And why not? Photograph by Andrew Loxley for another great feature at Fantasticsmag.
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Burroughs: The Movie
The author at home in his Bunker.
When I was writing last August about Yony Leyser’s new Burroughs documentary William S Burroughs: A Man Within I mentioned Howard Brookner’s 1983 film, Burroughs, a 90-minute study of the writer’s life and work that as a film biography remains definitive. Brookner was fortunate to capture all the surviving Beats (including Ginsberg and Gysin) and also family members like Burroughs’ son, William Jr. (who died shortly after filming), and his brother, Mortimer. If you’re interested in Burroughs and have never seen Brookner’s film it’s essential viewing, so it’s good news that Ubuweb has turned up a blurry copy (which they’ve titled Burroughs The Movie) taken from the BBC’s Arena screening shown after the writer’s death in 1997. As I recall, the beginning is slightly re-edited to make it an obituary piece but the rest of the film is complete.
Update: Ubuweb no longer hosts the film now that a reissue has been announced. The links have been removed here as a result.
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• The William Burroughs archive
Penises and caustic soda: the case of the Cambridge antiquities
The recurrent pose 30
The previous post in this series showed Flandrin’s Jeune Homme Assis au Bord de la Mer (1836) being used as a book cover illustration and here it is again, confirming once again how easily the painting fits the world of homoerotica whatever the original intention of the artist. I hadn’t come across this book before but it looks like it may be worth buying despite the mixed reviews.
And a recent posting from this Flickr user is another deliberate imitation of Flandrin’s pose.
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• The recurrent pose archive
Queer Noise in Manchester
A reminder that the Manchester District Music Archive‘s Queer Noise event (for which I designed posters and flyers) takes place this Saturday.
Join us on Saturday 23rd January 2010 at The Deaf Institute for a one-off celebration of gay music in Manchester.
The line-up includes:
DJs: Dave Kendrick (Paradise Factory) • Jayne Compton (Club Brenda) • Philippa Jarman (Aytoun/Homo Electric) • Wes Baggaley (Terrorist)Live Music: (hooker) • The Manchester Lesbian and Gay Chorus
Discussion: Jon Savage • Dave Kendrick • Liz Naylor • Jayne Compton • Gerry Potter aka Chloe Poems
Tickets are £6 are now available from Piccadilly Records.
ONLINE EXHIBITION
We will follow this event with an online exhibition scheduled for March 2010, curated by Jon Savage. If you have any flyers, posters, photos, footage or info relating to gay music in Manchester from the 1940s onwards, do get in touch at: info@mdmarchive.co.uk
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Queer Noise and the Wolf Girl