{"id":22037,"date":"2022-10-01T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22037"},"modified":"2022-10-01T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:00:15","slug":"weekend-links-641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/10\/01\/weekend-links-641\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 641"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For mysterious and eldritch reasons the Republic of Palau has minted a Cthulhu-themed 20 dollar coin<\/a>. Via<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Pre-gap tracks are a CD-specific phenomenon, paralleled only by DVD Easter Eggs, or hidden levels in a computer game. On the one hand, they\u2019re only possible digitally, on the other, they seem to be an attempt to add some mystique to a circle of plastic.” Daryl Worthington<\/a> on the 40th anniversary of the Digital Audio Compact Disc. Regular readers will know that CD has been, and remains, my favourite musical format for reasons I won’t bother arguing here. Related: Wikipedia’s list of albums with tracks hidden in the pregap<\/a>. Also: “There\u2019s endless choice, but you\u2019re not listening”: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Meek’s use of sound effects and swathes of ghostly reverb, woven into seemingly innocuous pop songs and rock and roll instrumentals\u2014as if the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was directed by Phil Spector\u2014created a sense of the sublime and hinted at strange realities beyond our own.” Mark Pilkington<\/a> explores the strange world of Joe Meek.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Structured as a ‘dream within a dream’, the narrative weaves together mythological, biblical, and occult references to construct a universe filled with ruinous landscapes and orgiastic celebrations.” Demetra Vogiatzaki<\/a> on the enigmas, architectural and otherwise, presented by Hypnerotomachia Poliphili<\/em> (1499).<\/p>\n

The man who made this absurd noir was answerable neither to studio nor Shakespeare, but only his own monumental whims. Thus, Mr. Arkadin<\/em> sends Citizen Kane<\/em> (1941) through the looking glass\u2014the action transposed to post\u2013World War II Spain and given a spin somewhere between metaphysics and megalomania…<\/p>\n

If Jean Cocteau\u2019s Orpheus<\/em> recast myth as pulp, Mr. Arkadin<\/em> elevates pulp to myth. It is the most Borgesian of Welles\u2019s movies. Writing in Cahiers du cin\u00e9ma<\/em>, the young Eric Rohmer compared Mr. Arkadin<\/em> to Jules Verne and Fant\u00f4mas: It creates something that is \u00adnearly impossible today: a romantic fiction that involves neither the future nor any removal from one\u2019s usual surroundings…<\/i><\/p>\n

J. Hoberman<\/a> writing in 2006 about Orson Welles’ <\/em>Mr. Arkadin (1955). I was rewatching the film earlier this week in its guise as <\/em>Confidential Report, the version re-edited by its producer to try and create something with greater commercial appeal. I’ve yet to see the recent restoration but even in its butchered form it’s a fascinating piece of work<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Early Cormac McCarthy interviews rediscovered<\/a>: “Between 1968 and 1980, he gave at least 10 interviews to small local papers in Lexington, Kentucky and east Tennessee, a region where he lived and had friends.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: Perceptions<\/em><\/a> by Model Alpha (Jonathan Fitoussi & Julie Freyri), and Epektasis<\/em><\/a> by Nicklas Barker.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dreams of Space: Books and Ephemera<\/a>; “Non-fiction children’s space flight stuff 1945\u20131975”.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Roget Malot presents…Spirit Photography<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: A mix for The Wire<\/em> by FOQL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022Spirit<\/em><\/a> (1978) by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Mercier | Spirit<\/em><\/a> (1990) by Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart | Spirit Level (Lost In Space)<\/em><\/a> (1992) by Horizon 222<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For mysterious and eldritch reasons the Republic of Palau has minted a Cthulhu-themed 20 dollar coin. Via. \u2022 “Pre-gap tracks are a CD-specific phenomenon, paralleled only by DVD Easter Eggs, or hidden levels in a computer game. On the one hand, they\u2019re only possible digitally, on the other, they seem to be an attempt to … Continue reading “Weekend links 641”<\/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 641","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":[8,2,42,47,4,29,7,22,3,16,12,13,15],"tags":[96,104,12115,12458,3109,9160,12463,12464,3997,9151,12457,12042,12460,955,12459,12461,762,12462],"class_list":["post-22037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-cormac","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","category-science","category-technology","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-cthulhu","tag-daryl-worthington","tag-demetra-vogiatzaki","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-foql","tag-frederic-mercier","tag-horizon-222","tag-j-hoberman","tag-jah-wobbles-invaders-of-the-heart","tag-joe-meek","tag-jonathan-fitoussi","tag-julie-freyri","tag-mark-pilkington","tag-model-alpha","tag-nicklas-barker","tag-orson-welles","tag-roget-malot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037","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=22037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}