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Cultural mining:

Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

www.nytimes.com

Fascinating stuff Pammy. You've excelled yourself again.

The articles you post are a bit like caviar in that I can't consume a lot of them at once. But I get around to reading as many as I can before something else new and shiny distracts me.

 

[3KZ is Football]

"The Cure will be playing Songs of a Lost World in its entirety at The Troxy in London on November 1st. To access tickets, fans must pre-order the album by 11:59pm on October 16th. It will also be live-streamed on YouTube for free."

Robert Smith reveals The Cure planned to split in 2018

After performing at Hyde Park in 2018, The Cure planned to split up, according to their frontman Robert Smith. However, they have now made a new album.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

I hope it’s good.

 

[3KZ is Football]

After a manic 1981, 1982 was a bit quieter. It proved to be the calm before the 1983 storm.

 

[moginie]

"The Cure will be playing Songs of a Lost World in its entirety at The Troxy in London on November 1st. To access tickets, fans must pre-order the album by 11:59pm on October 16th. It will also be live-streamed on YouTube for free."

Robert Smith reveals The Cure planned to split in 2018

After performing at Hyde Park in 2018, The Cure planned to split up, according to their frontman Robert Smith. However, they have now made a new album.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

I watched the 2018 concert on the ginormous screen at the Palace (over here) with Mrs m. We were both really impressed. Once again they do an excellent job. Film was about 2hrs and change and every time I've seen them the gig has gone on for close to three hours. Serious value for money.

 

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Youtube is serving me up this in the sidebar:

 

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After a manic 1981, 1982 was a bit quieter. It proved to be the calm before the 1983 storm.
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1982
The first list has some of my favourite tunes on it from the decade.
Back then 1982 I started off the year back at RMIT for 2nd year Graphic Design and hating it as I was given a bare pass for 1st year bc I had got the Head of Depts nose out of joint. The Head of Dept George Santos was an American ex-advertising guy. If you didn't swallow the 'Kool Aid' that he was shopping then you were the equivalent of a cockroach to be eradicated by any means. The means were interfering with my grades, an HD in one class became a pass etc. I was incensed by the unfairness but those were the days of untrammeled power of the Head of a Dept at RMIT. By Easter wanting out, a total turn around for a person who had always loved education. I stuck it out for the 1st semester and then deferred all of the rest of 2nd year bar the 2 drawing subjects. I was working at St Vincents Hospital by the end of the year in the Catering Dept. In the days when hospitals still had kitchens where they cooked. Memory of peeling 50-60 hard boiled eggs first off at 7.30am for the egg salad sandwiches before scooting off to serve morning teas in the wards where I'd infill absences in my white uniform and white shoes. The hospital, Nuns and all was a very different village to find myself working in, it was a job and 1982 was the first year I remember of it being really difficult to get a job.

 

[moginie]

Four Corners is going to be interesting tonight.

Who's your concert ticket really paying? The global music giant angering both bands and fans

Inside a Ticketmaster transaction, there are hidden and public fees that are filtered back to parent company Live Nation. But how much is really being charged, and for what?

www.abc.net.au

 

[3KZ is Football]

1982
The first list has some of my favourite tunes on it from the decade.
Back then 1982 I started off the year back at RMIT for 2nd year Graphic Design and hating it as I was given a bare pass for 1st year bc I had got the Head of Depts nose out of joint. The Head of Dept George Santos was an American ex-advertising guy. If you didn't swallow the 'Kool Aid' that he was shopping then you were the equivalent of a cockroach to be eradicated by any means. The means were interfering with my grades, an HD in one class became a pass etc. I was incensed by the unfairness but those were the days of untrammeled power of the Head of a Dept at RMIT. By Easter wanting out, a total turn around for a person who had always loved education. I stuck it out for the 1st semester and then deferred all of the rest of 2nd year bar the 2 drawing subjects. I was working at St Vincents Hospital by the end of the year in the Catering Dept. In the days when hospitals still had kitchens where they cooked. Memory of peeling 50-60 hard boiled eggs first off at 7.30am for the egg salad sandwiches before scooting off to serve morning teas in the wards where I'd infill absences in my white uniform and white shoes. The hospital, Nuns and all was a very different village to find myself working in, it was a job and 1982 was the first year I remember of it being really difficult to get a job.

Both of those are standout tracks in a strong, but less prolific year. ‘Oh Superman’ is connected with a personal moment in my life where in that instant, I was completely and utterly at peace and happy. It was like Plato’s Theory of Forms and rather than viewing the shadow cast on the wall, I had actually been captured by the essence of happiness. It was fleeting, but I will never forget it.

It is hard to imagine being 20.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Yesterday morning.