I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
When Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself, his body was discovered with Iggy Pop’sThe Idiot still spinning on his turntable. The choice made sense, as the record directly inspired the dreary post-punk that Joy Division was beloved for. It’s odd then, that The Idiot was actually a stylistic detour for Iggy, an outlier …
The greatest of all the punk rock bands, The Clash. They had everything, the music, the look and most importantly the right attitude and right on politics.The band comprised Joe Strummer on vocals and guitar, Mick Jones on lead guitar, Paul Simenon on bass and Topper Headon on drums. Topper was a very versatile drummer. …
“Eraserhead”, directed by David Lynch, is a dark and mysterious film, which today continues to raise mixed emotions and interesting interpretations about its “meaning”. The film tells the story of Henry (Jack Nance) , a man who lives in an unknown industrialized city, which is covered by oppressive and devastating feelings of monotony and darkness. …
Few truly embodied the punk ethos like Richard Lester Meyers did. A high school dropout, he and another friend, Tom Miller, moved to a New York City in the early stages of the punk explosion due to happen in the next couple of years, in pursuit of his passion as a poet. Adopting new names …
