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Taylor has also evolved as a lyricist. No shade to early romps like “70’s Street Munchies” or “Stole My Push Bike,” but punk’s reigning snarl champion has figured out how to address weighty issues without being didactic or surrendering the snotty squeal that made those early tracks so alluring. On “Knifey,” the band slows it down and lets the barre chords ring, allowing Taylor’s heartbreaking plea to burst through. ​​”All I ever wanted was to walk by the park/All I ever wanted was to walk by the river, see the stars/Please! Stop fucking me up,” she begs. But she’s armed and ready: “Out comes the night, out comes my knifey/This is how I get home nicely.” Taylor is either recalling a personal experience and the knife is her weapon of defense, or she’s channelling the ubiquitous dread all women face. In switching pronouns from “I” to “we” halfway through the track, Taylor inverts the “alone in the pit” trope from the beginning of the album; this psychic pain is near-universal. But, as ever, Taylor’s knotty internal struggle reigns: “I turn around and backtrack, because I ain’t that tough.” Comfort to Me transports us to a familiar, paradoxical world: uncertain, harsh, and magnetic.

Chris O'Connell on Amyl and the Sniffers' Comfort to me.

Pics: x, x.

Knifey at Glastonbury 2022.

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Einstürzende Neubauten ‎w/ Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard– Thirsty Animal 12″

A one off collaboration betwee Lydia Lunch, Rowland S. Howard and Einstürzende Neubauten. Good use of all the talents involved and a solid little 12″.

Get it from my Google Drive HERE.

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This past Monday I went to the Philadelphia Psychotronic Film Society and saw SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPER MASOCHIST at PhilaMOCA.

was an American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism and lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis.

His closest brush with the mainstream was him ‘‘starring’‘ in the Nine Inch Nails- Happiness In Slavery video. 

Nine Inch Nails- Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored)  Big ol’ trigger warning here

EDIT: Here is the link as any shareable video has been wiped off the internet.

https://vimeo.com/3556108

Near the end of his life he was the subject of a RE/Search book Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist and a documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.

You can get the Movie from my Google Drive HERE

And as far as I can tell RE/Search aren’t selling PDF’s of this so you can get the book from my Google Drive HERE

Once again big trigger warnings. Thar be graphic medical and S&M ahoy.

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Unsurprisingly enough it turns out that the meeting of my two main interests (music and film) is one of my favourite things. Even more specifically, here's three short films that variously tackle the pop star as product and social artifact: My Degeneration (1990, dir. Jon Moritsugu) does it from the perspective of a band starting from nothing and quickly becoming a carefully engineered marketing tool; No Is Yes (1997, dir. Laura Parnes) looks at it through the eyes of two teenage fans who kill and mutilate their favourite rockstar; and lastly, What Is A Group? (2016, dir. Ian Svenonius) is a detached examination of the social and economic role of the music group from the perspective of two aliens whose civilisation has overcome capitalism and reached Consciousness. All of them low budget efforts, with, I think, a few stylistic traits in common. (DM for links.)

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From 1993 to 1995, [Mirha-Soleil] Ross and partner Xanthra Phillippa MacKay published gendertrash from hell, a quarterly zine which "[gave] a voice to gender queers, who've been discouraged from speaking out & communicating with each other". They managed the zine's publisher, genderpress, which also distributed other transsexual pamphlets and literature, corresponded with local organizations and sold buttons. In standard zine format, gendertrash was a combination of art, poetry, resource lists, serialized fiction, calls to action, classified ads, illustrations and collages and movie reviews. By and for transsexual, transgender and transvestite people, it addressed gender experiences at the individual and societal level and prioritized sex workers, low-income queers, trans people of colour and prisoners. Articles frequently addressed the erasure of transsexuals from lesbian, gay, bi and queer communities and the communities' co-opting of trans identities and issues. Four issues of gendertrash were published, and its run ended in 1995.

(“Dancing Wimmin” by Jeanne B [Mirha-Soleil Ross], from gendertrash issue #1, p. 9)

The Gendertrash from Hell zine issues on archive.org, link also contains the film Gender Troublemakers (1993)

Another link to the first issue (with the others in “related readings”, just below) this time on transreads.org

Wikipedia, genderoutlaws.tumblr.com, lgbtqdigitalcollaboratory.org.

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Couple things about me: I haven't been to many concerts, haven't been "used" to going to concerts, and nowadays I rarely feel the true need to see someone live. And right now this is my favourite video and, as shitty as the audio quality is, I'm basically mesmerized by the emotion of it, a combination of the sheer intimacy and closeness to the audience, and the song being what it is. And I'm about to pull a "come to Brazil" in the comments of the official instagram of a band that seems to only tour the us because I want to see them that badly and I want to literally die in the pit. There I said it

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talking about this

sorry folks I must admit I need the lucifer jacket more than anything

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sorry folks I must admit I need the lucifer jacket more than anything

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or subliminally

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Found out about this today

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videos that make me yell KATHLEEEEN

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It's kind of insane how every track on this 1h43m album goes so hard