While I was reading up on Sergei Esenin recently (in connection with Shalamov), I was alerted to the song ‘Hooligan’ by Max, Kevin Mooney’s post-Adam and the Ants band, here in a great performance at The Clarendon, Hammersmith in, I believe, 1985: [‘Hooligan’ on YouTube] Reliable sources who were there at the time inform me […]
All posts for the month June, 2012
Music Monday: Hooligan
Posted by Sarah Young on June 18, 2012
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/06/18/music-monday-hooligan/
Varlam Shalamov and the art of defecation
With apologies to any readers of a sensitive disposition, this is an important subject. Pretty much every Gulag narrative makes mention of the primitive toilet facilities and prison cells and camps – the ubiquitous and foul-smelling parasha (slop bucket) and arrangements for its emptying – and there are plenty of references to feelings of shame […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 7, 2012
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/06/07/varlam-shalamov-and-the-art-of-defecation/