Author: Andrew
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‘Marijuana will save world capitalism‘ -Richey Edwards, 1993 Manic Street Preachers.
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‘Images come from chaos’ -artist Francis Bacon
photography: Floria Sigismondi
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And while we’re currently besotted with our betters, here’s one prepared earlier:
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cartoon by David Simonds
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‘Between two evils, I refuse to choose the lesser.’ -Karl Kraus
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What did one wall say to the other? Meet me at the corner dude.
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‘I have always liked people who can’t adapt themselves to life pragmatically.’ -Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
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‘Music is the strongest form of magic’ -Marilyn Manson
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‘You know I can control the weather with my moods. Only thing is I can’t control my moods…’ -Nick Cave
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‘The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to discern if they are genuine.’
-Winston Churchill
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‘I turned down the OBE because it’s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who’ve got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.’ –Ken Loach
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‘It’s cold gin again…’ with much seasonal warmth x9x
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‘Alienation’ –I know it is there whenever I sing a love song, or recite a poem, whenever I handle a banknote or enter a shop, whenever I glance at a poster or read a newspaper. At the very moment the human is defined as ‘having possessions,’ I know it is there, dispossessing the human’ -Henri Lefebvre
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‘I didn’t really care about ‘good’ photography, I cared about complete honesty’ -Nan Goldin photographer
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‘I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you’re doing, even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.’ -Thelonious Monk
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‘Why do I make people laugh? Because all my life I’ve been frightened of ridicule’ -Frankie Howerd OBE.
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‘No such thing as an evil person, just unhappy people trying to be happy’ -actor Eddie Marsan
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Meeting of Failures manifesto by Serge Berna -1950
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‘Don’t fake the funk, your nose will grow.’ -Bootsy Collins
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Sledgehammer in a guitar case, by Andrew Castrucci 2009
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Ché Guevara: 14th June 1928 -9th October 1967
‘The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside the T-shirt where we have trapped him, the eyes of Ché Guevara are still burning with impatience’ -Ariel Dorfman
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What happens to rebellious rainbows? They get thrown into prisms.
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‘I was so moved and so disturbed that when I left the theatre and attempted to put on my hat, I couldn’t find my head!’?? -Jean-François Lesueur after an early performance of Beethoven’s fifth symphony.
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‘The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly’ -Bruce Lee
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Talking truth to power
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‘Here’s to Britain’s young. You were ridiculed. Patronised. Demonised even.
And you may have changed history…’ -Owen Jones, writer, post election, 8th June 2017
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If you were ever in any doubt…
The Director Of The Music Video That Predicted The Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad Speaks Out
WIZ prophesied Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad with Chemical Bros video in 1999
Pepsi advert remarkably similar to Chemical Brothers 1999 music video for single ‘Out of Control’
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‘While there are still minds to be moved, imaginations to be stirred, a true song/film may yet perform it’s explosive life -enhancing function. We may yet be avenged’ -after Lindsay Anderson
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Hail Chuck Berry x9x
‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man’ mp3
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‘I don’t know how radical you are, or how radical I am. I am certainly not radical enough.
One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself’. -Vladimir Lenin 1870 -1924
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‘The statue of Liberty needs to be a bit browner than it is’ -Spike Milligan 1967
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Rudi Gernreich, circa early 1970’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Gernreich
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‘Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.’ -Terence McKenna
psychedelicsociety.org.uk
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25/11/16 Cuban revolutionary Fidel Alejandro Castro dies aged 90
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‘If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide.’ -Mahatma Ghandi
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President Trump: How & Why… by Jonathan Pie
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‘To live outside the law, you must be honest’
-Bobby Dylan recipient 2016 Nobel literature prize
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Stoned immaculate…
‘Benny Shanon’s controversial theory that Moses was under the influence of hallucinogens when he received the law. His paper, ‘Biblical Entheogen’s’ details parallels between the effects induced by the psychedelic brew Ayahuasca, and the Bible’s account of the life of Moses.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/05/religion.israelandthepalestinians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Shanon
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‘I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.’ -Tommy Cooper
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But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence,… illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. – Ludwig Feuerbach
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This is not a joke. If the Beatles had been black, what would they have been called? Niggers.
(It’s suggesting that because the Beatles were white (like Elvis) they -particularly in America- were able to transcend prejudice of the essentially black music styles they’d appropriated.
If they’d been black no matter how successful they were they still would have been called ‘niggers’.)
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Rhythm Kings… Who’s on first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
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‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, born this week 1792
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RIP Alan Vega.
Indelible music, uncompromising beauty.
