tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733123.post4213884828612418433..comments2023-11-02T12:36:23.182+01:00Comments on the brain police: England's Dreamingmicrodothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733123.post-62701437506041777182010-11-28T08:59:22.780+01:002010-11-28T08:59:22.780+01:00Fantastic - I'll look that up on YouTube. Also...Fantastic - I'll look that up on YouTube. Also will see if I can detect Watt's influence in the Stooges. Not hard to imagine his influence on Microdot.<br />Actually- you mention surreal - and I'm thinking this is where the surrealist movement migrated to. Music...<br />I've been wondering why there hasn't been much intellectualinterest in the surrealists these days (I mean beyond Dali, Bunuel, who always have their fans - but the poets, political activists, philosophers and so on). The Internet and YouTube capture the spirit of surrealism (less so Facebook which seems more contrived and controlled) - for example Breton's notion of 'Random Chance'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733123.post-55413331364409162392010-11-27T09:38:36.453+01:002010-11-27T09:38:36.453+01:00I was such a Minutemen fan!
Mike Watt was a music...I was such a Minutemen fan! <br />Mike Watt was a musical influence on me.<br />I think Watt is still playing, he was responsible for encouraging the reformation of the Stooges. He played bass for them for a while, until Ron Ashton's Death in 2008....<br />I recently saw the You Tube video of The Watt era Stooges covering Ray Of Light by Madonna at her induction into the R&R Hall of Fame...<br />That bordered on surreal.microdothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733123.post-48215144182958843542010-11-27T01:03:09.853+01:002010-11-27T01:03:09.853+01:00I hope you're right Microdot about the punk re...I hope you're right Microdot about the punk renaissance.<br />I agree British musos are great appropriators of exotic elements from many cultures, a legacy of Britain's imperial past do you think? The Brits have such a history of transforming colonies/cultures to make them as british as possible, yet cultural influences work both ways.<br />This is a really interesting timeline here. <br />One of my favorite punk songs is This aint no picnic, by The Minutemen (not sure of exact date but early 1980s? ) 1981 Reagan replaces Carter...things are grim.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzyzVZZfUfM<br /><br /><br />In Australia, punk thrived at around the same time as the 'dismissal' - 1975- when the visionary Labor Prime Minister Whitlam was stood down by the governor general and the conservatives were returned to power. My generation enjoyed the benefits of the systems of Whitlam's free higher education/health care...our mothers had the opportunity to attend university, transforming attitudes toward education and politics. But the misery of having such change squashed in '75 inspired many punk artists to productive heights. <br /><br /><br /><br />When Carter is booted out and replaced by Reagan in <br /><br /> Interesting timeline hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com