First, the rules as laid out by Tammy...
Book meme
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, the title of the book, the author and these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
The Human League gave us both sides of the coin. At the end of the day their lesson is summed up by Philip Oakey's response to an assertion that they were a very different concoction to Bucks Fizz. 'Are we?' Philip said.
From Designer Boys and Material Girls: Manufacturing the '80s Pop Dream by Dave Hill.
Oh, like you don't own a copy.
2 comments:
"Better you should be in manufacturing like me... in the fur coat business!"
"Did y'see me belly whop, poppa?"
"Yes, Willie!"
--Will Eisner, TO THE HEART OF THE STORM (Graphic Novel)
"It is possible to view a culture in much the same terms as Patten viewed his main street--as a marketplace of intangible commodities. The intangibles Patten saw working class people buying with their pennies and nickels were happiness and pleasure; one could name many others in the inventory of cultural commodities. Patten's essential point was that the institutions of traditional culture were not competing effectively in the market; they needed to reform and revitalize themselves if they were to become sources of strength and sustenance for workers and their families."
Movie-Made America: a cultural history of American movies by Robert Sklar.
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