books, gigs, films 2017

gigs of 2017

·                     THAMES Big Band and Senior String Ensemble

·                     stick in the wheel, jon boden, laura smyth & ted kemp, lisa knapp (winter solstice)

·                     old weird albion (sharron kraus, justin hopper, wendy pye, angus carlyle). 

·                     the ecstatic music of alice coltrane -st. luke's old street.

·                     adam, micalef and a double bass and dub poetry duo play max's closing party (friday 13^th)

·                     adam and gemma thompson (the guitarist from the savages, micalef, niall mcdevitt, the bass and dub poetry duo (max’s opener)

·                     four artists read a panegyric to their favourite artists (mayakovsky, tarkofsky, cage, hélio oiticica) and two of them played sambas - vamos passear (let´s go for a wander) on the way back Mão Morta (porto)

·                     locals fado (past massaleros in porto)

·                     puppet show (near fontinhas in porto)

·                     william bassinski (round chapel)

·                     bermondsey folk festival – stick in the wheel, martin simpson

·                     unicorn stoner sludge rock fest 

·                     adrian sherwood with creation rebel 

·                      caesura/ acceso launch (theresa may and her 'my little pony') 

·                     snufkin, stick in the wheel (west) 

·                     l'ocelle mare, kelly jane jones (sarf) 

Books 2017

Auto(biographies)

·         my last breath (luis bunuel).

·         round Ireland in low gear (eric newby)

·                     praeterita (ruskin) 

·                     the glass teat - harlan ellison, 

·                     co.aitch - american civil war memoir - samuel r. watkins.

·         Orwell – raymond Williams

·          the era of german expressionism (ed. paul raabe),

·                     words and characters - lytton strachey, 

·                     in search of robert johnson - guralnik, 

• far away and long ago (w.h. hudson)
• an imagined life (richard hoggart)
• in the prison of her skin (violette le duc), 
• the mayor of macdougal street (dave van ronk)
• colerdige on shakespeare (ed. terry hawkes), 

·                     unto this last (ruskin), 

·                     recollections of rosetti (hall caine), 

·                     the music of angels (michael tippett papers vol.2), 

·                     christ stopped at eboli (carlo levi), 

·                     here comes everybody (encounter therapy), 

• travels with donkey in the cevennes - robert louis Stevenson      

Film/ photography / theory/ art

·         early cinema: space, frame, narrative (ed. thomas elsaesser),

·                     photography (eric de mare),

·                     theory of film - siegfried kracauer, 

·                     a concise history of photography, 

·                     8 metaphors (because the moving image is not a book)

·                     an artist of our time - john berger,

•  imperialism (george lichtheim) 
• industrial society (raymond aron) 

·                     the new spirit of capitalism - boltanski and chiapello  

• strategy safari (mintzberg et al. excerpts)
• the condition of the working class in england - engels, 
• the main currents of marxism (vol.3) - lesek kolakowski, 

·                     thinking fast and slow - daniel khaneman, 

·                     understanding media - marshall mcluhan,

• the return of the political (chantal moufe) 
• homo sacer (agamben), 
• unto this last (ruskin)
• the future of the image (ranciere) 
• poetry language thought (heidegger) intro and dips 
• music and the irish literary imagination (w.b. yeats chapter) 
• revolution and war (marx), 
• gramsci (james joll),  
• the midnight disease
• minima moralia 3,6, 36,63 (adorno)
• ways of seeing (berger)

sci-fi returns

·                     the difference engine (sterling and gibson),

·                      the silver bees - ernst junger,  

• the man in the high castle - philip k. dick, 
• do androids dream of electric sheep- philip k. dick, 

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the gothic continues

·         gothic short stories (ed. david blair)

• 12 gothic tales (various)

·                     early medieval art - ,

• yankee whalers in the south seas - a.b.c. whipple 
• mardi (continued)
• lonesome traveller - jack kerouac, 
• the art of death

·                     hunting pirate heaven - kevin rushby,

• the enchanter - vladimir nabokov                 
  

history/ local history

·                     the people - selina todd,

·                     the bulwark shore: exploring thanet and the cinque ports - caroline hillier 

• ship of fools (fintan o'toole)
• unhealthy state, 

·                     days of the year (dates as appropriate and intro)

• the secret history (procopius) 
• london's pride: a glorious history of the capital's gardens, 

                 

books various 

·                     the private life, 

·                     the lost honour of katherina blum (boll), 

·                     into the woods, 

·                     folk revival: the rediscovery of a national music - fred woods 

• music in the US: a historical introduction
• isabelle/ symphonie pastorale (gide)

·                     the art of the novel, ignorance, immortaity - milan kundera, 

·                     recent writing from italy,

·                     knowledge and control 

·                     a whole life 

·                     women in a river landscape - heinrich boll

·                     another life (trifonov) 

·                     connectography,

• the examined life - stephen grosz
•                   an anthology of i-ching, 

• freefall - william golding, 

films

·         anniki-bobo

·         Arabian nights 1: the restless one

·         hound of the baskervilles (hammer horror version),

·         legend,

·         Bronson,

·         through a scanner darkly,

·         supernatural (1st series)

·         summoned by bells (sir john Betjeman)

·                     the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford, 

·                     through a scanner darkly, 

·                     the kingsman service, 

·                     dog soldiers, 

·                     the phantom/ the shadow, 

·                     six feet from the edge, 

·                     various mockingjays and x-men

·                     rewatch true detective series one. 

