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In Voluptas Mors (1951) by Philippe Halsman.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Equation to an Unknown<\/em><\/a> (1980) is [Dietrich de Velsa’s] only film, and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece and the best French gay porn ever made.” Related (sort of): the US division of Amazon Prime had been showing a censored print of Francis Lee’s gay romance, God’s Own Country<\/em><\/a>, until the director was informed and complained.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “They lasted just one night as tour support for U2 before being thrown off. The outraged and hostile audience threw bottles of urine. The band responded by throwing iron bars back at them.” Daniel Dylan Wray on the wild times (and cookery) of Blixa Bargeld and Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Japanese art evolved, in Saunders\u2019s words, ‘from a distinctive alchemy of silk, soot, gold, fire, and fur,’ from a playful and curious fascination with the subject matter and tools provided by the natural world.” Tamar Avishai<\/a> on art in isolation: the delicate paintings of Edo Japan.<\/p>\n

To me, the Diggers were a phenomenon. I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s been anything like them in history\u2014yes, history repeats itself, so there probably was somebody at some time, I\u2019m just not aware of it\u2014a situation where you have a group of people whose goal is to help other people, to bring them not just the basic necessities you need to survive but the things that you need for your imagination, your brain, your growth on other levels. It was like an opium dream or something.<\/p>\n

Siena Carlton-Firestone<\/a> (aka Natural Suzanne) talking to Jay Babcock for the fourth installment of Jay’s verbal history of the hippie anarchists<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 A psychic has been ordered to pay the costs of exhuming Salvador Dal\u00ed’s corpse<\/a> for a failed paternity test.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Feel the crushing steel: David Bennun<\/a> on Grace Jones and the Compass Point Trilogy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sleep Tones<\/a><\/em> by Six Organs Of Admittance, name-your-price music for insomniacs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: XLR8R Podcast 645 by Juan MacLean<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Playing the Piano for the Isolated<\/a><\/em> by Ryuichi Sakamoto.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David Lynch Theater presents: Fire (Pozar)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fire<\/a><\/em> (1967) by Koko Taylor | Fire<\/a><\/em> (1984) by 23 Skidoo | Fire<\/a><\/em> (2002) by Ladytron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Voluptas Mors (1951) by Philippe Halsman. \u2022 “Equation to an Unknown (1980) is [Dietrich de Velsa’s] only film, and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece and the best French gay porn ever made.” Related (sort of): the US division of Amazon Prime had been showing a censored print of Francis Lee’s gay romance, … Continue reading “Weekend links 518”<\/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":[2,29,7,5,3,12,14,18],"tags":[5255,559,10629,9176,9589,265,10627,2826,10628,2236,1801,10632,3737,4210,11007,5290,1412,87,10631,3932,10630],"class_list":["post-19669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-photography","category-politics","category-surrealism","tag-23-skidoo","tag-alchemy","tag-blixa-bargeld","tag-daniel-dylan-wray","tag-david-bennun","tag-david-lynch","tag-dietrich-de-velsa","tag-einsturzende-neubauten","tag-francis-lee","tag-grace-jones","tag-jay-babcock","tag-juan-maclean","tag-koko-taylor","tag-ladytron","tag-opium","tag-philippe-halsman","tag-ryuichi-sakamoto","tag-salvador-dali","tag-siena-carlton-firestone","tag-six-organs-of-admittance","tag-tamar-avishai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-57f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669","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=19669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}