A Thousand Pouts: Inge Fonteyne's Polaroids

A very brief article I wrote for Let's Panic magazine to accompany a selection of Inge Fonteyne's polaroids from the 90's.

Argos and Nauplia

Vangelis So Long Ago, So Clear (with Jon Anderson)

Feargal Sharkey Loving You

Vangelis pairs with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson for some tuneful pleading beyond the moons of Jupiter in 1975. Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey works with Jo Callis of Human League and Roger Taylor of Queen in 1985.

Your Big & Wild Day!

Music

The Trypes - The Undertow

Yung Wu - Big Day

Phil Manzanera - Big Day

Chunky, Novi & Ernie - Underground

Gerty Molzen - Walk On The Wild Side

Words

Thomas Frank Storybook Plutocracy [Public Books] 

Notes: The Trypes and Yung Wu were both projects related to The Feelies, as you can certainly divine from the songs, the latter a cover of Phil Manzanera's Big Day (which features production and vocal duties handled by Brian Eno).  Chunky, Novi & Ernie was an early Laurie Wood band - production handled by Mr. John Cale.  German opera singer and film actress Gerty Molzen turned in this cover of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side in 1985, at age 80 and assisted by Gerd Plez of German new-wave group Hong Kong Syndicate (their catalogue is a difficult slog with a few interesting highlights, I assure you).  She performed it on Late Night with David Letterman in 1986.

Sporting Men

MP3s

Wally Badarou - Voices

Eurogliders - When the Stars Come Out

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Robin Scott - Once In A Lifetime

Haruomi Hosono - Sports Men

Wally Badarou - One Day, Won't Give It Away

Words

Sarah Kendzior "Surviving the post-employment economy" [Al Jazeera]

Robert Reich "Foundations are the voice of plutocracy" [Boston Review]

Tom Slee "Charity Assets" [The New Inquiry]

Douglas Coupland IDS 2013 Interview

 
Douglas Coupland was in Toronto for the IDS 2013 (Interior Design Show)...  I interviewed him and we spoke about his new line of furniture with Vancouver design company switzercultcreative, Brooke Shields, iconic chairs of the 20th century (Warhol, Eames, et al.), and his brother, the taxidermist.  We didn't get around to talking about books, but he did talk about writing and escritoires.