Take the 5:10 to Dreamland
Sad to report, the artist, photographer and filmmaker extraordinaire Bruce Conner has died. See also, Devo – “Mongoloid”, America is Waiting, Breakaway, “Mea Culpa” from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
London Noir: Cathi Unsworth Interviewed
The book does end on a hopeful note as I think there are some very young people out there utilising the very new technology that the Internet provides to really do their own version of punk, that by-passes the record company and the ad men, the marketing and the impotent music media. That was inspired by the Arctic Monkeys and what they did, by all those underage clubs that are springing up (and often run by the offspring of old punkers). I am heartened that it is out there as this really is a sick and scary time for young people to have to grow up in.
Andrew Stevens talks with novelist Cathi Unsworth about goth, noir and laddism.