Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 04/2014

The name Tom Driberg might not mean much today, but Driberg was at the center of nearly every major political and cultural event during the…

VHS Cover Junkie posts hi-res scans taken from his wide collection of gaudy, tacky, yet strangely alluring video covers. These are the kind of VHS…

I have to admit that Sparks are my most favorite band in the whole wide world. But you don’t really need to know that. All…

Last month it was reported supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-un had (supposedly) suggested that all loyal citizens of North…

In August 1993, Kurt Cobain wrote William Burroughs to ask if he would appear alongside his band Nirvana in the first video release from their…

If you ever get fed-up with everyday noise pollution from automobile traffic, construction work or that nauseatingly ubiquitous mall muzak then imagine how such unwanted…

Mottt the Hoople’s Ian Hunter wrote one of the best ever books written about life on the road. It was called Diary of a Rock…

Norman Mailer and his “LEGO City of the Future.” Norman Mailer’s novel An American Dream was originally serialized in Esquire magazine during 1964. The story…

I have always thought Britpop was a bit like another famous British institution, the Carry On… movies. Both had likable and identifiable characters: Sid James,…

It seems like a perfect match, the master of Surrealist painting, Salvador Dali illustrating a classic of nonsense literature, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.…