From Vanity Fair’s Dictionary for the Motion Pictures, March 1922
G/Z/R – “Giving up the Ghost” from 1995s “Plastic Planet”
Lyrics
You bastardised my intellect Castrated our conviction You are desperately seeking Satan Now that you’ve burned Your bridges down You plagiarised and parodied The magic of our meaning You can’t admit that you’re wrong The spirit is dead and gone
You don’t bother me You are history A legend in our own mind Left all your friends behind No one seems to care And Satan is not there There’s nothing left to boast Time to give upthe ghost
You are desperately seeking Satan Black magic has Turned to dust It’s time to put The thing to rest You can’t admit that you’re wrong The spirit is dead and gone
35C3 – The Precariat: A Disruptive Class for Disruptive Times.
“The combination of the ongoing technological revolution, globalisation and what are usually called ‘neo-liberal’ economic policies has generated a global system of rentier capitalism in which property rights have supplanted free market principles and in which a new global class structure has taken shape.
The 20th century income distribution system has broken down irretrievably, and a new mass class, the precariat has been growing dramatically fast in every part of the world.
What are the deeper reasons for these developments?
How does an ecologically sustainable strategy look like?
Is it possible to restore a balanced market economy in which inequalities and insecurities will lessen and in which the drift to populist and even neo-fascist politics will be reversed?
Lemmy Kilmister after-show shots
by Rick McGinnis in the balcony of Concert Hall, Toronto,
during Motorhead’s tour
in support of Orgasmatron, 1987.
RIP Lemmy, Killed By Death a year ago.
“…Once upon a time I tried to pretend I was too good for the sort of music
– heavy metal or hard rock or just “rock and roll” as Lemmy preferred
to call it – that Motorhead played. I was a newly minted punk and in
love with the “year zero” ethic of that music, and even though I’d loved
that sort of thing for years, it all had to go (…) In the end it wasn’t worth the effort, and I had to admit that Motorhead were pretty fucking awesome….
…I don’t know why I always presumed that a man who lived so recklessly
for so long would be around forever, but I was sad when I heard the
news (…)
He said he didn’t want to live forever, though, and I should have taken him at his word…”
Give me Sodomy, or give me Death 