successor to Shock and Awe whose feed no longer seems to be working properly - original blog + archive remains here: http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the blog of the Simon Reynolds book about glam and artpop of the 1970s and its aftershocks and reflections to this day
anti-theatricality in politics (the theatre kid trope) (the bling king) (the throne of illusion)
Sometimes you get a bonanza - and so it with this Atlantic piece about the the new right-wing insult-trope of "theatre kid" ...
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NME cartoon circa 1981 nicely skewers the self-declared aristocracies of club culture Apropos Oh the myopic narcissism of the young! Or ...
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Came across this snippet from Kevin Rowland 's The Q & A in The Guradian a few weeks back (Kev promoting his memoir Bless Me Fathe...
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Andrew Parker reminds me of this: " In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people ." - Momus I suspect the graffiti...