Thursday, September 26, 2024

wintertime for Hitler (anti-theatricality 6 of ??)

" Trump is an increasingly symbolic figure — Norma Desmond with the nuclear codes and sycophantic butlers in his ears on a West Wing Sunset Boulevard soundstage." 



attention and submission



Because he was never properly loved, he requires attention and submission,” Mary Trump, the president’s niece and a fierce critic of his, told me. “He requires not ever being contradicted.”



"Bowie damage" and the art-glam / new wave + postpunk nexus

 I didn't know the music journalist and author  Mark Spitz   - who has died tragically young  - very well, but I always enjoyed chatting...