books, gigs, films 2017

gigs of 2017

·                     THAMES Big Band and Senior String Ensemble

·                     stick in the wheel, jon boden, laura smyth & ted kemp, lisa knapp (winter solstice)

·                     old weird albion (sharron kraus, justin hopper, wendy pye, angus carlyle). 

·                     the ecstatic music of alice coltrane -st. luke's old street.

·                     adam, micalef and a double bass and dub poetry duo play max's closing party (friday 13^th)

·                     adam and gemma thompson (the guitarist from the savages, micalef, niall mcdevitt, the bass and dub poetry duo (max’s opener)

·                     four artists read a panegyric to their favourite artists (mayakovsky, tarkofsky, cage, hélio oiticica) and two of them played sambas - vamos passear (let´s go for a wander) on the way back Mão Morta (porto)

·                     locals fado (past massaleros in porto)

·                     puppet show (near fontinhas in porto)

·                     william bassinski (round chapel)

·                     bermondsey folk festival – stick in the wheel, martin simpson

·                     unicorn stoner sludge rock fest 

·                     adrian sherwood with creation rebel 

·                      caesura/ acceso launch (theresa may and her 'my little pony') 

·                     snufkin, stick in the wheel (west) 

·                     l'ocelle mare, kelly jane jones (sarf) 

Books 2017

Auto(biographies)

·         my last breath (luis bunuel).

·         round Ireland in low gear (eric newby)

·                     praeterita (ruskin) 

·                     the glass teat - harlan ellison, 

·                     co.aitch - american civil war memoir - samuel r. watkins.

·         Orwell – raymond Williams

·          the era of german expressionism (ed. paul raabe),

·                     words and characters - lytton strachey, 

·                     in search of robert johnson - guralnik, 

• far away and long ago (w.h. hudson)
• an imagined life (richard hoggart)
• in the prison of her skin (violette le duc), 
• the mayor of macdougal street (dave van ronk)
• colerdige on shakespeare (ed. terry hawkes), 

·                     unto this last (ruskin), 

·                     recollections of rosetti (hall caine), 

·                     the music of angels (michael tippett papers vol.2), 

·                     christ stopped at eboli (carlo levi), 

·                     here comes everybody (encounter therapy), 

• travels with donkey in the cevennes - robert louis Stevenson      

Film/ photography / theory/ art

·         early cinema: space, frame, narrative (ed. thomas elsaesser),

·                     photography (eric de mare),

·                     theory of film - siegfried kracauer, 

·                     a concise history of photography, 

·                     8 metaphors (because the moving image is not a book)

·                     an artist of our time - john berger,

•  imperialism (george lichtheim) 
• industrial society (raymond aron) 

·                     the new spirit of capitalism - boltanski and chiapello  

• strategy safari (mintzberg et al. excerpts)
• the condition of the working class in england - engels, 
• the main currents of marxism (vol.3) - lesek kolakowski, 

·                     thinking fast and slow - daniel khaneman, 

·                     understanding media - marshall mcluhan,

• the return of the political (chantal moufe) 
• homo sacer (agamben), 
• unto this last (ruskin)
• the future of the image (ranciere) 
• poetry language thought (heidegger) intro and dips 
• music and the irish literary imagination (w.b. yeats chapter) 
• revolution and war (marx), 
• gramsci (james joll),  
• the midnight disease
• minima moralia 3,6, 36,63 (adorno)
• ways of seeing (berger)

sci-fi returns

·                     the difference engine (sterling and gibson),

·                      the silver bees - ernst junger,  

• the man in the high castle - philip k. dick, 
• do androids dream of electric sheep- philip k. dick, 

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the gothic continues

·         gothic short stories (ed. david blair)

• 12 gothic tales (various)

·                     early medieval art - ,

• yankee whalers in the south seas - a.b.c. whipple 
• mardi (continued)
• lonesome traveller - jack kerouac, 
• the art of death

·                     hunting pirate heaven - kevin rushby,

• the enchanter - vladimir nabokov                 
  

history/ local history

·                     the people - selina todd,

·                     the bulwark shore: exploring thanet and the cinque ports - caroline hillier 

• ship of fools (fintan o'toole)
• unhealthy state, 

·                     days of the year (dates as appropriate and intro)

