Malcolm McLaren RIP

WFMU just ran Irwin Chusid's 1983 interview with MMcL...really interesting, worth listening to the archived show when it's updated later this evening.

I found that Ebert piece to be really interesting. The idea of Meyer, Ebert, McLaren and Rotten all working together is quite a thing to contemplate. Not really surprising it didn't work out but it has to be one of the great "what ifs" of 20th century popular culture. Thanks for linking. It's weird how there's a couple of bits that almost foreshadow what would happen in real life, like the final line of the movie would have been Rotten saying "Did yer ever had the feeling yer being watched" and Sid's quote after reading the script "I don't think my mum will like the bit about the heroin".

my bit...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JySddEdGkVY/S8ZMZPlvydI/AAAAAAAAAcA/TXY2i252Qco/s1600/God-Save-Malcolm--WHT-T.jpg

http://pollywannacracka.blogspot.com/2010/04/duck-rock-4-life.html

that momus/mclaren interview linked above makes both of them seem like pretentious nitwits. which sounds about right.

i thought it was a great interview. 8yrs on it makes me wonder where and in who the spirit of punk is hiding now ?

The spirit of punk was reincarnated in a baby girl born in Asia born on 1/1/2000. She will restore punk to world dominance in 2018.

Aja?

i thought it was a great interview. 8yrs on it makes me wonder where and in who the spirit of punk is hiding now ?

― beat boy damager, power 2 the people (Its all about face), Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:54 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

like for serious? they just come off as pompous wankers to me. especially all the "people nowadays, they've lost touch with (x)" speculation which in my mind = total blowhard. through, i dunno, baudrillard into the mix and there'd be stratospheric levels of self-satisfied hyperbole about the "zeitgeist."

also "spirit of punk" whatevs

isn't momus like philosophically opposed to punk, too? he's mentioned this numerous times.

two 'pompous wankers' talking smack is what makes it great. and yeah 'spirit of punk', oi oi and the whole subversive fuck the world thing, i know it's cliche but whos doing that these days ?

'isn't momus like philosophically opposed to punk, too? he's mentioned this numerous times."

haha...and who sounds like pretentious twat now then

"whole subversive fuck the world thing, i know it's cliche but whos doing that these days"

I feel the magnet-denials/fuck-the-worldism of ICP are subversive but in the wrong direction.

haha...and who sounds like pretentious twat now then

er what? momus has written that about punk numerous times here and on his various web sites. just strikes me as odd that he would reject the sex pistols and then look to mclaren as some kind of guru.

i saw a couple wearing matching ICP t-shirts in the health-food co-op today.

punk music was bollocks if you ask me but the DIY ethics and aesthetics were choice. McLaren was always more than the one dimension the sex pistols portrayed.

so yeah, dunno about guru but as a role model on how to make grand artistic statements irrespective of success, failure or morality, he was quite inspirational.

everyone seems to have behaved brilliantly over this, it seems to have brought out the best in all his ex friends ex enemies ex wives and whoever else. no one's had a bad word to say.

even NME has got it right, their best cover in *years*

http://www.nme.com/layout/magImage.php

time heals i wounds, i guess. or maybe he made up with people late in life. certainly he fucked enough people over once upon a time.

"time heals i wounds" is of course the bad brains version of "time heals all wounds"

"Momus says nowt but his prayers, y'knaa"

Funeral was today.

Guess who: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47694000/jpg/_47694434_adamant_getty226282.jpg

Adam Ant - look'n like a hobo

...as if he needed the pic on his hat

I've must have seen a dozen WDYLL threads, and I'll be damned if there's a man or woman amongst us who can call Adam fucking Ant out for looking like a hobo.

If only i knew what a WDYLL thread was ?

Just sayin prince charming seems a lifetime ago. Anyone got a full frontal of the pic to see how the head matches the rest of the ensemble ?

or a photostream of the funeral/procession. It sounded fittingly grand and irreverently spectacular.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/4/22/1271945221542/Malcolm-McLaren-Funeral-006.jpg

hobo chic ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/apr/22/malcolm-mclaren-funeral?lightbox=1

he looks good for his age, tho.

regarding mclaren being some sort of shady, untrustworthy character in business deals...

what did he actually do that was so bad? aside from kicking adam ant out of his own band. or is this just a rep he played up himself?

everyone seems to have behaved brilliantly over this, it seems to have brought out the best in all his ex friends ex enemies ex wives and whoever else. no one's had a bad word to say.

even NME has got it right, their best cover in *years*

― piscesx, Friday, 16 April 2010 06:01 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha. will this image change every week now?

ah brilliant! i hope so. wonder why it does/ did that? how very 21st century.

Funeral sounds a laugh anyway
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/25/malcolm-mclaren-funeral-sean-ohagan

Ebert publishes Who Killed Bambi? to the web

hmmm.....

RIP

anyone else at this point in malcolm mclaren and the bootzilla orchestra's "call a wave" hear "women of ireland", e.g. this kind of bit?