{"id":21412,"date":"2022-03-19T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21412"},"modified":"2022-03-19T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:33:47","slug":"weekend-links-613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/03\/19\/weekend-links-613\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 613"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An engraving by Rafael Custos from Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur, In Alchymia<\/a> (1615) by “Father C.R.C.”.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it.” Cormac McCarthy<\/a> responded to a handful of questions from a couple of lucky high-school students. Lithub’s list of McCarthy’s rare public manifestations missed this chatty encounter<\/a> with the Coen Brothers from 2007.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strange Flowers celebrates Rosa Bonheur<\/a>, “the most famous and successful woman artist of the 19th century, dressing in men\u2019s clothing, smoking cigars, riding astride and living openly with female partners.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Secret Between Gentlemen<\/em><\/a> by Peter Jordaan “details a British Government coverup of a gay scandal involving great names. Hidden for 120 years, it is a history that has never been told, and until recently could not be told.”<\/p>\n

[Mark E. Smith] liked HP Lovecraft, whose monster of The Call of Cthulhu<\/em> and The Dunwich Horror<\/em> appears in the song N.W.R.A.<\/em>, \u201cBody a tentacle mess\u201d. He quite liked MR James\u2019 Ghost Stories<\/em>. He liked the more recent, seemingly disgraced, and by then unfashionable, occult fiction of Colin Wilson: The Black Room<\/em> and Ritual in the Dark<\/em>. But He LOVED the writing of early twentieth century Arthur Machen. \u201cMachen\u2019s fucking brilliant.<\/a>\u201d In his autobiography Renegade<\/em> he comments, \u201cHe lives in this alternative world: the real occult\u2019s not in Egypt, but in the pubs of the East End and the stinking boats of the Thames\u2014on your doorstep, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woebot<\/a> goes deep into the grotesque and esoteric worlds of Mark E. Smith and The Fall<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “It sometimes seems as though inn signs are the symbols and the focus of some great alchemical experiment in the landscape of England.” Mark Valentine<\/a> on inn signs and some of the theories about their origins.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…we\u2019re going back into this shipwreck and, you know, pulling out the gold pieces”. Dennis Bovell<\/a> on reworking the Pop Group\u2019s incendiary debut album as Y in Dub<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: A Wendy Carlos mix by Erik DeLuca<\/a> for The Wire<\/em>, and a psychedelic\/post-punk mix by Robert Hampson<\/a> for NTS.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Landscapes<\/em><\/a> is an exhibition of torn-paper collages by Jordan Belson at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “A force entirely of itself”: Robert Fripp<\/a> on the difficult legacy of King Crimson.<\/p>\n

\u2022 White Landscape I<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Douglas Leedy | John Cage: In A Landscape<\/a> <\/em>(1994) performed by Stephen Drury | Primordial Landscape<\/em><\/a> (2013) by Patrick Cowley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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