October 2010
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POGCAST
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The second in the neverending Blanks podcast series, from Maya, Isam, and myself.
Sublime Frequencies - Radio Fez Doddodo - Dodakone Simian Mobile Disco - System Suicide - Girl Gangpol und Mit - La Chanson Darkel - How Brave You Are Stereo Total - Die Krise Cobra Killer - Chemie des Alltag Royksopp - Happy Up Here Julie Ruin - Interlude PM 7 / Jupiter - Pone Tala Pone...
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J.K. Huysmans, La-Bas
1891:
“Bah,” said Des Hermies, “dust isn’t a bad thing. Besides having the taste of ancient biscuit and the smell of an old book, it is the floating velvet which softens hard surfaces, the fine dry wash which takes the garishness out of crude colour schemes. It is the caparison of abandon, the veil of oblivion.” (p.30)
“But nothing can exist if you get to...
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Required viewing
I’ve seen enough of the films on these lists to know that I cannot sleep until I’ve seen all the others. The best lists seem just to come from random unknown people, somewhere in the world. Pooled here as much so I can find them again as for anything else:
01 :: Chronological top 57 from someone in Australia with impeccable taste in Eastern bloc surrealism, euro-art-sleaze etc. Mostly...
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Anna Kavan, Julia and the Bazooka
1970:
The traffic roars, bellows, hurls itself in a torrential surge into battle — cars thrash about like primeval monsters. Some have grins of diabolical joy on their malevolent rudimentary faces, gloating over prospective victims. They’re anticipating the moment when their murderous deadweight of hard heavy metal will tear into soft, vulnerable, defenseless flesh, mashing it into a...
