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Published in the 2004 edition of "Know Your Ships"
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“Coses que les coses diueu” [“Things Things Say”] is published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition curated by Latitudes, that took place at Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, between October 17, 2020 and January 17, 2021. With works by Adrià Julià, Annette Kelm, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Sarah Ortmeyer, Eulàlia Rovira, Francesc Serra i Dimas, Stuart Whipps, Haegue Yang, as well as meaningful things from the Friends of Fabra i Coats archive.
Designed by Bendita Gloria, the volume includes a preface by art centre director Joana Hurtado Matheu, a text by Latitudes comprising a series of quotations, historical references, anecdotes, and theoretical snippets, an essay by participating artist Eulàlia Rovira around the narratives and stories of Fabra i Coats, as well as texts on each exhibited work.
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Texts by: Joana Hurtado Matheu, Latitudes and Eulàlia Rovira
Edited and coordinated by: Latitudes and Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani
Publisher: Ajuntament de Barcelona. Institut de Cultura de Barcelona / Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani
Graphic design: Bendita Gloria
Format: 16 x 11cm, hardcover, 180 pages
Language: Catalan with Spanish & English translations
ISBN: 978-84-9156-386-0
Date of Publication: December 2021
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Photo: © Latitudes | www.lttds.org
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→ More info: www.lttds.org/projects/thingsthingssay/
→ Exhibition guide: www.lttds.org/assets/Full-sala-things-things-say-EN.pdf
→ Audioguide: www.lttds.org/projects/thingsthingssay/audio/?lang=eng
Published today, our second book on our experiences of running John Cameron’s engines on the main line and the many exploits and fun and games we have had over many years.
Packed with over 100 photographs, the book is priced at £15.99 and is available from all good book shops, online and the publishers (Amberley).
We will also have our normal sales table at this year’s Glenrothes and Cupar Model Railway Exhibitions where both our titles can be purchased.
As with our previous book we shall be donating all royalties and profits to Scottish Railway Preservation Projects and to date, six projects have benefited from our donations.
Published by HorseChannel.com www.horsechannel.com/horse-community/horses-of-history-fi... to illustrate Samantha Johnson's article "Horses in History: Figure", June 28, 2016.
I think I've got this "white balance" thing figured out... At least until it warms up a bit and the snow falls off the flamingo's back.
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Il duo electropop britannico degli Hurts arriva, il 26 ottobre, a scuotere il pubblico dell'Alcatraz. La band di Manchester si esibisce sul palco del locale meneghino con i brani del disco di debutto, Happiness, che ha già venduto un milione e mezzo di copie nel mondo. Il disco è stato anticipato dai singoli Wonderful Life e Better than love, che hanno subito ottenuto un enorme successo in tutta Europa.
Nell’elettro-pop di Adam Anderson e Theo Hutchcraft, con rimandi al rock oscuro di Joy Division, Interpol, Editors e White Lies, si ritrova tutta la magia ed il glam degli anni ’80, una stagione tanto bistrattata quanto apprezzata per il cambio radicale che ha imposto ai canoni della pop-music. Non è un caso che appena usciti sulle pagine delle riviste specializzate e sui blogs le case di moda hanno fatto a gara per accaparrarsi la possibilità di vestire questo straordinario duo, una “gara” vinta da Armani che calza perfettamente al algido e distaccato look in bianco e nero, molto anni ’40 che Theo ed Adam hanno scelto di adottare.
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... e pensare che dovevo fare il dentista. Così dice Renzo Arbore che in realtà però è diventato uno dei più importanti showman italiani conosciuti nel mondo.
Dai programmi televisivi che hanno fatto la storia all'Orchestra Italiana che lo accompagna in giro per i teatri a rappresentare tutto il calore di Napoli e della bella musica che ci rappresenta.
Con ironia e delicatezza, Renzo Arbore sa come scatenare il suo pubblico. Lo ha fatto dovunque nel mondo con l’Orchestra Italiana. È uscito da pochi giorni il suo “… e pensare che dovevo fare il dentista.” la "summa" di alcune performance edite e inedite nei maggiori teatri, piazze e auditorium d’Italia e del mondo, che testimoniano sia l’attività di Renzo Arbore solista che in compagnia di amici “sintonici” che gli hanno concesso il privilegio di cantare e suonare con lui.
“La scaletta del concerto – spiega Renzo Arbore – coniuga il nuovo e l’antico suono di Napoli: voci e cori appassionati, girandole di assoli strumentali, un’altalena di emozioni sprigionate dalle melodie della musica napoletana che evocano albe e tramonti, feste al sole e serenate notturne, gioie e pene d’amore”. “Al suono di “Reginella”, ad esempio - aggiunge lo showman - vedo il pubblico (di tutto il mondo) cantarne a squarciagola il ritornello di questo celebre brano e, magicamente, farsi trasportare proprio là (a Napoli) nella terra da dove quelle emozioni sono partite”.
Renzo Arbore è circondato da 15 talentuosi musicisti: “all stars” come ama definirli egli stesso, tra i quali spiccano l’appassionato canto di Gianni Conte, la seducente voce di Barbara Buonaiuto, quella ironica di Mariano Caiano e i virtuosismi vocali e ritmici di Giovanni Imparato. E poi ancora: la direzione orchestrale e il pianoforte di Massimo Volpe, le chitarre di Michele Montefusco, Paolo Termini e Nicola Cantatore, le percussioni di Peppe Sannino, la batteria di Roberto Ciscognetti, il basso di Massimo Cecchetti e, dulcis in fundo, gli struggenti e festosi mandolini di Nunzio Reina e Salvatore Esposito.
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Published in www.schmap.com (Dec 2009)
Photo published with permission from Alvin Johnson [www.facebook.com/AlvinJohnsonPhotography]. All rights reserved.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 13th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by H. Jenkins of Tunbridge Wells. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in London using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 26th. July 1907. It was sent to:
Miss Nash,
10, Park Road,
Bromley,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"My Dear Libby,
Harry reached here quite
safely. Frank met him at
Liverpool Street.
Harry reached Liverpool
Street at 4-35.
Yours,
Ern."
Althorne
Althorne is a village in Essex. It is located 21 km (13 mi) east-southeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The civil parish has a population of 1,159.
-- St. Andrew's Church
St. Andrew's Church is a Grade 2* listed building with a tower dating back to circa 1500.
-- Notable People Associated With Althorne
-- Phillip Scott Burge moved to Althorne just before the Great War. He became one of the top British fighter aces, with 11 enemy kills between March and July 1918. He was killed when he was shot down over Seclin, France on the 24th. July 1918.
-- Mark Lubbock (1898 – 1986), British conductor and composer of operetta and light music, lived with his wife, the writer Bea Howe (1898 – 1992), at The Old Forge, Althorne, for many years from the 1940's onwards.
