Saturday, 30 March 2024

books, films, gigs, events march 2024

books 

- ice (anna kavan)

- nostalgia (mircea cartarescu) first and last tale

- viriconium (m.john harrison) ongoing

- fictions: the novel and social reality (michel zeraffa) part

- several issues of the LRB 

- 'uk housing is the worst value for money', 'political attacks on the poor have produced penury', article on chega,   GDN articles

- william davies, the reaction economy, LRB 2nd march 2023

- diaries 1926-1957 (antonia white) and susan chitty's introduction

- the government's new definition of extremism 

-  LRB a piece on  tom verlaine's book and record collections

- benefit of clergy: some notes on salvador dali (george orwell) 

films

- the rise and fall of boris johnson (C4 4part serial)

- ghost stories for christmas (the ash tree, lost hearts)

- LRB who owns kafka? podcast (judith butler) and one 'on giving up' 

- R4 documentary on  photography collective 'hackney flashers'

- R4 documentary on the edit by mike figgis

- verso books interview jason reid and jeremy gilbert on spinoza, marx, and the politics of work 

- losing track railway documentary with kerry hamilton

- jose saramago interview

- LRB podcast on acid house

- outlaw bookseller, novara media, bookpilled, spain speaks etc.

gigs 

stick in the wheel and laura cannell at cafe OTO

events

visit to the wen, newick road fire, release of the alice coltrane live at carnegie hall (1971) album, equinox,  a womble round hackney ended with a few beers, meeting with__________ in homerton, singaround round minty and jacqueline's, a wander round the marshes with TG (maybe two), facebook lockout,  the insulation people came, george galloway wins rochdale by more than 5000 votes.

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