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IN HEAVEN...
From THE GUARDIAN, Monday 23 December 2002...
Punk pioneer Joe Strummer, a musical and political inspiration for a generation, has died aged 50.
The former Clash frontman died of a suspected heart attack yesterday at his home in Somerset.
U2 singer Bono called the Clash "the greatest rock band" and said they "wrote the rule book" for later acts.
Billy Bragg said Strummer was the driving force who helped give punk its "political edge".
Writer Jon Savage said: "In 1977, the Clash did one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Joe Strummer in particular gave it his all - and thereby inspired a whole generation."
Born in Ankara, Turkey and the son of a diplomat, Strummer, whose real name was Mellor, was middle class and public school educated but became a hugely admired figure as the musical voice of rebellion.
The Clash scored 16 top 40 hits including Rock the Casbah, Bankrobber and I Fought the Law. Should I Stay or Should I Go? reached number one after the group split up when it was used in a Levi's ad.
The group's third album London Calling was named the greatest album of the 80s by Rolling Stone magazine - even though it was released in 1979.
The news of Strummer's.death was announced to the world today on his official website. A message dated December 23 on strummersite.com reads: "Joe Strummer died yesterday. Our condolences to Luce and the kids, family and friends."
A statement issued by his publicist said Strummer "died peacefully at his home in Somerset". It added that the musician's wife Lucy, two daughters and stepdaughter "request privacy at this harrowing time".
Strummer -singer, guitarist and songwriter - was the creative force behind the Clash, along with Mick Jones.
Strummer and Jones began writing two-minute, three-chord punk anthems such as White Riot, but eventually diversified into reggae, funk, blues and rap. In many ways they were at the forefront of world music.
The pair had a strained relationship and Strummer - famed at the time for his mohican haircut - ousted him from the line-up in 1983. The band limped on with new members but called it a day in the mid-80s. They always resisted lucrative offers to reform, unlike their contemporaries the Sex Pistols.
Today Bob Geldof - a musical contemporary as frontman for the Boomtown Rats - today said he admired their refusal to sell out. "I know for a fact they were offered huge amounts of money," he told the BBC. "They just said no, that isn't really what we stood for. That's truly admirable."
He added: "They were very important musically but as a person, he was a very nice man."
Bragg said his political imagination had been fired by Strummer, after seeing the Clash at a famed Rock Against Racism show in east London's Victoria Park.
"I have a great admiration for the man," he said. "His most recent records are as political and edgy as anything he did with the Clash. His take on multicultural Britain in the 21st century is far ahead of anybody else," he told the BBC. "Without Joe, there's no political Clash and without the Clash the whole political edge of punk would have been severely dulled."
Bono planned to work with Strummer next month on a Nelson Mandela tribute track for an Aids fundraiser show in South Africa. He said today: "The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2. It's such a shock."
Strummer made a number of film appearances, including Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train and Alex Cox's Straight To Hell. The Clash also made a cameo in Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy and starred in their own film, Rude Boy.
He had a brief stint as singer with the Pogues in the early Nineties and by the end of the decade had formed a new band, the Mescaleros. He had long resisted lucrative offers to reform the Clash and preferred to develop new music rather than dwell in the past.
It long irritated him that the spectre of the band cast its shadow over his solo work. The band finished a tour just a month ago, during which he performed with Jones for the first time in almost two decades at a firefighters' benefit show in west London.
The Clash had been tipped to finally play together for a one-off performance next year as they were inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in the US.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place tomorrow to establish the cause of death, which is not thought to be suspicious.
Monday
Sunday
Saturday
Reich-N-Roll
After several months of cultivating a "secret" connection within the FBI, our minions have finally been able to produce these never before seen correspondences (until now) on the subject of Wilhelm Reich, and his incarceration for experimentation on Orgone Energy. Follow the chain of command all the way to the top and you'll find no less than the famous cross-dresser and all around closet-case, J. Edgar Hoover. Funny how the ones pointing their fingers always have something to hide...
Sure, half the staff at the LAS Offices are perverts, kooks, or weirdos of some variety, but we don't try to conceal it - See the distinction?