-- John McVicar (1940 – 2022) convicted armed robber and journalist, was living in a caravan in Althorne at the time of his death.
-- Hilda Ormsby (1877 – 1943), British academic and geographer, died in Althorne.
-- Harrison Scott (born 1996), British racing driver, was born in Althorne.
Lucia Joyce
So what else happened on the day that Ern posted the card to Libby?
Well, the 26th. July 1907 marked the birth in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) of Lucia Joyce.
Lucia Anna Joyce was an Irish professional dancer and the daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle.
Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Lucia was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930's and institutionalized at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich.
In 1951, she was transferred to St. Andrew's Hospital in Northampton, where she remained until her death in 1982. St. Andrew's is a mental health facility.
Lucia was the aunt of Stephen James Joyce, who was the last descendant of James Joyce.
-- Lucia Joyce - The Early Years
Lucia Anna Joyce was born in the Ospedale Civico di Trieste. She was the second child of Irish writer James Joyce and his partner (later wife) Nora Barnacle, after her brother Giorgio.
As her parents were expatriates living in Trieste, Lucia's first language was Italian. In her younger years, she trained as a dancer at the Dalcroze Institute in Paris. She studied dancing from 1925 to 1929 and was taught by Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora Duncan) at his school near Salzburg.
In 1927, Joyce danced a short duet as a toy soldier in Jean Renoir’s film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "La Petite marchande d’allumettes"
In 1928, Lucia joined "Les Six de rythme et couleur," a commune of six female dancers that were soon performing at venues in France, Austria, and Germany.
After a performance in La Princesse Primitive at the Vieux-Colombier theatre, the Paris Times wrote of her:
"Lucia Joyce is her father's daughter. She has
James Joyce's enthusiasm, energy, and a
not-yet-determined amount of his genius.
When she reaches her full capacity for rhythmic
dancing, James Joyce may yet be known as his
daughter's father."
On the 28th. May 1929, Lucia was chosen as one of six finalists in the first international festival of dance in Paris held at the Bal Bullier.
Although she did not win, the audience, which included her father and the young Samuel Beckett, championed her performance as outstanding and loudly protested the jury's verdict.
It has been alleged that when Lucia was 21, she and Beckett (who was her father's secretary for a short time) became lovers.
Their relationship lasted only a short while, and ended after Beckett, who was involved with another woman at the time, admitted that his interest was actually in a professional relationship with James Joyce, not a personal one with Joyce's daughter.
At the age of 22, Lucia, after years of rigorous dedication and long hours of practice, decided:
"I am not physically strong
enough to be a dancer of
any kind".
Announcing that she would become a teacher, she then turned down an offer to join a group in Darmstadt, and effectively gave up dancing.
Lucia's biographer Carol Shloss, however, argues that it was her father who finally put an end to her dancing career. James reasoned that the intense physical training for ballet caused her undue stress, which in turn exacerbated the long-standing animosity between her and her mother Nora Barnacle.
The resulting incessant domestic squabbles prevented work on Finnegans Wake. James convinced her that she should turn to drawing lettrines to illustrate his prose, and forgo her deep-seated artistic inclinations.
To his patron Harriet Shaw Weaver, James Joyce wrote that:
"This resulted in a month of tears as
she thinks she has thrown away three
or four years of hard work and is
sacrificing a talent."
-- Lucia Joyce's Mental Illness and Later Life
Lucia Joyce started to show signs of mental illness in 1930, including a time period during which she was involved with Samuel Beckett, then a junior lecturer in English at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
In May 1930, while her parents were in Zurich, she invited Beckett to dinner, hoping to press him into some kind of declaration. He flatly rejected her, explaining that he was only interested in her father and his writing.
By 1934, Lucia had participated in several affairs, with her drawing teacher Alexander Calder, another expatriate artist Albert Hubbell, and Myrsine Moschos, assistant to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company.
As the year wore on, her condition had deteriorated to the point that James had Carl Jung take her in as a patient. Soon after, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich.
In 1936, James consented to have his daughter undergo blood tests at St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton. After a short stay, Lucia Joyce insisted that she return to Paris, the doctors explaining to her father that she could not be prevented from doing so unless he had her committed.
James told his closest friends that:
"I would never agree to my daughter
being incarcerated among the English."
Lucia Joyce returned to stay with Maria Jolas, the wife of transition editor Eugene Jolas, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
However after three weeks her condition worsened, and she was taken away in a straitjacket to the Maison de Santé Velpeau in Vésinet. Considered a danger to both staff and inmates, she was left in isolation.
Two months later, she entered the maison de santé of François Achille Delmas at Ivry-sur-Seine.
In 1951, Joyce was again transferred to St Andrew's Hospital.
In 1962, Beckett donated his share of the royalties from his 1929 contributory essay on Finnegans Wake to help pay for her confinement at St Andrew's.
In 1982, Lucia Joyce had a stroke and died in Northampton at the age of 75 on the 12th. December. She was laid to rest in Kingsthorpe Cemetery, Northampton.
-- The Legacy of Lucia Joyce
Each year on Bloomsday, extracts from James Joyce's Ulysses and other readings related to his life and works are read at Lucia Anna Joyce's graveside.
In 2018 on Bloomsday, Letters to Lucia, a play written by Richard Rose and James Vollmar in which characters from Lucia's life, including Samuel Beckett, Kathleen Neel, Nora Barnacle/Joyce and Joyce himself appear, was performed by the Triskellion Irish Theatre Company at the graveside.
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on the 16th. June, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after Leopold Paula Bloom, the hero of Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.
Lucia's mental state, and documentation related to it, is the subject of a study, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, by Carol Loeb Shloss, who believes that Lucia Joyce was her father's muse for Finnegans Wake.
Making heavy reference to the letters between Joyce and her father, the study became the subject of a copyright misuse suit by the James Joyce estate. On the 25th. March 2007, this litigation was resolved in Shloss's favour.
Professor John McCourt, of the University of Macerata, a prize-winning Joyce scholar, trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, and co-founder and director of the International James Joyce symposium held at Trieste, wrote in A Companion to Literary Biography that Shloss, in her "sometimes obsessive" book:
"Seeks very deliberately to depose Nora (Joyce's
wife) as Joyce's chief muse.
In doing so, it overplays its hand with exaggerated
claims about Lucia's genius and about her importance
to Joyce's creative process, and vindictively harsh
judgments on most members of the Joyce family
and circle.
The book's most damaging legacy is the cottage
industry of derivative versions of Lucia that it has
helped to spawn. It is the key source for a whole
series of writings about Lucia that uncomfortably
mix fact and fiction."
One such derivative was The Joyce Girl (2016) by Annabel Abbs, of which McCourt wrote:
"With Abbs, the perverse cycle of
interest in Lucia comes full circle.
We are back in the territory of fiction
fraudulently posing as biography.
