This month marks the 30th anniversary of the formation of one of the most influential, yet unexploited bands of the 1970s. In commemoration, you can now buy your ringtone versions of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart, a song about lead singer Ian Curtis’ chronic infidelity to his wife, and Transmission, the band’s other most popular release.
Ian Curtis fell victim to the effects of his own music in 1980 in a massive murder-suicide. Fortunately, since nobody really wanted to hang out with him because he was “kind of a spaz,” the murder part of his murder-suicide was embarrassingly unsuccessful.
Thirty years later, it’s finally not considered morose among polite company to celebrate his lifetime work and vision, nor to market the crap out of his legend an mystery. To this end, you can find tickets to the Ian Curtis documentary, Joy Division, and the feature film, Control, for select engagements in the UK at MoviePhone. Matinée tickets are half off, so take the kids!
However, I refuse to let his legacy disintigrate, slip through my finngers, and find itself ingested only by the jerks, making money off his memory now, who would have also made fun of his music 30 years ago. Somebody who may have admired him 30 years ago deserves some exploitation of the dead guy. Right? Well, I’ll pay my price in hell if that’s not true. Otherwise, check out my iPod compatible iTunes iMix which is also compatible with iPhone:
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Back in July 2006 I posted regarding a news story of a group of zombies being arrested for possession of “simulated weapons of mass destruction.”
The police in Minneapolis were really at the top of their game on this one. Who knows what could have happened had the zombie dance party been allowed to continue. By the time of the arrests, their numbers had grown to nearly 8. Not nearly a mob, but definitely more that a few, almost enough to be considered a group.
It was obvious at the time that the zombies were:
- Not Al-Qaeda operatives
- Not in possession of WMDs, simulated or otherwise (unless a stereo in a backpack is a WMD)
I really thought I would never live to see a second coming, but I was wrong. The zombies have arisen again and this time they want…… JUSTICE.
That’s right, justice. According to Minneapolis TV station KSTP Channel 5, the zombies are suing, arguing that the arrests violated their freedom of speech and that they were discriminated against.
According to the story:
Police alleged that wires protruding from the zombie’s backpacks could have been bombs or were meant to imitate bombs. It was later learned the wires were actually radios.
The adult zombies were jailed for two days before police and city attorneys said there was not enough evidence to charge them.
So, it took two days to figure out that the wires were not bombs and that the “wires were actually radios”? How long did it take to figure out that they weren’t really zombies?
I bet it took exactly 2 days. I think someone was fearful of another zombie takeover like the one documented in Dawn of the Dead.