The Tentacles of the International Lost At Sea Global Worldwide Network (ILASGWN) reach far and wide, and we will stop at nothing to continue to bring you the latest developments on this subject.
Read more about it HERE
Sure, half the staff at the LAS Offices are perverts, kooks, or weirdos of some variety, but we don't try to conceal it - See the distinction?
The Tentacles of the International Lost At Sea Global Worldwide Network (ILASGWN) reach far and wide, and we will stop at nothing to continue to bring you the latest developments on this subject.
Read more about it HERE
Thursday
Saturday
Wednesday
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR - 65 Years Ago Today..
- AUGUST 6, 1945: U.S. AIR FORCE BOMBER 'ENOLA GAY' DROPS ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA, ULTIMATELY KILLING 166,000 PEOPLE.
(photo actually of Nagasaki blast)
The Hiroshima bomb was nicknamed 'Little Boy'.
A second bomb was nicknamed 'Fat Man'.
Three days later Enola Gay drops Fat Man on Nagasaki.
Six days after Nagasaki bombing, Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Powers.
- JUNE 10, 1959: FRENCH FILM DIRECTOR ALAIN RESNAIS RELEASES 'HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR', A DRAMA ABOUT AN INTERRACIAL FRENCH-JAPANESE COUPLE, SEPARATING AFTER A BRIEF RELATIONSHIP.
Through a series of long conversations between the two lovers caught in a ill-fated relationship, it recounts effects of the Hiroshima bomb blast (loss of life, friends and relatives, etc), and compares and relates them to the relationship.
It became an early example of the La Nouvelle Vague (FRENCH NEW WAVE) school of filmmaking in the 1950s and 1960s, through its use of innovative editing, narrative, and visual styles.
- JANUARY 1, 1977: BRITISH NEW WAVE BAND ULTRAVOX RELEASES 'HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR', ON THEIR SECOND ALBUM 'HA HA HA'.
It signified a departure from their earlier 'artschool/glam/punk' style, and was an early example of the 'synthpop' sound later embraced by such bands as Depeche Mode and Heaven 17, and also the New Romantic/New Wave movement of the late 1970's and early 1980's.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 1980: BRITISH SYNTHPOP BAND 'ORCHESTRAL MANOUEVRES IN THE DARK' (OMD) RELEASE 'ENOLA GAY', A CRITIQUE OF THE USE OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS.
"Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of LITTLE BOY today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away"
*"LOST AT SEA NYC DOES NOT SUPPORT OR CONDONE THE USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONRY EXCEPT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS WHEREIN WE OURSELVES WOULD BENEFIT."
(photo actually of Nagasaki blast)
The Hiroshima bomb was nicknamed 'Little Boy'.
A second bomb was nicknamed 'Fat Man'.
Three days later Enola Gay drops Fat Man on Nagasaki.
Six days after Nagasaki bombing, Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Powers.
- JUNE 10, 1959: FRENCH FILM DIRECTOR ALAIN RESNAIS RELEASES 'HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR', A DRAMA ABOUT AN INTERRACIAL FRENCH-JAPANESE COUPLE, SEPARATING AFTER A BRIEF RELATIONSHIP.
Through a series of long conversations between the two lovers caught in a ill-fated relationship, it recounts effects of the Hiroshima bomb blast (loss of life, friends and relatives, etc), and compares and relates them to the relationship.
It became an early example of the La Nouvelle Vague (FRENCH NEW WAVE) school of filmmaking in the 1950s and 1960s, through its use of innovative editing, narrative, and visual styles.
- JANUARY 1, 1977: BRITISH NEW WAVE BAND ULTRAVOX RELEASES 'HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR', ON THEIR SECOND ALBUM 'HA HA HA'.
It signified a departure from their earlier 'artschool/glam/punk' style, and was an early example of the 'synthpop' sound later embraced by such bands as Depeche Mode and Heaven 17, and also the New Romantic/New Wave movement of the late 1970's and early 1980's.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 1980: BRITISH SYNTHPOP BAND 'ORCHESTRAL MANOUEVRES IN THE DARK' (OMD) RELEASE 'ENOLA GAY', A CRITIQUE OF THE USE OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS.
"Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of LITTLE BOY today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away"
*"LOST AT SEA NYC DOES NOT SUPPORT OR CONDONE THE USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONRY EXCEPT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS WHEREIN WE OURSELVES WOULD BENEFIT."
Wonder Products of the 21st Century
Many of you have written us letters and emails complaining of nocturnal breast discomfort and the resultant back and neck pain, not to mention the concern over developing 'breast wrinkles'. So in our continuing effort to be sensitive and supportive to the needs of Women (Ladies), LAS-NYC is pleased to present a true Wonder Product of the 21st Century - the Kush Breast Support System.
It offers support for:
Side Sleepers
C-Cup or Larger
Breast Implants
Chronic Lactators and Nursing Mothers
Prevents Cleavage Wrinkles
Post Operative Recovery
Neck and Back Pain
No longer must you "simply tolerate" the pull of gravity on your lady lumps, or sleep on your stomach (ultimately hyper-extending your back and spine, thereby actually HEIGHTENING the problems!), nor must you recruit your husband or sympathetic neighbor to provide support and security throughout the night.
Simply place the Kush Support between your breasts and sail off into a restful nights sleep.
It offers support for:
Side Sleepers
C-Cup or Larger
Breast Implants
Chronic Lactators and Nursing Mothers
Prevents Cleavage Wrinkles
Post Operative Recovery
Neck and Back Pain
No longer must you "simply tolerate" the pull of gravity on your lady lumps, or sleep on your stomach (ultimately hyper-extending your back and spine, thereby actually HEIGHTENING the problems!), nor must you recruit your husband or sympathetic neighbor to provide support and security throughout the night.
Simply place the Kush Support between your breasts and sail off into a restful nights sleep.
Tuesday
Dr. Feelgood, by Julien Temple..
Those of you who've seen Julien Temple's "The Filth And The Fury," the great Sex Pistols documentary, and "The Future is Unwritten," about Joe Strummer, of course, will no doubt want to check out Oil City Confidential, his latest rockumentary, this time about the world's heaviest R n B Pub Rock outfit, Dr. Feelgood.
"Pub Rock," a misleading name for what was often a vaguely 70's British take on country-rock, is often touted as one of many precursers to punk, and was no doubt legitimately just that, but rarely would anyone today make that connection without a history lesson, except in the form of bands like Joe Strummer's 101'ers, Eddie and the Hotrods, and Dr. Feelgood.
This documentary is only released in the UK and Europe at the moment, but sanity would dictate that it should be available eventually in the US on DVD.
Here's the trailer...
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"Pub Rock," a misleading name for what was often a vaguely 70's British take on country-rock, is often touted as one of many precursers to punk, and was no doubt legitimately just that, but rarely would anyone today make that connection without a history lesson, except in the form of bands like Joe Strummer's 101'ers, Eddie and the Hotrods, and Dr. Feelgood.
This documentary is only released in the UK and Europe at the moment, but sanity would dictate that it should be available eventually in the US on DVD.
Here's the trailer...
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Sunday
The Secret Public
At the Boo-Hooray Gallery in Chelsea - Linder Sterling and Jon Savage: The Secret Public - Punk Montages, Photography and Collages 1976-1981. Sterling and Savage did posters and flyers for the Buzzcocks, Joy Division, and Factory Records, as well as the early punk fanzine "The Secret Public", with some of the first use of the Xerox cut and pasting technique that would soon become common in the punk world. Also on display are several photographs of parts of London during the time, decaying and barren, almost unrecognizable now after years of population explosion and "urban renewal"..
Early Gen X flyer with first drummer, Jon Towe, who later joined the Adverts..
A short video for your pleasure...
Boo Hooray
The Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York, NY, 10011
Thursday
It's for all u kids out there doin' it - whether it's movin' your feet on the street or shakin' your meat in the disco heat. U got your finger on the pulse, the beat of the street. Hey! - it's "STREET BEAT".
One lump or two?
Mean Machine
Showcasin'...
Boss Cruisers - Men's & Ladies, by Schwinn..
'64 - bought in pieces..
Randy Newman
Hairdryer
Flipper, Williamsburg Bridge - Foto: Todd K.
Nice Roller
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