Ministry & Gary Numan – Terminal 5 – March 19, 2014
A pair of highly influential acts — Chicago industrial rockers Ministry and English synth-pop godfather Gary Numan — brought their North American tour to Terminal 5 on Tuesday, the first night of spring.
Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | @Silvia_Saponaro
TODAY’S THE DAY—IT’S BANDCAMP FRIDAY! Yes! Today bandcamp waives their revenue sharing on music* you download. That means all funds go straight to the artists, like me—your grateful friend (colleague, kinfolk, cousin, neighbor…). I also have CDs & photos, which I will sign for you. Check it out: https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com
On bandcamp you pay “whatever you can afford,” big or small. My entire online discography is “on sale.” Your support earns my deepest gratitude, and you get music that lasts and lasts! Cheers! JJB
*my original music + performances by Davy Jones (Monkees), John Bechdel (Ministry, Killing Joke), Hal Blaine, Mike Garson (David Bowie), Uma Robin Mackey, Robert M. Powell, Prairie Prince (Tubes, Todd Rundgren), Chris von Sneidern, members of The Badlees + other lumineers.
Ministry Announces Spring 2024 North American Tour
Ministry Announces Spring 2024 North American Tour
The Press Release:
Ahead of Ministry’s brand-new studio album, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, dropping March 1, 2024, the band will head out on a Spring 2024 North American tour, once again teaming up with touring comrades Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly.
The 29-date tour kicks off February 27 in San Francisco and runs through April 5 in Tucson, hitting major markets in the U.S. and Canada (see the full…
As we near the collapse of mankind and the imminent doom of our political system, a perfect stage has been set for the outspoken rebels to flood the airwaves with dissident upheaval bathed in musical bliss. With the end looming, no greater landscape could welcome the reemergence of the enigmatic Al Jourgensen and company with their latest release, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, via Nuclear Blast Records.…
John Linnell, musician and front-man of the band "They Might Be Giants", or Allison Bechdel, acclaimed cartoonist and author of the queer strip "Dykes to Watch Out For"?
i think one of my only problems with john wick is that women aren’t interacting with other women more
it doesnt really pass the bechdel test which is a test that sees if women in a story pass the basic representation. two parts of it: asks wether or not if two female characters interact with eachother and it asks if those two women are talking about something that isn’t a man or related to men
john wick has such amazing female characters. ares, gianna d’antonio, akira shimazu, sofia al-azwar, ms perkins to name a few from the roster and yet none of them are shown interacting with other women.
it’s honestly quite sad that they aren’t shown talking to eachother and while yes i know the movies focus on john wick solely, that doesn’t quite excuse the fact women are not shown talking to other women considering the narrative sometimes drift away from john’s perspective.
there’s quite a few scenes where john is not present and it shows two male characters or one female&male character interacting.
for example: the louvre scene from john wick 4. it shows the marquis de gramont and winston interacting to further drive the story of john wick 4.
anyways thanks for reading my lil rant. i really like the movies but it’s not the best at representation of women(but it does pretty well in queer representation)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my late, great friend + part-time mentor Rick Anderson (The Tubes), the 1971 Bangla Desh concerts, Lionel Bart, incredible guitarist Tommy Bolin, Pam Brenneman (RIP), Geoff Britton, Rob Buck (10,000 Maniacs), the late, great Boz Burrell, Jim Carroll, William Clark, Coolio, Rick Coonce (Grass Roots), Denny Cordell, Robert Cray, Joe Elliott, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Joe Friday, André Gagnon, Jerry Garcia, Dhani Harrison, Geoffrey Holder, Henrietta Lacks, Paddy Maloney (The Chieftains), Herman Melville, Jason Momoa, MTV (1981), Yoshinao Nakada, Taapsee Pannu, Michael Penn, Edith Pretty, Mrunal Thakur, and my friend and musical colleague evinrude a.k.a. Kevin Spyker. Starting around 1997 I worked as a bassist-singer and producer on some recordings and a string of concerts with Kevin a.k.a. evinrude—the name of a famous cartoon dragonfly, which applied to Kevin’s powerhouse abilities as a singer-songwriter, multi-media artist, and DJ. He also sang on a couple of my tracks and I recall a “rooftop concert” at Lycoming College. Kevin’s song “For Angela” is a highlight from the evinrude debut album, which received good notices and drew comparisons to Beck and Blind Melon. At the board is John Bechdel (Killing Joke, Ministry), who enhanced the synth-y groove of this enchanting track. Meanwhile, HB to KS and thank you for taking flight...
as usual i hope to read forty books this year for better or worse. this is a running list of what i’ve read so far and links to my thoughts on them 👍 venture beyond my guardian david byrnes boy.....
tell me i’m worthless alison rumfitt
closer dennis cooper
frisk dennis cooper
try dennis cooper
guide dennis cooper
deserter junji ito
period dennis cooper
the putrescent vein dorian bridges
crash j.g. ballard
jubilee: six film scripts derek jarman
dreamstone moon paul leonard
extremities kathe koja
seeing i jonathan blum, kate orman
lou reed the last interview
the other thomas tryon
the waste land, prufrock, and other poems t.s. eliot
rushing to paradise j.g. ballard
placebo effect gary russell
spaceflight: a concise history michael j neufeld
the sluts dennis cooper
the liminal zone junji ito
howl and other poems allen ginsberg
we disappear scott heim
exit note dorian bridges
xtc song stories neville farmer
mysterious skin scott heim (reread)
fun home alison bechdel
the happy hooker xaviera hollander
a thousand-mile walk to the gulf john muir
high-rise jg ballard
negative space br yeager
woman at point zero nawal el saadawi
delta of venus anaïs nin
the dream police dennis cooper
equus peter shaffer
blood meridian, or, the evening redness in the west cormac mccarthy