Star-struck: Fabulous pages from a scrapbook of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Progress doesn’t always end in the best results. Take Hollywood. Once, this great movie industry was driven by women screenwriters like Anita Loos, Frances Marion,…
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What Mark E. Smith liked: Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Philip K. Dick & Kurt Vonnegut, a list
When asked what he would do if he was ever elected Prime minister, Mark E. Smith replied: “I’d halve the price of cigarettes, double the…
Polaroids from ‘Return of the Jedi’
Harrison Ford wanted his character, Han Solo, to die in Return of the Jedi. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan agreed. Kasdan thought Solo’s death would freak out…
You can own Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac and Jimi Hendrix’s apartment doors from the Chelsea Hotel
We here at Dangerous Minds have written about a LOT of peculiar and astonishing auctions. Just from memory: Elvis’ pill bottles (twice), Marilyn Monroe’s hair…
I was a teenage Goth, Punk, Hesher, Hip-Hop, Raver: Photographs of fashionable youth from the 1980s
The 1980s encapsulated in one photo. If you remember the eighties, you were probably there. Big hair, bad music, and terrible fashion. Or was it…
Alice Cooper was in a long forgotten rock opera with members of The Who, Roxy Music & Moody Blues
Around 1974, Alice Cooper fully morphed from a group’s name to that of a solo artist. While Cooper’s fellow bandmates moved on to various solo…
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture
Recently I have become rather mopey and down-in-the-mouth, to be quite honest. No, it’s not politics and it’s not due to some dumb horrible break-up…
Send in the Clones: Photographs of extreme Cure, Motörhead, Bjork, Sex Pistols, & Dolly Parton fans
Cure fans. The first time I saw someone dressed-up to like one of their cultural idols it was a young lad, no more than fifteen,…
Like Francis Bacon painted something Walt Disney puked-up: Gregory Jacobsen’s ugly beautiful art
‘Ms. Chlorine.’ Meet Gregory Jacobsen. He likes all those things you hate about yourself. Flab, bingo-wings, over-bite, acne, tombstone teeth, receding chins, unwanted hair, and…
‘The Vampire Happening’: Probably the weirdest blood-sucking fest you’ll see all day
During these cold dark winter nights, I’ve been catching up on some those still-to-be-read literary classics like Biggles Flies Undone, Where’s Dildo? and improving my…