{"id":19035,"date":"2019-02-24T01:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19035"},"modified":"2019-02-24T01:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:09:15","slug":"weekend-links-453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/02\/24\/weekend-links-453\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 453"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/andrew-mccarthy-lunar-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mccarthy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mccarthy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Moon photographed by <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/andrew-mccarthy-lunar-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Top twenties of the week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/feb\/21\/top-20-japanese-horror-films-ranked\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Billson<\/a> on 20 of the best (recent) Japanese horror films, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2019\/02\/19\/the-20-best-new-age-albums\/\" target=\"_blank\">Britt Brown<\/a>&#8216;s suggestions for 20 of the best New Age albums. (I&#8217;d recommend <em>Journey To The Edge Of The Universe<\/em> as the best from Upper Astral.) Related to the latter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/feb\/19\/lullabies-for-air-conditioners-the-corporate-bliss-of-japanese-ambient\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Needham<\/a> on lullabies for air conditioners: the corporate bliss of Japanese ambient.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Expanding Mind: Erik Davis talks with writer and ultraculture wizard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techgnosis.com\/daimonic-conversations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Louv<\/a> about occult history, reality tunnels, his\u00a0<em>John Dee and the Empire of Angels<\/em>\u00a0book, Aleister Crowley\u2019s secret Christianity, and the apocalyptic RPG the West can\u2019t seem to escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;It\u2019s like someone looked at the vinyl revival and said: what this needs is lower sound quality and even less convenience.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/feb\/23\/cassette-tape-music-revival-retro-chic-rewind\" target=\"_blank\">Cassette tapes<\/a> are back&#8230;again. But is anyone playing them?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 280 by <a href=\"https:\/\/secretthirteen.org\/stm-280-o-yuki-conjugate\/\" target=\"_blank\">O Yuki Conjugate<\/a>, Bleep Mix #53 by <a href=\"https:\/\/bleep.com\/Bleep-Mix-53--Pye-Corner-Audio\" target=\"_blank\">Pye Corner Audio<\/a>, and 1980 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/The_Ephemeral_Man\/1980\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The fifth edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/wyrddaze.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wyrd Daze<\/em><\/a>\u2014\u201dThe multimedia zine of speculative fiction + extra-ordinary music, art &amp; writing\u201d\u2014is out now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/midianbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Midian Books<\/a> has a new website for its stock of occult publications and related esoterica.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2019\/02\/19\/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Sinker<\/a> on three decades of cross-cultural Utopianism in British music writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s: <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/nastassja-kinski-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nastassja Kinski<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Cusq22fMaQ\" target=\"_blank\">Utopia No. 1<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Utopia | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZwfrKf0FUyY\" target=\"_blank\">Utopia<\/a><\/em> (2000) by Goldfrapp | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ijdjjLqlFy4\" target=\"_blank\">Utopian Facade<\/a><\/em> (2016) by John Carpenter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon photographed by Andrew McCarthy. \u2022 Top twenties of the week: Anne Billson on 20 of the best (recent) Japanese horror films, and Britt Brown&#8216;s suggestions for 20 of the best New Age albums. (I&#8217;d recommend Journey To The Edge Of The Universe as the best from Upper Astral.) Related to the latter: Jack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/02\/24\/weekend-links-453\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 453&#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":[2,42,29,7,22,3,16,12],"tags":[391,9939,4179,9940,3109,1686,5154,9941,5594,680,766,8340,8167,9942,9512,4222,5321,8324,9943,5379],"class_list":["post-19035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-andrew-mccarthy","tag-anne-billson","tag-britt-brown","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-erik-davis","tag-goldfrapp","tag-jack-needham","tag-jason-louv","tag-john-carpenter","tag-john-dee","tag-mark-sinker","tag-midian-books","tag-nastassja-kinski","tag-o-yuki-conjugate","tag-pye-corner-audio","tag-the-ephemeral-man","tag-upper-astral","tag-utopia-group","tag-wyrd-daze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4X1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035","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=19035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}