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Mateo (2011), carved wood sculpture by Bruno Walpoth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Dennis Potter’s [The Singing Detective<\/em>] is 25 years old but still feels avant garde,” says Stephen Armstrong<\/a>. No fucking kidding, I watched the DVDs again last weekend. Potter’s drama featured non-linear flashbacks, song-and-dance hallucination sequences, an intertextual sub-plot, and a central character who was vitriolic, misanthropic, misogynist and covered from head-to-toe in flaking skin. This wasn’t exiled to an arts channel ghetto but was primetime viewing, Sunday evenings on BBC 1. \u2022 Related: “Is Dennis Potter\u2019s singalong noir<\/em> miniseries the all-time pinnacle of television drama? Graham Fuller<\/a> thinks it is.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 American band Earth<\/a> are using Kickstarter to fund their next project, Wonders from the House of Albion<\/em>, an LP\/CD\/DVD\/book combining their music with “field recordings from various megalithic and other sites of human\/fairy encounters across the UK, also the use of ritual and folkloric magical practices”. Dylan Carlson & Adrienne Davies discuss their work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…sort of like Nabokov\u2019s objection to Our Lady of the Flowers<\/em>, which he saw as a masterpiece but thought, \u201cWhy isn\u2019t this book about women?\u201d Nabokov hated homosexuality and was very edgy around it, partly because his own brother was homosexual and his uncle. And he believed that it was hereditary, so he was always nervous about it.<\/p>\n

Edmund White<\/a> chooses five favourite gay novels. Related: a dance adaptation<\/a> by Earthfall of Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “The Belbury Tales<\/em> is the kind of record you feel should have come out on Vertigo around \u201973, but never actually did.” Belbury Poly<\/a>‘s Jim Jupp on ploughman\u2019s lunches, prog rock and avoiding \u201cClarkson\/Wakeman territory\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection<\/a>, an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center exploring “the iconography of death across cultures and traditions spanning nearly six thousand years”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Geoff Dyer’s Zona<\/em><\/a>, an exegesis of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker<\/em>, is officially out at the end of this month. The book is reviewed here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Through a blurry electronic prism<\/a>“: MetaFilter traces a history of analogue video synthesis.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dylan Ricci<\/a>‘s wonderful photography of the male body has moved to a new location.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Infinite Forest<\/em> by Studio a+i<\/a>, a design for an AIDS memorial in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Susan Cain<\/a> discussing “the power of introverts” at Scientific American<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strange Flowers on that icon of Middle Eastern music, Umm Kulthum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ewan Morrison<\/a> on “The self-epublishing bubble”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Winter Sleep<\/em><\/a> (2007) by Valgeir\u00a0Sigurdsson feat. Dawn McCarthy | Black<\/em><\/a> (2008) by Ben Frost with Valgeir Sigurdsson, Sam Amidon & Sigr\u00eddur Sunna Reynisd\u00f3ttir | Unbreakable Silence<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Ben Frost & Dan\u00edel Bjarnason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mateo (2011), carved wood sculpture by Bruno Walpoth. “Dennis Potter’s [The Singing Detective] is 25 years old but still feels avant garde,” says Stephen Armstrong. No fucking kidding, I watched the DVDs again last weekend. Potter’s drama featured non-linear flashbacks, song-and-dance hallucination sequences, an intertextual sub-plot, and a central character who was vitriolic, misanthropic, misogynist … Continue reading “Weekend links 94”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,8,2,42,28,56,4,29,7,5,3,16,12,13,41,15,19],"tags":[3318,214,3319,2421,3328,3144,3325,2720,3317,3312,3316,3313,901,3323,2822,3329,3314,751,1016,3326,3327,1333,3315,2419,3320,3321,3322,3324,807],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-burroughs","category-dance","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","category-science","category-sculpture","category-technology","category-television","tag-adrienne-davies","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-belbury-poly","tag-ben-frost","tag-bruno-walpoth","tag-daniel-bjarnason","tag-dawn-mccarthy","tag-dennis-potter","tag-dylan-carlson","tag-dylan-ricci","tag-earth-group","tag-earthfall","tag-edmund-white","tag-ewan-morrison","tag-geoff-dyer","tag-graham-fuller","tag-jamie-oneill","tag-jean-genet","tag-jim-jupp","tag-sam-amidon","tag-sigridur-sunna-reynisdottir","tag-stalker","tag-stephen-armstrong","tag-strange-flowers","tag-studio-ai","tag-susan-cain","tag-umm-kulthum","tag-valgeir-sigurdsson","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}