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Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
 This is Punk. The Roxy, London WC2. Nice page with lots of links, reproductions of flyers and audio files. Johnny Moped is simply great.The periodic summer heatwaves we suffer are nothing in comparative terms to that of London in 1976. The heat traditionally drives people into losing it and doing crazy things. That summer of punk now looks inevitable.
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 Bruce Gilbert. Wire, primavera festival, Barcelona, May 24th 2003. Photo by Jutta Brandt. She's good.More on Wire here, with lots of soundfiles. And here. And a rather strange live version of 1-2-XU (MP3).
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Friday, January 23, 2004 |
 The Great Train Robbery. ... late on Wednesday 7th August 1963 the "Up Special" train left Glasgow en-route for Euston. The train was a TPO (Travelling Post Office) and consisted of a number of carriages where Post Office staff sorted the mail and parcels en-route prior to its arrival in London. The second carriage from the front of the train was a HVP (High Value Package) where registered mail was sorted. Much of this consisted of cash. Usually the value of these items would have been in the region of £300,000 but, because there had been a Bank Holiday Weekend in Scotland the total on the day of the robbery was £2.3 million. (About £30 million today) ...Enter Bruce Reynolds and his gang. Here's the Thames Valley Police, here the version of the British Transport Police; and here is what the Crime Library has to say about the most audacious crime in British history.
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
 Counterculture Photography. And this fits perfectly with the link below. Larry Keenan. Thanks to Larry Keenan's masterful photography, we are left with a visually potent view of the Beat Generation and beyond. Keenan's photo-documentation is necessary, for it captures many essential moments -- of Ginsberg, Whalen, Cassady, Corso, McClure, Dylan, and many others.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
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Monday, January 19, 2004 |
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 |
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Big in Japan. An archive of 
Lick'em. Your Bishop Information Minister on stamps, issued officially by 
Swing. Thank God, 
3D. Here's 
Suburbia. Photographs of 
Blue Smoke. Thousands of cigarette ads, articles and more at 
Get raus. This must be a fake. Get back, I just can't imagine ... but then, there you go. The Beatles: 
Ohmygoodnessme! My Sitemeter just told me that someone from apple.com accessed my weblog. Could that have been Steve??? Ah well; most probably not. Of course. Anyway: I hope you found what you were looking for, dear unknown person living and slaving up there at the Infinite Loop.
Kaputt. Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. [
Howl. The homepage of Mister 
More about Perspective. 
Lead. Fantastic: a 
Transport for London. 
The Obscure Object of Desire. Just returning home from 
Police and Thieves. 
Abbey Roads. 
No Branding. 
Branding. Properly done. Selfridges, Swiss Intl Air Lines, Stella McCartney - at 
Greek. Dummy. Blind. Yet another one of those 
Street Art. Well, those 
An Update. While I couldn't get my head round designing a 'proper' website for the film covers yet, I've scanned in 
Wild Scotland. 
Carbonite Lego. 
Bliar. 
The Swiss Again. This is a special link for Axel: 
Proper Cynism. Check out 
Atelier d'Artista. Photographs of 
Solo. Napoleon Solo at 
Fluxus. A nice