Mural at 112 Avenue A in NYC.
 
Here in it’s entirety is Julian Temple’s very fine 2007 documentary on Joe Strummer.

Featuring members of The Clash, Don Letts, Jim Jarmusch, Bernie Rhodes, Joe Ely, John Cooper Clarke and many more.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten does justice to a complex and brilliant man who was constantly grappling with his fans’ expectations, his own demons, while all the while trying to age gracefully as the face of rebellion and punk rock music.

In English with Spanish subtitles.
 

 
David Bowie doing a live vocal to a backing tape on Les Rendez-Vous Du Dimanche from French television in 1977.

The interview he did afterwards with host Michael Drucker is after the jump.
 

 
Thank you Spencer Kansa!

 
In this rarely seen (for obvious reasons) clip, the fabulous Leigh Bowery keeps his composure as the be-quiffed pop star stumbles through his questions, rambles, misses the point and seems at times lost like a patient woken up for his meds.

Taken from Glitter’s late night chat show Night Network, Bowery shines, while Glitter’s inappropriate questions reveal more than he perhaps intended:

“I know how to make a young boy happy.”

I’m sure you do, Gary, I’m sure you do.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

Leigh Bowery’s Raw Sewage

 
Just wait for it! BTW, how in the hell is this still up on YouTube?!

 
(via reddit)

 
“I bet if Jesus came back right now…”

A lot of people were seriously skeeved out by the audience at the GOP Tea party/CNN debate cheering on the notion of allowing an uninsured man to die.

Liberal group ThinkProgress asked students at Liberty University, the conservative Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, what they thought about the matter. Although the students were unanimous in their disapproval, calling it “un-Christian” to allow an uninsured person to die simply because they were uninsured, I wonder how many of them would still blindly vote for a GOP candidate who espoused such a morbid viewpoint every single time rather than for a theoretical Democrat whose position they actually agreed with?

Such is the berserk disconnect of modern American life…
 

 
Via Gas 2.0

 
How have I lived my life not knowing about the professional window cleaning service known as Men In Kilts? I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever seen these dudes around LA or America cleaning peoples windows—I’m sure I’d remember! How does wearing a kilt improve one’s window cleaning skills? Doesn’t it get quite drafty “up there” in the winter? What is this window-washing peep-show all about anyways? 

Men In Kilts: Window & Exterior Cleaning

 

 
(via Everlasting Blort)

 
This piece on new wave and punk rock appeared on TV show 20/20 in 1979. It’s actually pretty level-headed and contains some nice vintage footage of Talking Heads, Blondie, The Clash and more.

The clip cuts off mid-way through a short piece on Klaus Nomi. You can see the rest after the jump.
 

 
Klaus continued after the jump…

 
Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert has long distinguished himself as one of the least intelligent GOP members of Congress (and that’s really, really saying something). Now he’s doubling down on the dumb... Via Think Progress:

Taking the GOP’s anti-tax ideology to its logical conclusion, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced today his own “American Jobs Act” — giving his bill the same name as President Obama’s plan — which would completely eliminate corporate income taxes. Gohmert claims this will create jobs:

It is a very simple bill, which will eliminate the corporate tax which serves as a tariff that our American companies pay on goods they produce here in America. This bill will actually create jobs in America

The two-page bill changes the tax code to replace any mention of the current “35 percent” tax rate with “0 percent.” Corporations are already sitting on trillions in cash, so cutting their taxes would likely do very little to help the economy, but would balloon the deficit by depriving the government of about $300 billion in revenues annually. As the CBO found, cutting taxes on businesses “typically does not create an incentive for them to spend more on labor or to produce more, because production depends on the ability to sell output.”

But Gohmert’s plan is even more irksome considering that he’s spent the last few days attacking Obama’s jobs plan because it would prohibit employers from discriminating against people who have been unemployed. Gohmert appeared on various conservative media outlets to expose this “devilish detail,” saying on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday, via Political Correction:

GOHMERT: We have created in this bill a newly protected class, not on race, creed, color, sex — not even sexual orientation, this is a new one. It’s not religion, it’s a prohibition of discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual’s status as unemployed. By golly, if you apply for a job and you’re unemployed and you feel like you got discriminated against and not hired because you were unemployed, see a lawyer. You’ve got a claim under this bill.

So Gohmert wants to help unemployed Americans get jobs by eliminating taxes for corporations, but thinks helping those jobless directly is “devilish.” But at least his plan isn’t as half-baked as his colleagues’ plan to create jobs by curbing regulations on snakes.

Below, Gohmert makes an absolute ass of himself on Anderson Cooper 360:
 

 
Well, it did take until the 1980s for Hollywood to envision “RoboCop,” didn’t it?

Now back to the photo: Note that this mechanical cop sprays tear gas from his tiny pee-pee. One Redditor points out, “It’s so small we’ll cry tears of laughter.”

Click here to see larger version.

(via reddit)