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08/29/2023

The practice, imagery, and effects of erotic flagellation have long been a source of infatuation. Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, for instance, made mention of the erotic practice in their writings. The taboo cat and mouse game of B**M has since evolved from a 19th-centur...

11/30/2021

“She was British-Somali. She wore braces. She shaved her head. She freaked out Johnny Rotten by talking about hallucinations. She wrote lyrics like this:
My mind is like a plastic bag/ That corresponds to all those ads/ It sucks up all the rubbish/ That is fed in through by ear/I eat Kleenex for breakfast/ And use soft hygienic Weetabix/ To dry my tears/My mind is like a switchboard/ With crossed and tangled lines/ Contented with confusion… My dreams I daren’t remember…/ I’ve dreamt that I was the ruler of the sea/ The ruler of the universe/ The ruler of the supermarket/ And even fatalistic me.
Or like this: “Oh bo***ge up yours/ Oh bo***ge no more/ Oh bo***ge up yours/ Oh bo***ge no more.”
Germ-Free Adolescents, like some of the greatest other punk albums, was obviously heavily influenced by reggae’s Biblical apocalyptic fatalism and vision of a world in end days.
She wore clothing made out of what looked to be shower curtains, left-over army salvage, and anything in very bright plastics. And cardigans and colorful gloves and strange hats. She gave punk rock color (fashion & race), wit, a female perspective.
She was a poseur. She liked to make people stare. She was a feminist. (And later, a Hare Krishna!) She made female stereotypes seem absurd.
You could say she was the female Johnny Rotten but perhaps the female David Johanson of the New York Dolls in 1975 or so is more accurate.Her voice was an ungodly caterwaul that influenced a thousand riot grrls.”I just want to be like me,” she told NME at the time. “I said that I wasn’t a s*x symbol, and that if anybody tried to make one I’d shave my head tomorrow.” 💡🖤🌹🔪ℙoly𝕊terene

11/28/2021

Nitzer Ebb ⚡️ “Join in the Chant” 11.27.21

11/23/2021

“In my mind, I thought I was musical when I was growing up. Word-wise, I used to write poetry. I didn’t have the rock star mentality, I had the ‘serious young artist’ mentality. I was actually more into poets and things like that, and that attitude and that scene, [writers such as] Ferlinghetti and Bukowski. I thought it was pretty interesting so I started reading a lot of the stuff.
“Andrew [Farriss] was originally the singer, the front guy. I really started when he didn’t feel like singing anymore. He gave me the mic one day and said, ‘Do you know this song? Just sing for a while, while we try out this drummer.”
-On developing INXS’ unique sound
“We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that’s where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music, but our lives. Our music is like a painting and the main things we want to have are very distinct patches of bright and dark. By that, I mean we want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we’ve ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.
Great things rise to the top. A great ABBA song is just as worthy as a great Joy Division song…”💡🖤🌹🔪𝕄ichaelℍutchence

11/19/2021

-You once said that when you’re shooting a portrait, it’s not the subject’s soul you want; it’s their aura. Why?
“A soul is a little more difficult to get out. People’s souls are very mysterious,but the aura is not. I want that certain kind of mystical energy. And then the aura will pop.”—How do you pop it? “By squeezing it! It’s like squeezing somebody’s balls, if you squeeze them long enough, they’ll scream,that pops the aura. (Laughs) When I was younger my mother used to say to me, “You know, Michael you’re a hell of a tease.” —Have you ever thought about your own aura?
“Well, in life it’s about opening yourself up. It’s about tapping in to your instincts+your energies. I think it also helps that before every session, I do a headstand.”
-How come?
To clear my head+empty myself!These days, my drugs of choice are yoga, massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, chanting, meditation.”
-I can’t imagine that was true during your heavier, drug-fueled years.
“Actually, it was! I’d do yoga+ drugs because then I’m open to all kinds of possibilities! It’s funny, Lou Reed once wrote a poem about it, he called me a limey shutterbug who stands on his head+does co***ne. I just loved to experience. That’s my excuse, anyway!”
-I’m sure the constant company of rock stars helped you to experience a lot.
“True, I hung around w/a lot of naughty boys but I never drank even in all my years of co***ne madness, I never drank, I never did he**in. Experimentation is one thing; death is something else. I was never self-destructive; I wasn’t looking to die ever even though I got really close to it.”
-Are you still so experimental these days?
“No. I mean, I smoke a little pot, that’s about it. My doctors all say, “Nothing wrong w/a little ma*****na, mate.”Nowadays I’m older so it means I’m more boring. My wife says to me, “People think you’re really interesting, so I'm going tell them the truth that you’re a very boring person.” And there’s some truth to that! But in my age it’s better to be a bit more boring because I’ll live a little bit longer…”💡🖤🌹🔪𝕄ickℝock 𝕣𝕚𝕡*

11/15/2021

Sun7 events will be back in
the new year. Hope to see
you there 1.19.22 🖤

11/14/2021

“To write a love song that stands the test of time … that’s all I ever wanted to do. Especially as I’m a hopeless romantic,” Karen Orzolek laughs. “So this song is pretty important to me.” The song that changed the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ career for ever was Maps, initially buried on the second side of 2003’s debut album Fever to Tell. Written in 20 minutes (“It was like it came completely out of the ether”), Maps’ devastating chorus was lifted wholesale from an email that Orzolek had sent to her then boyfriend, Liars frontman Angus Andrew. “He was on tour, and we never saw each other, and I hated it, so I emailed: ‘Why do they get to be with you? They don’t love you like I love you.’” Maps’ video was a huge hit on MTV, and both mainstream and alternative critics adored it. Kelly Clarkson producer Dr Luke has confirmed that its structure and guitar breaks inspired Clarkson’s huge 2004 hit, Since U Been Gone, while Beyoncé’s Hold Up samples it. Orzolek still likes hearing the songs. “It’s like a memento to a time. But it’s also left me long ago, and dived into the mainstream … taken on its own life.”💡🖤🌹🔪𝕂aren 𝕆

