Johnny Kowalski

We do not experiment on animals. The flamingos are supposed to look like that.

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The Tower is one of my favourite cards in the Tarot deck cos I see it as meaning "eventually all empires will fall" (amongst other things). And we definitely need that energy right now

Never trust someone who pushes you to absolute breaking point THEN starts filming your reaction

Fingers In The Wind from the album Out Here Forever
#folkpunk

I take off my blindfold. Before me is a gory tableau of death and destruction, bodies strewn across the landscape. The piñata is unscathed.

Norwich is a quiet and mild city, although I perhaps didn’t realise how quiet and mild until I walked through it with my dad, who is neither of these things. My mum and I kept losing my dad, then realising he had stopped to take a photo of some people sitting on a bench who he thought looked interesting, or to pretend to shout abuse at someone on a loud motorbike, or to try to sneak onto the end of a guided history tour and consume some of the information for free. “LOOK AT THIS, IT’S FUCKING AMAZING!” my dad said, as we reached Pulls Ferry, the fifteenth-century flint Watergate near the cathedral. “WHY HAVE YOU NEVER SHOWN ME IT BEFORE?” “I showed you it in 2005 and then again in 2009,” I reminded him. “NO YOU DIDN’T,” said my dad. “I’D KNOW IF YOU HAD.” I noticed that nobody else in Norwich was as loud as my dad, or as keen to make friends with strangers. I began to feel like someone leading a large, inquisitive dog through a lawn bowls event, with a blaring radio attached to the dog’s collar. ‘I am charmed by this dog’s enthusiasm but why don’t its owners turn the radio down?’ I imagined the bowls players thinking. But what the bowls players didn’t realise was that the radio didn’t have a volume switch, just one marked ‘ON’ and another marked ‘OFF’, and that these switches controlled the dog too, not just the radio.

17. Norwich.

Skateboarding in the city that invented tennis, Cluedo, industrial techno and grindcore, this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
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America will never regain its footing as a respected super power if it doesn't totally purge MAGA from every governmental and major private institution.

The Quiet us, doing excellent and important work as always

Modern life in a nut shell

got the best earworm

I wanna take you to a trade war
I wanna take you to a trade war
I wanna take you to a trade war, trade war, trade war

I got a ransom note in the post today and I was so shocked. Who still writes letters?

Fictional festival movie madness this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
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The Tower is one of my favourite cards in the Tarot deck cos I see it as meaning "eventually all empires will fall" (amongst other things). And we definitely need that energy right now

Cake mix as currency and much more fictional fun this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
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The stories behind Gaucho are legendary, my fave being the band paying a sound engineer 150000 dollars to make them a primitive drum machine just so they could place the beats exactly where they wanted, something you could do with free software on the device you're reading this on nowadays

"We built this city, built this city on massive rats"
And now we have massive pigeons too. Soon Brum will be nothing but a kind of urban Jurassic Park for oversized vermin

Punk as technology this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
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I have fewer books “scraped” by Meta than Bob (though I do have one that has been) and it’s not my livelihood but I still think it’s incredibly important to push back hardest against the biggest organisations. Please consider sharing & signing.

Garnett Silk was amazing go check out his work if you've never heard it. There was a mad rumour when I moved to Brum that when he played here he got kidnapped and forced to make dubplates for local soundsystems . No idea if it's truez

Can't fight an animal with no shoulders

Punk as technology this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
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This is an extremely thoughtful article about men, masculinity and literature which airs some uncomfortable truths that need saying

A firey sunset over graffiti strewn Digbeth

Digbeth, Birmingham. 2 days ago.
#sunset #Birmingham

Electric Wizard reference in Stewart Lee’s latest column ⚡️ 🧙‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Like, man-made horrors several orders of magnitude worse than the man-made horrors the US has *already* inflicted on the other 8 billion humans on earth, and people somehow seem more concerned about the hegemony being weakened.

"Oh no, the hegemony!" As the asteroid approaches the T-Rex.

Brummie, if you care about your city, come to this on Friday

Mystery green bird in Highbury Park, Birmingham, today.
And people say it's all carparks and stabbings. More fool them.

Fictional festival movie madness this week on the Johnny Kowalski Substack-
johnnykowalski.substack.com/p/stealthfes...