books, films, gigs, events october 2023

books 

- the history of the runestaff (michael moorcock)

- my last breath (luis bunuel)

- old calabria (norman douglas)

- lend out 'practicalities' (marguerite duras) and 'christ stopped at eboli' (carlo levi)

-'a voice in the chorus' (abram tertz) part

- judith butler, the compass of mourning, LRB 19th october 2023.

- the new NLR (september-october 2023) dylan riley on martin wolf's the crisis of democratic capitalism (and FT podcast)

- an LRB article from 2020 by jacqueline rose on camus' the plague.

- interview srđan kovačević, director of 'factory to the workers'

films (TV etc.)

- the long chase (70ies BBC kiddies thriller)

- psychomania (part)

- tim peak space program 

- viy and the viy and gogol (russian horror)

- the bird with the crystal plumage (dario argento) 

- jacqueline rose on albert camus 'the plague' podcast interview

- outlaw bookseller (soundtrack albums, haul, unhaul, reviews)

- richard II (ben withenshaw)

- payback (drama serial) 

- david olusoga 'union' 

- return of the lovecraft investigations podcast

- folkways/ NTS day

- experiment IV (kate bush)

- danny dorling discusses the changes in the UK since the 1970ies

-  housing crisis (2 episodes to cover 40 years)

- john gray moaning on  (unherd)

- a clip from laura mulvey's 'the riddles of the sphinx', music by soft machine's michael ratledge. 

- british railways film (BBC 4, timeshift)

- a politics joe interview with the ever reasonable dude from the resolution foundation

- dave in portugal laments the end of tax breaks for entrepreneurial types

- jazz divas at the BBC show 

- an interview with melanie phillips on israel

- don cherry organic music concert (italy 70ies)

- an R4 show about CO2 concentrations in houses 

gigs none

events 

death of marion brown, birth of pharoah sanders, peter bone MP crashes and burns.  bandcamp taken over by a new company. the second friday 13th of the year. opening of  'fragments of a faith forgotten: the art of harry smith'  at the whitney museum of american art, new york. HS2 and reopening pontrilas railway station cancelled.