Sugary Tea

The spirit of Che Guevara

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:06:11 +0100

Taken from The New Statesman 20th October, 1967.

The art of punk posters: From the Sex Pistols to the Clash, how...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:47:00 +0100

The art of punk posters: From the Sex Pistols to the Clash, how poster design helped spread the rebellious reputation of punk.

After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:45 +0100

After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers:

Musicians don’t often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. The Guardian’s Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never before.

Shyness

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:03 +0100

Shyness:

“So stand up and be counted, shy ones. Or actually, stay right where you are: discreetly off-center, quietly contrarian, wafting your complex vibes across the room. Refuse to be noisy. Refuse to be brassy. Be bold: Be shy.”

"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from..."

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual…”

- Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

BBC Archive - In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Interviews with remarkable modern writers

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:35:47 +0100

BBC Archive - In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Interviews with remarkable modern writers

Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:39:41 +0100

Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf:

What happens to a man who compulsively collects comics, books, records and CDs? He becomes very good at building shelves…

Come on Pilgrim offered twisted rockers and ballads, guitar-scarred and coddled, celebrating incest...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:06:37 +0100

Come on Pilgrim offered twisted rockers and ballads, guitar-scarred and coddled, celebrating incest and animals and sex so fine (with an elevator operator). They’re charged with a sound as rewarding as scab-picking was when you were a kid. Gleefully reckless. Good nasty fun. The Pixies have the eerie depth of old souls, yet their average age of 22 explains their eagerness to offend, to aurally jar and generally rock people off their mental axis.

Reflex magazine review of Come on Pilgrim, May 1988

"Bollocks to Morrissey at Wolverhampton, to The Sundays at The Falcon, to PWEI at Brixton - I’m..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:38:58 +0100

“Bollocks to Morrissey at Wolverhampton, to The Sundays at The Falcon, to PWEI at Brixton - I’m already drafting a letter to my grandchildren telling them that I saw The Stone Roses at the Haçienda.”

- Andrew Collins in NME

Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins: A life in pictures

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:47:39 +0100

Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins: A life in pictures

The Stones and the true story of Exile on Main St.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:10:10 +0100

The Stones and the true story of Exile on Main St.

Penn State University On-Demand: Harvey Pekar

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:11:43 +0100

Penn State University On-Demand: Harvey Pekar

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Tweet

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:27:34 +0100

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Tweet:

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity…”

"I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book..."

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:34:00 +0100

““I’ve probably had my day in the sun. I think I’ve influenced a lot of comic book writers.””

- R.I.P. Harvey Pekar (October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010)

BBC Archive: The Battle of Britain - Memories of 'Britain's finest hour'

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:42:10 +0100

BBC Archive: The Battle of Britain - Memories of 'Britain's finest hour'

"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:34:00 +0100

“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"How do I love a loafer! Of all human beings, none equals your genuine, inbred, unvarying loafer. Now..."

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:22:00 +0100

“How do I love a loafer! Of all human beings, none equals your genuine, inbred, unvarying loafer. Now when I say loafer, I mean loafer; not a fellow who is lazy by fits and starts—who today will work his twelve or fourteen hours, and tomorrow doze and idle. I stand up for no such half-way business. Give me your calm, steady, philosophick son of indolence…he belongs to that ancient and honourable fraternity, whom I venerate above all your upstarts, your dandies, and your political oracles.”

- Walt Whitman

Proper Moments for Drinking Tea

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:17:00 +0100

When one’s heart and hands are idle.
Tired after reading poetry.
When one’s thoughts are disturbed.
Listening to songs and ditties.
When a song is completed.
Shut up at one’s home on a holiday.
Playing the ch’in and looking over paintings.
Engaged in conversation deep at night.
Before a bright window and a clean desk.
With charming friends and slender concubines.
Returning from a visit with friends.
When the day is clear and the breeze is mild.
On a day of light showers.
In a painted boat near a small wooden bridge.
In a forest with tall bamboos.
In a pavilion overlooking lotus flowers on a summer day.
Having lighted incense in a small studio.
After a feast is over and the guests are gone.
When children are at school.
In a quiet, secluded temple.
Near famous springs and quaint rocks.

— by Hsü Ts’eshu

"Colour photography isn’t profound, though it requires greater skill than black and white. I..."

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:55:00 +0100

“Colour photography isn’t profound, though it requires greater skill than black and white. I think colour adds prettiness but not much more. If you want to manipulate the colour image, then be a painter.”

- James Ravilious

The return of radical bookshops

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:30:52 +0100

The return of radical bookshops