I remain on the far side of crazy
I remain a mortal enemy of man
No hundred dollar cure will save me…
Tag: 80s
You know what I’m lookin’ at.
They sell this as a Teen Wolf shirt, but I vividly remember a college classmate who was blessed with very large and beautiful breasts who wore this, and that was before that movie came out. She certainly enjoyed the triple-takes she got on Bruin Walk this way.
What Are You Looking At Dicknose T-Shirt
Oh, I still have an extra Romp Star babydoll shirt for whichever one of you LADIES would APPRECIATE it.
more punk. MORE
childhood heroines
At the Elks Lodge police riot, at which L.A.P.D. stormtroopers launched a violent and unprovoked surprise attack upon an actually placid punk rock audience…Barb flattened 10 L.A.P.D. officers simultaneously with an uprooted ‘No Parking’ sign. They had hurt her sister. She got arrested. In court, when the judge asked to see the ‘weapon’ used to assault the police officers, this 12 foot long ‘No Parking’ sign was carried in, as the judge gazed at skinny alone blond Barbara and formed a mental picture of the 10 officers eating dirt. Do you have to ask if this girl can sing?
more at Alice Bag and her blog, Diary of a Bad Housewife.
pop music is IMPORTANT
via miss_geek, this pass-it-on-thing-not-meme: the ten bands that got me through high school. which were, roughly, those below. Please note that I’m not convinced I actually got through high school.
1. The Clash
2. Joy Division
3. Gang of Four
4. The Dream Syndicate
5. Pere Ubu
6. Devo
7. X
9. The Adolescents
10. Public Image, Ltd.
…i forgot what 8 was for
Dang.
That Coldplay hit is just totally JACKED from this song.
hair
I was at Café Ruba tonight looking at the freaks. They have VH1 Classic on a big screen TV in there, and said network was playing old metal videos. I don’t think I’d ever seen Dio’s “The Last In Line” video and it was spectacularly bad.
I think the “worst video”, “worst hair in a hair metal band”, and “stupidest song” awards have to go to Boyz Are Gonna Rock by the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. Also Worst Makeup. Also Lamest Attempt To Be Badass.
BUILDING A PLATFORM TO HERCULES
My favorite insane cult from the 1980s is the CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT, led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Her books were in the weirdo section and I was always fascinated. There was something about St. Germain, and new Christian prophecies, and aliens, and everything.
Like everyone else they had a compound. Theirs was by Yellowstone and they stockpiled weapons waiting for the inevitable pseudo-Christian apocalyptic disaster.
Ms. Prophet had a unique preaching style, and fortunately a recording of one service at least survives. This is from my 20th birthday! Many of you will have heard one of these tracks (“invocation for Judgement”) because it’s an attack on rock music that lists a long series of popular bands in 1984 that must be destroyed, and are comically mispronounced (Cindy Looper, etc.).
Decree 12.10 is only for completists, as it’s basically 27:57 of deranged cattle auctioneer/martian hoedown/speaking in tongues. The others are great though. If you just get one, get #4, the Great Divine Rector’s Call. Please download rather than streaming, and mirror if you want to share.
The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults: The Church Universal and Triumphant
whoa woohoo wow: New Wave Theatre!
http://anamericanpunkinsuburbia.blogspot.com/
Has video from New Wave Theatre and some rare punk crap, So Cal stuff mostly. Nice.
The Beautiful Sound of Doom
i’ve loved Annie Anxiety’s music since the 1980s. She made records with On-U-Sound that are unique, like a female dub version of Tom Waits or a reggae Diamanda Galas, but not like that really, just like her. Highly recommended. Here’s a winner of a track:
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