{"id":17756,"date":"2016-02-28T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:12:35","slug":"weekend-links-298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/02\/28\/weekend-links-298\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 298"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gathering (2015) by Kristen Liu-Wong<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Tom of Finland’s house in Echo Park, Los Angeles, “is a trove of homoerotic masterpieces<\/a>“. The house and its former owner are celebrated in Tom House<\/em><\/a>, a book by Michael Reynolds with photos by Martyn Thompson<\/a>. Related: Tom House<\/em> exposed by Rizzoli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Underlying the heightened nature of the films was a deep, questioning soulfulness related to literary antecedents coupled with a vision of cinema open to shifting levels of perception and fantasy.” David Thompson<\/a> on Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Memories of the Space Age: Photos by Roland Miller<\/a> of the ruins of NASA’s old launch pads, bunkhouses and research facilities. A British equivalent (and a much more modest affair) is the Highdown Rocket Site<\/a> on the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Statues allegedly made for the John Huston film of The Maltese Falcon<\/em> are among the most expensive props in cinema history even though there’s still dispute about their authenticity. Bryan Burrough<\/a> investigates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: The Solar Gate: Female Private Press New-Age Music \u2013 Vol.1 by Michael Tanner<\/a>, and an “alchemical” Bowie selection by The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “What Does It Take To Be A ‘Bestselling Author’? $3 and 5 Minutes.” Brent Underwood<\/a> on why Amazon ratings can’t be trusted.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Edward Gorey\/Derek Lamb title sequences<\/a> from the PBS\/WGBH show Mystery!<\/em> (1981).<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Painter Possessed: Kate Kellaway<\/a> on the occult abstractions of Hilma af Klint.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Invertebrate Harmonics<\/em><\/a>: a new composition by Chris Watson.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Frozen in time: Inside Bangkok’s first ever department store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roly Porter’s Favourite Space Records<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Space-Age Couple<\/a><\/em> (1970) by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | Space Age Batchelor Pad Music (Mellow)<\/a><\/em> (1993) by Stereolab | Space Age Ballad<\/a><\/em> (2001) by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gathering (2015) by Kristen Liu-Wong. \u2022 Tom of Finland’s house in Echo Park, Los Angeles, “is a trove of homoerotic masterpieces“. The house and its former owner are celebrated in Tom House, a book by Michael Reynolds with photos by Martyn Thompson. Related: Tom House exposed by Rizzoli. \u2022 “Underlying the heightened nature of … Continue reading “Weekend links 298”<\/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":[52,8,2,42,29,7,5,3,16,44,12,13],"tags":[1474,8806,6880,8048,8046,2086,6926,1609,1301,8043,8049,2313,8045,8050,8040,8042,8041,8047,569,8044,2890,2407,5321,2194],"class_list":["post-17756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-photography","category-science","tag-acid-mothers-temple","tag-acid-mothers-temple-the-melting-paraiso-u-f-o","tag-andrzej-zulawski","tag-brent-underwood","tag-bryan-burrough","tag-captain-beefheart","tag-captain-beefheart-his-magic-band","tag-chris-watson","tag-david-bowie","tag-david-thompson","tag-derek-lamb","tag-edward-gorey","tag-john-huston","tag-kate-kellaway","tag-kristen-liu-wong","tag-martyn-thompson","tag-michael-reynolds","tag-michael-tanner","tag-nasa","tag-roland-miller","tag-roly-porter","tag-stereolab","tag-the-ephemeral-man","tag-tom-of-finland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Co","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","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=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}