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The Hand of Fate, Life magazine, October, 1912. Artist unknown.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 In Search of Barney Bubbles<\/a><\/em>: the great graphic designer is profiled on BBC Radio 4, Monday, 2nd January. And speaking of album cover designers, Cool Hunting talked to Storm Thorgerson<\/a> about his work.<\/p>\n

\u2022 FACT mix 310 is a hugely eclectic two-parter from Moon Wiring Club<\/a>. Grab it while it’s still available. And there’s also Solstmas 2011\/2: The Final Countdown<\/a>, a mix by El Minko Misterioso.<\/p>\n

\u2022 One of the music events of the new year will be the release of Captain Beefheart’s Bat Chain Puller<\/em><\/a> album. Pre-order it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1972, at the age of thirty-one, [Fred] Halsted released L.A. Plays Itself<\/em><\/a>, a film which drew upon Kenneth Anger\u2019s surrealist eroto-expressionism, and went way beyond Anger\u2019s sublimated homoeroticism to explicitly portray gay male S\/M sex. In 1969, when Halsted first decided to make a sexually explicit film, he decided to create a part for himself, and then be<\/em> that part.<\/p>\n

Halsted Plays Himself by William E. Jones<\/a> reviewed at Lambda Literary<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Lunar Rover: An interview with Steve Moore<\/a> and extract from Somnium<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Battersea Power Station<\/a>, a graveyard of architectural schemes.<\/p>\n

Editors might admire a fine book, but are overridden by marketing and accounting departments who now have the final say. I know of a novel that wasn\u2019t accepted by one publisher after the manuscript was first submitted to W.H. Smith, who said that it wouldn\u2019t sell enough.<\/p>\n

Jenny Diski<\/a> on the state of fiction publishing in the UK<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 EU copyright on James Joyce<\/a>‘s works ended at midnight.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dressed to Kill: Dispelling the Myths of Men in Drag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Geology of the Mountains of Madness<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mandala of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Chomeography<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Floppy Boot Stomp<\/em><\/a> (1978 mix) by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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