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Heartsick (2011) by Kelly Durette<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Now that Scott Walker’s Bish Bosch<\/em> album<\/a> is out and causing the usual consternation, the spotlight-shy singer\/composer has been doing a surprising amount of promotional interviews. Simon Hattenstone<\/a> talked to him for the Guardian<\/em> at the end of last month; this week it was John Doran’s turn at The Quietus<\/a>. One quote from the latter piece stood out in the light of this week’s posts: “…the music we’re making is meant to be an aural version of the HR Giger drawings for Alien<\/em>. It always sounds to me like those look.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Satanica<\/em><\/a> is a limited-edition publication curated by Gio Black Peter & Christopher Stoddard “for anyone who rejects societal norms, for those dedicated to a life of pleasure, excess and self-reflection”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sci-Fi-O-Rama has put five years’ worth of blog pictures onto Pinterest<\/a>. I don’t really need to do that, there’s already a diverse crowd of Pinterest users compiling their own selection of things posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Susan Sontag once observed, pornography is practical. It was designed as a marital aid, and its vocabulary should follow natural biological rhythms and stick with hot-button words in order to produce a predictable climax. It is not about<\/em> sex but is<\/em> sex. Whereas the great sex writers (Harold Brodkey, DH Lawrence, Robert Gluck, David Plante, the Australian Frank Moorhouse) have a quirky, phenomenological, realistic<\/em> approach to sex. They are doing what the Russian formalists said was the secret of all good fiction \u2013 making the familiar strange, writing from the Martian’s point of view.<\/p>\n

Edmund White<\/a> on writing about sex in fiction<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 When pirate DVDs of films by Cocteau, Bresson and Pasolini are on sale in a Mexican market, life in the 21st century increasingly resembles a William Gibson novel.\u00a0Joanne McNeil<\/a> investigates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Copies of City Fun<\/em>, Manchester’s premier music fanzine\/alt culture mag (founded 1978), can now be read online at the Manchester District Music Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Linked everywhere during the past few days, the astonishing map of bomb hits on London during the Blitz<\/a> (October 1940 to June 1941).<\/p>\n

\u2022 At 50 Watts: 30 Vintage Magazine Covers from Japan<\/a> and Alfred Kubin’s illustrations for<\/a> Lesab\u00e9ndio: An Asteroid Novel<\/em> (1913) by Paul Scheerbart.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Earlier this year for Frieze Magazine<\/em> Geeta Dayal<\/a> talked to musical collaborators of the great German producer Conny Plank.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Invisible Ink<\/em> by Christopher Fowler<\/a>, “the extraordinary stories of over one hundred forgotten authors”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cynthia Carr<\/a> talks about Fire in the Belly<\/em>, her biography of American artist David Wojnarowicz.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Blasphemy, Filth, And Nonsense” More Aleister Crowley ephemera at Front Free Endpaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Strange Flowers: Surrealist art by Jindrich Heisler<\/a> (1914\u20131953).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vladimir Nabokov<\/a> wrote to Alfred Hitchcock in 1964.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scott Walker’s four tracks from the Nite Flights<\/em> album (1978): Shutout<\/a><\/em> | Fat Mama Kick<\/a><\/em> | Nite Flights<\/a><\/em> | The Electrician<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heartsick (2011) by Kelly Durette. \u2022 Now that Scott Walker’s Bish Bosch album is out and causing the usual consternation, the spotlight-shy singer\/composer has been doing a surprising amount of promotional interviews. Simon Hattenstone talked to him for the Guardian at the end of last month; this week it was John Doran’s turn at The … Continue reading “Weekend links 138”<\/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":[2,42,7,5,48,43,3,16,20,18],"tags":[2329,391,416,1592,4370,4367,3462,4371,2010,901,2946,1393,4366,720,4372,4368,3594,4364,517,951,4369,1105,2274,4365,2419,2667,2439,807,1757],"class_list":["post-12731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-occult","category-science-fiction","category-surrealism","tag-50-watts","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-alfred-kubin","tag-christopher-fowler","tag-christopher-stoddard","tag-conny-plank","tag-cynthia-carr","tag-david-wojnarowicz","tag-edmund-white","tag-front-free-endpaper","tag-geeta-dayal","tag-gio-black-peter","tag-hr-giger","tag-jindrich-heisler","tag-joanne-mcneil","tag-john-doran","tag-kelly-durette","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-district-music-archive","tag-paul-scheerbart","tag-sci-fi-o-rama","tag-scott-walker","tag-simon-hattenstone","tag-strange-flowers","tag-susan-sontag","tag-the-quietus","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-william-gibson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12731","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=12731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}