{"id":18602,"date":"2018-01-28T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18602"},"modified":"2018-01-28T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:08:19","slug":"weekend-links-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/01\/28\/weekend-links-397\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 397"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nocturnal Rome \u2014 Trajan’s Column (1934) by MC Escher<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Many eulogies this week for the late, great Mark E Smith. Strangers to the abrasive splendour of The Fall could do worse than begin with Geeta Dayal<\/a>‘s list of ten best albums. At YouTube there’s a playlist of The Fall’s Peel Sessions<\/a>, from 1978 to 2004, while The Fall Quote Generator<\/a> provides fragments of lyrics and interviews. “Use it like the I Ching.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Books with poisoned pages are usually the stuff of fiction but\u00a0Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Arsenical Wall Papers<\/em><\/a> (1874) by RC Kedzie presents a serious health hazard to would-be readers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Man Ray: “There was more surrealism rampant in Hollywood than all the surrealists could invent in a lifetime.” Kimberly Lindbergs<\/a> looks at Albert Lewin’s 1951 fantasy, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Towleroad: “The Most Dangerous Gay Man In America Fought Violence with Violence” Eric Markowitz<\/a> on the Reverend Raymond Broshears, founder in 1973 of the Lavender Panthers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming in April from Strange Attractor: All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song<\/em><\/a> by Shirley Collins.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 244 by Daniel O’Sullivan<\/a>, and XLR8R Podcast 526 by Jamaica Suk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper<\/a>‘s this week, a post I might have made myself (but, er, didn’t) about mirrored works of art.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A preview of Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Year Sci-Fi Exploded<\/em><\/a> by Jason Heller.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “We live in Philip K Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s,” says Henry Farrell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Was For Your Convenience<\/em><\/a> (1937) by Paul Pry the first queer city guide?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fall<\/a><\/em> (1967) by Miles Davis | Fall<\/a><\/em> (2011) by The Haxan Cloak | Fall<\/a><\/em> (2014) by The Bug feat. Inga Copeland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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