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drinking with the man
from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading
where you wanna go with the men from uncool
To see unfamiliar emotional reality behind the facade of familiar material appearances. To somehow counter the nightmare of the pervasive material appearance. Obviously, the word spirituality has some some sappy cliched references and its meaning has not the same relational … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bob Dylan, doug murphy bisonics, fred emney, joe strummer, john cooper clarke, john hind, kaftwerk, Mick Jagger, noel fielding, paul hamilton, Peter Cook, si beex bisonics, simon beacon, smoking ant records, the belfast cowboy, the bisonics, Van Morrison, Wassily Kandinsky
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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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the jazz swingers
African masks. The surrealists and the fetish for the African mask. The Man Ray photographs, the Demoiselles D’Avignon of Picasso in which cubsim collapsed the figurative. The African iconography and jazz was a metaphor for the exotic and a key … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Arnold Schoenberg, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Django Reinhardt, german swing youth, itzhak perlman, Jean Paul Sartre, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Lindy Hop, Marcel Duchamp, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, stephane grappelli, Theodor Adorno
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tea and the polite amusements
To dip or to pour. that is the question…. The Tea Party felt it was better to pour tea into the waters around the Boston wharf. Maybe if they had poured water into the barrels of tea history would have … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged aleksei naumov, Christopher Hitchens, henry saville, John Lennon, john lennon tea, jonas hanway, Lewis Carroll, mary cassatt, richard collins artist, William Makepiece Thackeray, Yoko Ono
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imagine if you can: yes!
John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading
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Tagged Gary Tillery, John Lennon, knotted gun statue, knotted gun strategy, Marshall Crenshaw, non-violence project foundation, Paul McCartney, Rene Descartes, Ringo Starr, Slavoj Zizek, steve forbert, Tennessee Williams, The Beatles, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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iron(ic) butterflies
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the very first record i ever bought was ‘in-a-gadda-da-vita’, the Lp by the iron butterfly. (the second was the beatles’ ‘revolver’). back when i was a larvae, i thought the iron butterfly was the … Continue reading
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