books, gigs, films, events june 2019

books

•  ministry of pain - dubravka ugresic
• birth of our power - victor serge
• nova swing - m.john harrison 
•  illuminations - walter benjamin, (introduction (hannah arendt), task of the translator, the storyteller, franz kafka, brod on kafka) 
• bringing it all back home - ian clayton
•  a voice in the chorus - abram tertz 
•  londinium - cameron bain/ max 'crow' reeves
•  road to wigan pier - george orwell (not finished) 
•  kierkegaard (introductions and dips) 
• masquerade (dips) and institute banjamenta (started)- robert walser
• my imprisonments -silvio pellico (started) 

 films catch22 (series), the rivals of sherlock holmes, fahrenheit 451 (recent remake as equilibrium), inland empire (david lynch), blood from the mummy's tomb, fear in the night (hammer horrors), two documentaries on orford ness (one radio, one tv), snatch, day of the dead (terrible remake), a fistful of dynamite (aka. duck you sucker)

 gigs

• 5th anniversary of the death of cameron bain poetry recital 
• leigh folk festival saturday: leigh orpheus mae voice choir, the jones boys, mains'l haul, daisy bowlers, umbrella factory, masal, belinda kempster and fran foote, broomdasher, hoy shanty crew, sharron kraus and band. 

 events

record, visit parents, work training, jam with minty, much walking (leyton, stratford, walthamstow etc.)