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Stewart Home – The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Changing a Light Bulb<\/em> (Sabotage Editions ISBN 0954006321)<\/strong><\/p>\n By my reckoning this booklet, published on 25th December 2005, is the 13th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its precursors it collects diverse articles, reviews and other writing by Stewart Home<\/a>. So, as usual, a mixed bag – and all the better for that.<\/p>\n I particularly enjoyed Stewart’s extended review of Luther Blissett’s Q<\/em>, which takes in some sideswipes at previous reviewers, Emmett Grogan’s Ringolevio<\/em> and the legacy of Italian left-communist Amadeo Bordiga<\/a>. A left-communist analysis makes an all-too-necessary entrance into Stewart’s scathing review of Martin Amis’ Koba The Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million<\/em>. I have read Q<\/em>, and have no intention of reading “Koba”. That Stewart manages to write engagingly about both of them says a great deal.<\/p>\n Other books reviewed more briefly (but just as insightfully) include Bill Drummond’s (post-K Foundation) How To Be An Artist<\/em>, John Barker’s (post-Angry Brigade) Bending the Bars: Prison Stories<\/em><\/a>, Darius James’ Negrophobia<\/em><\/a> and Brendan Mullen et al’s Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n There are a couple of interview-esque pieces with Stewart himself – “Things I Was Once Asked by a Journalist” is possibly previously unpublished, given his answers:<\/p>\n Which books do you think should be given the Hollywood treatment?<\/em><\/p>\n “Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement<\/em><\/a> by Jean Barrot and Francois Martin directed by David Cronenberg would be a real corker – a Battleship Potemkin for the twenty-first century. I’d also love Spike Lee adapt Henry Flynt’s Blueprint For a Higher Civilization<\/em><\/a> for the wide screen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “26 Things to do with a Pedagogal Paradigm” is an a-z list with everything from ambiguity<\/em> to zeitgeist<\/em> via Dracula<\/em> and Trans Europe Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n Other articles cover topics such as Stewart’s preferred funeral arrangements, 9\/11, why Tony Hancock was the ultimate avant-garde artist, the euro and a brutal slagging of Sam Taylor-Wood.<\/p>\n This is a great read and comes highly recommended to anyone whose interested was tweaked after reading this interview<\/a> with Stewart which has been bigged up by bloggers such as Loki, Psychbloke, Effay et al.<\/p>\n 64 pages. Available for \u00a33.75 plus p&p from: BM Senior, London WC1N 3XX, England, UK. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stewart Home – The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Changing a Light Bulb (Sabotage Editions ISBN 0954006321) By my reckoning this booklet, published on 25th December 2005, is the 13th released by Sabotage Editions. It is part of a trilogy released to commemorate the demise of the International Standard Book Numbering system. Like many of its …<\/p>\n