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El Hotel Satina (2006) by Oscar Sanmartin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Andrew K\u00f6tting’s By Our Selves<\/em><\/a> is “a melancholy, maverick film” says David Jays. With Toby Jones following in the footsteps of poet John Clare, Iain Sinclair in a goat mask, and Alan Moore warning about the “vision sump” of Northampton.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Shunga<\/em> means ‘spring pictures’<\/a>. They depict sometimes spectacular sexual contortions and come imbued with the power of taboo. For years they have largely been out of sight\u2014until now.” Related: shunga<\/em> prints at Ukiyoe Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Who else could link Smokey Robinson and JG Ballard, Iggy Pop and Josephine Baker, James Bond and Stephen Sondheim, Gary Numan and Johnny Cash, Tricky and Tom Moulton…” Grace Jones<\/a> is the best, says Joe Muggs.<\/p>\n

Ballardian space \u2013 what he called \u201cinner space\u201d to differentiate it from the science fiction that concerned itself with distant planets and space rockets \u2013 is in fact a fusion of inner and outer space. There is no \u201cout there\u201d totally separate from his characters; just as there is no exclusively private, isolated inner life. His most psychologically fulfilled characters look to transcend their physical surroundings, however hostile, by embracing them.<\/p>\n

Chris Hall<\/a> on High-Rise by JG Ballard<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “In March 1984, Jorge Luis Borges began a series of radio ‘dialogues’ with the Argentinian poet and essayist Osvaldo Ferrari<\/a>, which have now been translated into English for the first time.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I came up with a couple of tunes, literally in my bedroom. People think of bedroom recordings as a modern, laptop invention. It wasn\u2019t.” Daniel Miller<\/a> on the accidental success of Mute Records.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cIt was in Prague that I first awoke.\u201d Strange Flowers<\/a> on Gustav Meyrink’s life in Prague.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At 50 Watts: Stencilled ornament and illustration by William Addison Dwiggins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. X by David Colohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wyrd Daze<\/em>, Lvl2 Issue 4<\/a>, is free and brimming with the weird.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mythology<\/em>, a new series of drawings by Howard Hardiman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Spike Jones<\/a> is the best, says MetaFilter.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Peacocks<\/a> at National Geographic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Warm Leatherette<\/a><\/em> (1980) by Grace Jones | Warm Leatherette<\/a><\/em> (1998) by Chicks On Speed | Warm Leatherette<\/a><\/em> (2013) by Foetus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Hotel Satina (2006) by Oscar Sanmartin. \u2022 Andrew K\u00f6tting’s By Our Selves is “a melancholy, maverick film” says David Jays. With Toby Jones following in the footsteps of poet John Clare, Iain Sinclair in a goat mask, and Alan Moore warning about the “vision sump” of Northampton. \u2022 “Shunga means ‘spring pictures’. They depict … Continue reading “Weekend links 278”<\/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":[8,2,42,51,4,29,7,3,12,20],"tags":[2329,103,7675,2237,7678,2541,7160,7676,7682,2236,358,7680,218,992,431,137,5414,1962,1483,7674,6663,444,146,7681,2419,7677,7679,5379],"class_list":["post-17304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-photography","category-science-fiction","tag-50-watts","tag-alan-moore","tag-andrew-kotting","tag-chicks-on-speed","tag-chris-hall","tag-daniel-miller","tag-david-colohan","tag-david-jays","tag-foetus-musician","tag-grace-jones","tag-gustav-meyrink","tag-howard-hardiman","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-iggy-pop","tag-james-bond","tag-jg-ballard","tag-joe-muggs","tag-john-clare","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-oscar-sanmartin","tag-osvaldo-ferrari","tag-peacocks","tag-prague","tag-spike-jones","tag-strange-flowers","tag-toby-jones","tag-william-addison-dwiggins","tag-wyrd-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304","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=17304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}