{"id":21167,"date":"2021-12-11T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:54:41","slug":"weekend-links-599","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/12\/11\/weekend-links-599\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 599"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/achilleos-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/achilleos.jpg\" alt=\"achilleos.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taarna by Chris Achilleos for Heavy Metal, September 1981. A typical piece by Achilleos, whose death was announced this week, and very typical for a Heavy Metal cover. Achilleos was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/ea.cgi?56901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a prolific illustrator<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bn91mW2XLn8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Truth, the Glow, the Fall (Live At Montreux)<\/em><\/a> by Anna von Hausswolff, from her forthcoming album, <em>Live At Montreux Jazz Festival<\/em>. The last gig I went to was in October 2019, to see Sunn O))) supported by Anna von Hausswolff. Easily one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever experienced. Meanwhile, Anna von Hausswolff has had to cancel a Paris church concert following protests by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/dec\/08\/anna-von-hausswolff-paris-show-cancelled-amid-catholic-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rabble of outraged Catholics<\/a>. <em>Bravo les cr\u00e9tins!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;&#8230;it is easy to forget that Montesquiou\u2014regardless of his own work\u2014was not merely <em>emblematic<\/em> of Decadence, he was essentially patient zero in its viral spread.&#8221; Strange Flowers explores the exquisite life of the bat-obsessed, hydrangea-cultivating <a href=\"https:\/\/strangeflowers.wordpress.com\/2021\/12\/11\/merely-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert de Montesquiou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Kotatsu have been around longer than we imagine. And art history has the proof.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2021\/12\/09\/kotatsu-ukiyoe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spoon &amp; Tamago<\/a> on an old Japanese method for warming a room during winter. Also further evidence that cats always find the warmest place in any house.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/mine-for-yours-my-favorite-fiction-poetry-non-fiction-music-film-art-and-internet-of-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dennis Cooper<\/a>\u2018s favourite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2021. Thanks again for the link here!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em>The Wire<\/em> magazine has opened its collection of articles by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/in-writing\/the-portal\/the-portal-greg-tate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Tate<\/a> so they may be read by non-subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Neil Bartlett is a gay writer\u2019s gay writer,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/dec\/10\/address-book-by-neil-bartlett-review-reflections-on-gay-london-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Atherton Lin<\/a> reviewing Bartlett&#8217;s latest, <em>Address Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 James Balmont on the psychedelic cinema of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/13750\/the-psychedelic-cinema-of-japanese-auteur-nobuhiko-obayashi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nobuhiko Obayashi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Steven Heller&#8217;s font of the month is <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2021\/12\/07\/steven-hellers-font-of-the-month-erotique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erotique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2021\/dec\/07\/northern-lights-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern lights photographer of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Strange World of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/30919-takuroku-cafe-oto-best-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Takuroku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-59588953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie Shakespeare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Robbie Shakespeare&#8217;s bass x 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxAl3Jijs20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown<\/em><\/a> (1974) by Augustus Pablo | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JUkOosHeXag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nightclubbing<\/a><\/em> (1981) by Grace Jones | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ky07dqq4d-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bass And Trouble<\/em><\/a> (1985) by Sly &amp; Robbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taarna by Chris Achilleos for Heavy Metal, September 1981. A typical piece by Achilleos, whose death was announced this week, and very typical for a Heavy Metal cover. Achilleos was a prolific illustrator. \u2022 New music: The Truth, the Glow, the Fall (Live At Montreux) by Anna von Hausswolff, from her forthcoming album, Live At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/12\/11\/weekend-links-599\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 599&#8221;<\/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":"New blog post: Weekend links 599","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":[2,42,21,7,5,48,43,3,12,17,31,10],"tags":[7805,7347,3773,3109,2236,1462,9424,10609,11945,7346,4168,10565,11946,2042,10771,1536,2147,10727],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-film","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-photography","category-psychedelia","category-religion","category-typography","tag-anna-von-hausswolff","tag-augustus-pablo","tag-chris-achilleos","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-grace-jones","tag-greg-tate","tag-heavy-metal-magazine","tag-james-balmont","tag-jeremy-atherton-lin","tag-king-tubby","tag-neil-bartlett","tag-nobuhiko-obayashi","tag-robbie-shakespeare","tag-robert-de-montesquiou","tag-sly-robbie","tag-steven-heller","tag-sunn-o","tag-the-wire-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167","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=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}