{"id":11307,"date":"2012-04-22T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2013-02-02T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T03:37:26","slug":"weekend-links-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/22\/weekend-links-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 105"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A suspended fluid photograph from Demersal, a series by Luka Klikovac<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Soon, Mr. Lachman was writing occult music. His song \u201c(I\u2019m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear,\u201d which appeared on Blondie\u2019s 1977 album Plastic Letters<\/em>, was an example.” Gary Lachman<\/a>: from Blondie to Swedenborg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Neil Krug’s cover art<\/a> for the new Scissor Sisters album, Magic Hour<\/em>, channels the cloudless skies and photographic surrealism of Storm Thorgerson.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Implicate Explicate<\/em><\/a>, a multiple 16mm film installation by Rose Kallal. Sound by Rose Kallal & Mark Pilkington using modular synthesizers.<\/p>\n

Despite conservative queerdom\u2019s best efforts to hide its \u201cotherness\u201d behind a velvet wall of \u201csame as you\u201d Tom and Hank and Jill and Janes, Mattilda and her like will not be ignored. As parades of neo-nuclear same sex families mug for the cameras on courthouse steps, queer body boys parade and flex impossibly taut muscles across our nation\u2019s gym runways and circuit parties, and far, far too many proudly proclaim in knee-jerk defensiveness how \u201cstraight-acting\u201d they are across the net, Sycamore blows raspberries at the forced mirage and holds up faded pictures of yesteryear boys and girls whose one claim to fame once was their difference.<\/p>\n

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore<\/a> is interviewed at Lambda Literary<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Paul Oestreicher<\/a>, an Anglican priest, sets the cat squarely among the pigeons with the question (and answer) “Was Jesus gay? Probably.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Andromeon<\/a><\/em>, video by Alexander Tucker and Serena Korda for a new song by Alexander Tucker.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Museums of Melancholy: Iain Sinclair<\/a> on London\u2019s memorials. An LRB<\/em> essay from 2005.<\/p>\n

\u2022 FACT mix 325 is by Battles<\/a>: from Boredoms to Cluster and The Alchemist.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The glass hills of Mars<\/a>, “a region the size of Europe”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Labyrinths and clues<\/a>, an essay by Alan Wall.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Alchemy of Emptiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Drop<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Soft Machine | Drop<\/em><\/a> (2002) by Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions | Airdrop<\/em><\/a> (2006) by Kashiwa Daisuke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A suspended fluid photograph from Demersal, a series by Luka Klikovac. \u2022 “Soon, Mr. Lachman was writing occult music. His song \u201c(I\u2019m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear,\u201d which appeared on Blondie\u2019s 1977 album Plastic Letters, was an example.” Gary Lachman: from Blondie to Swedenborg. \u2022 Neil Krug’s cover art for the new Scissor Sisters … Continue reading “Weekend links 105”<\/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":[8,2,4,29,7,5,3,16,12,14,31,13],"tags":[3632,559,3627,3629,1605,3630,2275,3104,553,8553,218,3634,4523,3622,955,3625,3623,3626,3624,1269,3628,3633,429,3631],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","category-politics","category-religion","category-science","tag-alan-wall","tag-alchemy","tag-alexander-tucker","tag-battles-group","tag-blondie","tag-boredoms","tag-cluster-group","tag-gary-lachman","tag-hope-sandoval","tag-hope-sandoval-the-warm-inventions","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-kashiwa-daisuke","tag-labyrinths","tag-luka-klikovac","tag-mark-pilkington","tag-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore","tag-neil-krug","tag-paul-oestreicher","tag-rose-kallal","tag-scissor-sisters","tag-serena-korda","tag-soft-machine","tag-storm-thorgerson","tag-the-alchemist-musician"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307","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=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}