I lifted this from the Facebook page of our pal Chelsea Starr.
Click here for Elvis
Friday, April 06, 2012
AND ON THE SUBJECT OF RELIGION…
Wikipedia tells me – “In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the countries. In the 2001 Census 2.6% of the population of Brighton (where I happen to live) claimed to be Jedi.” Authorities, however, refuse to accord the Jedi religious recognition because it is a created fantasy and not a “real” religion – whatever the fuck that might mean. Should I reach for my light saber?
DEVIANTS FANS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE
We once found a Mandraxed-out fan asleep in a PA speaker bin. This guy hardly rivals that but click here to see what I mean. It’s probably a YouTube classic.
Monday, April 02, 2012
SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE
Our pal Aeswiren sent this fun item a while ago and – due to nothing more than my own disorganisation – I haven’t posted it until now. Click here and enjoy.
Click here for The Beatles
The secret word is Infinite
WHY DID THE BEATLE CROSS THE ROAD?
What was the old road safety slogan? “Pause at the kerb?” (And I guess that brings us handily to the next item.)
Click here for more Beatles
Sunday, April 01, 2012
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
I hardly think I need to comment on the nature of the morning.
Click here for Buck Owens
The secret word is Aftermath
Earl Scruggs -- RIP
Earl Scruggs -- RIP
LOST LEGENDS OF PUNK
I lifted this piece of cultural history from our pal Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds. I remember Club 82 – where according to legend Errol Flynn once played the piano with his penis – but it seems largely forgotten.
“Club 82, at 82 East 4th Street in New York’s East Village, was a well-known “high class” drag club of the 50s and 60s where the likes of Walter Winchell, Elizabeth Taylor and Errol Flynn could be seen. Down on its luck in the 70s, the space was transformed into a glam-rock club and later a disco. In this clip, the New York Dolls, in drag (save for Johnny Thunders), perform “Pills” at Club 82 on April 17, 1974. I’m presuming this was shot by Bob Gruen, but I’m not sure.”
Click here for the Dolls in drag.
THE FROZDICK FAMILY
Billy Ray “Bebop” Frozdick promoted a dance craze called the “Hard Hat.” It failed.
Friday, March 30, 2012
THE KIDS GOT MERCURY POISONING
Does it really get worse by the minute?
"A just released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) had a skyrocketing increase of 78% compared to results from a decade ago. The CDC report shows that one in 88 children are now diagnosed with the disorder. Environmental Working Group (EWG) notes that "a burgeoning body of independent scientific research suggests that one factor that may be in play is environmental exposure to neurotoxins, most notably mercury," and sees the staggering figures as a call for governmental action to minimize children's exposure to toxic chemicals, especially coal plant caused mercury exposure. “Upending the federal government’s approach to regulating toxic chemicals and putting tough emissions standards in place at power plants are two good places to start,” said Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook." Click here for more.
Click here for Graham Parker
The secret word is Stop
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
VERILY…
And this doesn’t only apply to the USA. It’s become the foul philosophy of final stage, austerity capitalism all across the developed world. You may be the next to have your country cut out from under you.
Click here for MC5
The secret word is Mendacity
Monday, March 26, 2012
HEART OF DARKNESS
I read the news (oh boy) and it told how “Dick Cheney, the former US vice-president who was a driving force in George W Bush's war on terror and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was recovering in hospital after undergoing a heart transplant.” I immediately wondered what they did with the old heart. I still recall all too clearly the rumours of the door to a man-sized safe in Cheney’s VP office that was alleged to disguise a direct portal to some post-Lovecraft hell of Ancient Horror to which Cheney had a direct line and received his instructions as George Bush’s diabolic puppet master. In fact, I recall it all so clearly that I am morbidly concerned in no small measure as to what has happened to the old heart. The damn thing should have at the very least had an iron stake driven through it and then been incinerated to a crisp. Only when the ashes were finally sealed in a lead-lined concrete container would I be happy. Like the One Ring of Sauron, the Heart of Dick Cheney should not be loose in the world to work its iniquity.
Click here for the Rolling Stones
The secret word is Precious
BILLY THE MONSTER
A video clip of The Deviants playing the ancient tune Billy The Monster at The Borderline last Friday is already up on YouTube. Click here to viddy well, my droogs.
And click here for a cover of the same tune by a band called The Romulans
Sunday, March 25, 2012
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
There are those mornings when the best idea might seem to be drop a couple of reds and go back to bed. However, my friends, this is not one of them. Right now, as I write this, I’m listening to an MP3 recording of the show we played last Friday to a packed house at The Borderline. And you know what? It sounds pretty damn good. We have to do a lot more of this kind of thing, and if you the want The Deviants in a classy rock & roll niterie near you please pass the word. I may be something of a physical ruin but we still seem to be able to raise some anarchic ruckus. As one dear friend put it – “what a great voice you've got, where does it come from, you look as though you can't breathe, and then this powerhouse breaks loose?” (And, even if I did want to go back to bed, where would a poor boy cop a bunch of Seconal in this sad century.?)
