{"id":17961,"date":"2016-07-24T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17961"},"modified":"2016-07-24T01:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:04:31","slug":"weekend-links-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/07\/24\/weekend-links-319\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverhibert.com\/paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hibert.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hibert.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Sapphic Sleep Web by <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverhibert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Hibert<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Google isn\u2019t willing to say whether or not it\u2019s censorship. That they don\u2019t have to even address this is what\u2019s so shocking, It seems like cowardice.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/frieze.com\/article\/unfriendly-hosts\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Cooper<\/a> talking to Andrew Durbin at Frieze about Google&#8217;s unexplained deletion of his long-running blog. Cooper&#8217;s case has been covered by arts sites and some newspapers but I&#8217;ve yet to see any mention at all on the main US gay news sites despite Cooper being a notable gay author. I&#8217;ve cast aspersions at those sites in the past for their obsession with terrible pop acts and off-topic trivia (one site still reports every last fart of Britain&#8217;s Royal Family as &#8220;news&#8221;); this recent issue only reinforces their irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Creating <em>Jerusalem<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk\/writing-jerusalem-alan-moore-on-the-most-important-book-he-has-written\/story-29535003-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Moore<\/a> on the most important book he has written. Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/jul\/21\/alan-moore-uses-nine-year-olds-fan-letter-on-new-books-cover\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Moore<\/a> uses nine-year-old&#8217;s fan letter on new book&#8217;s cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Whatever side of the aisle you&#8217;re on, HL Mencken is as relevant as ever,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/mencken-in-the-middle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Marantz Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To say that <em>Goodbar<\/em> is an obsessive and symbolically overdetermined film would be an understatement: the film compulsively reiterates themes, visual motifs and parallel narratives, a relentless and repetitive reiteration of ideas that lends that film the aspect of a Freudian dream landscape, a baroque, Boschian sequence of fantasies, projections and illusions.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalkhouse.com\/12795\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce LaBruce<\/a> on Richard Brooks&#8217; film of Looking for Mr. Goodbar<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jISoKNn0pE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mare Teno<\/em><\/a> by Michel Redolfi, performed by Thomas Bloch, Susan Belling &amp; Michel Redolfi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 From 2015: Suicide&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/suicides-alan-vega-talks-fiery-record-with-big-stars-alex-chilton-20151211\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Vega<\/a> Talks Fiery Record With Big Star&#8217;s Alex Chilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mix of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/gatedcanalcommunity.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Takeover with Front &amp; Follow &amp; The Geography Trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Psychic Spaces &amp; Neon Nirvana: The Art of Oliver Hibert by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirgemag.com\/psychic-spaces-neon-nirvana-art-oliver-hibert\/\" target=\"_blank\">S. Elizabeth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/jul\/21\/how-william-burroughss-drug-experiments-helped-neurology-research\" target=\"_blank\">William Burroughs<\/a>&#8216;s drug experiments helped neurology research.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/musicblog\/2016\/jul\/21\/yello-swiss-pop-pioneers-return-with-new-video-limbo\" target=\"_blank\">Yello<\/a>, absurdist Swiss pop pioneers, return with a new video, <em>Limbo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Morphologies Masterclass: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pr4X3EiySyY\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsey Campbell<\/a> on HP Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2016\/07\/17\/cliff-martinez-interview-the-neon-demon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cliff Martinez<\/a> on horror, homage and <em>The Neon Demon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A City of Dust: photos of London by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/in-pictures-36765692\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cfO3_hEttLE\" target=\"_blank\">Dust To Dust<\/a><\/em> (1986) by Ginger Baker | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vk9UjSQvrOA\" target=\"_blank\">Neon Sisters<\/a><\/em> (1992) by Thomas Dolby | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Sandoz-Armed-Response\/release\/150208\" target=\"_blank\">Limbo<\/a><\/em> (1992) by Sandoz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sapphic Sleep Web by Oliver Hibert. \u2022 &#8220;Google isn\u2019t willing to say whether or not it\u2019s censorship. That they don\u2019t have to even address this is what\u2019s so shocking, It seems like cowardice.&#8221; Dennis Cooper talking to Andrew Durbin at Frieze about Google&#8217;s unexplained deletion of his long-running blog. Cooper&#8217;s case has been covered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/07\/24\/weekend-links-319\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 319&#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":[8,2,42,851,29,7,5,22,26,3,12,14,17],"tags":[103,8360,1111,8355,8361,2094,2975,3109,7876,5739,818,1687,8362,8357,8354,5317,8358,607,8356,1852,8363,5002,8359,4940,3514,1571,1190,3412],"class_list":["post-17961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-photography","category-politics","category-psychedelia","tag-alan-moore","tag-alan-vega","tag-alex-chilton","tag-andrew-durbin","tag-big-star","tag-bruce-labruce","tag-cliff-martinez","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-front-follow","tag-ginger-baker","tag-hl-mencken","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-lewis-bush","tag-michel-redolfi","tag-oliver-hibert","tag-paula-marantz-cohen","tag-performed-by-michel-redolfi","tag-ramsey-campbell","tag-richard-brooks","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-sandoz-musician","tag-suicide-group","tag-susan-belling","tag-the-geography-trip","tag-thomas-bloch","tag-thomas-dolby","tag-william-burroughs","tag-yello-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961","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=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}