Torremolinos gets a bad rap. With your input I will examine the modern history of Torremolinos from its beginnings as a resort in the 1950s, to the tourism boom of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Beat Generation author William Burroughs (pictured) wrote the novel Junky, from where Nick and I got the name for Junk. The idea being you'd hate it but would be addicted. Full William S Burroughs timeline 1914 — Born Feb. 5 at 4664 Pershing Ave., St....
Charles Bukowski - Junk Equation Bukowski's 'Women' and 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' worth a read for those who like it told as it is. He is a drunk, ugly old womaniser (well he died in 94) which has plenty to say about everything. "That's the problem with...
Jack Kerouac Perhaps the most famous of the Beats, Jack Kerouac, inspired us as he did so manygenerations before us with his free livin' get out there and live life ethos. His best known novel On The Road was not more significant by its message than by...
Before the Beats but after the so-called Lost Generation was Henry Miller. His novel set in Paris, Tropic of Cancer was something unlike I had ever read before when - I think - Nick lent it to me. After living in Paris in the 1930s, Henry Miller returned...
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly...
mudhoney biographyBy Mark Deming Nirvana may have been the band that put an entire generation in flannel, and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden both sold a lot more records, but Mudhoney was truly the band who made the '90s grunge rock movement possible.Mudhoney...
Check out the support band for Rat at Rat R (one of Mike's bands) Ektro says... "Killer reissue NYC NOISE classic 1985!" "Noise-rock quartet Rat at Rat R was formed in 1981 by guitarist Victor Poison-Tête. Originally hailing from Philadelphia, the band...
In 1991 Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' was realeased. With Coupland's Generation X book these were the two works which were said to represent my generation, the generation schooled in the 80s and unemployed, unmotivated and uninspired in the 90s....
First time we heard of Bret Easton Ellis was when we looked for the novel the movie Less Than Zero was based on. Then Nick came back one day when he was living in Brixton with American Psycho, and blew us away. Bret Easton Ellis Photo byFelix Seuffert...
David Lynch Too many films which we dug had cult director and Twin Peaks maestro David Lynch in common, so I decided to feature the man behind the lens himself.It started with the superbly weird Eraserheasd (1977)- a film I never managed to sit through...
Jim Carroll wrote The Basketball Diaries the story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.which in the 90s was made into a film starring Leonardo...
more than 170 old photos of Torremolinos on Flickr http://t.co/vwODUFlG http://t.co/3FWVePDT Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) December 08, 2012 Memories of Torremolinos posted a photo: Memories of Torremolinos Memories of Torremolinos posted a photo:...
Old Portillo bus Malaga-Torremolinos. Photo from http://t.co/wuTpWUYA http://t.co/q048wCtl Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 25, 2012 Conjuntos de los 60 y los 70, grupos malagueños, conjuntos malagueños, grupos melillenses, conjuntos melillenses,...
A solitary looking Hotel Pez Espada, the Costa del Sol's first luxury hotel and where Frank SInatra was once... http://t.co/ESkNSez4 Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 16, 2012 A solitary looking Hotel Pez Espada, the Costa del Sol's first...
Me 1974 Playamar. Dig the t-shirt. http://t.co/LSJ074n7 Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 16, 2012 Me 1974 Playamar. Dig the t-shirt.
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Hollywood heart throb Diana Dors in Torremolinos in 1959 the year the Pez Espada opened. In the 50s and 60s it... http://t.co/GeH8JW4E Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 16, 2012 Hollywood heart throb Diana Dors in Torremolinos in 1959 the...
Hotel Principe Otoman (now Principe Sol, next to the towers) in Playamar, as I kid I thought those fake Minarets... http://t.co/XXzeHBzd Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 21, 2012 Hotel Principe Otoman (now Principe Sol, next to the towers)...
Hotel Principe Otoman (now Principe Sol, next to the towers) in Playamar, as I kid I thought those fake Minarets... http://t.co/S0PK5uRU Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 21, 2012 Hotel Principe Otoman (now Principe Sol, next to the towers)...
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Photo: Memories of Torremolinos’ photostream on Flickr. http://t.co/NIVsDp1f Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 24, 2012 Memories of Torremolinos' photostream on Flickr.
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Photo: Memories of Torremolinos’ photostream on Flickr. http://t.co/NIVsDp1f Bloy's Torremolinos (@OurTorremolinos) November 24, 2012 Memories of Torremolinos' photostream on Flickr.
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