{"id":19435,"date":"2019-12-29T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19435"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:33:52","slug":"weekend-links-497","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/12\/29\/weekend-links-497\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 497"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poster by Zden\u011bk Ziegler for Roma (1972), a film by Federico Fellini.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: a short history of Straight to Hell<\/em><\/a>, a long-running fanzine launched by Boyd McDonald in 1971 dedicated to true stories of men having sex with other men. The post gives an idea of the contents but for a deep dive I’d suggest Meat<\/em><\/a> (1994) at the Internet Archive, a collection of the best of the early editions of STH<\/em>. Related: “Straight to Hell <\/i>was an immensely popular underground publication. John Waters, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Mapplethorpe were fans; Gore Vidal called it ‘one of the best radical papers in the country.'” Erin Sheehy<\/a> on Boyd McDonald’s determination to kick against the pricks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP psychedelic voyager and spiritual guide Richard Alpert\/(Baba) Ram Dass<\/a>. The Alpert\/Ram Dass bibliography includes The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/em><\/a> (1964), an acid-trip manual written in collaboration with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner from which John Lennon borrowed lines for the lyrics of Tomorrow Never Knows<\/em>. But the most celebrated Ram Dass volume is Be Here Now<\/em><\/a> (1971), a fixture of countless hippy bookshelves whose first editions were all handmade.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “An Einstein among Neanderthals”: the tragic prince of LA counterculture. Gabriel Szatan<\/a> talks to David Lynch, Devo and others about the eccentric songwriter, performer and voice of Lynch’s Lady in the Radiator, Peter Ivers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 For the forthcoming centenary of Federico Fellini’s birth Stephen Puddicombe<\/a>\u00a0offers suggestions for where to begin with the director’s “exuberant extravaganzas”. Related: Samuel Wigley<\/a> on 8\u00bd films inspired by 8\u00bd<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I met resident Tony Notarberardino for the first time in 2015 and entering his apartment was like crossing into another dimension.” Collin Miller<\/a> explores the Chelsea Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “More green tea, professor?” The haunted academic, a reading list by Peter Meinertzhagen<\/a>. Related: Our Haunted Year: 2019 by Swan River Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “30 July, Yorkshire<\/em>. Thunder, which is somehow\u00a0old-fashioned.” Alan Bennett’s 2019 diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 More acid trips: Joan Harvey<\/a> on the resurgence of interest in psychedelic drugs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Lithub: Werner Herzog’s prose script for Nosferatu the Vampyre<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tief gesunken<\/em><\/a>, a new recording by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Heaven<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Tuxedomoon | Die Nacht Der Himmel<\/em><\/a> (1979) by Popol Vuh | Roma<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Steve Lacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poster by Zden\u011bk Ziegler for Roma (1972), a film by Federico Fellini. \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: a short history of Straight to Hell, a long-running fanzine launched by Boyd McDonald in 1971 dedicated to true stories of men having sex with other men. The post gives an idea of the contents but for a deep … Continue reading “Weekend links 497”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2,42,4,851,29,7,5,22,43,3,17],"tags":[1012,2028,7777,10394,265,3109,9252,10389,6674,10391,3918,10396,325,1812,3439,7701,10395,1900,5953,10390,5954,1185,8413,10392,6264,10388,8228,578,10393,1611,611,1190,10279],"class_list":["post-19435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-magazines","category-music","category-psychedelia","tag-alan-bennett","tag-bohren-der-club-of-gore","tag-boyd-mcdonald","tag-collin-miller","tag-david-lynch","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-devo","tag-erin-sheehy","tag-federico-fellini","tag-gabriel-szatan-talks","tag-gore-vidal","tag-joan-harvey","tag-john-lennon","tag-john-waters","tag-nosferatu","tag-peter-ivers","tag-peter-meinertzhagen","tag-popol-vuh","tag-ralph-metzner","tag-ram-dass","tag-richard-alpert","tag-robert-mapplethorpe","tag-samuel-wigley","tag-stephen-puddicombe","tag-steve-lacy","tag-straight-to-hell","tag-swan-river-press","tag-timothy-leary","tag-tony-notarberardino","tag-tuxedomoon","tag-werner-herzog","tag-william-burroughs","tag-zdenek-ziegler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-53t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435","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=19435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}