{"id":28383,"date":"2025-08-30T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28383"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:36:19","slug":"weekend-links-793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/08\/30\/weekend-links-793\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 793"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mokuhanga1.com\/sekino-junichiro\/artwork\/shinagawa-tokyo-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/junichiro.jpg\" alt=\"junichiro.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Shinagawa, Tokyo Tower (Tokaido Station 1) (1967) by Sekino Jun\u2019ichiro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;The historical figures who interested [Cormac] McCarthy the most, judging by the number of books he owned about them, were Albert Einstein (114 books), Winston Churchill (88) and James Joyce (78). Architecture is the dominant subject in the collection, with 855 books. The human being whom McCarthy most admired, Dennis confirms, was Ludwig Wittgenstein. The team catalogued a staggering 142 books by or about the philosopher, with a high proportion annotated.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Grant<\/a> for Smithsonian Magazine reports on the cataloguing of Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s personal library.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Real City of the Future: a long read by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-real-city-of-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles T. Rubin<\/a> taking in William Gibson&#8217;s urban fictions and Paolo Soleri&#8217;s towering Arcologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Colossal: &#8220;Atmospheric oil paintings by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/08\/martin-wittfooth-deux-ex-terra-animals-oil-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Wittfooth<\/a> illuminate nature\u2019s timeless cycles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Old music: <a href=\"https:\/\/clockdva.bandcamp.com\/album\/white-souls-in-black-suits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>White Souls In Black Suits<\/em><\/a> by Clock DVA, receiving its first reissue since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the BFI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/features\/where-begin-with-sergei-parajanov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmen Gray<\/a> on where to begin with Sergei Parajanov.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon: The art of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon.blog\/2025\/08\/28\/sekino-junichiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sekino Jun\u2019ichiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s: <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/unica-zurn-day-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unica Z\u00fcrn<\/a> Day (restored and expanded).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com\/album\/imploded-versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Imploded Versions<\/em><\/a> by The Bug vs. Ghost Dubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Strange World of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/strange-world-of\/the-strange-world-of-van-morrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Morrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/bakers-dozen\/dev-hynes-blood-orange-favourite-albums-essex-honey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dev Hynes\u2019 favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/davidvantieghem.bandcamp.com\/track\/carnival-of-souls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Carnival Of Souls<\/em><\/a> (1989) by David Van Tieghem | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QpDws96Lu5U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>All Souls<\/em><\/a> (1989) by Opal | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jkLngVs8OyA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cult Of Souls<\/a><\/em> (2011) by The Wounded Kings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinagawa, Tokyo Tower (Tokaido Station 1) (1967) by Sekino Jun\u2019ichiro. \u2022 &#8220;The historical figures who interested [Cormac] McCarthy the most, judging by the number of books he owned about them, were Albert Einstein (114 books), Winston Churchill (88) and James Joyce (78). Architecture is the dominant subject in the collection, with 855 books. The human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/08\/30\/weekend-links-793\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 793&#8221;<\/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 793","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":[8,2,42,51,47,21,7,3,44,20],"tags":[13888,14164,4248,96,5222,14167,13554,2205,7214,4688,14163,14165,400,6404,7398,1338,14166,1757],"class_list":["post-28383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-cormac","category-fantasy","category-film","category-music","category-painting","category-science-fiction","tag-carmen-gray","tag-charles-t-rubin","tag-clock-dva","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-david-van-tieghem","tag-dev-hynes","tag-ghost-dubs","tag-martin-wittfooth","tag-opal-group","tag-paolo-soleri","tag-richard-grant","tag-sekino-junichiro","tag-sergei-parajanov","tag-the-bug-musician","tag-the-wounded-kings","tag-unica-zurn","tag-van-morrison","tag-william-gibson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7nN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28383","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=28383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}