(↝via vintage goodness)
The French do it again. In case you are confused by the singer’s late 60’s Detroit looks and the guitarist’s spikes & studs, this is from 1980.
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It’s the same as it was in pre-revolutionary France. People thought society was normal, just as today people think it is normal that the Long Island Sound waterfront should be private. … If democracy is to prevail, public good must prevail over private interests. The question is: would the majority of people be happier with a public waterfront on the Long Island Sound or not? All children should have access to waterfronts without being members of a country club. … I eventually realized, of course, that socialism was a failure as an economic system. Yet equality is not dead. Socialism is dead, but equality as a goal is not dead.
Monocle’s Disappointing Myopia over at the Magazineer (which I had never read before).
Monocle blurs, like no Western magazine I’ve seen, the boundary between advertising and editorial. Advertiser products and services are frequently mentioned in features, reviews and articles, without any indication that there is a business relationship involved. In almost every issue, cross-branded “advertorial” is delivered in the house design vocabulary, typeface, and copy voice. The product placement even extends to the (awful) manga, where it stands out like an orangutan with an erection at the office Christmas party.
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“He went like that,” Spade said, “like a fist when you open your hand.”
—Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
Great poster for an Alamo Drafthouse screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing by Tyler Stout.
If you’re having trouble sourcing equipment for your Vietnam War Reënactment Society, let it be known that you can order stuff like U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder / Pratt & Whitney J52 Compressor Blades on Amazon. No A-Prime though.
Charlie Nothing/Brother Frederic. Reissue forthcoming on De Stijl. Preview at Mutant Sounds.
I have a feeling this guy, the “what is the jeeks” guy, and the “why because she look intrsting” guy are ALL THE SAME GUY
