{"id":23557,"date":"2023-09-30T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2023-09-30T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:00:09","slug":"weekend-links-693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/09\/30\/weekend-links-693\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 693"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imaginary (no date) by Sidney Sime.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Victor Rees was in touch this week to alert me to a one-off screening of The Gourmet<\/em> (previously<\/a>), a cult TV drama from 1986 written by Kazuo Ishiguro and directed by Michael Whyte. The screening, which will take place at Swedenborg House<\/a>, London, on 16th October, is one of a series of retrospective events<\/a> based around an exhibition from 1974, Albion Island Vortex<\/em>, by Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. The film, which is connected to Sinclair’s oeuvre by its use of one of the Hawksmoor churches, will be followed by a Q&A session with Sinclair and Michael Whyte. The screening is free but places are limited so prior booking is required.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Alongside his thieves and vagabonds, Hotten includes religious slang, public schoolboy slang, pirate slang, equine stable slang, phrases coined by Dr. Johnson, the slang of softened oaths, workmen\u2019s slang, stagehand slang, shopkeeper\u2019s slang, and dozens of other argots.” Hunter Dukes on A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words<\/em><\/a> (1860) by John Camden Hotten.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Night Land<\/em><\/a>, William Hope Hodgson’s “Dying Earth” doorstop, is republished in an abridged version as part of MIT Press’s Radium Age series<\/a>, “proto\u2013science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935”. All the reprints come with new introductions, the one for Hodgson being by Erik Davis.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “My partner wanted me to stop buying lava lamps. It was an expensive hobby, and we were running out of room in our apartment.” Nora Claire Miller<\/a> on the lure of the lava lamp. I only own a single one but I appreciate the obsessive attraction.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rambalac takes his roaming camera for a walk through teamLab Planets<\/a>, Tokyo, a labyrinthine exhibition featuring plenty of water (and wet feet), and a moss garden filled with large silver eggs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Strange Flowers: An examination of the connections between the self-mythologising Marie Corelli and her fictional counterparts in the Mapp and Lucia novels of EF Benson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: Cabarets of Death<\/em><\/a>, a book about the otherworldly cabarets of Montmartre by Mel Gordon, edited by Joanna Ebenstein.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The Secret Glory<\/em><\/a> by Arthur Machen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 10 essential Japanese reggae releases<\/a> selected by Kay Suzuki.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: A Fact Mix by Venus Ex Machina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Modern Art in Mid-Century Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Michael Gambon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Planet Caravan<\/em><\/a> (1970) by Black Sabbath | Planet Queen<\/em><\/a> (1971) by T. Rex | Oszillator Planet Concert<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Tangerine Dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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