Daily Archives: October 26, 2017

RIP: George Young

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Max West

If you want to know where the Young Brothers got their rock aesthetic from, what become the iconic and distilled sound of AC/DC, you must look to their older brother George, whose work with The Easybeats prefigured the basic song … Continue reading →

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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Max West

I have a long review of the new movie Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) up at Counter-Currents: Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), a new film by writer/director S. Craig Zahler and which stars Vince Vaughn in the lead, … Continue reading →

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Pete Townshend – Let’s See Action (1972)

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Max West

Written 45 years ago, here’s Pete’s demo for “Let’s See Action”, with the maestro playing all instruments and doing all vocals. The song was one of the many tunes slated for The Who’s ill-fated Lifehouse project, which Pete decided to … Continue reading →

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Mark Halperin

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Max West

… Aaaaand he’s Jewish.

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Civic Nationalism: Pt. 218

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Max West

Audacious has a good post on how “Civic nationalism is implicit white nationalism” and Z Man has a good post on the “Civic Religion“.

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