Happy 64th, Ally Sheedy. 1990 photo by Michael Tighe.
I think everyone I knew enjoyed The Breakfast Club and we know what happened to most of the actors but I always wondered about Ally Sheedy we all identified with several characters as youngsters but I always liked Ally’s character the most
The Adverts: Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts 1978 + Cast Of Thousands (The Ultimate Edition) 1980
Kostas does another detailed profile of a British Punk classic in legends TV Smith and Gaye Advert’s The Adverts . . . . .never the biggest band but central to the punk movement. They hit hardest with Gary Gilmore’s Eyes for obvious reasons. Read on . . . .
The Adverts was an English punk rock band who formed in 1976 and broke up in 1979. They were one of the very best acts to come out of the first wave of English punk, with a stellar debut single, "One Chord Wonders" and "Gary Gilmore's Eyes". "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" reached the UK top 20 in August 1977. The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music described bassist and founding member Gaye Advert as the "first female punk star". The band was formed in 1976 by T. V. Smith (Tim Smith) and Gaye Advert (Gaye Black). Smith was from the town of Okehampton in mid-Devon, and Advert was from Bideford, a small coastal town in North Devon. After relocating to London, the two young punks recruited guitarist Howard Pickup (Boak) and drummer Laurie Driver (Muscat), and the Adverts were born.
Duane Michals appears on several episodes of this Yale sponsored art podcast. And they mention that Michals had a series of PDFs he made to send to friends starting in 2020 during the pandemic, where he takes items from his archive, new drawings, etc. And the archive (with the short emails he attached them to) has 87 PDFs linked. They also link to his Vimeo account, with dozens of shorts. One of the PDFs, called Phartography, has an overpainted Cartier-Bresson photo.
David Hockney was a friend and an incredible painter. I knew him during the 1960s and kept a friendship going till he died on Thursday, the 11th of June. He was very clever witty and fun to be with.
His paintings often gave off a feeling of great joy. Nancy and I enjoyed visiting his studios in California where we took a drive along Mulholland Drive which he made famous all over again in his sensational paintings.
Or in his London studio. The rooms were filled with paintings. Often some of the most recent pictures that he had done. He would talk about them and his very particular views on art. He felt that it was important to see correctly. He wasn’t a great fan of perspective and was always involved in inventing new ways to view the world. His many paintings, drawings, films and other media like iPad drawing he took readily to and mastered.
He was a serious Chain Smoker and believed it was everyone’s right to smoke like the days when he and I had been brought up in smoke filled rooms. We visited him once in Bridlington, Yorkshire. He met us at the train station and drove us to his house in a smoke filled car.
We will miss his fabulous personality, his laconic wit and his erudite views on how to look at the world.
