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Eden Flag with Solar-Anal Emblems and Hexes (2017) by Elijah Burgher<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 A note for regular readers that I’ll be in London for a couple of days next week, so the weekend post may be delayed by a day, if it arrives at all. I’ll be attending this event<\/a> at The Century Club, Shaftsbury Avenue, a talk about The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic<\/em> which will be published here and in the USA a few days from now. I’m told that copies of the book will be on sale if anyone wishes me to sign a copy.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Published two years before Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s Manifeste du surr\u00e9alisme<\/em> (1924), which delineated the contours of the capital-S Surrealism movement, Les Malheurs<\/em> represents a proto-Surrealist experiment par excellence<\/em>.” Daisy Sainsbury on Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)<\/em><\/a> by Paul \u00c9luard and Max Ernst.<\/p>\n \u2022 “It has been two decades since Japan\u2019s tidying boom began, and the nation remains as cluttered as ever. I know this because I live here.” Matt Alt<\/a> in a long read exploring the Japanese cultivation of clutter. Don’t be shamed by minimalist interiors.<\/p>\n …with the Bumper Book<\/em>, we wanted to present what we hope are lucid, coherent and joined-up ideas on how and why the concept of magic originated and developed over the millennia, a theoretical basis for how it might conceivably work along with suggestions as to how it might practically be employed\u2014and, perhaps most radically, a social reason for magic\u2019s existence as a means of transforming and improving both our individual worlds, and the greater human world of which we are components. And we wanted to deliver this in a way that reflected the colourful, psychedelic, profound and sometimes very funny nature of the magical experience itself. That, we felt, would be the biggest and most useful rabbit to pull out of the near-infinite top hat that we believe magic to be.<\/p>\n Alan Moore<\/a> talking to Rob Salkowitz about the Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 “When it comes to pure cinematic terror The Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/em><\/a> has no equal,” says Mat Colegate. I’d avoid being quite so definitive but it’s a film I’d put in a list of my favourite cinematic horrors.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: See 15 winning images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year<\/a> contest.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Quietus: Lara Rix-Martin<\/a> on the heavy existentialism of Soviet science fiction. Previously: Zone music<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Decimation Of I<\/em><\/a> by Meemo Comma.<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller\u2019s font of the month is Exentrica<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hex<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Gil Mell\u00e9 | Hex<\/em><\/a> (1978) by Jon Hassell | Hexden Channel<\/em><\/a> (2012) by Pye Corner Audio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"