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Post by theguvnor on Nov 30, 2023 15:04:46 GMT
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Post by tisbearself on Nov 30, 2023 18:07:52 GMT
Yeah just saw that  Tis not a good year for Irish musicians. Him and Kirsty will hopefully be singing "Fairytale" in Heaven this Christmas. |
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 1, 2023 22:25:42 GMT
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 2, 2023 10:03:46 GMT
Shane didn't have the same relationship with the Church Sinead. He criticized it but never abandoned it. I expect his funeral will be a more traditional affair as well. I don't expect to see a VW minibus with speakers playing reggae going around Dublin.
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 2, 2023 17:21:19 GMT
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 2, 2023 17:32:01 GMT
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 2, 2023 19:53:36 GMT
I like nearly all their work. Shane will have a funeral in the same Church his mother did a few years ago. She died in 2017 after crashing into a wall. I was trying to distract myself from the pressure to hand in an academic paper with their music. I have reached somewhere near 8,000 words but need to chuck another 3,000 or 4,000 thousand onto that by next Friday. However, I was getting fed up after five hours of reading obscure articles on this that and the other. I found the extended family of Samuel Delany who I was writing about of more interest though and may suggest a possible conference paper on that as his great uncle Hubert was the first black person elected Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He has a whole host of people in his immediate family tree of importance in US history. His uncle Hubert was a lawyer who defended Martin Luther King. His aunts Bessie and Sadie were also involved in the Civil Rights struggle and both lived to be over 100. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Beard_Delany |
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 2, 2023 19:57:25 GMT
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 3, 2023 20:24:59 GMT
Maybe you've seen this already, but this guy has some great Pogues graphic art as well as for many other bands. I've seen a couple of his things shared around, such as the Velvets as a vintage Saturday morning kiddie cartoon, but only just now have been going through his whole website as the Fairytale of New York poster is making the Facebook rounds. www.stuffbymark.co.uk/ |
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 3, 2023 20:34:34 GMT
His take on Marvel comic book covers is pretty accurate. Marvel did comics for rock bands as well at points. Which makes it more funny: majorspoilers.com/2010/08/08/retro-review-a-marvel-comics-super-special-%E2%80%93-kiss/Since that was written by the late Steve Gerber it is bound to be more nutty than a forest full of squirrels who have been eating nuts nonstop for six months. I say that in a good way as the late Steve Gerber's writing style is best described as 'What happens if you get someone to write superheroes after reading Camus while doing millions of pop culture references?' He was bonkers but always entertaining. |
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 3, 2023 23:23:30 GMT
I had the Marvel Beatles cartoon book when I was about 12. My mom got it for me as a surprise gift before a long car trip. At that point the Beatles had been broken up for years but they were one of the few bands that had a lot written about them so I read books about them because that's what the library had, and I found they were interesting guys, especially John. I quite liked that comic.
It had ads in it for Kiss as well but I wasn't into Kiss, they were mostly a bans for young teen guys. I did find the album cover of "Love Gun" entertaining and I liked Peter Criss because he made up as a cat. If all four of them had worn cat makeup I likely would have been a fan. One of my guy friends about my age went to see Kiss a few weeks back on their final tour and posted so many times about it I had to start hiding them, I'm happy he got to attend as he was a fan as a kid and he has some tough times happening in his family right now, but I really couldn't care less about Kiss at this point and it's never the "last tour ever" till the bandleader gets ill or dies and sometimes not even then.
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 3, 2023 23:50:02 GMT
Here's one for you. I think this is out of print but it was by the British music writer Charles Shaar Murray and the American comic-book artist Bill Sienkiewicz. Or 'the man whose surname they always spelt wrongly on the credits' as he used to be called back in the day. I really loved his art but not everyone does. However, I thought this book 'Voodoo Child' was a really good take on Jimi's life. This is one of the interior pages:  |
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Post by Dominic on Dec 4, 2023 1:03:38 GMT
Here's one for you. I think this is out of print but it was by the British music writer Charles Shaar Murray and the American comic-book artist Bill Sienkiewicz. That looks like a mix of Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son and Bacon's Pope Innocent X:   [/quote] |
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 4, 2023 7:25:27 GMT
Here's one for you. I think this is out of print but it was by the British music writer Charles Shaar Murray and the American comic-book artist Bill Sienkiewicz. Or 'the man whose surname they always spelt wrongly on the credits' as he used to be called back in the day. I really loved his art but not everyone does. However, I thought this book 'Voodoo Child' was a really good take on Jimi's life. I vaguely recall Sienkiewicz from some Kitchen Sink Press stuff. His art is probably reflective of what went on in Hendrix' head but I'm not a big fan of it. I might check out his Demon Bear work for New Mutants because bears. |
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 4, 2023 10:15:50 GMT
Er, you might find that work a bit disturbing. I was there when those issues were first published and the bear in this case is highly, highly unpleasant and some of the overall themes of that storyline are as well. It's well worth a read but religious intolerance of an extreme kind and extreme violence and abuse come up in that story quite a bit. The art isn't that great on it either in places as Bill only does some of it and some of the rest is by various Marvel journeymen artists of the era.
Wolverine ends up fighting bears a fair bit, not because he dislikes bears though. There are two stories I can think of where a stupid hunter wounds a bear seriously and Wolverine has to put the bear out of its misery as a result. In one of those, he tracks the hunter responsible down and beats him up because he is so angry about the hunter doing this. Another involves Logan in a story set in an unidentified period in the Cold War taking pot shots at animals. Logan is already wounded after an espionage mission went somewhat wrong and a bomb blew up early and he is stumbling about in what is probably the Canadian or Alaskan wilderness with this stupid hunter taking pot shots at him and various wildlife as he slowly recovers. Logan eventually loses his temper and the story ends with the hunter firing a crossbow and Logan throwing the crossbow bolt back into this hunter's shoulder as I recall.
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