You may have seen this photo of four young (white) working class lads minding their own business enjoying an evening on the town together, dressed in the way many working class lads dress these days – showing off their ink, their worked-out bodies, and their shaped facial hair. Spornosexuals. Taken… Read More »Tight Trousers & Slut-Shaming
Some years back I posted a piece called ‘The Prettiest Punk‘, about the most fetching three-minute wonders. Scandalously, Adam Ant appeared nowhere in the list. Perhaps this oversight was an unconscious censorship – because otherwise none of the other candidates would have stood a chance. Or more likely down to… Read More »Prince Charming – Adam Ant’s Pop Apotheosis
As if the tarty Armani poster of Rafael Nadal offering his arse to the world wasn’t slutty enough. Along comes the sporno video. The tennis ace is being shoved up against the (unplastered) wall and then thrown down and hammered on the builder’s bench. Twice. By the camera. Which chops up… Read More »Nadal Hammered Into Sexy, Slippery Pieces by Armani
The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in England. Even if Crisp said he hated England – and he did, over and over again. So many lines… Read More »Quentin Crisp & Hurtian Crisp
By Mark Simpson (Edited from a feature that originally appeared the Independent on Sunday in July 1997, titled ‘Now the end is near’) Only a Michael Jackson gig could begin with a ten-minute computer-generated sci-fi video which obviously cost more than most artists can muster for an album. The film… Read More »The End of Michael Jacksonism