11/11/2021

“The Lost Boys was an unholy production: an organic, ever-evolving beast held together by hard graft, extreme partying, some of the most beautiful young actors New Hollywood had to offer+an obscene amount of talent. This was not your dad’s Dracula — this was s*xed-up vampires, maggot hallucinations+death by stereo, lensed by the cinematographer of Taxi Driver.James Jeremias was a first-time screenwriter, working as a grip on studio lots when he had the idea for The Lost Boys. “I had read Anne Rice’s Interview W/ The Vampire,” he says, “and in that there was a 200-year-old vampire trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl. Since Peter Pan had been one of my all-time favourite stories, I thought, ‘What if the reason Peter Pan came out at night and never grew up and could fly was because he was a vampire?’”So was born ‘Lost Boys’, back then w/out a ‘The’, referencing Peter Pan’s kiddy gang. The screenplay, which Jeremias wrote in the summer of 84 w/ childhood friend Jan Fischer, concerned two young brothers living in Santa Cruz w/ their mother. There they meet the leader of a vampire gang before connectingw/ the Frog brothers, identical twin eight-year-old vampire-hunting boy scouts. All of the kids were pre-teens. “It was about that time in life before s*x rears its ugly little head,” says Jeremias. That would soon change. Shooting began in Santa Cruz on 2 June 1986. “When I got there I thought, ‘This is exactly where you would go if you were a teenage vampire,’” Schumacher says. “Because you’ve got the boardwalk, the beach, a lot of transient young people, a lot of drug people, runaway kids all over the place. Santa Cruz had more murders per capita than anywhere else in the US.There was a murder outside of our hotel while we were preparing the movie.” The Santa Cruz authorities welcomed the crew, but didn’t want to scare any more tourists away, so the town’s on-screen name was changed to Santa Carla.
The film’s tagline — “Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die” — is as fitting as it gets, reflecting everything that went on, immortalising its cast. Never die.”💡🖤🌹🔪𝕋he 𝕃ost 𝔹oys

11/10/2021

“Mark E. Smith, the famously irascible frontman of The Fall, was one of the last truly outspoken rock’n’roll rebels.
He was an unpredictable provocateur who didn’t care one bit which musical contemporaries, younger bands, or so-called national treasures he chose to aim his ire at.
On being asked to pose for selfies:
“You don’t know what to do really,” he told NME last year. “The last time it happened to me it was because by mistake I blundered into a pub next to a Pixies concert in the summer. F***ing hell. I was just walking down and I was going to meet a fella about some business and I wanted a nice empty pub. I got to the pub and it was f***ing jam packed with all these Pixies fans who wanted selfies. I am totally oblivious to these things but it turns out the Pixies cover one of our songs. I never liked the Pixies but all these fans wanted pictures. It’s just f***ing weird…”💡🖤🌹🔪𝕄ark 𝔼 𝕊mith

11/03/2021

“When Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds finally played the Ritz in New York City during their ‘Your Funeral… My Trial’ tour, it was a makeup date, rescheduled for a Sunday in February, after an earlier, sold out Friday show the previous October had been cancelled at the very last minute. On that night, when I got to the venue, there was a large crowd of people dressed in black standing in the street outside. Mick Harvey sat atop a huge cube of equipment covered by a tarp. I asked him “What happened?” he shrugged + threw his hands up. “We don’t know where Nick is.” (The answer, it was later revealed by the Village Voice, was that Cave had been arrested and was then sitting in jail.
The rescheduled date came some weeks after the end of the tour+the Sunday show was poorly attended, so it was easy to get near the stage. I stood directly in front of Cave’s mic stand. Now, I don’t want to imply that Nick Cave has mellowed out over the years—because he really hasn’t—but my favorite era of Cave’s work is from Mutiny! through Kicking Against The Pricks. It was thrilling, almost scary, being so close to someone so seemingly unhinged+angry. Some of it didn’t necessarily seem like an act. His stage presence was fearsome+impressive, in a Keith Richards “elegantly wasted” meets Antonin Artaud sort of way. Larger than life. Cave wore a blue velvet tuxedo w/ a ruffle collar shirt +cuffs,he looked dead cool. Or maybe he had just taken a different sort of vitamin?If I haven’t gotten the point across that this was one of the very best concerts that I’ve ever seen, it absolutely was. Cave was then, and still is, the best frontman of our time— this was an incarnation of the Bad Seeds that included both Blixa Bargeld+Kid Congo Powers—but in the first decade of his career, he was more intense, more dangerous, more… fu***ng evil, basically. Today’s Nick Cave is more akin to a rambunctious revival preacher, but back then he just seemed homicidal. But, you know, in a good way…” 🖤💡🌹🔪ℕickℂave

11/01/2021

post apocalypsin adhuc somnia* (post apocalypse, we still dream) NEU logo designed in house+new projects coming! Thanks to all our supporters and friends for your support. 🖤💡

11/01/2021

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