{"id":14503,"date":"2013-11-10T03:16:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14503"},"modified":"2013-11-14T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:50:52","slug":"weekend-links-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/10\/weekend-links-185\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 185"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sofiarondelli.blogspot.it\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rondelli.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rondelli.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>L&#8217;uomo che piantava gli alberi (2013) by <a href=\"http:\/\/sofiarondelli.blogspot.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sofia Rondelli<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thombeau.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Form Is Void<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuneiformrecords.com\/bandshtml\/chromehoof.html\" target=\"_blank\">the new album by Chrome Hoof<\/a>, a band whose ambition and attitude makes many of their contemporaries seem lukewarm at best. Mick Middles gets to grips with <em>Chrome Black Gold<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/13773-chrome-hoof-chrome-black-gold-review\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/04309-chrome-hoof-crush-depth-album-review-interview\" target=\"_blank\">John Doran<\/a> interviewed the group in 2010, a piece which includes a Chrome Hoof mix of tracks by other artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangecoast.com\/features\/2013\/09\/23\/center-of-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Roberts<\/a>: &#8220;I was a young Marine scout sniper, definitely his type. And for a single, unforgettable afternoon, Orange County\u2019s most notorious serial killer coaxed me into a place from which many didn\u2019t escape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2013\/nov\/06\/jonathan-meades-postcards-snaps-book\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Meades<\/a>: &#8220;Why I went postal \u2026 and turned my snaps into postcards.&#8221; &#8220;Meades isn&#8217;t your average architectural fanboy,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2013\/nov\/10\/jonathan-meades-architecture-television-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Cooke<\/a> who went to talk to him at his home in Marseille.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Faced with a Nabokov novel,&#8221; Zadie Smith writes, &#8220;it\u2019s impossible to rid yourself of the feeling that you\u2019ve been set a problem, as a chess master sets a problem in a newspaper.&#8221; Certainly, while Humbert asks the reader &#8220;not to mock me and my mental daze&#8221;, the suspicion is that the power dynamic in his tale is a little different.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/lost-in-the-funhouse\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Groenland<\/a> on the difficulties of writing, publishing and reading Lolita.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.because.tv\/shop\/cosmic-machine\/compilation---edition-deluxe-replika-2-lp-177578\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cosmic Machine<\/em><\/a> is a double-disc collection of French electronic music from the 1970s &amp; 1980s. Justice enthuse about the music <a href=\"http:\/\/www.self-titledmag.com\/2013\/11\/08\/stream-cosmic-machine-and-read-an-interview-with-justice-about-french-electronic-music-from-the-70s\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> where you can also preview the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/babelsalvage.com\/2013\/10\/30\/order-the-midnight-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Midnight Channel<\/em><\/a>, Evan J. Peterson&#8217;s horror-poetry homage to the VHS era, is available now from Babel\/Salvage. There&#8217;s a trailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UZB2ZnVQzyw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Our age reveres the specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeonmagazine.com\/world-views\/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Twigger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Another musical Chrome: <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/half_machine_from_the_sun_the_great_lost_chrome_album\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Metzger<\/a> on newly resurrected recordings by one of my long-time cult bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hermes Trismegistus and Hermeticism: An interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/hermes-trismegistus-and-hermeticism-an-interview-with-gary-lachman\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Lachman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A stunning set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/khiltscher\/sets\/72157619339804370\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos of London<\/a> in the sweltering summer of 1976.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/pye-corner-audio\/live-at-the-outer-church-madrid\" target=\"_blank\">Pye Corner Audio<\/a> live at The Outer Church, Madrid, November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultraculture.org\/judee-sill-shockingly-talented-occult-folk-singer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judee Sill<\/a>, the shockingly talented occult folk singer time forgot.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designindaba.com\/news\/20q-jonathan-barnbrook\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Barnbrook<\/a> answers twenty questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Don&#8217;t trust the painting: <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/article\/article11061301.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Meis<\/a> on Ren\u00e9 Magritte.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a-rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Anderson&#8217;s farewell to Lou Reed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/search\/pins\/?q=Philippe%20Druillet\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Druillet<\/a> at Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K51ZNLvOQ1M\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny<\/em><\/a> (1968) by The Mothers of Invention | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jAee0DWfHuQ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>March Of The Chrome Police<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Chrome | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1kUbftM4QU\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chrome<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Debbie Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8217;uomo che piantava gli alberi (2013) by Sofia Rondelli. Via Form Is Void. \u2022 I&#8217;m looking forward to hearing the new album by Chrome Hoof, a band whose ambition and attitude makes many of their contemporaries seem lukewarm at best. Mick Middles gets to grips with Chrome Black Gold here. John Doran interviewed the group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/11\/10\/weekend-links-185\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 185&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,9,4,29,5,3,16,44,12,18],"tags":[3534,1469,4360,1035,5367,3104,5369,3594,982,4059,5375,5373,1606,1302,5368,4004,863,4222,5370,115,4772,5374,5366,5376,5372,807,5371],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-electronica","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-photography","category-surrealism","tag-chrome-group","tag-chrome-hoof","tag-debbie-harry","tag-evan-j-peterson","tag-form-is-void","tag-gary-lachman","tag-jay-roberts","tag-john-doran","tag-jonathan-barnbrook","tag-jonathan-meades","tag-judee-sill","tag-justice-group","tag-laurie-anderson","tag-lou-reed","tag-mick-middles","tag-morgan-meis","tag-philippe-druillet","tag-pye-corner-audio","tag-rachel-cooke","tag-magritte","tag-richard-metzger","tag-robert-twigger","tag-sofia-rondelli","tag-the-mothers-of-invention","tag-tim-groenland","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-zadie-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3LV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","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=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}