If there’s one thing everyone can agree on about the late Scott Walker it’s that his career was not only improbable but almost impossible in its range and trajectory.
The Magic Yard (1970) by Lubos Fiser | Valerie (2003) by Broadcast | Introduction (2007) by The Valerie Project Author John Posted on NovemCategories Tags Apocalypse Now, Brian Eno, Chernobyl, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Coeden, Conforce, Cypher 7, Drew Daniel, Greg Anderson, Iain Sinclair, Jasper Sharp, Jorge Luis Borges, Julius Eastman, Matmos, Sidewinder, Sophie Pinkham, ST Joshi, Stacy Schiff, Sunn O))), The Ephemeral Man, The Sidewinder, Vladimir Nabokov, William Burroughs, Wilum Pugmire 3 Comments on Weekend links 459 Weekend links 458. Anthony Madrid on the most famous coin in Borges. Limitation of Life: Tim Pelan on John Frankenheimer’s Seconds. ITALO CALVINO THE TWILIGHT ZONE ARCHIVE
Mix of the week: Test Transmission Archive Reel 38 by Keith Seatman. Conversations with Ursula: Clive Hicks-Jenkins answers some questions about his art. Flying teapots and electric Camembert: the story of Gong, prog’s trippiest band by Simon Reynolds. Neuland is an electronic collaboration by two ex-members of Tangerine Dream, Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger. John Doran on the vibrational power of Sunn O))) This zone of pure affect-and what they hope will be a healing experience-is welcome to all. Despite clear and longstanding links with the extreme worlds of black metal, power electronics, industrial, sludge metal and doom, Sunn O))) have created a space that now stands beyond any obvious scene signifiers. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), the Surrealist fable directed by Jaromil Jires, receives a welcome region-free blu-ray release by Second Run in January.Īt its best, the true psychedelic experience is an analogue of psychotherapy: you are encouraged to lean in to something potentially rupturing or even disturbing, in an attempt to achieve deep personal resolution rather than simply mind-scrambling hedonism or entertainment (which, to be fair, the group can provide as well). The conversation is mostly about his solo work but he also mentions plans to release a collection of live Can recordings next year. The Unanswered Question: Irmin Schmidt, the last surviving member of Can, interviewed by Duncan Seaman. Related: Gahan Wilson and the Comedy of the Weird, an interview with Wilson by Richard Gehr The Beautifully Macabre Cartoons of Gahan Wilson by Michael Maslin. He also wrote regularly, and for several years was a film reviewer and columnist for The Twilight Zone Magazine, back issues of which may be found at the Internet Archive. Many of his best cartoons are buried in back issues of The New Yorker, Playboy and National Lampoon but book collections of his work are worth seeking out. RIP Gahan Wilson, a great cartoonist with a flair for horror, the macabre and grotesque. Even if the books have remained the same (though they do change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we have most certainly changed, and our encounter will be an entirely new thing.Cover art by Gahan Wilson for Monster (1980) by Herbie Hancock. There should therefore be a time in adult life devoted to revisiting the most important books of our youth. The definition we can give is therefore this:ģ) The classics are books that exert a peculiar influence, both when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and when they conceal themselves in the folds of memory, camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious. A literary work can succeed in making us forget it as such, but it leaves its seed in us. If we reread the book at a mature age we are likely to rediscover these constants, which by this time are part of our inner mechanisms, but whose origins we have long forgotten. Books read then can be (possibly at one and the same time) formative, in the sense that they give a form to future experiences, providing models, terms of comparison, schemes for classification, scales of value, exemplars of beauty-all things that continue to operate even if the book read in one’s youth is almost or totally forgotten. 
In fact, reading in youth can be rather unfruitful, owing to impatience, distraction, inexperience with the product’s “instructions for use,” and inexperience in life itself.
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