Tag Archives: henry rollins

going gutbucket: aesthetics of leftovers

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: i LOVE gutbucket, crappy cheapo printing. well, in all honsety, i love all printing processes (except inkjet. i think inkjet stinks). but, there is something about bad printing, that sort of printing you get when you spend … Continue reading →

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Priesthood of protest: dissent through the nine-hole

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dave

Church of the holy secular. Saints and prophets of the bibles of dissent.Strap-on sanctity. The purity of political sophistication. In part much can be blamed on Spinoza for this fine splitting of hairs that engrosses much of the dissent industry, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Eden Foods, henry rollins, James Gilmore, locavore movement, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael J. Potter, Sherry Wolf, Stephanie Strom, Yotam Marom | Leave a comment

99% percent proof: illusion of the target

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

The underclass is always more vital than the higher strata, unburdend by the baggage of bourgeois liberal morality, preachings of violence which justifies borrowing, exploiting, and finally cannibalizing all transgressive life into commodity kitsch and diluted into pablum. The American … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alec baldwin, andi zeisler, Bell Hooks, David Mamet, david shankbone, henry rollins, joseph heath, Kayne West, Liam Lacey, Michael Moore, occupy wall street, Paul Krugman, Roseanne Barr, ryan kavanaugh, susan sarandon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

old wild men

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dave

The terse mottoes, the defiant songs. These were the liturgy and hymnody of the One Big Union’s cause.To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.It lived always in the blast … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Berkman, arturo giovannitti, carlo tresca, elizabeth gurley flynn, Emma Goldman, henry rollins, i.w.w., j. edgar hoover, j. mitchell palmer, Joan Baez, Joe Hill, joseph ettor, old wild men 10cc, palmer raids, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, william d. haywood | Leave a comment

individualism as a performance art

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Dave

Can we ever be free of conformity or is it just, as in Atlas Shrugged, part of what John Galt says, “part of escaping the necessity of choice.” Is the idea of making a choice, making decisions, a form of conformity? … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged alex knapp, Andrew Potter, Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand, Constance Rourke, david rieff, Edward Bernays, George Orwell, henry rollins, Herman Melville, joseph heath, paul leinberger, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

when the revolution comes…

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Dave

Joseph Heath put it very superbly. The modern condition, modern marketing and how criticism of mass society ends up increasing the cycle of consumerism. How books like “No Logo” by Naomi Klein actually make us more brand conscious and how … Continue reading →