• the secret history (procopius) 
• london's pride: a glorious history of the capital's gardens, 

                 

books various 

·                     the private life, 

·                     the lost honour of katherina blum (boll), 

·                     into the woods, 

·                     folk revival: the rediscovery of a national music - fred woods 

• music in the US: a historical introduction
• isabelle/ symphonie pastorale (gide)

·                     the art of the novel, ignorance, immortaity - milan kundera, 

·                     recent writing from italy,

·                     knowledge and control 

·                     a whole life 

·                     women in a river landscape - heinrich boll

·                     another life (trifonov) 

·                     connectography,

• the examined life - stephen grosz
•                   an anthology of i-ching, 

• freefall - william golding, 

films

·         anniki-bobo

·         Arabian nights 1: the restless one

·         hound of the baskervilles (hammer horror version),

·         legend,

·         Bronson,

·         through a scanner darkly,

·         supernatural (1st series)

·         summoned by bells (sir john Betjeman)

·                     the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford, 

·                     through a scanner darkly, 

·                     the kingsman service, 

·                     dog soldiers, 

·                     the phantom/ the shadow, 

·                     six feet from the edge, 

·                     various mockingjays and x-men

·                     rewatch true detective series one. 

·                     series 1 and 2 homeland,

·                     possession,

·                     bonnie and clyde,

·                     dead the ends,

·                     tales from the crypt,

·                     the vault of terror (amicus),

·                     children of the corn (feeble remake)

·                     the magic box, 

·                     at the earth’s core,

·                     warlords of atlantis, 

·                     the lone ranger, 

·                     pressure - horace ove, 

·                     child 44, 

·                     utopia / eden / arcadia, 

·                     carrie (2012) 

·                      django unchained 

·                      to live and die in LA 

·                     the witch 

·                      thx1138

·                      the revenant 

•  2 manson family documentaries
• urban legend 
•  'without a clue' (sherlock holmes)
•  high rise (j.g. ballard)
•  american sniper
  
  
  
• a wanted man 
• star trek 
• I robot 
• the sons of anarchy (season 2) 
• aliens 
•  the ninth gate  

·                     the ghoul 

·                     cronos 

·                     black sunday 

·                     back sabbath 

·                     castle of blood (bava italian horror season) 

·                     time of the wolf 

·                     code inconnu 

·                     the piano teacher 

·                     hidden 

·                     white ribbons (haneke season) 

·                     creature from the black lagoon

• semikrasky, 
• conversation piece, 
• cosmopolis, 
• repoman, 
• cross of iron, 
• eagles over london, 
• inglorious bastards (original), 
• sleepless, 
• two days and one night (dardenes brothers)
• be glad for the song has no ending (incredible string band), 
• control (joy division), 
• gaslight (couldn't watch it), 
• the tunnel, 
• demons, 
• foxy brown, 
• the cat o' nine tails, 
• chungking express.
  
  
  
• finding vivian maier, 
• blood simple, 
• mademoiselle (jean genet), 
• zatoichi, 
• illuminacja, 
• akira, 
• wiseblood, 
• horns, 
• sin city, 
• do widenia do jutra, 
• the gleaners, 
• the lighthouse (mayak) 

·                     hamlet

·                     the leopard man

·                     arabian nights 1

·                     susana

·                     un chien andalus

·                     l'age d'or

·                     the castle (hanneke)

·                     the testament of dr. mabuse

·                     before the revolution

·                     maitresse

·                     les stances a sophie

·                     les amants de pont neuf

·                     henry fool

·                     the theory of achievement

·                     ambition

·                     joy + helen

·                     jean vigo collection 

·                     l'une chante l'autre pas

·                     blood on satan's claw

·                     under the skin

·                     terence davies trilogy

·                     fanny and alexander

·                     loves of a blond (milos forman)

·                     battleship potemkin  and various grierson movies about trawlers and fishing (drifters, granton trawler, north sea) and len lye trade tattoo

·                     nobody knows

·                     35 shots of rum

·                     the man from london (bela tarr)

·                     dr. phibes rises again

·                     rivals to sherlock holmes: carnacki the ghost detective - horse of the invisible