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Cover for the 1970 US edition of Moonchild by Aleister Crowley. No artist credited (unless you know better…). Update:<\/strong> The artist is Dugald Stewart Walker, and the drawing is from a 1914 edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales<\/a>. Thanks to Mr TjZ! \u2022 “…a very mid-Seventies cauldron of Cold War technology, ESP, sociology, black magic and white magic, experimental science and standing stones, secret radar and satanic rituals, whirring aerials and wild moors: a seething potion of Wyndham and Wheatley.” Mark Valentine<\/a> on The Twelve Maidens<\/em>, a novel by Stewart Farrar.<\/p>\n \u2022 “The line in the song ‘feed your head’ is both about reading and psychedelics. I was talking about feeding your head by paying attention: read some books, pay attention.” Grace Slick<\/a> explains why those three little words have been attached to these pages since 2006.<\/p>\n \u2022 Freddie deBoer<\/a> reposted his “Planet of Cops” polemic, a piece I linked to when it first appeared in 2017, and which used to come to mind all the time before I absented myself from the poisonous sump of negativity that we call social media.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Charlie Watts<\/a>. The Rolling Stones’ last moment of psychedelic strangeness is Child Of The Moon<\/em><\/a>, a promo film by Michael Lindsay-Hogg featuring an uncredited Eileen Atkins and Sylvia Coleridge.<\/p>\n \u2022 Old music: A live performance by John Coltrane and ensemble<\/a> of A Love Supreme<\/em> from Seattle in 1965 that’s somehow managed to remain unreleased until now.<\/p>\n \u2022 A short film about Suzanne Cianni<\/a> which sees her creating electronic sounds and music for the Xenon pinball machine in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n \u2022 “I\u2019ll be in another world”: A rediscovered interview with Jorge Luis Borges<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller<\/a> explains why Magnat is his font of the month.<\/p>\n \u2022 Clive Hicks-Jenkins<\/a> on the allure of toy theatre.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Vexed<\/em><\/a> by The Bug ft. Moor Mother.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Nikola Tesla Festschrift<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Moon Child<\/a><\/em> (1964) by The Ventures | Moonchild<\/a><\/em> (1969) by King Crimson | Moonchild<\/a><\/em> (1992) by Shakespears Sister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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