Monday, November 20, 2017

Malcolm Young, 1953-2017

I knew his time was going to be up due to his early-onset dementia, but I wasn't prepared for his passing a few days ago.

His rhythm guitar was exactly the sort of concrete you need to build a metaphorical expressway of a rock song on, and it's shown nowhere better than this example from 1977:


Schadenfreude: Charles Manson

Because, after all, psychopathic leaders of murder cults are such regrettable losses to the rest of humanity.

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Mask Market by Andrew Vachss.

Newspaper of (W)rec(k)ord

 If you're a member of a conrunning organization, you know you're in serious trouble when the  Guardian  -  an internationally known...