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I Live in Shock (1955) by Mimi Parent<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: “Ben Hecht\u2019s Fantazius Mallare<\/em> (1922) is at turns obtuse, grotesque, and moralizing\u2014and sought to provoke the obscenity trial of the century. Only it didn\u2019t, quietly vanishing instead. Colin Dickey<\/a> rereads this failed satire, finding a transcendent rhythm pulsing beneath the novel\u2019s indulgent prose.”<\/p>\n \u2022 “There are no surprises when a pallet of CDs arrives at my office, but when a pressing plant alerts me to a shipment of records headed my way I start to worry.” John Brien<\/a>, head of Important Records, on the problems involved in the manufacture of vinyl albums.<\/p>\n \u2022 The sixth installment of Smoky Man\u2019s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic<\/em> has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi)<\/a>.<\/p>\n They were building a vast alternative religion with a lack of dictates but no shortage of rituals and icons. They\u2019d pass through the end of the world to get there first; the next album was based on a vision of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse slaughtering their animals and constructing a earth-gouging machine from their jawbones, demonstrating they weren\u2019t quite intending to settle down yet. It would take them far from mainstream culture, and indeed mainstream gay culture given their repeated disdain for sanitised queerness, and into enigmatic territory. Having scared away most fans of synth pop and industrial with provocation, and the weak and tyrannical with ambiguity, they were unencumbered and \u201callowed to mature in the dark\u201d, sustained by a cult following (you rarely encounter a tepid fan of Coil, most are acolytes).<\/p>\n Darran Anderson<\/a> looking back at Coil’s debut album, Scatology<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 At Smithsonian Magazine: See 15 winning images from the Close-Up Photographer of the Year Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At The Daily Heller: How did pink become a colour?<\/a> Meanwhile, Steven Heller’s font of the month is Vibro<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds<\/em><\/a> by Lawrence English.<\/p>\n \u2022 SciURLs<\/a>: A science news aggregator.<\/p>\n \u2022 Shackleton\u2019s favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Marianne Faithfull<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Pink Panther Theme<\/em><\/a> (1963) by Henry Mancini | The Pink Room<\/em><\/a> (1988) by Seigen Ono | Pink<\/em><\/a> (2005) by Boris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Live in Shock (1955) by Mimi Parent. \u2022 At Public Domain Review: “Ben Hecht\u2019s Fantazius Mallare (1922) is at turns obtuse, grotesque, and moralizing\u2014and sought to provoke the obscenity trial of the century. Only it didn\u2019t, quietly vanishing instead. 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