Tuesday, 29 August 2023

films, books, gigs, events august 2023

books

- where I fell to earth; a life in four cities  (peter conrad) about half

- detached retina (brian aldiss) about half also

-  madder music, stronger wine (jad adams' biography of ernest dowson 'poet and decadent') started.

- diaries (kafka, as edited by max brod) 1914 and thereabouts

- kilvert's diary (1870) and end of boswell's london journal.

- torygraph money, reaching EPC C makeover column

- bhanu kapil’s 'twelve questions'

- don, moki, neneh and eagle-eye cherry and other visitors at the dome project at utopia and visions, moderna museet, stockholm, 1971 (museum website)

pink beams of light from a god in the gutter (gabriel mckee). an appreciation of the religious elements in philip k. dick's life (fits in well with the erik davis)

- NLR 'zombie economy' article

- letter to publisher einaudi and 'message from the emperor (mario tronti) LRB and NLR

films

 - the revelation of PKD (erik davis talk) and a number of others. outlaw bookseller's thoughts on UBIK

- survivors/ the good life (first few episodes as available)

- the deerhunter/ the godfather II (wedding scenes)

- elizabeth and the spy thing (terrestrial tv)

- performance by naima karlsson on the occasion of the opening of moki cherry’s solo show at galleri nicolai wallner (vimeo)

- R4 documentary piece on the architect/ philosopher cedric price 

- R4 world at one and BBC tv  doc. on net zero and decarbonsiation

- michael moore (not that one) and stansilao pugliese on carlo levi at the NY italian-american centre

gigs

- david webb (online)

events

fail to go to hereford river carnival, funeral/ cremation of father,  india is on the moon, visit to hay/ pub lunch in peterchurch, 50 years of hip-hop.

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