On the 70th Birthday of Ian Curtis and the Calendar of Saints
Today, July 15th, is the seventieth birthday of Ian Curtis. And the outpouring of remembrance by the post-punk world has been great... Most likely, he would have hated all of this.
Bad Saints
Ian Curtis, “Discovered on the Sabbath”
Today is one of the saddest days in the history of rock music, the death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. In the early Sunday morning hours of May 18th, 1980, he hanged himself in his kitchen, Iggy Pop's album The Idiot still spinning on his record player, a note left for his estranged wife. Factory
The Eternal Return
The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but
The Whitening of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Focusing solely in MLK's Dream is to whiten him, to make him palpable to white audiences by focusing solely on something that can be easily and readily shared: a dream.
The Eternal Return
The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but