Read Marc Almond on Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator by Jim Christopulos

As co-author (with Phil Smart) of Van der Graaf Generator – The Book in 2005, I was able to interview several of the band’s famous admirers. One of them was Marc Almond, the singer of Soft Cell and a successful solo artist, who had covered a few of Van der Graaf vocalist-songwriter Peter Hammill...

Bookmarked Enter the Groovy World of French Psychedelic Soundtracks (Bandcamp Daily)

The true French romance between film and psychedelic music in the '60s and '70s blossomed mainly through exploitation genres like crime, horror, and erotica.

Read Untangling Andy Warhol (The New Yorker)

The Pop iconoclast obsessively documented his life, but he also lied constantly, almost recreationally.

Reasons To Be Cheerful VII

Posted on June 20, 2020

Stephen Pieper

Delighted to report that CD copies of our new album 'The Life Of The Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity' have landed at Abel Ganz HQ.
We now have a TON of them to get through [responsible, socially distanced]… https://t.co/h0O0yBxvz3
— Abel Ganz (@abelganz) June 20, 2020

Replied to a tweet (Twitter)

I use Twitter much less because of that. It seems impossible to keep the anger out. Lots of people are going back to blogs and I think blog-reading/writing is a much better way to do things socially.

I turned off XML-RPC for this site at last. Not only is it one more potential security threat it’s also completely redundant now that I use Micropub to make posts.

On another note the previous Quoteback seems to have snuck in some sort of Google content in the background which I’m not very happy about.

Quoted

Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the opposite of that that is really life.
What? Says Alf.
Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.

A quote for Bloomsday.

I’m back at work again so I’ve been up with the birds this week. There’s no need for an alarm clock when you have wood pigeons coo-ing outside your window at first light.

Stephen’s Notebook

Carving out my own web presence

Reasons To Be Cheerful VII