thing. At another time, their brutal effeteness might have passed unnoticed, but in the 1920s, it struck a chord. The slaughter had decimated British masculinity: the rigid physical vigour and martial Christianity of the late nineteenth century had no match for the reality of mass shelling...
True to modernist form, Noel Coward lived up to the worst possible public perception of him, acting out the principal characters role in a sequence of scandalous press stories. In in the sketch, he was pictured in bed "wearing a Chinese dressing-grown and an expression of advanced degeneracy" As he told the Evening Standard"I am never out of opium dens, cocaine dens and other evil places. My Mind is a mess of corruption"
243
Violence worked. For many of Germany's young, war was perfable to peace..
260
...the "wild clique of homeless youths were very much toughs. They had the depraved and troubled faces of hoodlums" they wore a bizarre costume of Chaplinesque bowler hats. "old women's hats with the brims turned up in Amazon fashion adorned with ostrich plumes and medals: with handkerchiefs or scarves in screaming colours: their ears were pierced with pendants or enormous rings, while their leather shorts with surmounted by immense triangular belts also of leather-both daubed with the colours of the rainbow, esoteric numbers, human profiles, and inscriptions such as wildfrei (wild and free) or Rauber (badnits)" The wild cliques had begun in the cahoots of the great war and multiplied with postwar inflation and post crash unemployment,. Completely without adult control, these "Ring Youth Gangs" ran wild in the outer Berlin districts linked by a concentric riming of avenues. As their numbers were swelled by thousands of homeless youths, these adolescents--mostly aged between sixteen and eighteen--organized themselves into a tribal society that completely rejected civilized morality. They turned their hatred the society that had abandoned them. The names that he Wild Cliques chose illustrated their "unbridled instinct": Blood of the tartars, Blood of the Indians, Blood of the Cossacks, Wild Crime Girls Terror, Red Apaches, Black Love, Bloody Carcasses, Pirates of the Forest, and Schnapps Guzzlers." With no legal earnings or state support these wildfrei lived by homosexual prostitution car theft and burglary. Comprised of both sexes...the cliques exacted regular financial contributions to support comrades in trouble with the police. Secrete initiation violent sadistic group orgies--exposed the true savagery of the Wild Cliques. Living totally outside society, they were able to give full rein to the rampant adolescent sexuality that successive generations of youth experts and warned against...
262
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
(272)
A contention of prewar groups like the Edelwiess Pirates, these gangs existed throughout industrial Germany, In Dusseldorf, the Shambeko Band and the Killesbach Pirates, In Essen the traveling dudes, in Cologne, the Navaho, in Alberg The Snake Club. The names indicated the kind of life they wanted, freedom from the constant harassment of the Hitler Youth and the police, These wild Cliques and boys and girls traveled around the country, hitchhiking and walking as far as the Black Forest, Berlin or Vienna in direct contravention of police controls and travel restrictions...
377
Denounced by the Vichy minister of Education, Abel Bonnard, as "the last vestiges of an individualistic society" The Zazous got their revenge by ridiculing his statement was that Joan of Arc was the perfect example to all young France. This was the perfect example of the crystallised perfume of stupidity: that sent them sourcing the Vichy newspapers for the latest nuggets that they passed around for fun. Inspired "with the spirit of contradiction, we could not stomach the trinity of Travaiil-FamillePartie that they were trying to force upon France. We got energy from the absurdity of the situation..."
388
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