Physical Training for Business Men (1917).
• At Expanding Mind: Erik Davis concludes his discussion with religious scholar Diana Pasulka about anomalous cognition, 2001 monoliths, disclosure, future truths, absurd Christianity, and her book American Cosmic.
• This year the LRB wouldn’t let non-subscribers read Alan Bennett’s 2018 diary but they have a recording of Bennett reading entries here.
• “Glen thought it was very good PR for us to be heavily involved in the druids.” Tom Pinnock talks to the Third Ear Band.
• Rebecca Fasman on the forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes.
• Laura Leavitt on John Cleves Symmes Jr.‘s obsession with a hollow Earth.
• David Parkinson recommends 12 essential Laurel and Hardy films.
• Paul Grimstad on the beautiful mind-bending of Stanislaw Lem.
• Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 277 by Sigillum S.
• The endlessly photogenic Chrysler Building.
• Energy Flow by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
• Solaris: Ocean (1972) by Edward Artemyev | The Sea Named Solaris (1977) by Isao Tomita | Simulacra II (2011) by Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason
Just to note: it was on this day, ten years ago, that Patrick McGoohan passed away (his sister, too, also, sadly, passed away recently). McGoohan was one of my all-time favourite actors, and THE PRISONER is one of my all-time favourite television series, neck-and-neck with something like TWIN PEAKS. It was his role in SCANNERS that first brought him to my attention at a young age, and Cronenberg and McGoohan is simply a match made in heaven.
Ah, yes. My spiky memorial here:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/01/16/patrick-mcgoohan-and-the-prisoner/
Be seeing you.
Thanks for the update John, I might have missed it otherwise – and thanks to AB and the LRB for the podcast – even better to have both the words and music!