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Red Parrot on the Branch of a Tree (c.1771) by Ito Jakuchu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Reporter John Stapleton (later a fixture of BBC TV) visits the Portobello Road offices of British underground newspaper<\/a> Frendz<\/em> for newsreel service British Path\u00e9. The date says 1969 but it’s probably 1971 since earlier that year <\/em>the magazine had changed its name from Friends<\/em>. Among the unidentified interviewees is Rosie Boycott, later the founder of Britain’s first feminist magazine, Spare Rib<\/em>, and now Baroness Boycott. She may have predicted the former in 1971 but I doubt she would have expected a seat in the House of Lords.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Expanding Mind: Erik Davis talks with martial artist and psilocybin explorer Kilindi Iyi<\/a> about African martial arts, high dose psilocybin work, African-American psychedelia,\u00a0Dr. Strange<\/em>, and the metaphysics of darkness.<\/p>\n \u2022 Bloom<\/a>, the generative music app by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, is given a tenth-anniversary relaunch this month. The new app will also (finally) be available for Android as well as Apple machines.<\/p>\n Early on, I realized my interest in [William] Burroughs\u2019 work was less to do with the cut-up novels and more with the documented research and investigation of the human condition, technology, control, travel, dreams, drug culture, shamanism, and Hassan-I Sabbah. Books like The Job, The Electronic Revolution<\/em> and especially, The Third Mind<\/em> with Brion Gysin were particularly important to me. […] As for integrating Burroughs\u2019 work into the music, it\u2019s not about the history of a literary collaboration, but rather the complete fusion in a praxis of two subjectivities that metamorphosize into a third. From this collusion, a new author emerges\u2014an absent third person, invisible and beyond reach, recording the silence.<\/p>\n From 2017: Bill Laswell<\/a> in a satisfyingly lengthy interview with Anil Prasad<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Secret Satan, 2018<\/a>: being the annual Strange Flowers “round-up of giftable cultural history with which you can unmistakably signal your degenerate cosmopolitan values”.<\/p>\n \u2022 Laurie Spiegel’s second album of electronic music, Unseen Worlds<\/em>, was never given a proper release in 1990. This situation will be rectified in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 272 by Paulie Jan<\/a>, and XLR8R Influences Podcast 12 by Ripperton<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 More Gorey: biographer Mark Dery and design historian Steven Heller<\/a> discuss Edward Gorey’s life and work.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rumsey Taylor<\/a> on Roger Excoffon’s Choc<\/a>, “the mystery font that took over New York”.<\/p>\n \u2022 More Nicolas Roeg: David Thompson<\/a> on one of Britain’s greatest film directors.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Waters<\/a> picks his films of the year.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Bernardo Bertolucci<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 In Bloom<\/a><\/em> (1991) by Nirvana | Bloom<\/a><\/em> (2001) by Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm | Violet Bloom<\/a><\/em> (2010) by John Foxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"