Neutron Drip (2011) by Amrei Hofstätter.
• The Lavender Scare is “the first feature-length documentary film to tell the story of the U.S. government’s ruthless campaign in the 1950s and ’60s to hunt down and fire every Federal employee it suspected was gay”. A film by Josh Howard based on the book by David K Johnson which the author has made a free download here.
• “Annette Peacock, the avant garde American composer, collaborator with Salvador Dalí, friend of Albert Ayler and Moog-synth pioneer, brought this seismically influential session out in 1972…” John Fordham reviews Annette Peacock’s I’m The One which can be purchased here.
• Writer and graphic design historian Steven Heller looks at The Steampunk Bible (edited by SJ Chambers & Jeff VanderMeer) in his column for The Atlantic. He also talks to Galen Smith about the book’s design.
• M John Harrison reveals more about his forthcoming sf novel Pearlent, a partial sequel to Light and Nova Swing. I just re-read Light, and I’m currently In The Event Zone with the follow-up, so I’m looking forward to this one.
• The Raven, a book by Lou Reed & Lorenzo Mattotti (and Edgar Allan Poe). A Journey Round My Skull previewed this in 2009.
• Orson Welles’ Falstaff film, Chimes at Midnight, emerges into the light once more. When do we get a decent DVD release?
• More of the usual concerns: Iain Sinclair’s struggles with the city of London and Erik Davis talks to Alan Moore about psychogeography, John Dee, comic gods, and the art of magic.
• Eddie Campbell takes a tip from Jim Steranko. Related: “Hey! A Jim Steranko effect!”
• Lambshead Cabinet: Win Jake von Slatt’s Mooney & Finch Somnotrope!
• Tilda Swinton is The Woman Who Fell to Earth.
• XXth Century Avantgarde [sic] Books at Flickr.
• Sound sculptures & installations by Zimoun.
• I’m The One (1972) by Annette Peacock.
You’ve put the Orson Welles piece on the Tilda Swinton link ???
Yeah, I had. I’ve amended it. Thanks.
I basically wish every interview with Alan Moore, while not restating what he has already covered in others, was set up in a similar, albeit, less elaborate format as in the Mindscape of Alan Moore. I’ve got his interview on pause right now because every time Erik Davis and that other flake chime in with their two cents as Alan’s talking, it really interrupts and more or less stifles the cauldron-like effect Moore’s words have on one’s attention and interest.