{"id":20226,"date":"2020-12-05T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20226"},"modified":"2020-12-05T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:19:52","slug":"weekend-links-546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/12\/05\/weekend-links-546\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 546"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostbox.co.uk\/news\/cosmorama-pre-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cosmorama.jpg\" alt=\"cosmorama.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The next release on the Ghost Box label, <a href=\"https:\/\/ghostbox.co.uk\/news\/cosmorama-pre-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmorama<\/a> is &#8220;tropicalia tinged psychedelic dream pop&#8221; by Beautify Junkyards. The album will be available in January. Design, as always, is by Julian House.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reading a review of John Gray&#8217;s <em>Straw Dogs<\/em> several years ago I remember thinking facetiously that Gray should write a follow-up about cats. (<em>Straw Dogs<\/em> isn&#8217;t a book about dogs.) The joke is on me with the publication of Gray&#8217;s latest, <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/house-cats-and-wild-cats-arent-actually-that-different\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life<\/em><\/a>. I should set up as a literary agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All you need is doom: <a href=\"https:\/\/myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Plague Notes, Unnamed, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through Dust<\/em><\/a>, the debut album from My Heart, an Inverted Flame, is released on the 11th of this month. &#8220;Absolutely NO guitars were used in the casting of these drone metal voidscapes.&#8221; Excellent work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What a difference a week makes: &#8220;A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/05\/utah-monolith-who-made-it-mysteries-questions\" target=\"_blank\">Utah monolith<\/a> enchanted millions and then it was gone, leaving mysteries behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 En Pleine Mer: The underwater landscapes of <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/underwater-landscapes-of-eugen-von-ransonnet-villez\" target=\"_blank\">Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez<\/a>, 1867.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Imaginative drawings of travel during a pandemic lockdown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2020\/12\/03\/oscar-oiwa-quarantine-drawings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Oiwa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The beauty of starling murmurations as photographed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2020\/dec\/05\/the-beauty-of-starling-murmurations-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00f8ren Solk\u00e6r<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cosmic Dancer: <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/29307-michael-clark-cosmic-dancer-barbican\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Finney<\/a> on the strange world of Michael Clark.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mix of the week: Invaders by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/The_Ephemeral_Man\/invaders\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ephemeral Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QA513dYG700\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cosmos<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Bruno Menny | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2IbenLMO4zI\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gliding Thru The Cosmophonic Dome<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Bernard Xolotl | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PI1YqORL5Cs\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Radio Cosmos<\/em><\/a> (1981) by Ippu-Do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next release on the Ghost Box label, Cosmorama is &#8220;tropicalia tinged psychedelic dream pop&#8221; by Beautify Junkyards. 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