{"id":28737,"date":"2025-09-27T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28737"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:48:22","slug":"weekend-links-797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/09\/27\/weekend-links-797\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 797"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artuk.org\/discover\/artworks\/bloomsbury-roofs-562493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/robertson.jpg\" alt=\"robertson.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nBloomsbury Roofs (no date) by J. Elspeth Robertson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201c<em>Lud Heat<\/em> and <em>Suicide Bridge<\/em>&#8230;are only offshoots of a huge central corpus of mad experimental writing, prose and poetry and just research notes. Pages and pages and pages of this lunacy.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/culture\/books\/a-london-dreaming-iain-sinclairs-lud-heat-at-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iain Sinclair<\/a> describing to Robert Davidson the genesis of his influential poem\/book <em>Lud Heat<\/em>. Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/10\/04\/serious-houses-the-lud-heat-tapes-1979\/\">Serious houses: The Lud Heat Tapes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Criterion Current: Deeper into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8931-deeper-into-altman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Altman<\/a>, a look at five lesser-known films from the director&#8217;s expansive filmography. Good to see <em>Quintet<\/em> receiving some attention, a science-fiction film that&#8217;s not without flaws but is still closer to the written SF of the 1970s than the decade&#8217;s box-office hits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: <a href=\"https:\/\/standardebooks.org\/ebooks\/charles-beaumont\/short-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Short Fiction<\/em><\/a>, by Charles Beaumont.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mix of the week: <a href=\"https:\/\/swamptowers.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/kevin-richard-martin-aka-bug-ambient.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambient Focus 26.06.21<\/a> by Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the BFI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lists\/10-great-films-set-1970s-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rory Doherty<\/a> chooses 10 great films set in 1970s America.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Colossal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/09\/frederic-demeuse-forgotten-places-forests-landscape-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Demeuse<\/a>\u2019s photos of ancient forests.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8935-the-indomitable-claudia-cardinale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claudia Cardinale<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/sep\/24\/from-kate-bush-to-pentangle-to-t-rex-the-late-danny-thompsons-musical-brilliance-knew-no-bounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danny Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/gregweeks.bandcamp.com\/album\/if-the-sun-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>If the Sun Dies<\/em><\/a> by Greg Weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Strange World of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/interviews\/strange-world-of\/rafael-toral-best-albums-interview-semibreve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafael Toral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQitWLiU9b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Silver Forest<\/em><\/a> (1969) by Organisation | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qh-jVXyn5CM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Forest<\/em><\/a> (1980) by The Cure | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fd3yRuO-SmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Forest In The Sky<\/em><\/a> (2024) by Hawksmoor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomsbury Roofs (no date) by J. Elspeth Robertson. \u2022 \u201cLud Heat and Suicide Bridge&#8230;are only offshoots of a huge central corpus of mad experimental writing, prose and poetry and just research notes. Pages and pages and pages of this lunacy.&#8221; Iain Sinclair describing to Robert Davidson the genesis of his influential poem\/book Lud Heat. Related: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/09\/27\/weekend-links-797\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 797&#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 797","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":[8,2,42,7,22,3,12,20],"tags":[4109,14216,14217,14215,14218,12897,218,14214,11271,7012,13785,924,11879,14086,6404,14219],"class_list":["post-28737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-photography","category-science-fiction","tag-charles-beaumont","tag-claudia-cardinale","tag-danny-thompson","tag-frederic-demeuse","tag-greg-weeks","tag-hawksmoor-musician","tag-iain-sinclair","tag-j-elspeth-robertson","tag-kevin-richard-martin","tag-organisation-group","tag-rafael-toral","tag-robert-altman","tag-robert-davidson","tag-rory-doherty","tag-the-bug-musician","tag-the-cure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737","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=28737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}