The book is a prime contender for the
worst Joyce-inspired 'biography' ever".
The book was also the subject of criticism in the Irish Times and Irish Examiner regarding the author's "unsubstantiated speculations" regarding incest between Lucia and her brother, and the sources of her mental illness.
In 1988, Stephen Joyce had all the letters written by Lucia that he received upon her death in 1982 destroyed. Stephen Joyce stated in a letter to the editor of The New York Times that:
"Regarding the destroyed correspondence,
these were all personal letters from Lucia to
us.
They were written many years after both
Nonno and Nonna (i.e. Mr. and Mrs. Joyce)
died and did not refer to them.
Also destroyed were some postcards and
one telegram from Samuel Beckett to Lucia.
This was done at Sam's written request."
In 2004, Lucia Joyce's life was the subject of Calico, a West End play written by Michael Hastings, and, in 2012, of the graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot.
A play exploring her life, titled L, was performed to a limited audience in Concord Academy in 2016. It was written and directed by Sophia Ginsburg.
In 2018, Lucia was the subject of a novel by Alex Pheby, titled Lucia.
Lucia Joyce is the protagonist of the "Round the Bend" chapter of Alan Moore's 2016 novel Jerusalem. Set at the Northampton clinic where she spent her final years, the chapter is written in the style of her father's Finnegans Wake.
In 2023, Joseph Chester released Lucia for Guitar & Strings, a suite for classical guitar and strings, commissioned by Axis Ballymun for the centenary celebrations of Ulysses in Dublin.
The suite had its world premiere in Dublin on Bloomsday 2023, and was released on CD, vinyl and streaming in January 2023. The suite took eleven key moments from the life of Lucia Joyce in order to paint a portrait of her in music.
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Published in Japanese by Tsukijii Shokan.
A hopeful look at our natural defenses and the future of food and human health
English version: islandpress.org/books/natural-defense
I met Fredde a cold night at Gullmarsplan in Stockholm. I was writing an article about steroids and Fredde had been juicing for a couple of months. He told me about his dreams of becoming a body builder and fitness coach. About gaining respect at the gym. But he also told me about his balls that had shrunk to the size of two raisins and how he couldn't sleep at night because of stomach pains.
This photo was published in MAN #4/2010.
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Unica data italiana per il gruppo pop-punk canadese capitanato da Deryck Whibley. Assenti dall'Italia da cinque anni, venerdì 26 agosto i Sum 41 sono in concerto al CarroPonte di Milano, durante il loro ‘Don’t Call It a Sum-Back’ Tour, con tutta l'energia di questi quindici anni di rock al fulmicotone.
Il quartetto formato da Whibley (voce e chitarra), Dave Baksh (chitarra), Jason McCaslin (basso) e Frank Zummo (batteria) ha debuttato nel 2001 con il cd All Killer, No Filler che contiene classici del pop-punk come Fatlip e In Too Deep, che ha avuto più di 68 milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube. L'ultimo disco Screaming Bloody Murder del 2011 li ha portati fino alla nomination ai Grammy Awards per la miglior performance hard-rock/metal. Il prossimo 7 ottobre i Sum 41 pubblicheranno l'atteso sesto album «13 Voices».
Come annunciato dalla stampa di settore, tra cui le webzine Kerrang!, Alt-Press e gli stessi Sum 41 sui loro canali social, il 2016 è l’anno in cui, molto probabilmente, uscirà il loro sesto album, segnando il ritorno di una delle pop-punk band più sopra le righe degli ultimi decenni. Screaming Bloody Murder, l’ultimo album dei Sum 41, risale al 2011, anno in cui vengono nominati ai Grammy Awards per Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. Live energetici ad alto contenuto rock sono infatti una costante per la band canadese.
First published in Penguin in 1960
This reprint published in 1967
Cover illustration by André François
This is a scan from the internet and not a scan from my own collection
The Postcard
A Solograph Series De Luxe Photogravure postcard that was published by E. A. Sweetman & Son Ltd. of Tunbridge Wells.
The card was posted in Newquay using a 2d. stamp on Thursday the 25th. August 1949. It was sent to:
Miss Hartnell,
4, South Street
Wincanton,
Somerset.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"c/o Mrs. Richardson,
Market Street,
East Looe,
Cornwall.
Dear May,
We are at Newquay for
a day having come from
Looe by coach.
Looe is a pretty place.
We are staying at Looe
until the 3rd. September,
then on the 10th. we go
to Emmie Silver's wedding
party, she is having a big
do.
Lots of love to all,
Dolly & Mum."
Newquay
Newquay is a town on the North Atlantic coast in Cornwall, England. It is a seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port.
The town is bounded to the south by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and to the north-east by the Porth Valley. The western edge of the town meets the Atlantic at Fistral Bay.
The town has been expanding inland (south) since the former fishing village of New Quay began to grow in the second half of the nineteenth century.
-- Newquay People
William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, was born in Newquay.
So was Alexander Lodge (1881–1938). He was an English inventor who did early work and held some patents on the spark plug.
Richard Long, 4th. Viscount Long, lived at The Island, a house on a rock linked to the mainland by a private suspension bridge.
Singer-songwriter James Morrison grew up in the Newquay area: he attended Treviglas College.
Phillip Schofield attended Newquay Tretherras School.
-- Newquay in the Media
The Headland Hotel next to Fistral Beach has been used in several films, including Wild Things (1998) and The Witches (1990).
The Beatles filmed part of the Magical Mystery Tour film in Newquay. Scenes were filmed at the Atlantic Hotel and Towan Beach.
Lies During Jury Selection
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 25th. August 1949, Judge Harold Medina refused to declare a mistrial in the Smith Act trial.
This was despite defense contentions that juror Russell Janney, author of The Miracle of the Bells, had discussed the case out-of-court.
They also claimed that Janney had answered falsely about having an anti-Communist bias during the jury selection process.
A New Converter for Color TV
Also on that day, RCA reported that they had developed a color television which could be adapted to existing black-and-white receivers through the use of a converter.
Martin Amis
The 25th. August 1949 also marked the birth in Oxford of Martin Amis.
Sir Martin Louis Amis FRSL was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984), London Fields (1989), and The Information (1995), (commonly referred to as the London Trilogy).
At 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall, he referred to himself as a "short-arse" while a teenager. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with a congratulatory first in English:
"The sort where you are called in for a
viva and the examiners tell you how
much they enjoyed reading your
papers".
According to Martin, his father was deeply critical of certain aspects of his work:
"I can point out the exact place where
he stopped reading my novel Money
and sent it twirling through the air;
that's where the character named
Martin Amis comes in."
His father Kingsley complained:
"Breaking the rules, buggering about
with the reader, drawing attention to
himself."
He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience, and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog).
Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011.
In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Amis's work centres on the excesses of "late-capitalist" Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirised through grotesque caricature. He was portrayed by some literary critics as a master of what The New York Times called "The New Unpleasantness".
