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A symmetrical ink blot from Gobolinks, or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old<\/a> (1896) by Ruth McEnery Stuart & Albert Bigelow Paine, a book where the blots are much more interesting than the interpretative verses that accompany them.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “…within a year, they were on The Tube<\/em>, performing their German-language extrapolation of Throbbing Gristle\u2019s Discipline<\/em> to a visibly nonplussed audience.” Alexis Petridis on the return of Propaganda<\/a>. The group’s debut album, A Secret Wish<\/em> (previously<\/a>), has long been an obscure object of desire round here.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Alan White<\/a>, drummer in Yes for much of the 1970s (see Sound Chaser<\/em><\/a> for details), and also\u2014although nobody mentioned this at the time\u2014the originator of the drum sounds sampled on a Fairlight for Beat Box<\/em><\/a> by the Art Of Noise.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “For the anthropologist Stewart Guthrie, pareidolia<\/em> is not a fringe phenomenon: it is at the core of religious experience.” Hunter Dukes<\/a> on the interpretation of ink blots.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “…self-righteousness is the one thing that I don\u2019t agree with,” says John Waters<\/a>. “We used humour to fight when I was young.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: October Cut Up<\/em><\/a> by Black Glass Ensemble, and New Witness<\/em><\/a> by Michael Begg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Also RIP Shiv Kumar Sharma<\/a>, master of the santoor.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Scientists recreate Cleopatra’s favourite perfume.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Simon Fisher Turner’s favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Len Lye<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cleopatra’s Barge<\/a><\/em> (1962) by Alex North | Cleopatra’s Needle<\/em><\/a> (1963) by Ahab And The Wailers | Cleopatra King Size<\/em><\/a> (2002) by Jah Wobble & Temple Of Sound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A symmetrical ink blot from Gobolinks, or Shadow Pictures for Young and Old (1896) by Ruth McEnery Stuart & Albert Bigelow Paine, a book where the blots are much more interesting than the interpretative verses that accompany them. \u2022 “…within a year, they were on The Tube, performing their German-language extrapolation of Throbbing Gristle\u2019s Discipline … Continue reading “Weekend links 623”<\/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 623","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":[49,52,2,42,29,7,3,31,13],"tags":[12259,12252,12251,12258,5187,12254,3109,11998,8149,1812,850,12255,2630,12250,12256,12257,12253,4025,512,5017],"class_list":["post-21610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-religion","category-science","tag-ahab-and-the-wailers","tag-alan-white","tag-albert-bigelow-paine","tag-alex-north","tag-alexis-petridis","tag-black-glass-ensemble","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-hunter-dukes","tag-jah-wobble-temple-of-sound","tag-john-waters","tag-len-lye","tag-michael-begg","tag-propaganda-group","tag-ruth-mcenery-stuart","tag-shiv-kumar-sharma","tag-simon-fisher-turner","tag-stewart-guthrie","tag-the-art-of-noise","tag-throbbing-gristle","tag-yes-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610","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=21610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}