I am ashamed to say that I didn’t really know much about Hillman Curtis, but when I heard he passed away a few weeks back I took a look at his website and started to learn a bit more about his work. I recommend looking at his website if you have not heard of him before, I was especially inspired by his Artist Series of interviews, including this one with Eno and Byrne.
R.I.P.
Mr. Partridge - ‘I Sit In The Snow’
Another wonky track that I found on James Pants’ website that I can’t stop listening too.
Not a massive fan of performance art, my thought is it is normally done by people who like showing off. But I quite enjoyed this piece by Jerome Bell, takes a couple of mins to get going but it has a light-hearted side to it that I enjoyed.
Big Hard Excellent Fish- ‘Imperfection List’
Imperfect list is a collection of Pete Wylie’s 64 least favorite people and things read out by his then girlfriend Josie Jones. A sound track was then added and remixed by Andrew Weatherall
The List
adolf hitler. the dentist. terry & june. fucking bastard thatcher. scouse
impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. bonnie
langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the royal
family. stock aitken & waterman. smiling judas. heartbreaking lying friend. myra
hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & child
beater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. the sun newspaper. aids inventor. leon
brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. jimmy tarbuck. loneliness. cancer.
hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard.
tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the jimmy swaggart
show. the tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister
jesse helms. hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. john lennon’s murder.
anyone’s murder. the breakdown of the nhs. the death of the rain forest. heysel
stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-american way. clause 28. tiananmen
square. sexual harrassment. nelson mandela’s imprisonment. nancy’s term. ronnie’s
term. miscarriage.
And I happen to agree with this list.
Quentin Blake demonstrating, step by step, how he makes the illustrations for his books.
It’s the 30 year anniversary of the ZX Spectrum today, celebrate with the ZX Spectrum Orchestra.