Born June 23rd 1938, Died July 16th 2016
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‘Inglan Is a Bitch’ by Linton Kwesi Johnson:?
Thanks to Ali Tollervey
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‘I asked the producer what the budget was, the producer said: ‘I’ll tell you what the cocaine budget was $750 00’.
I thought for a second and said: ‘Well, its all up there on the screen’ -Michael Caine 1984
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http://tillmans.co.uk/campaign-eu
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Louise Michel, ‘the grande dame of Anarchism’ was born on this day 1830.
‘Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeance.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Michel
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‘Pizza is the staff of life. Without pizza and other fine Italian foods, there is no happiness, okay?’ -John Goodman from ‘Fallen’ 1998
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‘But consider, tis true I have committed crimes but you’ve committed far worse atrocities in your dreams’ -Dr Jekyll/Hyde
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‘Your dark sunglasses, won’t make you Lou Reed,
Your dark sunglasses just make it hard to see…
Your dark sunglasses won’t make you look like…
John Cale,
Sterling Morrison,
or even…
Doug Yule…’
-Bill Baird mp3
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‘Bangers and Mash’ by Sellers and Loren mp3
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‘Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately, try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone. One question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what is: Does this path have heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through bush, or into bush. In my life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor’s question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.’
-From ‘The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge’ by Carlos Castaneda
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On artist Leonora Carrington: ‘Those respectable people, who for a dozen years, had invited her to dine in a prestigious restaurant have still not recovered from the embarrassment when they noticed that, while continuing to take part in the conversation, she had taken off her shoes and meticulously covered her feet in mustard’ -Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Kill Hope!
‘How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time after time, like a noxious insect, it begins to stir again, it shivers back again into a faint tremulous life. Once more it worms its way into one’s heart, to instill its poison, to gnaw away the solid hard foundations of life and leave in their place the hollow phantom of illusion.’ -Dorothy Strachey
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UK Mothering Sunday, March 6th. For mothers everywhere. John Lennon ‘Serve Yourself’ mp3
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‘you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land…’
from ‘HOME’ by Warsan Shire http://seekershub.org/blog/2015/09/home-warsan-shire/
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‘Cinema is not a sausage’ -Walerian Borowczyk
+ 2015 review
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White out x9 http://gizmodo.com/listen-to-100-white-albums-played-at-once-1469731580
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‘The Tyranny of Pop’ by Roger Scruton, BBC Radio 4 ‘Point of View’
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‘I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls’. -Henry David Thoreau
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Jammy Knickers
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‘I want to make heaviness light and lightness heavy’ -Jean Cocteau
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As Tony Benn was fond of saying about grassroots social change: ‘First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.’
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‘Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.’ –Author, Anaïs Nin,
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Tony Wilson (Factory Records) asked Sid Vicious if he wrote for the man in the street. He replied ‘I’ve met the man in the street and he’s a cunt.’
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Cilla Black 27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015
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‘A kind of tartar builds up over your consciousness, and you think this is the world. This isn’t the world; this is just tartar, a wall, a buildup of scum and shit. People come along who have the great power and knock a hole in that.
And through that hole comes this blinding bolt of light, and you see it and you remember, Oh, I FORGOT about that.’ -Ken Kesey
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New Life -Depeche Mode mp3
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Green Onions film fan art
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Begin forwarded message:
From: ali tollervey
http://designobserver.com/article.php?id=37538
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The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself -Robert Bresson
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‘The bass guitar can be a mystical, magical thing holding the power of the universe’ -Jah Wobble
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To stop the age of extinction, nature needs a new pronoun
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/robin-wall-kimmerer/to-stop-age-of-extinction-nature-needs-new-pronoun
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Andy Fraser electric bassist Free, RIP 1952-2015
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/08/srdja-popovic-revolution-serbian-activist-protest
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‘The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform’ -Alfred Kinsey
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The man who robbed a bank for love http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31457718
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‘When I was fifteen I suffered from unrequited love,? and I wanted to commit suicide in a romantic way . . .?but at 16 I decided on a more exalted death. I wanted to dance myself to death.’
-Emma Goldman, 1933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
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At the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp, survivor Roman Kent calls for a 11th commandment: ‘Thou shall not be a bystander’
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‘In life the only thing to take seriously is the menu’ -Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty
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‘It’s actually the souls of the trees we’re seeing in the winter. In summer everything is green and idyllic but in the winter, the branches and the trunks all stand out. Just look at how crooked they all are. The branches have to carry all the leaves to the sunlight. That’s one long struggle for survival.’
-Joe (Charlotte Gainsborg) Nymphomaniac