Author: Dangerous Minds Archives: 07/2018

Although they never really seemed to quite enter the posthumous pantheon of great late and lamented post-punk bands like, say, the Gun Club, and are…

For a couple of years now, a Twitter account dedicated to unappetizing stills from cookbooks dating from my childhood has ranked as one of my…

In their 1973 occult cookbook The Third Mind, novelist William S. Burroughs and painter Brion Gysin discuss the notion that when two like-minded individuals are…

Art Fein, Bull Moose Jackson and Paul Body, 1985 (via Another Fein Mess) You know what they say: “Ain’t no YouTube rabbit hole like an…

If you’re ever invited to a “surrealist ball,” my advice is definitely to go. This advice is a hundred times as pertinent if the hosts…

All these years listening to Iggy Pop’s 2 Record Set—the brilliant New Values LP plus bits of Soldier and Party—I just assumed Iggy was singing…

Man Ray never talked much about his childhood or his family background. He didn’t think it was important or relevant to his life as an…

The phrase “so bad, it’s good” was coined to describe works like the early ‘80s film Lady Street Fighter. The flick stars German actress Renee…

Cocteau’s head of Apollo (via Villa Santo Sospir) Jean Cocteau’s La Villa Santo Sospir, shot on 16mm, is a guided tour of his patron’s villa…

In the mid-seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen composed the 12 melodies of Tierkreis (or Zodiac), one for each star sign. He assigned the 12 notes of the…