Martin was inspired by Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as by his father Kingsley Amis.
-- The Death of Martin Amis
Martin became a grandfather in 2008. He later described his new status as:
"Like getting a telegram
from the mortuary".
A life-long smoker, Amis died from oesophageal cancer at his house in the U.S. state of Florida on the 19th. May 2023. He was 73 when he died - the same age as his father.
The New York Times wrote after his death:
"To come of reading age in the last three
decades of the 20th century – from the
oil embargo through the fall of the Berlin
Wall, all the way to 9/11 – was to live, it
now seems clear, in the Amis Era."
Martin Amis was knighted in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for services to literature, with the knighthood being backdated to the day before his death.
Gene Simmons
Also born on the 25th. August 1949 was Gene Simmons. Simmons is an American musician, entrepreneur and founding member of the hard rock band Kiss.
Also known by his stage persona "The Demon", Gene was also the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the early 1970's, and which lasted until their retirement in 2023.
Simmons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss.
-- Gene Simmons - The Early Years
Simmons was born as Chaim Witz at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Florence "Flora" Klein, later Lubowski (1925–2018) was born in Jánd. She survived internment in Nazi concentration camps from November 1944 until her liberation from the Mauthausen camp in Austria in 1945.
Flora and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust.
Simmons' father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz (1925–2002), was a carpenter whom Klein married in 1946. The couple moved to Israel the following year.
Gene spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household. He has said that his family was "dirt poor", scraping by on rationed bread and milk. At the age of seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it at the roadside together with a friend.
At the age of eight, after his parents’ divorce, he and his mother emigrated to the United States, settling in Queens, NYC. His father remained in Israel, where he had another son and three daughters.
In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Gene Klein, adopting his mother's maiden name. When he was nine, he briefly attended a Jewish religious school, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, before transferring to a public school.
Gene graduated from Newtown High School. He later attended Sullivan County Community College in New York, and Richmond College in Staten Island, New York where he graduated with a BA in Education in 1970.
Before his musical career began, Klein worked a variety of jobs in the city. A proficient typist, he served as an assistant to an editor of Vogue, and spent 6 months as a sixth grade instructor on the Upper West Side.
The Beatles had a significant influence on Simmons:
"There is no way I'd be doing what I do now
if it wasn't for the Beatles. I was watching The
Ed Sullivan Show and I saw them.
Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous,
with long hair like girls. It blew me away that
these four boys from the middle of nowhere
could make that music."
-- Gene Simmons' Career
Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, when he was 15 in 1964 – 1965. Eventually, he disbanded the band in order to form the Long Island Sounds, the name being a pun on the Long Island Sound.
In this band was also future Wicked Lester guitarist Steve Coronel, and future lawyer/author Alan Stuart Graf who convinced Simmons to buy his first bass as the band needed a bass player.
In 1967, after losing Graf the band morphed into The Love Bag. While Gene played in these bands, he worked at odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books.
From 1968 to 1970 Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York for two years. He joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded various home demos includig Leeta; this was later included on the Kiss box set. The band existed until 1970 with various line-ups.
Simmons, Coronel and Brooke Ostrander who was in their 1969 band Coffee formed the rock band first known as Rainbow and later Wicked Lester in 1970 with Stanley Eisen and recorded one album which was never released in its entirety.
Dissatisfied with Wicked Lester's sound and look, Simmons and Stanley attempted to fire their band members. Met with resistance, they instead quit Wicked Lester, walking away from their record deal with Epic Records, as they decided to form the "ultimate rock band" in its place.
Looking for a drummer, Simmons and Stanley found an ad placed by Peter Criss, who was playing clubs in Brooklyn at the time; they joined and started out as a trio.
Ace Frehley responded to an ad they put in The Village Voice for a lead guitar player, and soon joined them. Kiss released their self-titled debut album in February 1974. Stanley took on the role of lead performer on stage, while Simmons became the driving force behind what became an extensive Kiss merchandising franchise.
The eye section of Gene's "Demon" makeup with Kiss came from the wing design of comic book character Black Bolt.
In 1983, when Kiss's fame was waning, the members took off their trademark make-up and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity that continued into the 1990's.
At this time, Peter Criss, the original drummer, was voted out of the band, and a replacement was sought to fill his vacancy. The new drummer was Eric Carr, who played for Kiss from 1980 until his death in 1991.
The band hosted its own fan conventions in 1995, and fan feedback about the original Kiss members' reunion influenced the highly successful 1996–1997 Alive Worldwide reunion tour.
In 1998, the band released Psycho Circus. Since then, the original lineup has once again dissolved, with Tommy Thayer replacing Ace Frehley on lead guitar and Eric Singer replacing Peter Criss on drums.
-- Gene Simmons on TV and Film
Gene Simmons has been involved with such projects as:
-- My Dad the Rock Star, a cartoon by the Canadian animation company Nelvana, about the mild-mannered son of a Gene Simmons-like rock star.
-- Mr. Romance, a show created and hosted by Simmons on the Oxygen cable television channel.
-- Rock School, a UK reality show in which Simmons tries to make a rock band out of a group of students from Christ's Hospital School in the first season, and in the second, a group of kids from a comprehensive school in Lowestoft.
-- Gene Simmons Family Jewels, a reality show documenting the personal lives of Simmons, his wife, his son and daughter.
-- Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery. Gene Simmons and the other members of Kiss appear in this animated movie of Scooby Doo where the gang is attacked by a monster in a Kiss amusement park and Kiss saves them.
-- In 1978, Simmons appeared in a made-for-television movie, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
-- In 1981, Simmons auditioned at ABC for a role in a new Marcy Carsey produced show called Grotus and was offered his own TV show, which he declined as the pay was lower than what he made with Kiss at the time.
-- In 1985, Simmons appeared on the TV series Miami Vice in an episode titled "The Prodigal Son".
-- Simmons performed in the 1984 Michael Crichton thriller Runaway starring Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes and Kirstie Alley.
-- He also took part in the 1987 Gary Sherman action film Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Rutger Hauer.
-- Gene also guest-starred as himself in the 2014 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Long Road Home."
-- In March 2015, Simmons founded the film production company Erebus Pictures and announced as the first project the Horror-thriller film Armed Response.
-- In 2022, Simmons became a judge of the talent competition show Yoshiki Superstar Project X, airing on Hulu Japan and produced by Japanese musician and composer Yoshiki.
-- On the 14th. September 2023, Simmons was one of the guest speakers chosen to introduce Yoshiki at his imprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre.
-- Other Gene Simmons' Projects
Simmons had his own label, Simmons Records. Simmons Records has released albums by such bands as Kobra and the Lotus, Silent Rage, Gypsy Rose and House of Lords as well as Gene's own solo releases.
