If Repo Man is the seemingly miraculous meeting of perfect dialogue with perfect performances with a directorial aesthetic that both pierced the facade of Reaganomics as well as accurately representing a relatively unknown, and yet soon to be infamous sub culture along with the perfect soundtrack, then it begs the question, how often are these […]
Tag Archives: Iggy Pop
March
02
30 Years Ago Today: Repo Man – Alex Cox and the Lattice of Coincidence. (Film Review)
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February
28
Dead Man – Jim Jarmusch, William Blake and the death of America. (film review)
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Some are born to sweet delight, some are borne to endless night. William Blake In 1793, William Blake wrote America a Prophesy which amounts to a kind of formula for revolution. One of the subplots of the work is oppression of the mind – what we might call ‘unconsciousness’ in pop terminology today. Blake had […]
Getting In League with the Humans
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In 1977 something very exciting happened. Two young dudes – Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were working on one of those youth arts projects (Meatwhsitle – a prime feeder of Fringe festivals from what I can gather) as computer operators and … they met. A mutual love of avant guard music and being interested […]
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