Friday, 28 February 2025

books, films, gigs, events february 2025

books 

- ubik, PKD

- the book of disquiet, fernando pessoa (dips)

- the worm forgives the plough, john stewart collis (about half)

- colonel chabert, balzac, a.n. wilson introduction

- researched film-maker and poet  margaret tait 

-  sections from abram tertz 'a voice from the chorus' on the peacemakers (or ilyinists), kenko 'in praise of idleness'  etc. 

- article in the NYT on the alice coltrane show at the hammer museum (and other articles on this)

- GDN announcement of demolition of grenfell tower, six ways to solve britain's housing crisis, uk carbon budget, mike amesbury sentence, average energy bill to rise, britain's net zero economy is booming. 

- LRB jeremy harding on the NLR

films

- LRB 'have we surrendered to climate breakdown' brett christophers 

- 'he stands in the desert counting the seconds of his life' an excerpt from a jonas mekas film (footage of the funeral of hollis frampton)

- fellini's amarcord

- alice coltrane (her influences and her influencees) over on NTS radio, a day of shows. 

- outlaw bookseller's appreciation of the lesser novels of philip k. dick and two clickbait videos on the five best novels of PKD

- NPR strata-east artist led label special

- sam peckinpah's pat garrett and billy the kid. 

- dystopian dialogue (adam roberts)

- noah howard/ lonnie liston smith video

- FT.com 'america is now an adversary'  

- the lovecraft investigations 'the case of charles dexter ward' 

- harry smith american magus (part)

- the cicerones (robert aickman) 

- tompkins square robbie basho listening party (probably)

gigs none

events

groundhog day, let's kill captian cook day, john fahey week (ending in robbie basho day), robert lawson and friends CD arrived, horsemouth's visit to the wen,  omnichord brought back to life,the house meeting about the decarbonisation and a meeting with colin about overall strategy, an exploration round shepherdess walk, the 177th anniversary of the publication of 'the communist manifesto'.

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