In 1976–77, Simmons signed a management and production contract with the band Van Halen. He produced a Van Halen demo tape and attempted to find a record deal for the band with a variety of major record labels. However when no deal materialized, Gene released them from their contract.
In 1989, Simmons managed the recording side of Liza Minnelli's entry into mainstream pop.
In 2002, Simmons launched Gene Simmons' Tongue, a men's lifestyle magazine. However the magazine only lasted five issues before being discontinued.
From 2006 to 2008, Simmons served in a marketing and publicity role with the Indy Racing League.
In 2012, Simmons headlined the Rock N Roll All Stars tour which performed in stadiums across South America. The project featured several other Rock N Roll Hall of Famers including Def Leppard's Joe Elliot, Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan & Matt Sorum.
Other participants included Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes, as well as Collective Soul's Ed Rolland, Sebastian Bach, Alice in Chain's Mike Inez, and the Cult's Billy Duffy.
The tour was featured on Simmons Family Jewels' series finale episodes.
In 2012, Simmons partnered with Paul Stanley and three other investors to form the restaurant franchise Rock & Brews.
In August 2013, Simmons, Paul Stanley and manager Doc McGhee became a part of the ownership group that created the LA Kiss Arena Football League team, which played their home games at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The team has since folded.
In 2017, Simmons launched "The Vault" which is a compilation of all of his major works selling for $2,000.
In 2018, Simmons was named "Chief Evangelist Officer" of the Canadian cannabis company Invictus MD Strategies. Simmons also holds a large investment stake in the company.
Gene also spearheaded the drive to licence more than 5,000 pieces of Kiss-branded merchandise, including motorbikes, pinball machines and even a brightly airbrushed coffin known as the Kiss Kasket.
-- Gene Simmons' Artistry
Simmons plays bass, and lead vocals are split between Simmons and rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in most Kiss songs. Some notable songs featuring Simmons singing lead include "God of Thunder", "Rock and Roll All Nite", "Deuce", "A World Without Heroes", "I Love It Loud", "Calling Dr. Love", "Unholy", "You Wanted the Best," and "Christine Sixteen", among others. Simmons possesses a baritone voice.
Simmons has expressed his preference for "memorable simplicity" in music as opposed to technical complexity:
"I don't consider myself—and was never
really interested in being—a bass virtuoso.
I don't like show-offs in music.
I'm much more attracted to things that are
memorable. It's part of the joy of music for
me."
Gene has also said that while he appreciates the technical skill of jazz musicians, he believes they do not have appeal over a wide audience, saying:
"You can be a jazz player and be
respected by musicians, but the
rest of the world doesn't care."
-- Gene Simmons' Stage Antics and Persona
In addition to playing bass, Simmons is known for his long tongue, which he frequently sticks out while performing. Some publications have reported that his tongue measured up to 7 inches long, and that he had it insured for $1 million, although Simmons himself has not commented on this.
Gene is also known for his demonic figure on-stage where he spits fire and vomits stage blood.
-- Gene Simmons' Personal Life
Gene Simmons resides in Los Angeles with his wife Shannon Lee Tweed, a Canadian actress and former Playboy Playmate. Although they began dating in 1983, they did not marry until 28 years later.
Simmons often joked that he and Tweed were "happily unmarried" for over 20 years. He also often paraphrased Groucho Marx, saying:
"Marriage is an institution, and I
don't want to live in an institution".
Simmons and Tweed wed on the 1st. October 2011, at the Beverly Hills Hotel. They have two children: Nick and Sophie.
Gene formerly had live-in relationships with Cher and Diana Ross, revealing that he fell in love with Ross while dating Cher.
Simmons has boasted many times about having bedded thousands of women. In 2010, he claimed the tally stood at 5,000, and that he has a Polaroid picture of each liaison, including the hotel key where it took place.
After their wedding, when Shannon found the key for the lockboxes containing the photos (confirming at least that much of the rumors), after a "loving confrontation" with Gene, she had every single Polaroid burned on national television during the final season of their reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels.
Simmons is multilingual, and is able to speak Hungarian, German, English, Hebrew, and some Japanese.
Simmons believes that he is an "outcast" in the rock music community due to his open disdain for drug and alcohol use, and has proudly claimed many times to have never been drunk or high on a substance in his life.
He has said that the reason for his sober lifestyle was his mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. He said:
“I’m my mother’s only child. I was
concerned I had no right to harm
my mother. Life did that enough.”
However, he has admitted to once accidentally becoming intoxicated on marijuana after mistakenly eating pot brownies.
Simmons is a science fiction and comic book fan, and has published several science-fiction fanzines, among them Id, Cosmos (which eventually merged with Stilletto to become Cosmos-Stilletto and then Faun), Tinderbox, Sci-Fi Showcase, Mantis and Adventure.
-- Gene Simmons' Personal Views and Politics
Simmons was a supporter of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing on his website:
"I'm ashamed to be surrounded by people
calling themselves liberal who are, in my
opinion, spitting on the graves of brave
American soldiers who gave their life to
fight a war that wasn't theirs, in a country
they've never been to, simply to liberate
the people therein."
In a follow-up, Simmons explained his position and wrote about his love and support for the United States:
"I wasn't born here. But I have a love for this
country and its people that knows no bounds.
I will forever be grateful to America for going
into World War II, when it had nothing to gain,
in a country that was far away... and rescued
my mother from the Nazi concentration camps.
She is alive and I am alive because of America.
And if you have a problem with America, you
have a problem with me".
In 2010, Simmons said he regretted voting for Barack Obama and criticized the 2009 health care reforms.
Following Obama's 2011 speech on the Middle East in which he called on Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a settlement based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, Simmons told CNBC that Obama was gravely misguided:
"If you have never been to the moon, you can't
issue policy about the moon.
For the president to be sitting in Washington
and saying, 'Go back to your '67 borders in Israel' –
how about you live there and try to defend an
indefensible border – nine miles (14 km) wide?"
Simmons also accused the United Nations of being "the most pathetic body on the face of the earth".
In an April 2012 interview, Gene endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for President:
"America should be in business and
it should be run by a businessman."
In an August 2021 interview, regarding the honesty of Donald Trump and his presidential administration, Simmons said:
"We all lie to some extent, but what happened
the last four years was beyond anything I ever
thought imaginable from people who had lots
of power — not just him, but the administration,
everybody."
On the 10th. November 2021, he stated that people who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine are "an enemy" and called them "evil".
-- Gene Simmons' Views on Israel
In March 2011, Simmons visited his birth country, Israel. He described the trip as a "life changing experience". He talked about how he still feels that he is an Israeli:
"I'm Israeli. I'm a stranger in
America. I'm an outsider".
While there, Simmons met his half-brother Kobi, and triplet half-sisters Drora, Sharon and Ogenia. He also visited his estranged father's grave.
