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The Creative Power of the Spirit, No. 31 of A Goodly Company series, 1920\u20131933 by Ethel le Rossignol.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying”: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis<\/a>. More gay porn: Pink Narcissus<\/em><\/a>, James Bidgood’s micro-budget homoerotic fantasy, will receive a UK blu-ray release later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Old music: Thirst<\/em><\/a> by Clock DVA gets a very welcome reissue later this year, having been unavailable in any form since 1992. I’m not so happy about the changes to Neville Brody’s original cover design<\/a> but the album itself is a major post-punk statement.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cGraphic design was thought to be a man\u2019s discipline,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I think it was quite a surprise for people to find me there.\u201d A profile of Margaret Calvert<\/a>, designer of (among other things) Britain’s road signs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Colossal: A major survey in Paris chronicles Leonora Carrington\u2019s esoteric Surrealism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Public Domain Review: Sara Weiss\u2019 Journeys to the Planet Mars<\/em><\/a> (1903).<\/p>\n

\u2022 At the BFI: The mystery music video for The Beatles\u2019 Penny Lane<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Winners and entrants for Close-up Photographer of the Year 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cCats to blame for octopus deity enshrinement delay<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Steven Heller\u2019s font of the month is Cattivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s it’s Jack Arnold<\/a>\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pink Noir<\/em><\/a> (1996) by David Toop | Pink Dust<\/a><\/em> (2013) by Sq\u00fcrl | The Pink Room 2<\/em><\/a> (2024) by Seigen Ono<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Creative Power of the Spirit, No. 31 of A Goodly Company series, 1920\u20131933 by Ethel le Rossignol. \u2022 “One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying”: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis. More gay porn: Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood’s micro-budget homoerotic fantasy, will receive a … Continue reading “Weekend links 816”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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 816","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,4,7,5,3,16,44,12,31,20,18,10],"tags":[4248,412,5659,14403,489,731,1965,149,14402,6175,8682,178],"class_list":["post-29715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-photography","category-religion","category-science-fiction","category-surrealism","category-typography","tag-clock-dva","tag-david-toop","tag-ethel-le-rossignol","tag-jack-arnold","tag-james-bidgood","tag-leonora-carrington","tag-margaret-calvert","tag-neville-brody","tag-sara-weiss","tag-seigen-ono","tag-squrl","tag-the-beatles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7Jh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715","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=29715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}