“‘Bez presents his life as a triumph against the odds, the pills and thrills of a hyperactive kid who couldn’t settle on anything except drugs and petty crime but fronted one of the most important bands of the past ten years.’ –The Times”
Now, I know I’ve been out of touch for the past 25 years of pop music, but were they really that important? I think that quote is probably from 1998, when the book was published.
Are they as noteworthy as Joy Division??!!
Joy Division was part of the Factory story. Their rise powers the first half of the 24 hour Party People film.
They’re not so important to the eventual rave scene, because they were earlier and didn’t make rave music.
Well I mean specifically relative to the Happy Mondays. Not knowing much about raves, are they as important as Joy Division/New Order?
I’m suspicious of any band that has a goofy sidekick hanging around planing the maracas.
Maybe just watch the film we mentioned. I probably do have 90% of the script memorised at this point, but I don’t feel like typing it out. It shows the Joy Division/Happy Mondays connection.
I remember New Song. And now i’m remembering going to a Howard Jones show early in High School. Awesome.
I don’t want to be hip and cool.
I don’t wanna play by the rules.
I’ve got one.
I, at one point long ago, had a wonderful vegetarian cookbook with a much-missed eggplant lasagna recipe. The thing that stood out about this cookbook is that the last section was mostly about the building of a large puff pastry dessert tower thing with recipes and black & white photos.
I asked the Librarian in Florida about the Lamb en Croute recipe and she found this one from Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking.
It looks pretty similar. I emailed it off to my mom to see if it’s The One.
http://www.epicurien.be/food/recipes/meat/lambs/leg-of-lamb-en-croute.asp
That’s not THE ONE.
Mom says it has a dozen eggs in the brioche pastry.
Perhaps someone has already suggested CIA library archives?
Culinary Institute of America https://www.ciachef.edu/library-archive-release/
Sounds about right for recipes of that era.
It makes me wonder how much blood people had in their cholesterol streams back then.
Explains why it is so damn good!
Ok, folks. I’ve got another magazine-related one.
Back in the mid 1980s I remember being fascinated with an ad in one of the hi-fi magazines (maybe High Fidelity) for this ridiculous car radio (double DIN?) with a ridiculous graphic equalizer and any number of knobs and buttons on it. It had a tagline about how it “just might fit in your car”. I don’t remember who made it – maybe Blaupunkt or one of the other higher end car stereo manufacturers of the time.
I’ve tried searching for this for a while and have had no luck. Maybe someone else remembers this?
So wrong. I mean who puts an Apple II with a black and white CRT on satin sheets?
ETA: Yeah, looking at vintage car stereo ads is a huge k-hole.
Porn was so much more complicated back in the 80s!!!
Not exactly google, but perhaps related…
Anybody who’s used a library knows that if you find a book that bears on your area of interest, the adjacent books are very likely of interest as well-- unless the library generally sucks and is that sparsely populated. (So are books that share subject headings in the card catalog…)
I was using gallica, the digital version of the BnF, which uses full text searches. It turns out that the stuff I’m interested uses the same sort of vocabulary as medical textbooks. Fed up with my search strategy, I decided to approach this from a different perspective. I’m going to look in the BnF main catalog, and see if I can find a better Heading.
That’s funny. There’s no heading. There’s no subject keyword. Maybe if I look at the MARC record.
Wait a moment, I don’t know how to read MARC, Maybe if I compare it to the MARC output of a Library of Congress entry. Looks like some fields are most definitely missing,
Yep. The French have decided that they don’t need headings, or call numbers for digital stuff now that they have full text search.
In the web environment, the Bibliothèque nationale de France continues to improve the ease with which its collections can be browsed and accessed. The digital library, Gallica, moves away from traditional information retrieval methods and instead uses methods more akin to those used by search engines.
phooey.