Simmons has taken Kiss to Israel, for the first time in 2015 with a concert in Tel Aviv.
He has said that he is an ardent supporter of Israel. At a press conference in Israel, he spoke in both Hebrew and English. During his visit to Israel in 2011, he also stated that the artists refusing to perform in Israel for political reasons are "stupid".
During the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah, Simmons sent a televised message of support (in both English and Hebrew) to an Israeli soldier seriously wounded in fighting in Lebanon, calling him his "hero".
On the 6th. November 2015, he attended a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala in Beverly Hills, which raised more than $31 million.
-- Jean Simmons' Views on Islam
In a 2004 interview in Melbourne, Australia, regarding Islamic extremists, Simmons described Islam as a "vile culture", saying that Muslim women had to walk behind their husbands, and were not allowed to be educated or to own houses. He said:
"They want to come and live right
where you live and they think that
you're evil."
Muslim media personality Susan Carland argued that Simmons' stereotyping of Muslims was inaccurate. Simmons later clarified his comments on his website, saying he had been talking specifically about Muslim extremists.
-- Controversies Associated With Gene Simmons
(a) The NPR Interview
During an interview on the National Public Radio (NPR) program Fresh Air on the 2nd. February 2002, Simmons told Terry Gross:
"If you want to welcome me with
open arms, I'm afraid you're also
going to have to welcome me
with open legs."
Gene was paraphrasing a lyric from the Who's 1981 song "You Better You Bet".
Gross replied:
"That's a really obnoxious
thing to say".
At the time, Simmons refused to grant permission for NPR to make the interview available online. However, it appears in print in Gross' book All I Did Was Ask, and unauthorized transcripts are available. NPR re-broadcast part of the interview in August 2007.
In a 2014 interview with The Huffington Post, Simmons noted that he was upset over what he perceived as Gross's "holier-than-thou" attitude, which included mislabeling his band Kiss as "The Kiss".
(b) The File-Sharing Controversy
In 2007, Simmons openly spoke out against music piracy, and called for file-sharers to be sued. A year later, he threatened further lawsuits, and to withhold new recordings, if file-sharing continued.
In 2010, Anonymous staged a DDoS on his website, prompting Simmons to hit back with provocative comments once he was back online, at which point Anonymous staged a second DDoS, taking Simmons's site down again.
In September 2014, Simmons said:
"The death of rock was not a
natural death. Rock did not
die of old age.
It was murdered".
Simmons blames file-sharing, and that no one values music enough to pay you for it for the decline of the rock music scene.
(c) Gene Simmons' Comments on Suicide and Depression
In July 2014, Simmons made comments in an interview with Songfacts that encouraged those with depression to kill themselves. He said:
"I never understand, because I
always call them on their bluff.
I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when
there's a guy on top of a building
who says, 'That's it, I can't take it
any more, I'm going to jump.'
Are you kidding?
Why are you announcing it?
Shut the f*ck up, have some dignity
and jump! You've got the crowd."
The comments drew criticism from Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe, who had suffered from depression in the past.
Following his comments, both Triple M and Winnipeg radio station Power 97 stated that they were pulling all Kiss songs from their lineup in protest.
Simmons later clarified his comments, and apologized for the incident.
(d) The Fox & Friends Incident
On the 16th. November 2017, Simmons made an appearance on Fox & Friends in order to promote a new book, but shortly afterward, he burst into a staff meeting uninvited, unbuttoning his shirt and telling jokes.
The next day Fox News announced that Simmons was banned for life from their program, as well as from entering any of the company's properties.
Simmons later issued a statement saying that he had a tremendous amount of respect for the company's workers, and apologized for "unintentionally offending" any staff members during his visit.
(e) Sexual Assault Allegations Against Gene Simmons
In 2018, Simmons settled a sexual assault lawsuit with an unnamed radio personality, who accused him of touching her inappropriately.
The woman claimed that:
"Simmons touched me and turned
standard interview questions into
sexual innuendos."
Despite the settlement, Simmons denied the allegations.
In 2019, Ace Frehley, who played together with Simmons for years in Kiss, stated that Simmons had groped his wife, stating:
"Simmons is an asshole
and a sex addict".
-- Gene Simmons' Philanthropy
Simmons is a known advocate for ChildFund International's work. He traveled to Zambia during his Gene Simmons Family Jewels show in order to visit several of his sponsored children, of whom he has more than 140.
Simmons said:
"The trip was a stark reminder
that life doesn't treat everyone
the same."
Simmons' family received the MEND Humanitarian Award for their philanthropic efforts and support for Mending Kids International at the organization's annual gala on the 9th. November 2013. The award was presented by Mel Gibson.
In his acceptance speech, Simmons spoke of his own difficult childhood in Israel in a bullet-riddlen house. He recalled his mother's excitement when they received a CARE box one day.
Simmons helped found "The Children Matter", which is a collaborative initiative with the charity MATTER that fights to give children around the world access to health care.
Gene was an advocate for public safety during the coronavirus pandemic, encouraging people to wear face masks and follow social distancing protocols.
-- Gene Simmons' Awards and Recognition
On the 28th. January 2011, Simmons was in Dallas, Texas, in order to host the Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops charity event.
Simmons was presented with the key to the city, and a street (Gene Simmons Boulevard) was named for him.
Simmons and Tweed also visited the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood in order to support the troops as a part of the Aces & Angels event.
On the 15th. June 2011, Gene was given the key to the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 2012, Simmons was awarded the Golden God award by Revolver magazine.
In 2013, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History accepted an autographed Gene Simmons Axe bass into their collection from John Upshaw Downs Jr.
The Smithsonian wrote, in part:
"The bass will now be cared for in our permanent
collections. We are happy to include the Axe bass,
as it relates to the impact Mr. Simmons and his
band Kiss have had on American culture, especially
in the creation of a unique and iconic brand that has
been embraced by fans worldwide.
The story of Mr. Simmons' American experience
deserves to be preserved.
An immigrant and son of a Holocaust survivor, he
used creative vision and entrepreneurial acumen
to make a significant impact for our nation's popular
culture, becoming an iconic figure in American
music and entertainment."
Simmons is an honorary board member of Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit organization that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools.
A&E's Gene Simmons Family Jewels visited a Little Kids Rock classroom, and featured the segment on the show. Gene also decorated a guitar for auction with his son Nick.
On the 15th. December 2014, Simmons was awarded the Golden Medal by the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona.
In 2020, Simmons won two Guinness World Records for the highest flame projection in a music concert and the most flame projections launched simultaneously in a music concert.
Both of the records were established at the KISS 2020 Goodbye concert.
Thoughts From Gene Simmons
Gene had opinions on a wide range of topics, as evidenced by the following:
"My eyesight’s good. My schmeckle
works. What else do you want?"
"Mortality? It helps to be delusional."
