“Get the wogs out”: Never forget Eric Clapton’s disgusting racist tirade
August 5th, 1976. Birmingham’s Odeon Cinema.
Belief
‘Wormwood’: The Bible according to the Residents
‘KILL HIM!’: ‘Wormwood’ on stage (courtesy of Cherry Red Records) The new Wormwood box set, the latest installment in Cherry Red’s pREServed series of Residents…
‘Perverse Preachers, Fascist Fundamentalists and Kristian Kiddie Kooks’: Insane Christian cult video
“He’s a rewarder of those who seek him. Some say God is a punisher, but do you know what we do with child abusers today?…
Dr. Gene Scott, God’s Angry Man, live in concert
In 1993, I attended an extremely curious Easter Sunday “church service”–I use that term loosely–along with a motley crew of congregants assembled in downtown Los…
‘Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation’ and the hidden history of modern art
It is extremely difficult to republish a long out of print book. I know this because I have actually done it myself. First off, a…
Cats and the meaning of life: John Gray on ‘Feline Philosophy’
‘Feline Philosophy,’ out November 24 in US and Canada “Epidemiology and microbiology are better guides to our future than any of our hopes or plans,”…
The stop-motion cartoon of William S. Burroughs’ ‘Ah Pook Is Here’
The 1979 collection ‘Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts’ William S. Burroughs envisaged Ah Pook Is Here, an extension of the comix serial The…
Gods and Monsters: The haunting artwork of Shiki Taira
Room #3110 of the Park Hotel, Tokyo, has a large plate glass window with an impressive view of Mount Fuji. The view is one of…
Audiences at the original run of ‘The Exorcist’ losing their shit
Toronto While I love The Exorcist and watch it at least once a year—wherever Penderecki is booming from big speakers, I’ll be there—I’m unable to…