Dropping like flies....

woops

woops

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heard yesterday that Alistair Brotchie, who wrote a biography of Alfred Jarry, edited the Oulipo compendium and published loads of other avant-garde editions on his Atlas press, has died RIP
 
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woops said:
heard yesterday that Alistair Brotchie, who wrote a biography of Alfred Jarry, edited the Oulipo compendium and published loads of other avant-garde editions on his Atlas press, has died RIP
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i've been trying to track down a copy of that but its over £40 second hand on abe
 
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He chose the name Paco Rabanne for numerological reasons, as it had an auspicious 11 letters, and had complex beliefs about religion and the paranormal, professing to remember his encounters with God and many previous lives in extraordinary detail, which he published in a memoir, Journey: From One Life to Another (1997); he wrote other books on Buddhism, spirituality, druids and coming catastrophes. His most public, mocked prophecy was that the space station Mir would crash upon, and destroy, Paris in 1999.
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www.theguardian.com

Paco Rabanne obituary

Designer of radical metal and plastic garments, who later became known for his bestselling perfumes
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www.theguardian.com

DM Thomas obituary

Author, poet and scholar of Russian literature whose greatest success came with his controversial 1981 novel The White Hotel
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The sex and violence were described in lingering, some said lubricious, detail. Although the novel was variously hailed – by Graham Greene and Time magazine, among others – as a powerful new departure in fiction, and an insight into the dark heart of the 20th century, it was attacked by some as pornographic and misogynistic.
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Much influenced by the Cornish landscape, his poetry had a mystic, Celtic tinge. Physically, too, in his youth, he resembled his Welsh namesake, Dylan Thomas, with bulbous nose, wild curls and a cigarette moored to his lower lip, and some of his poems shared the mystically charged erotic preoccupations of the “Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive”. Thomas’s own favourite Celtic bard, however, was Yeats, whom he would read aloud or recite, the lines rolling evocatively out from his barrel-shaped body.
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IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
There is a bit in Adrian Mole where he is babysitting for some family and they tell him not to let their kid read The White Hotel so he gets all up on his high horse, going on about censorship and how enquiring minds shouldn't be prevented from choosing what they want to read etc etc.... and then Adrian reads it and is predicted shocked and flabbergasted, he splutters "The child must NEVER NEVER lay his eyes on that book!"
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
If you've ever seen the film Qui Etes Vous Polly Magoo then you will probably remember the scene at the start where there is the bizarre and really stunning fashion show in a kind of giant beehive place, the amazing metal costumes were made by Paco Rabanne

 
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IdleRich said:
There is a bit in Adrian Mole where he is babysitting for some family and they tell him not to let their kid read The White Hotel so he gets all up on his high horse, going on about censorship and how enquiring minds shouldn't be prevented from choosing what they want to read etc etc.... and then Adrian reads it and is predicted shocked and flabbergasted, he splutters "The child must NEVER NEVER lay his eyes on that book!"
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I've read all the Adrian Moles (secret diary, growing pains, true confessions) and consider myself a big fan, don't recall that bit. Or is it in the really new one, I've not bothered with those cos the first was a bit ropey. Should I?
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I can't remember which book it's in cos it's a very small, single line mention, I think it probably only stuck out to me cos I'd read The White Hotel not long before I happened to come across that bit. It's certainly on one of the later ones which are probably inessential, of course there are some good bits cos... it's Adrian Mole, but I guess it is just more of the same. And I think that at some point I grew somewhat tired of everything she put him through. In the first books when he is a teenager I was happy to laugh at him, but when he is a middle-aged man, still a loser in every conceivable way it starts to feel too cruel.
 
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I thought someone would have mentioned that DJ Deeon snuffed it in July due to "undisclosed causes" ( although his bout of "pneumonia" might provide some clues if you believe in "code words" )

so here I am, to put wrongs to rights


DJ Deeon - Work This Dick

Ghetto Tech is a weird one - it's obviously brilliant, but... as DJ Deeon himself said it was music intended "for the strippers, for the street"

and expressing a like for tongue in cheek misogyny and sexism might result in a loss of earnings nowadays, so can I really endorse his oeuvre?

I'll compound my sins and post a DJ Deeon Boiler Room set from 2016

[ in retrospect ] he's not looking too healthy but he rocks the room


DJ Deeon - Paris DJ Set

I suppose the French can't understand English, so when DJ Deeon drops that "FACE DOWN ASS UP THAT'S THE WAY WE LOVE TO FUCK" tune at 3:20 the crowd all chant along with absolutely no inhibition whatsoever

I suppose it would be better if I could dig up a video of DJ Deeon set in a seedy Chicago after hours venue full of strippers and people from "the street", but who knows, there may some people matching that description in the French crowd - they certainly seem up for it

someone once tried doing a ghetto tech night in Manchester but with a maximum of two paying guests it wasn't going to fly

edit: listen to the toms, hi hat and bleep bar or two at approx 2:45 on the "work this dick" tune - that's the "roots of footwork / juke" laid bare

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bonus beats


DJ Deeon - Housewerk

^ late 90s mixtape

^ hard filtered booty house ghetto tech!

^ i recommend a listen for what it's worth...
 
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Only just found out that Monte Cazazza died in late June – the snap of him holding his heart, freshly ripped from his bleeding chest, for VILE magazine is one of those ‘classic’ old-school industrial images –and was copied by David Blaine a couple of decades later. He was also behind TG’s Gary Gilmore Memorial Society postcard/T-shirt designs and a lot of transgressive art you’d have to hide from your Catholic mum. All seems a bit quaint now, compared to 'MILF Manor'.

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Didn’t really get into his later recordings with Factrix, but he left us some zingers like “Mary Bell”, “Rabid Rats” and a fine cover of the Brion Gysin showstopper “Kick That Habit Man”, as well as fiddling about with electronics on The Leather Nun’s “Slow Death” 12”. And this great 7” - play at full whack (is it just me, or does he sound a bit like Whacko Jacko?)

 
william_kent

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Jamie Reid, situationist inspired artist, dies age 76

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maybe he was prescient, because this image that was recycled for a Sex Pistols 7" cover, sums up the New age Traveller lifestyle that many punks adopted in later years
 
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