"I’ve got to do two hours of make-up
preparation, then wear 40 pounds of
armour and studs, and then seven-inch
platform heels."
"I also learned that I love making
money. Anyone who is not afraid
of work will be happy with the
money they make."
"The sad thing is most people have
to check with someone before they
do the things that make them happy.
We're all passing through; the least
we can do is be happy, and the only
way to do that is by being selfish."
"If you think about it, critics are an
unnecessary life-form on the planet
Earth, and here's why: because it's
a job without credentials.
You don't have to go to school."
"The Beatles weren't like any other
band. Everybody in the band sang,
which is why you knew everybody
in the band."
"Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks
show with a backbeat."
"I've always been anti-marriage for
men until they become mature.
As a species we don't mature until
we're in our 60's."
"My mother had a horrific life.
At fourteen, she was in the Nazi
concentration camps.
Her sense about life now is, every
day above ground is a good day."
"I'm fascinated with myself, and love
hearing the sound of my own voice.
I'd like to hear what I have to say.
A lot of people don't like being
alone because they truly don't like
themselves, but I love me."
"Life is too short to have anything
but delusional notions about yourself."
"I don't wait for the calendar to
figure out when I should live life."
"Fiscally, I'm very conservative.
I don't believe in welfare states.
I believe in giving people jobs."
"Never underestimate the power
of being popular in pop culture. You
have to be able to do something.
You can have a good seat at the
restaurant, but you still have to pay
for the meal. Fame is important, but
to be rich is more important."
"When you really think about it, I'm
not delusional enough to think that
what I do is important to life as we
know it on this planet. No.
But neither is what you do."
"I was never interested in being
a rock star. I always wanted to be
Boris Karloff."
"I refuse to stand up in front of a
rabbi and my friends and the
woman I love - who I will tell you
I can love with all my heart - and
promise she will be the only one
I will ever have until the day I die.
That's a lie."
"I'd like to think that the boring lady
who's talking to me now is a lot
sexier and more interesting than the
one who's doing NPR.
You know, studious and reserved,
and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a
party."
"My skin is more beautiful than yours.
I would be quite more popular in jail
if I so chose."
"I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to
certain households, mommy doesn't
want you to see that dirty man who
sticks his tongue out and spits out
blood and all that stuff."
"The root of all evil isn't money;
rather, it's not having enough
money."
"I voted for President Bush, I voted
for President Clinton, and, although
I do want my vote back, I voted for
President Obama."
"People who are the salt of the earth
get up and go to a job that they hate."
"England is a profoundly bizarre place
that has produced thousands of bands
the world has worshipped."
"If you look at the CEOs of some the
most successful companies in the
world like IKEA, they never fly first
class. They always go economy."
"The best you can do is set your kids
on the right track; staying on it without
falling is up to the kids."
"You can't go through life and leave
things the way they are. We can all
make a difference, and if I die today,
I know I made a difference."
"If someone likes you, they'll buy
what you're selling, whether or
not they need it."
"If you're the greatest, it's okay to
say you're the greatest.
My suggestion to everybody is to
be their own greatest fan.
Weaker personas and personalities
define that as egotistical or arrogant,
but what it means is their self-esteem
isn't that strong."
"I wanted to be in a band that gave
bang for the buck. I wanted to be in
the band who didn't look like a bunch
of guys who, you know, should be in
a library studying for their finals."
"I'm in a weird band. We've done very
well. The American Dream is alive and
well."
"James Bond has a license to kill,
rockstars have a license to be
outrageous."
"When you look at Clark Kent when
he's working at the Daily Planet, he's
a reporter.
He doesn't fly through the air in his
glasses and his suit."
"I want to do everything. I want to be
the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan
Do, I want to climb mountains.
I'm always bugged by the notion that
I can't do everything."
"The biggest financial pitfall in life is
divorce. And the biggest reason for
divorce is marriage."
"Sugar-free ice pops are an invention
of God. They hardly have any calories
since they're mostly water.
I eat about 15 pops every two days."
"I know that you like to see a man in
the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men
who cook.
A man should be focusing his attention
on the woman, and not what's on the
stove."
"I fly economy. I do often fly first class,
but I don't travel with a posse, or
bodyguard, or an assistant."
"It's in the history books, the Holocaust.
It's just a phrase. And the truth is it
happened yesterday.
It happened to my mother.
I never met my grandmothers or my
grandfathers. They were all wiped up
in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany."
"My mother is probably the wisest
person I've ever known.
She's not schooled, she's not well-
read.
But she has a philosophy of life
that makes well-read people seem
like morons."
"You know why I'm pulling your leg?
Because I can't touch it from where
I am."
"When you walk through a bad
neighborhood, you don't want
a poodle by your side.
You want a Rottweiler."
"First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish
girl jumping rope.
I never saw her face, but it was still
the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen."
"If you're building a house, or doing
anything, time is what you've got.
Well, there's effort, but you need time.
The more time you put into something,
the better stuff you can make."
"Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't
vote by party, we both by the person,
because a person is bigger than the party,
which is why sometimes the Democrats
get in and sometimes the Republicans
get in."
"I crave ideas, and when an idea hits
me, it grips me and it tortures me until
I master it."
"Live and think like a poor man
and you'll always be OK."
"I worship scones and danishes.
If I never had another meal, I
wouldn't care as long as I could
eat pastries and jelly doughnuts."
"I fail all of the time. It means nothing."
"I would urge all bands that say they
only care about credibility and don't
care about money to send Gene
Simmons every dollar that they don't
want. I'd be happy to take it off them."
"Don't believe bands who say it's all
about the fans and they want to give
their music away for free.
The result is they will continue to live
in their mother's basement."
"Everyone in Kiss is replaceable.
My ego will tell you that I am not,
but that's not so."
"The only jobs kids have are to do well
in school, to be charming and polite,
and be thankful.
That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll
even give my life for you, and in return,
you will behave."
"I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.
No matter what I do - outside of sticking
my tongue out - I tend to make money,
and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff."
"I work for everything I've got. I started
off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid."
"I don't wanna go on vacation. There's
nothing about it that appeals to me.
People look forward to doing that;
I look forward to getting up every day
and doing something."
"I think it's pathetic that women and
men treat each other worse than we
treat our pets. It's love or hate."
"Personally I support 14,000 kids in
Zambia - I feed and clothe them -
but I don't hold press conferences
about it. I don't do it so you'll think
what a nice person I am; it's private."
"I like to approach every day like
it's the only day I will ever have."
"Never negotiate with kids. They don't
have life experience, and they don't
have repercussions for bad decisions;
they still get fed and housed."
"When you are a rock star in front of
20,000 people, you receive instant
gratification. A rock star on tour is a
king in his domain."
"I have to have an emotional connection
to what I am ultimately selling because it
is emotion, whether you are selling religion,
politics, even a breath mint."
This would be the photo of mine, as it looks in the book it has been published in!
