{"id":18866,"date":"2018-09-30T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18866"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:31:38","slug":"weekend-links-432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/09\/30\/weekend-links-432\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 432"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tokyo at night, one of a series of watercolours depicting the back streets of the city by Mateusz Urbanowicz<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “The experience of reading the book is something like watching Dr. Strangelove<\/em> on one screen, Apocalypse Now<\/em> on a second screen, and having both feeds interrupted by explicit gay erotica.” Bad Books For Bad People<\/a> examines William Burroughs’ celebrated YA novel, The Wild Boys<\/em>. The subject is a perennial one here, explored at length in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lindsay Anderson’s The White Bus<\/em> (1967), a surreal precursor to If….<\/em> and O Lucky Man!<\/em>, will receive the high-quality BFI reissue treatment as part of the Woodfall Films portmanteau feature, Red, White and Zero<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Radiophonic Workshop have composed the score for Possum<\/em>, a horror film by Matthew Holness. The main title theme is here<\/a>. The film is released later next month.<\/p>\n

Might I have written a sober affair, had I not been under the influence? Perhaps not\u2014I have never needed tramadol to be attended by angels, or to feel demons pricking my feet. But I think of Vincent van Gogh, who looked at the world through the yellowish haze conveyed by digitalis, and grew enraptured by sunflowers and straw chairs, and I think of a glass prism through which a beam of white light passes and is split into a rainbow. What had been a single lucid idea had passed through the drugs I took and been dispersed into a spectrum of colours I had only half foreseen.<\/p>\n

Sarah Perry<\/a> on trying to write while besieged by bodily pain and prescription drugs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Jacques Tourneur’s masterful MR James adaptation, Night of the Demon<\/em><\/a> (1957), is released on region-free Blu-ray next month by Powerhouse Films.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT mix 673 is The Bug presents PRESSURE<\/a>, and XLR8R Podcast 561 by Zendid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Space Shifters<\/em><\/a> exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, messes with Adrian Searle<\/a>‘s mind.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gregory Wells<\/a> on queers, faeries and revolutionaries in the psychedelic movement.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wide Boys<\/a><\/em> (1977) by Ultravox! | On Demon Wings<\/a><\/em> (2000) by\u00a0Bohren & Der Club Of Gore | Spoonful<\/a><\/em> (2013) by Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo at night, one of a series of watercolours depicting the back streets of the city by Mateusz Urbanowicz. \u2022 “The experience of reading the book is something like watching Dr. Strangelove on one screen, Apocalypse Now on a second screen, and having both feeds interrupted by explicit gay erotica.” Bad Books For Bad People … Continue reading “Weekend links 432”<\/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":[8,2,42,28,51,851,29,7,5,22,3,44,17,20,41],"tags":[8636,2088,9710,3517,2028,9715,181,4299,1123,9709,9712,773,194,1887,9716,9713,6404,6261,2210,1190,9711,9714],"class_list":["post-18866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-burroughs","category-cities","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","category-science-fiction","category-sculpture","tag-adrian-searle","tag-apocalypse-now","tag-bad-books-for-bad-people","tag-bfi","tag-bohren-der-club-of-gore","tag-gregory-wells","tag-if","tag-jacques-tourneur","tag-lindsay-anderson","tag-mateusz-urbanowicz","tag-matthew-holness","tag-mr-james","tag-radiophonic-workshop","tag-robert-plant","tag-robert-plant-and-the-sensational-space-shifters","tag-sarah-perry","tag-the-bug-musician","tag-the-wild-boys","tag-ultravox","tag-william-burroughs","tag-woodfall-films","tag-zendid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Ui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18866","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=18866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}