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Japanese (?) poster for Liquid Sky (1982).<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 The announcement this week of the death of Carl T. Ford, former editor of Dagon<\/em> magazine, prompted a handful of memorial pieces. Dagon<\/em> was notable for being a small British magazine devoted to Lovecraftian and other weird fiction (and the Call of Cthulhu<\/em> games) at a time when the majority of such publications were American; it was also very well-produced, its later issues being typeset and filled with quality black-and-white illustration. Dagon<\/em> interviewed many notable writers, including people such as Thomas Ligotti whose work at the time was still only known to a small group of enthusiasts. Mark Valentine<\/a> posted a reminiscence at Wormwoodiana; Yog-Sothoth.com<\/a> has an interview with Carl from 2010.<\/p>\n \u2022 Michael “Dik Mik” Davies<\/a>, manipulator of an audio generator and tape echo for Hawkwind, also died this week. Dik Mik’s primitive background electronics, augmented by Del Dettmar’s synthesizers, were an essential component of the early Hawkwind sound.<\/p>\n \u2022 Erik Davis talks to writer, photographer, and curator Joanna Ebenstein<\/a> about Goth obsessions, memento mori<\/em>, Santa Muerta, and her extraordinary new illustrated collection Death: A Graveside Companion<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Slava Tsukerman’s cult film Liquid Sky<\/em> (1982) finally gets a blu-ray release<\/a>. From 2014: Punks, UFOs, and Heroin: Daniel Genis<\/a> on how Liquid Sky<\/em> became a cult movie.<\/p>\n \u2022 Geeta Dayal<\/a> explores the MOMA exhibition Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age: 1959\u20131989.<\/p>\n \u2022 You Should Come With Me Now<\/em><\/a> is a collection of new fiction by M. John Harrison published this week.<\/p>\n \u2022 VinylHub<\/a>: “Our mission is to document every physical record shop and record event on the planet.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Vladimir Nabokov<\/a>‘s dream diary reveals experiments with “backwards timeflow”.<\/p>\n \u2022 Flawed Greatness: DB Jones<\/a> on beauty and balance in John Ford’s The Searchers<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Irakli Kiziria<\/a> on 9 synth artists who defined Eastern Europe\u2019s post-Soviet sound.<\/p>\n \u2022 Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s Hatchet Jobs: Mark Athitakis<\/a> on Poe’s book reviews.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: FACT mix 627 by Oneohtrix Point Never<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Creative Review: The design of Mute Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 How generative music works<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Laraaji<\/a>‘s favourite albums.<\/p>\n \u2022 We Do It<\/a><\/em> (1970) by Hawkwind | Adjust Me<\/a><\/em> (1971) by Hawkwind | Electronic No. 1<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Hawkwind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"