Friday 31 May 2024

books, films, gigs, events may 2024


books 

- down and out in paris and london (george orwell)

- the world turned upside down (christopher hill) start

- welsh border country (maxwell fraser) dips

- the unicorn (iris murdoch)

-  le cimetière marin (paul valéry and translations)

- munch's graphic works in j.p. hodin's 'edvard munch' (world of art series)

- notes on sentences (luke skrebowski) in versuch no.1 ed. gil leung

- introduction to pierre  clastres' 'chronicle of the guyaki indians' by the translator paul auster

- hamburg/ liverpool comparison in the white review, no.12 and 'wild resistance' LRB blog on adorno and 'radio waves' on ernst schoen, all owen hatherley.

- the war of the worlds, h.g. wells, started.

- guardian article on the playing of 'once upon a time in shaolin' and 'franz kafka exemplary employee'

- the present age (soren kierkegaard)

-  the velvet revolution of claude debussy, alex ross, the new yorker, october 22nd, 2018.

- introduction to 'the turn of the screw and other stories' (henry james) by t.j.lustig

- the garden of time (j.g.ballard)

films

- the usual novara media, outlaw bookseller, bookpilled/ thrift a life as and when

- clip don, moki and eagle-eye cherry 1973 at jazz jamboree in poland

- the architect (and yachtsman)  who moved to douarnenez 

- R4 debussy: composer of the week 

- LRB podcast 'in the shadow of silicon valley', rebecca solnit and 

edmund gordon and thomas jones 'on j.g. ballard'

gigs

minny pops, triple negative, evan parker and bill nace, the renaissance music festival in  crystal palace ( killercorp (tagline the most dangerous band in ipswich), concrete age, die|kur etc.)

events

jonnie and denise's welcome back to hackney party, the gigs mentioned above, wanders with TG, meeting of the communal endeavour on zoom. election of officers. before that a practice round pete's, practices round howard's and up plashet park. tea and cake with TG and myk.  

the doctors, he went to the chemists, death of dennis thompson the drummer of the MC5, the last man standing. death of paul auster.

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