(see this photo for details). To see the photo as seen on the web and selected by the photo editors for this book look here!
It is so amazing to see a photo taken by myself in a published book! I wish you other flickrites the same honor some day!
Published 04/12/1917
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 19th of July 1916.
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Published in today's edition of "The Oregonian" (Sept. 8, 2010), this edited version of my response to last week's news story about students being newly allowed to use spell check in state writing exams contains 12 intentional errors (can YOU find them all?), all in the first paragraph, which would not be found by spell check.
Here's the full version of the letter I submitted:
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To the Editor,
Watt a good lessen two no that student's kin now use Spell Check on there state proficiency exams ("Oregon students will be able to use spell check to pass state writing test," Sept. 2, 2010). Its good that Oregon has it's students well fare in mind with this grate decision.
All sarcasm aside, these students will be very well prepared to join the local work force at places such as the trade newspaper Daily Journal of Commerce where I was last employed in what was once my chosen career field and where the typesetting supervisor of many years was English illiterate, forcing me from a trade in which I'd worked for nearly 20 years into entry level positions ever since.
The best way to eradicate stupidity, it seems, is to make stupidity the norm. Hooray to Oregon for being so progressive.
Greg Boeshans
Beaverton, Oregon
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After all these years (10 plus), still no one will address the gross injustice I endured by being briefly employed at DJC where the supervisor had little or no typesetting training and was English illiterate. How this company could have such an incompetent person in a position of power and authority still baffles and dumbfounds me -- not to mention why no one has ever given me a word of acknowledgement or support (I don't count the company's lawyers sending me a "cease and desist" order as support, of course). Truth is truth and he was an incompetent piece of worthless tripe who was treated within the company as some kind of god because the department of which he was the supervisor was the department that made the company its money, short and simple. The fact that the money was a result of government regulations requiring publication of competitive bidding for public works projects means that the income would have been the same with or without a competent person in the postiion. But I am pissing into the wind to still be bitter (yet I am) after 10 years. Injustice, wronged, drastically life-changing, the words -- once I start to think about this -- don't stop. (P.S. Discovered DJC has a Flickr account and photostream: DJC Photos. Tagged this photo then thought better of it since they're mentioned in my caption and not in the photo itself.)
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Bunion cartoons created by George Martin were published in my local newspaper The Leicester Mercury.
Published 04/12/1917
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Published on May 3, 2021
Chief Davis began his first day with our Department by meeting with our senior leadership and deputy chiefs. Through this meeting, Chief Davis reiterated his commitment to working alongside our officers and community to create positive police reform while ensuring the health and wellness of our officers remains a top priority.
This afternoon, Chief Davis began connecting with our patrol officers by visiting the Mount Vernon District Station evening squad’s roll call. Chief Davis answered officers’ questions while emphasizing his appreciation for the hard work and sacrifice they make every day.
Photo: PFC Tommy Thompson, FCPD - PAB / DIgital Team
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In apertura ai Public Service Broadcasting, il math-rock dei marchigiani Lush Rimbaud.
Se la prima uscita “Action From The Basement” (2006) è stato definito “Un treno in corsa destinato a deragliare, una spirale ansiogena di secchiate d'acqua fredda mentre dormi in ascensore”, con “The Sound Of The Vanishing Era” il treno è deragliato veramente. Il nuovo lp dei Lush Rimbaud, registrato da Fabio Magistrali e coprodotto da FromScratch, Brigadisco, BloodySound, Hotviruz, SweetTeddy e NarvaloSuoni, è influenzato tanto dal kraut e dallo space rock, quanto da noise e postpunk d'oltreoceano, lasciando tuttavia spazio all'improvvisazione e al trip introspettivo. I solchi del vinile e le sue facciate rappresentano una linea di demarcazione fra due epoche, quella in cui eravamo abituati a vivere e quella in cui ci stiamo affacciando. Cambia la prospettiva, sicuramente più matura e consapevole, da cui i quattro partono per questo secondo "viaggio sonoro", in cui tentano di scattare istantanee di un mondo in continua evoluzione. A fare da Cicerone è Errico Malatesta (raffigurato anche in copertina) i cui scritti, più attuali che mai, fanno da sfondo allo scenario rappresentato attraverso le otto tracce del disco e - non ultimo - dall' ottimo lavoro grafico di Rocco Lombardi. In primo piano la ricerca della melodia attraverso l'incastro di chitarre, loops e sintetizzatori, alternando atmosfere dilatate a passaggi tirati e reiterazioni ossessive. Questa volta nell'immaginario dei Lush Rimbaud arrivano nuove visioni: navicelle spaziali e mucche camaleontiche, eserciti di moderni mercenari e dèi allucinati. Chimere di una nuova era che noi tutti siamo destinati a cavalcare.
Tommaso Pela (voce, chitarra, synth)
David Cavalloro (chitarra, synth)
Marco Giaccani (basso, theremin, voce)
Michele Alessandrini (batteria)
A midday train rolls west down Michigan City's 11th Avenue. This shot was previously seen in TRAINS magazine.
Originally published 9th February 2000, Glasgow University Guardian, Page 13
Sub City Radio Launch @ Alaska
Our affiliated noise box is back once again for another pop-tastic month of broadcasting (especially on Thursdays from 10am-midday will be particulary good 'cos that's my show - insider editor). To celebrate their launch Sub City have assembled a rather impressive line up. The gleaming White Cube section of Alaska features DubDentists, The Operators and party hip-hop specialist Charlie Inman whilst upstairs sees the funky turntable crew Freak Menoovers showing off with some four deck action. Kinky Afro will be supplemented by an African drum troupe whilst Mr.Wilkes of Twich and Optimo notoriety will provide his unique brand of rock'n'roll sleaze.
Thursday 17 Feb, free with flyer
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 18th October 1916
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
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Heichal Shlomo, Jerusalem Twelve Tribes
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Long story short, New york advertising firm, 2x4, find my image of the spiral staircase at Customs House on my flickr photostream. Contact me and and actually pay well for the image to be included in a brochure (soft cover book) for Arper (furniture manufacturer) for their distribution at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair (icff). Well, very proud, to say the least.
design firm who contacted me for the image
www.flickr.com/photos/photo-dmarcus/682934474/in/photostream
my flickr photo page where 2x4 found the image
Design Fair the book/brochure was being designed for.
published in blogto: www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2009/04/susur_lee_brings_shang_n...
Madeline's
601 King Street West
Toronto ON M5V 1M5
http://www.susur.com/madelines/
Shang NYC @ Madeline's
Susur Lee comes home and offers a taste of his New York restaurant Shang to Toronto for the first 2 weeks of April in the form of a 5 course $60 fixe-prix menu.
White peppercorn marinated skirt steak with pinenut brown butter and potato purée and a side of reen beans and friseé lettuce.
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