Click herefor Bo
The secret word is Happy
MARILYN SEZ...
“It’s a good question. Where would a poor girl cop a bunch of Seconal in this sad century?”
OUR JAKI
But the real star of Friday’s show was, beyond doubt, the wonderful Jaki Miles Windmill – formerly of Space Ritual – without whose highly ethnic percussion and amazing backup singing we would have been sorely wanting. We now have to persuade to sing lead on a tune or two. (Pic by Leslie Madigan)
THE FROZDICK FAMILY
J. Pierpoint Frozdick maintained his belief in robber baron, top hat, plutocrat capitalism until the mob of starving unemployed finally came to hang him from a convenient lamppost.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
DOWNLOADS FROM THE STRATOSPHERE
According to the Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence (link from the revered HCB) the free internet will shortly be drone based and the ultimately operating from space. Oh boy, to have lived so long.
"The Pirate Bay (TPB), which allows users to share media files via BitTorrent, plans to avoid shutdown by Hollywood by putting some of its servers in GPS controlled drones hovering over international waters, the TPB team told TorrentFreak. “With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air,” TPB revealed in a blog post.
“This way our machines will have to be shot down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away.” Looking ahead, The Pirate Bay team thinks the site may no longer be hosted on this planet. “When the time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, being true to our slogan of being the galaxy’s most resilient system. And all of the parts we’ll use to build that system on will be downloadable.”
Click here for rare Floyd
The secret word is Warp
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD GET A HAT (Part 2)
Beyond that I have nothing to say except I hope to see as many of you as possible at The Borderline in London on Friday night. (Scroll back for info)
Click here for Del Shannon
The secret word is Tile
Beyond that...
…I CAN BARELY WAIT FOR RIDLEY SCOTT’S “PROMETHEUS”
Starring Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, and to be released in June 2012, the film will focus on a mythology within the Alien universe. Set in the late-21st century, Prometheus will explore the advanced civilization of an extraterrestrial race responsible for the origins of modern humans on Earth, as well as the background of the xenomorph that made its first appearance in the 1979 film.
Click here for the extended trailer.
Monday, March 19, 2012
TURN YOUR RAYGUNS ON THE PROLETARTIAT!
“Although it’s wholly lacking in even capitalist logic impose further crushing and debilitating austerity on the masses and pass my ten million bonus, okay?” First it’s Greece, then Italy, Spain, Ireland, shit folks, we’re all, up for grabs, and meanwhile the military, ignoring the fact that they’ve got Staff Sergeants in Afghanistan going barking crazy postal and massacring women and kids, the Pentagon boffins are beavering away building bigger and better prole-control weapons to use on their own people when they inevitably turn surly. The next war may well be between the power and the people.
“The U.S. military has unveiled its newest approach to crowd control, the Active Denial System, a heat ray that sends out a high-frequency electromagnetic ray. People hit with the ray feel an intense, unbearable heat. The military touts the ray's "far-ranging" capabilities and is looking at "many different applications" for its possible use. Tracy Taffola said at the public unveiling of the system at a U.S. Marines base near Washington, D.C.: "You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it." In a video to demonstrate the new weapon, USFORCESTV explains that the heat ray "boasts a reach far beyond any other non-lethal system" -- a reach of "about 7 footballs fields." The video shows various volunteers quickly running away from the heat ray, a situation unlikely to be available when the ray is aimed at a large crowd or if protesters are penned in some way, as was witnessed by the pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters by police officers at very close range.” Click here for the video
Click here for The Who
The secret word is Resist
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
The Deviants – yes, the bloody Deviants – will be playing this coming Friday at The Borderline off London’s Charing Cross Road. I believe tickets are moving so click here to get yours.
CAPTAIN MARVEL – THE ONLY SUPERHERO BROUGHT DOWN BY LAWYERS.
And let’s not for get that Captain Marvel Jr. was the boyhood role model for Elvis Presley
“Captain Marvel was the most popular superhero of the 1940s, as his Captain Marvel Adventures comic book series sold more copies than Superman and other competing superhero books during the mid-1940s. Captain Marvel was also the first comic book superhero to be adapted to film, in a 1941 Republic Pictures serial titled Adventures of Captain Marvel. Fawcett ceased publishing Captain Marvel-related comics in 1953, due in part to a copyright infringement suit from DC Comics alleging that Captain Marvel was an illegal infringement of Superman.”
Sunday, March 18, 2012
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
“The first thing you need for a real Sunday breakfast is real Sunday table.”
(And now I go to rehearse with the Deviants for our might reunion show at Borderline next Friday. Click here if you didn’t know about it.)
Click for breakfast Lonnie
The secret word is Swift
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