Stewart Home - Easy Way To Falsify Your Credit Rating

Stewart Home - The Easy Way To Falsify Your Credit Rating

(Sabotage Editions, 2005)

Limited printrun pamphlet including reviews, interviews and articles by Stewart Home

Review by John Eden:

By my reckoning this booklet, published on 31st December 2005, is the 15th 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. So, as usual, a mixed bag - and all the better for that.

The highlight of this booklet is an extensive review of Horace Ove’s film Pressure which has recently be released on DVD by the British Film Institute. Ove’s film was I think the first attempt by a black director to show the black experience in London. It is fantastic, not least because of the attention to detail in its documentation of the city’s people and places in the 1970s - all changed beyond recognition now. Home’s review places the film in its proper context - that of black power struggles in the UK, and of the institutionalised racism faced by its protagonists.

Melvin Peebles’ film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song (often credited as the first blaxploitation film) is given a similar, but much more critical treatment.

Stewart interviews writer Lynne Tillman at length about her work and the limitations of self-publishing vs being published.

“Pornographic Coding” is a joint paper by Home and Florian Cramer which covers the use of the f-word in linux source code, sex in Stewart’s novels, the explosion of niche porn since the advent of the internet and calls for a shamanic, open source pornography.

Other contents include book reviews, an article on 9/11 and there is even some information of dubious value regarding the title of the booklet.

Stewart Home was born in south London in 1962. He developed an interest in northern soul and punk rock as a teenager, and from 1974 onwards spent a lot of his time hanging around the West End of London, both alone and in the company of other juveniles.

After leaving school at the age of sixteen, he first signed on the dole in the late seventies, and last claimed unemployment benefits in the mid-nineties. He has never held down a regular job for more than a few months at a time. On those rare occasions when he's been forced to work, Home has taken employment as a factory labourer, agricultural labourer, shop assistant, office clerk and art class model.

Deciding he didn't like working in factories as a teenager, Home pursued cultural and political interests, writing many books and participating in even more gallery exhibitions. He lives in London. Thames water, rather than blood, is said to run through Home's veins.

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