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Crimson Metallic Emergent Skull Crystal Pendant by Kristen Phillips<\/a> aka Floridxfauna.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 The Noise-Arch Backup<\/a> at the Internet Archive is 30GB of mp3s from noise-arch.net, a collection of cassette-based releases and artwork: “material represented includes tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, diy, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials…” 30GB is an intimidatingly large amount of material so it’s better to browse\u00a0The Noise-Arch Archive<\/a>, a selection of 468 releases.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The week in erotica: Claire Voon<\/a> on Ancient Erotic Dreams and Explicit Scenes in the New York Public Library Collection; Melanie Porter<\/a> on Great Grandporn: Hardcore Pornography of the Silent Era; Cathy Camper<\/a> on The Comics of Dale Lazarov: Illustrated Explorations of Sexual Inventiveness.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Void Beats\/Invocation Trex<\/em> by Cavern of Anti-Matter<\/a> (Holger Zapf, Joe Dilworth & Tim Gane) was released this week. The opening number is Tardis Cymbals<\/em><\/a>. Tom Furse condensed the 73-minute album into a 17-minute mini-mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, if you had to \u201cplace\u201d \u00adWilliams\u2014put him alongside writers with whom he had something in common\u2014it would be with the mystical autodidacts, the backstreet Rosicrucians more than with the pipe-smoking, tweedy Inklings. To that extent, the only unsatisfactory thing about Grevel Lindop\u2019s book is its title. True, Williams went to Oxford when war broke out and became friends with the famous circle around C. S. Lewis. But he was not an Inkling in spirit. He was not at home in Oxford, and his arrival, far from consolidating the Inklings, actually broke them up by bewitching Lewis, and making Lewis neglect the central friendship of his life, that with \u00adTolkien. Another scholar of Old English literature, C. L. Wrenn, said that meeting Williams made you realize why inquisitors thought they had the right to burn people. Tolkien agreed: \u201cWilliams is eminently combustible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly, Williams\u2019s books had an influence on the Inklings. Lindop is right to say that the central plotline of Many Dimensions<\/em> suggests the story of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.<\/p>\n

AN Wilson<\/a> reviews Charles Williams: The Third Inkling<\/a> by Grevel Lindop<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022\u00a0Russ Fischer<\/a> recommends five films by Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski (RIP). Possession<\/em> (1981) is still the easiest to find, and a good place to start. I enthused about On The Silver Globe<\/em><\/a> (1977\u201387) last year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 England\u2019s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground<\/em><\/a> by David Keenan has been published in a revised and expanded edition by Strange Attractor.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Preservation Man<\/em><\/a> (1962): Artist and collector Bruce Lacey (RIP) filmed by Ken Russell for the BBC’s Monitor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Barry Adamson<\/a>: “I’ve been called the outsider’s outsider”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: Six degrees of Marty Feldman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: FACT mix 536 by Not Waving<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Alan Clarke page<\/a> at the BFI shop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Umberto Eco (RIP): Porta Ludovica<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Possessions<\/a><\/em> (1980) by The Residents | Possessed<\/a><\/em> (1992) by The Balanescu Quartet | Possessed<\/a><\/em> (2001) by Sussan Deyhim & Shirin Neshat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crimson Metallic Emergent Skull Crystal Pendant by Kristen Phillips aka Floridxfauna. \u2022 The Noise-Arch Backup at the Internet Archive is 30GB of mp3s from noise-arch.net, a collection of cassette-based releases and artwork: “material represented includes tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indy, rock, diy, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials…” 30GB is an intimidatingly large amount of material so … Continue reading “Weekend links 297”<\/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":[2,42,9,29,21,7,5,3,31,41,19],"tags":[1115,8034,6880,3373,3442,3517,8038,6321,7997,2413,8026,2412,6058,8035,8025,8032,8028,8029,944,595,8024,7290,8027,7929,6206,8036,8037,98,1639,6371,879,8030,8031,2640],"class_list":["post-17747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-electronica","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-religion","category-sculpture","category-television","tag-alan-clarke","tag-an-wilson","tag-andrzej-zulawski","tag-balanescu-quartet","tag-barry-adamson","tag-bfi","tag-bruce-lacey","tag-cathy-camper","tag-cavern-of-anti-matter","tag-charles-williams","tag-claire-voon","tag-cs-lewis","tag-dale-lazarov","tag-david-keenan","tag-floridxfauna","tag-grevel-lindop","tag-holger-zapf","tag-joe-dilworth","tag-jrr-tolkien","tag-ken-russell","tag-kristen-phillips","tag-marty-feldman","tag-melanie-porter","tag-new-york-public-library","tag-not-waving","tag-russ-fischer","tag-shirin-neshat","tag-strange-attractor","tag-sussan-deyhim","tag-the-balanescu-quartet","tag-the-residents","tag-tim-gane","tag-tom-furse","tag-umberto-eco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747","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=17747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}