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Fox Woman (c. 1916) by Bertha Lum<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “Apparently he had been walking though customs\/arrivals with a large cube of weed stuck on the end of his silver Dr Martens and a foot long silver flashlight full of seed, but when they realised who he was, and that today was his 60th birthday, he was released with just a warning.” Radio Lancashire DJ Steve Barker<\/a> remembers the late Lee “Scratch” Perry<\/a>, and links to one of his shows with Perry (and Roger Eagle) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “…it\u2019s the chase itself that shapes the film\u2019s distinctive aesthetic\u2014the under-lit interiors and the sunless and frigid exteriors of the many locations across the city, sites that take the cops well beyond their usual beat, to places both above and below ground.” Chris McGinley<\/a> explains how William Friedkin’s The French Connection<\/em> reinvented (and exploded) the police procedural.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Toibin, who is himself gay, has always extended historical sympathy to sexual outsiders. As he\u2019s written elsewhere, ‘There are no 19th-century ballads about being gay.'” Dwight Garner<\/a> reviews Colm Toibin\u2019s The Magician<\/em>, a novel about Thomas Mann.<\/p>\n Here is the key point: to experience such marvels you have to risk an unsophisticated, even credulous love for corn, and part of that love involves a willingness to submit to what [Phil] Ford calls a \u201cmagical hermeneutics\u201d capable of transforming marginal chunks of pop culture. As he writes in the wonderful 2008 essay<\/a> that inspired the episode, exotica is \u201cless a genre of music than a class of cultural objects that share a characteristic projection of the self across boundaries of space and time.\u201d This makes it essentially psychedelic\u2014\u201cfilm music for daydreams\u201d\u2014and Ford draws out that historical connection in his essay, which argues that while the hippie movement that Nature Boys like Ahbez prophesied looks like a radical rejection of the space-age bachelor pad of ’50s consumerism, tendrils of transcendent yearning link the exotica imaginary to the earnest if stoned mysterioso to come.<\/p>\n Erik Davis<\/a> on Eden Ahbez and Californian exotica<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Edgar Froese<\/a> interviewed on WSHU radio in 1974 where he talks about Tangerine Dream, live performance and the future of electronic music.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dangerous Minds: A momentary lapse of reason…when Dario Argento interviewed Pink Floyd<\/a> in 1987.<\/p>\n \u2022 It’s that man again: John Doran interviews Kevin Martin, aka The Bug<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 David McKenna<\/a> on The Strange World of France, La N\u00f2via & friends.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Tape deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Exotica<\/a><\/em> (1958) by Martin Denny | Exotica Lullaby<\/a><\/em> (1976) by Harry “The Crown” Hosono | Exotica<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Throbbing Gristle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"