a little early - books, films gigs 2018

darn it! regret missing her gig now...
(fred neil song done in an anne briggs style)

films

old to new school horror movies island of terror, tales from the crypt, jack the ripper (hammer vs. sherlock holmes), dr. terror's house of horror, devil girl from mars, the devil rides out, the city of the dead, dracula ad 1972, casting of the runes (trailer), dracula, the mummy, the reptile, plague of zombies, the lost continent (hammer horrors),

monkey paw, city under the sea, masque of the red death (vincent price, roger corman, american international pictures), the howling, wolfcop, howl, late phase (werewolf season), the medusa touch (a psychic richard burton), 10 cloverfield ave, pride and prejudice and zombies,, the hills have eyes (remake), TV - salamander/ homeland / the city and the city, the wickerman remake, urban legends 3, silent hill. from hell, the shining, grim prairie tales, deadpool, world war z, the witch, hannibal rising, night of the demon, ghost rider, day of the triffids,

john carpenter - big trouble in little china, they live, vampires, ghosts of mars, the fog (original and best), escape from LA (terrible), halloween (john carpenter's classic), the thing, (and the thing from outer space,)

giallos and italo-horrors - eye in the labyrinth, tenebre, italo-horror - kill baby kill, bay of blood, danger: diabolik - mario bava, the new york ripper (lucio fulci), terror creatures from the grave, the hole, the black cat (fulci) , opening scene of 'suspiria' (dario argento 1977), amok train (open the gate III).

tarrantino season reservoir dogs, pulp fiction.

two johnny cash movies 'walk the line' (joaquin phoenix) and 'the man, his life, his music' – documentary, a fleetwood mac documentary,

art movies lobster, Elysium, in the shadow of the shard, the third part of arabian nights, a little of 'oncle yanco' by agnes varda, bert lloyd documentary, , baq-had sangi (the stone garden - clip - parviz kimiaki), sympathy for the devil - godard, delius- the song of summer (ken russell - part), schonberg documentary, derek bailey improv series, chiwonisu video for zvichapera, bertolucci’s the conformist (part), the artist phil collins' 'marxism today', silent village, documentary of the !kung bushmen adopting agriculture... high rise.

– time loop films…. source code, dead the ends, the grudge (remake), 12 monkeys (series).

random schlock

the imitation game, picnic at hanging rock(series), gotham (series), rambo: first blood, cops, sicario, ripping yarns, the train (burt lancaster), faster (2010), true grit (coen brothers) iron sky, bear island, the island, 39 steps, the american,come hell or high water,

books

Memoirs and writing anti-memoirs (andre malraux), post office (bukowski), liar's poker (michael lewis), under the volcano - malcolm lowry (start and introduction) plus introduction to 'dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid' and a few letters from selected letters, a biography of sabine-baring gould, 'the narrow road to the deep north' - matsuo basho, aleksandr blok biography, the gide journals, gogol (biography of) - vsevolod setchkarov, claudio magris- microcosms, jose saramago - the notebook, fernando pessoa - the book of disquiet, the story of my heart - richard jefferies, as others see us: cork through european eyes, the abode of love (kate barlow - child of the agapemonians spills the beans), bluffer's guide to samuel beckett - a.alvarez, meet me in the bathroom: rebirth and rock and roll in new york city 2001-2011 (lizzy goodman), a victorian poacher - james hawker's journal (started), the coast of incense - freya stark.

russians, poles, albanians etc. the suitcase (sergei dovlatov), aleksandr blok biography, gogol (biography of) - vsevolod setchkarov, the ghost rider, the siege, palace of dreams - ismail kadare, report from the besieged city (zbigniew herbert), andre benois autobiography.

Italians garden of the finzi-continis (giorgio bassani), claudio magris- microcosms (finished).

Theory work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction essay again (walter benjamin), the philosophy of marx - etienne balibar (start), Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (lessing), in hyperspace - fredric jameson (essay lrb), whatever happened to modernism? - gabriel josipovici, a little of fredric jameson’s archeologies of the future. terry eagleton - criticism and ideology (up to p..40 or so), origin of totalitarianism - hannah arendt (start), time for revolution - antonio negri (started), claire bishop article 'palace in plunderland' - art forum, bluffer's guide to winnicott (start) - adam philips, the wolfman (a little), nina power article in art review on sickness, no future - t.j. clark - new left review 2012, julian stallabrass on the mute magazine anthology -new left review 2012, art forum (nov 2018), peggy kamuf's introduction to derrida's without alibi

the music of the future (robert barry), arguments for a theatre (howard baker), crystalizing public opinion (edward bernays - introduction by stuart ewen),

Religion * church fathers, independent virgins - joyce e. salisbury, writings of the desert fathers (introduction), hebrew myths - robert graves (genesis and dips), the body and society - peter brown (good chunk), the abode of love (kate barlow - child of the agapemonians spills the beans)

Horrors aylmer vance: ghost-seer (alice and claude askew), the willows - algernon blackwood (story and preface), the beetle - richard marsh,

psychology, racism and fascism - michael billig, wolf among the wolves - hans fallada, origin of totalitarianism - hannah arendt (start), rosa luxemburg (biography), the weimar republic (kolb).

random books

george eliot - felix holt, (begun) chronicles of the house of borgia - baron corvo (started) dog moon run - callan wink (finished) folklore of cornwall - two folk singers, think of the self speaking - harry smith interviews, the gray monk - william blake (poem - read)

sirènes m'étaient contées: exposition 20 novembre 1992 - 14 février 1993, Galerie CGER catalogue (illustrations looked at), tuning and temperament - j.murray barbour (started), middle class housing in britain (m.a.simpson & t.h. lloyd), the soul of man under socialism (essay) (oscar wilde), self-help (samuel smiles), de profundis (the decay in the art of lying) - oscar wilde, cloud atlas - david mitchell, watchmen (first episode and dips), exploring the new river (michael essex-lopresti), colleges in crisis.

gigs

three gigs by gwenifer raymond, two gigs by stick in the wheel (album launch and barking folk festival), lankum (probably gig of the year).

three festivals - barking folk festival (unthanks, nancy kerr, gracie petrie, lucy ward, two stilt walking ladies being suffragettes), leigh on sea (men diamler, bob collum and the welfare mothers, alisdair roberts, neil mcdermott and tartine de clous, hoy shanty crew, masal), field day (oumou sangare, princess nokia, tzusing, kurupt FM’s set - cod MC’ing over uk apache and shy fx’s jungle classic original nuttah, charlotte gainsbourg.)

other gigs - cafe OTO and paper dress vintage: moongazing hare, in gowan ring, united bible studies (london branch), alison mcdonnell - awesome once again, great version of borderline by nico, trappist afterland, revolutionary army of the infant jesus, young waters, the rantipoles (and various others) at scaledown , echo choir, martin howard, S&M, and bity booker, john mcgrath adrian sherwood, ADF, steve 'interesting' davis , cuban drummers by the river, patti smith from over the fence, vinyl deptford closing party - gardyloo spew and dj sets, rose petal jam and the scordatura ensemble perform harry partch’s early chamber music, improvising vocalist guillermo horta - met up the park, neutral, triple negative, kostas kilymis rotten bliss (jasmine pinder) and nonfictional, V4V, Sons of Viljems, Ama//Mizua.