The Bride of the Wind (1914) by Oskar Kokoschka.
• Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Fantômas, by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain (translated by Cranstoun Metcalfe).
• This week’s Bumper Book of Magic news: the Brazilian edition of the book, titled A Lua e a Serpente: Almanaque de Magia, will be published in June. It’s available for pre-order here.
• “The basis of compilations as far as I’m concerned is, ‘I like this stuff, you may like it too.’” Jon Savage on the art of the compilation album.
• At Public Domain Review: The strange story of Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll.
• At the Daily Heller: Psychedelics, Day-Glo, Hallmark and The Peculiar Manicule.
• Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine, a new version for sale from Important Records.
• The Strange World of…Michael Chapman.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: Boris Karloff Day.
• RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu.
• Dream Machine (1968) by Les Sauterelles | Dream Machine (1980) by The Androids | Dream Machine (1981) by Phantom Band
The death of David Thomas really hurts. Another great voice gone silent.
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Charles: Yes, indeed, Pere Ubu were ahead of their time.
Dave: Yeah, free versions have been circulating since Olympia Press printed the plans in the 1960s. Many people would find them tricky to build themselves, however (I know, I’ve built my own in the past), so pre-formed versions are a convenient solution.