“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.” ThinkingDoeStillsIdeasReasonKidsAbleJobsFilmIndividualSexAliveGenerationsAirInformationStandingCurrentsExtremesDefenseIgnorantContemporaryQuestioningGood JobPistolsBombardedSex PistolsQuestioning Everything Author:Julien Temple
“I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.” MindMayBookUseEnergySexSportsCareersBuddhismKingsLosingIncreaseKarmaContemporaryCinemaShopsAcademicReincarnationRamaMallsNew BooksPower Of The MindAcademic Success Author:Frederick Lenz
“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.” CharacterGivenSexSpaceNovelIdentityAbsenceContemporary Book:The humanist in the bathtub Source: The humanist in the bathtub
“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.” SexFantasyCuttingFeminismObjectsFemaleVictimMalesContemporaryDominantOppressorsParanoidSpun Author:Camille Paglia
“Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.” AbleSexExtremesContemporaryPistolsSex Pistols Author:Julien Temple