Introducing Henri Gerbault I’m just a jealous guy Henry Gerbault (June 24, 1863– October 19 1930), also spelled Henri Gerbault was a French illustrator and poster artist. He was a student of Henri Gervex. He was the nephew of Sully Prudhomme. Poster for the Théatre Libre The Théâtre Libre (French, Free Theater) was a theater […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWMLAWrEjU] “They Don’t Care About Us“ “In recent years a workprint of Spike Lee‘s music video to Michael Jackson‘s “They Don’t Care About Us” has appeared, which is a rough cut of the Prison version. This version contains even more violent footage (the Rodney King beating, Los Angeles riots, the Chinese Tank Man, the Vietnam […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTM-H74FjE] Monamour, fresco footage at :10 “I had never heard of Tinto Brass until the late 1970s when I read an interview he gave to Gideon Bachmann in The London Times (Wednesday, 3 August 1977, p. 13). His remarks sufficiently intrigued me to begin a decades-long search, a search that for many years turned up […]
My edition of Cocaine (in a 1982 translation by Frédérique Van Der Velde for the Dutch-language imprint Goossens, which also published translations of Thérèse philosophe, Villon, and Aretino) “Not since Of Human Bondage have I read a more poignant rendition of the human condition,” and “after The End Of The World Filmed By An Angel […]
Do Ya Wanna Funk (1982) Sylvester [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] Gay icon Sylvester James would have turned 60 today if he had not died from AIDS 20 years ago. “Over and Over[1],” released in 1977 on Fantasy Records is WMC#75. From a set-theoretical point of view, the Venn diagram of “Over and Over“intersects via whatlinkshere […]
“You probably don’t doubt that the origins of rock and roll are bawdy in nature. You’ve read Gershon Legman and his fellow travelers to take note. You know why Scheherazade was not killed by the king. [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlALQf3fahM] Yet you don’t know American record label Federal Records and their 1951 “Sixty Minute Man“[1], on which a […]
Piero Simondo is a founder of the Situationist International. He turns 80 today. 1957: Piero Simondo and Guy Debord photographed by Ralph Rumney at Cosio d’Arroscia, Italy. [1] The founders of the Situationist International at Cosio d’Arroscia, in April 1957[3]. From left to right; Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Piero Simondo, Elena Verrone, Michele Bernstein, Guy Debord, Asger […]
Most of the evening was spent on researching JRMS interview[1] with Gilbert Alter-Gilbert: Gilbert Albert-Gilbert’s Genealogy of the Cruel Tale from Bakunin v.6, 1997) [1] and especially Gilbert‘s intriguing “Genealogy of the Cruel Tale“[2] a perfect example of the kind of thematic literary criticism I’m rather fond of. The chart reminds of the aestheticization of […]
Left: Triumph of the Will, right: opening ceremony 2008 olympics “Last Friday, China upped Leni Riefenstahl and raised the standards with regards to the spectacle. Does this mean that we are going to war in 5 years?” —Sholem Stein