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The Arcimboldo Effect again. An undated postcard from the image section of A Virtual Wunderkammer: Early Twentieth Century Erotica in Spain<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI took George Clinton and Bootsy Collins to the Battle Station for the first time, and they left feeling like they\u2019d just had a close encounter,\u201d said the bassist and music producer Bill Laswell, who met Rammellzee in the early 1980s and remained one of the few people who saw him regularly.<\/p>\n Rammellzee\u2019s Work and Reputation Re-emerge<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Also in the NYT:<\/em> China Mi\u00e9ville<\/a> on Apocalyptic London: “Everyone knows there\u2019s a catastrophe unfolding, that few can afford to live in their own city. It was not always so.” Reverse the perspective and find Iain Sinclair<\/a> writing in 2002 about Abel Ferrara’s The King of New York<\/em><\/a>: “A memento mori of the century’s ultimate city in meltdown.”<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics<\/em><\/a> in America by Fran\u00e7ois Cusset. Related: Glitterwolf Magazine<\/a> is asking for submissions from LGBT writers\/artists\/photographers.<\/p>\n \u2022 The vinyl releases of Cristal music by Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet continue to be scarce and unreissued. Mark Morb has a high-quality rip of the group’s No. 4<\/em> EP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Henri’s Walk to Paris<\/em><\/a>, the children’s book designed by Saul Bass in 1962, is being republished. Steven Heller<\/a> takes a look.<\/p>\n As the critic Jon Savage points out, even rock’n’roll’s very roots, the blues, contained a weird gay subculture. The genre was home to songs such as George Hannah’s Freakish Man Blues<\/a><\/em>, Luis Russell’s The New Call of the Freaks<\/a><\/em>, and Kokomo Arnold’s Sissy Man Blues<\/a><\/em>. “I woke up this morning with my pork grindin’ business in my hand,” offers Arnold, adding, “Lord, if you can’t send me no woman, please send me some sissy man.”<\/p>\n Straight and narrow: how pop lost its gay edge by Alexis Petridis<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 David Pelham: The Art of Inner Space<\/a>. James Pardey interviews the designer for Ballardian.<\/p>\n \u2022 BBCX365<\/a>: Johnny Selman designs an entire year of news stories.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sarah Funke Butler on Nabokov’s notes for Eugene Onegin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Leslie S. Klinger on The cult of Sherlock Holmes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 How piracy built the US publishing industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 SynthCats<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 The Light Pours Out Of Me<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Magazine | Touch And Go<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Magazine | Motorcade<\/a><\/em> (1978) by Magazine | Feed The Enemy<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Magazine | Cut-Out Shapes<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Arcimboldo Effect again. 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