·                     series 1 and 2 homeland,

·                     possession,

·                     bonnie and clyde,

·                     dead the ends,

·                     tales from the crypt,

·                     the vault of terror (amicus),

·                     children of the corn (feeble remake)

·                     the magic box, 

·                     at the earth’s core,

·                     warlords of atlantis, 

·                     the lone ranger, 

·                     pressure - horace ove, 

·                     child 44, 

·                     utopia / eden / arcadia, 

·                     carrie (2012) 

·                      django unchained 

·                      to live and die in LA 

·                     the witch 

·                      thx1138

·                      the revenant 

•  2 manson family documentaries
• urban legend 
•  'without a clue' (sherlock holmes)
•  high rise (j.g. ballard)
•  american sniper
  
  
  
• a wanted man 
• star trek 
• I robot 
• the sons of anarchy (season 2) 
• aliens 
•  the ninth gate  

·                     the ghoul 

·                     cronos 

·                     black sunday 

·                     back sabbath 

·                     castle of blood (bava italian horror season) 

·                     time of the wolf 

·                     code inconnu 

·                     the piano teacher 

·                     hidden 

·                     white ribbons (haneke season) 

·                     creature from the black lagoon

• semikrasky, 
• conversation piece, 
• cosmopolis, 
• repoman, 
• cross of iron, 
• eagles over london, 
• inglorious bastards (original), 
• sleepless, 
• two days and one night (dardenes brothers)
• be glad for the song has no ending (incredible string band), 
• control (joy division), 
• gaslight (couldn't watch it), 
• the tunnel, 
• demons, 
• foxy brown, 
• the cat o' nine tails, 
• chungking express.
  
  
  
• finding vivian maier, 
• blood simple, 
• mademoiselle (jean genet), 
• zatoichi, 
• illuminacja, 
• akira, 
• wiseblood, 
• horns, 
• sin city, 
• do widenia do jutra, 
• the gleaners, 
• the lighthouse (mayak) 

·                     hamlet

·                     the leopard man

·                     arabian nights 1

·                     susana

·                     un chien andalus

·                     l'age d'or

·                     the castle (hanneke)

·                     the testament of dr. mabuse

·                     before the revolution

·                     maitresse

·                     les stances a sophie

·                     les amants de pont neuf

·                     henry fool

·                     the theory of achievement

·                     ambition

·                     joy + helen

·                     jean vigo collection 

·                     l'une chante l'autre pas

·                     blood on satan's claw

·                     under the skin

·                     terence davies trilogy

·                     fanny and alexander

·                     loves of a blond (milos forman)

·                     battleship potemkin  and various grierson movies about trawlers and fishing (drifters, granton trawler, north sea) and len lye trade tattoo

·                     nobody knows

·                     35 shots of rum

·                     the man from london (bela tarr)

·                     dr. phibes rises again

·                     rivals to sherlock holmes: carnacki the ghost detective - horse of the invisible 

a tribute to john fahey (explicador)

horsemouth has spent some time watching footage of leo kottke cursing tuners (the politics of tuning), praising john fahey (tribute to john fahey) and bemoaning the 12 string guitar.

‘I owe my whole adult life to john fahey... a good friend, and he’s the guy that synthesized all these strains, from parlour guitar to charles ives and came up with a place that everybody already knew but john had the... to put it together. this is a tune that he wrote, he denied that he wrote it, that’s the kind of guy he was...’

(meanwhile...)

bunuel adjourns to his favourite bar in a converted monastery (the paular hotel in northern madrid) and has a martini. he sits there and dreams and thinks (free associating without the supervision of a psychoanalyst).

bunuel’s drink of choice is martini.

bunuel’s drinking companion is, wait for it wait for it, jean-claude carriere (the adapter of robinson crusoe and ghostwriter of bunuel’s autobiography).

after 45 minutes exactly carriere appears and asks him what he is thinking about.


for instance - bunuel remembers the early days of film in Saragossa, films would not only have a musician to accompany them but an explicador, someone there to explain to the audience what was going on.

bunuel and carriere didn’t write it all of the autobiography- bunuel’s sister conchita wrote some of it. she remembers bunuel being bought a toy theatre (isn’t this in bergman also?)



soon, marjorie cameron,the music is by leona wood