{"id":16873,"date":"2015-06-07T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16873"},"modified":"2015-06-07T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T00:48:10","slug":"weekend-links-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/07\/weekend-links-262\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 262"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ll Never Be Alone, Even In Death (2014) by Stacey Rozich<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “But the CD-R format, which eventually replaced the mix tape, turned out to be a technological letdown. ‘CD-Rs are just such an unstable format,’ Margolis says. ‘When you made 10 cassettes, the 10 cassettes generally played. If you made 10 CD-Rs, 8 of them played and 2 of ’em skipped. So that partially explains why people are going back to cassettes\u2014it\u2019s a cheap format that actually works.'” A huge article by Lisa Hix<\/a> on the history and resilience of cassette tapes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The word speculative comes from speculum, or mirror, and with speculative music the goal is to mirror the hidden processes of nature in sound.” David Metcalfe<\/a> on Hawthonn, Coil and imaginal landscapes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT Mix 498 by The Cyclist<\/a>, and Adventures In Sound And Music 28 May 2015 compiled by Joseph Stannard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nabokov was an intimate writer. His reticences, his formal estrangements, his denial of interest in any reality beyond the text all need to be measured against that. Maximum closeness<\/em>: not the closeness of ostentatious empathy but the closeness of one mind addressing another in the most thrilling terms. He speaks into the ear, sometimes dripping a little poison. He contrives to have a reader identify intimately with a protagonist or narrator, but even that is not enough; the reader receives secret handshakes from the author himself, behind a narrator\u2019s back.<\/p>\n

Michael Dirda<\/a> quoting from Nabokov in America by Robert Roper<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Books old and new:\u00a0The Encyclopedia of the Dead<\/em> by Danilo Kis<\/a>, and Stranger Days<\/em> by Rachel Kendall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Il caso Valdemar<\/em><\/a> (1936), a short Italian adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lustpiel<\/a> is “a new online magazine for gay, lustful literature”. And a fair amount of art and porn.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Q: Is there any subject that is never acceptable to joke about?” No, says Curtis Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Machines Are Obsolete<\/em><\/a>, a new piece by Pye Corner Audio for the Ghost Box label.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ishbelle Bee (see yesterday’s post) is interviewed at SFFWorld<\/a> and Book Swoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laura June<\/a> on the life of Djuna Barnes, stunt reporter and shocking modernist.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stream the debut LP from Ghost Harmonic<\/a>, a new John Foxx project.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Portraits of the BDSM community by Natasha Gornik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rainer Werner Fassbinder<\/a>: 10 essential films<\/p>\n

\u2022 Loplop<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mirrorball<\/a><\/em> (2009) by John Foxx & Robin Guthrie | Mirror<\/a><\/em> (2012) by Emptyset | Mirrored<\/a><\/em> (2013) by Silje Nes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ll Never Be Alone, Even In Death (2014) by Stacey Rozich. \u2022 “But the CD-R format, which eventually replaced the mix tape, turned out to be a technological letdown. ‘CD-Rs are just such an unstable format,’ Margolis says. ‘When you made 10 cassettes, the 10 cassettes generally played. If you made 10 CD-Rs, 8 of … Continue reading “Weekend links 262”<\/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":[2,42,29,21,7,5,22,3,16,18,15],"tags":[2272,7378,7375,7371,3596,93,3188,172,7380,7372,7111,1295,2164,7379,7370,7382,7377,112,5438,7381,4222,7376,1192,7374,4516,7383,7369,7373,807],"class_list":["post-16873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-surrealism","category-technology","tag-coil-group","tag-curtis-brown","tag-danilo-kis","tag-david-metcalfe","tag-djuna-barnes","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-emptyset","tag-ghost-box","tag-ghost-harmonic","tag-hawthonn","tag-ishbelle-bee","tag-john-foxx","tag-joseph-stannard","tag-laura-june","tag-lisa-hix","tag-loplop","tag-lustpiel","tag-max-ernst","tag-michael-dirda","tag-natasha-gornik","tag-pye-corner-audio","tag-rachel-kendall","tag-rainer-werner-fassbinder","tag-robert-roper","tag-robin-guthrie","tag-silje-nes","tag-stacey-rozich","tag-the-cyclist-musician","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4o9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16873","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=16873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}