The Missing Links
21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
Now. In the history of music, there has rarely been an album as over-hyped or credited with being much more political than it really is than ‘American Idiot.’ Basically what it encompasses is some disaffected cokehead (the ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ — if you ever want to see hilarious po-face humorless clich éd-rebel emo garbage, I suggest watching the nonsensical video to this song) who leaves home, kicks around in the world a bit, then goes home again after his headspinfluential tormentor-mentor punk hero ‘St. Jimmy’ kills himself. All set to music. Quite stunning. It really only got as much approbation as it did because it came out during the Bush years…
A review by Graham Rae.
Whatever it is, we’re against it
The relaunch of 3:AM continues apace, with: – a less cluttered, easier to read front page – some new team members – a new separate section for 3:AM Asia on the sidebar You can also find us on facebook, both at the group and the 3:AM page.
The Sybaritic British Empire: Jake Arnott, Aleister Crowley & the weight of Magickal History
Unlike The Long Firm, which reveled in the dark glamour of its gangsters, starlets and rent boys, there’s a flatness to The Devil’s Paintbrush which doesn’t suit Crowley: he should leap off the page at you, as he did in life, but here the dual narrative seems to sap him a little, leaving him a deflated figure when, in 1903, a year before his fateful encounter with Aiwass in Cairo, he was approaching the peak of his powers.
James Bridle on reading Aleister Crowley.