Stewart Home - The Assault On Culture
Stewart home - Cranked Up Really high
Stewart Home is a writer, artist, cultural critic, something something, something.
Because I am lazy here is a brief description from his Wikipedia page:
Kevin Llewellyn Callan (born 24 March 1962),[1] better known as Stewart Home, is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. His novels include the non-narrative 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (2002), and the re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005). Earlier parodistic pulp fictions work includes Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose which pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.
What I have here is a couple of his books for your perusal.
The first is The Assault on Culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to Class War
A history of the What followed the Surrealist movements and how it affected culture.
From Stewart Home's Website where you can also read this for free:
This book was written in 1987, things have moved on since then (both for the author and in the world), so please bear that in mind....
Anyway If you want to read it you can get it from my Google Drive HERE
The Second Book is CRANKED UP REALLY HIGH: GENRE THEORY & PUNK ROCK
The title is pretty self evident but here is the blurb from Goodreads:
A lot of ink has been split on the subject of punk rock in recent years, most of it by arty-farty trendies who want to make the music intellectually respectable. Cranked Up Really High is different. It isn't published by a university press and it gives short shrift to the idea that the roots of punk rock can be traced back to 'avant garde' art movements. As well as discussing sixties garage rock and the British, American and Finnish punk scenes, Home devotes whole chapters to deconstructing Riot Grrl, Oil and the sorry saga of Nazi bonehead band Skrewdriver. This book champions the super-dumb sleazebag thud of The Ramones, The Stooges, The Vibrators, The Art Attacks, The Snivelling Shits, The Lurkers, The Queers, The Germs, The Child Molesters, The Ants and The Blaggers.
Also you can read this on his website or you can get it from my Google Drive HERE
He has his own spin on things but if you find these things worthy of reading about he is worth reading.
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✨Manga recommendation✨
Please read this manga by Teki Yatsuda. It’s called “Home Far Away” or “遥か遠き家 / Haruka Tooki Ie” in Japanese.
It’s a BL manga about Hayden and Alain, two traumatized people with a dark past who meet by coincidence (or fate?) and find a home within each other while going on a road trip.
It contains all my favorite tropes/scenarios:
Soulmates that found each other
Dark topics similar to Banana Fish
Drama, hurt, and comfort
Funny moments
A sad yet beautiful ending
If you loved Banana Fish, you’ll love this one.
Like Banana Fish, it ends tragically but at least they stay together until the end. The characters, their relationship, the art style and the ending are incredibly beautiful. Please give it a try!✨
There should be a translation in most languages by now.
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#OTD in 1886 – Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by William Gladstone.
The Acts of Union 1800, united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At various intervals during this time, attempts were made to destabilise Anglo-Irish relations. Rebellions were launched in 1803, 1848, 1867, and 1916 to try to end British rule over Ireland. Daniel O’Connell in the…
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