william_kent
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the VONU Life mags - yeah, that was interesting to me because of the involvement of Kerry Thornley ( Discordian, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald & Robert Anton Wilson )
what are you reading now?
the VONU Life mags - yeah, that was interesting to me because of the involvement of Kerry Thornley ( Discordian, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald & Robert Anton Wilson )
we'll have to find that video
yeah that's it - VONU. good name. and yeah, he's pretty scathing / nonplussed on Thornley which i was a bit surprised about.
william_kent
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mixed_biscuits
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
The discussion on the previous page led me to discovering this forum, which looks to be built on the same platform as dissensus
www.sffworld.com
Always interesting discovering still active online forums, like finding life on other planets
I'm reading bits and pieces of all sorts of things, unable to get my teeth sunk into anything but I have read a bit of The Peregrine by J.A. Baker and although sometimes its veers in the direction of overwriting, it's full of striking phrases and sentences – particularly when it comes to describing the falcon's kills. (e.g. a bird storing some food in its mouth and making a break for the forest is hit from above and the food pops out of its mouth "like a cork from a champagne bottle")
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www.sffworld.com
Always interesting discovering still active online forums, like finding life on other planets
I'm reading bits and pieces of all sorts of things, unable to get my teeth sunk into anything but I have read a bit of The Peregrine by J.A. Baker and although sometimes its veers in the direction of overwriting, it's full of striking phrases and sentences – particularly when it comes to describing the falcon's kills. (e.g. a bird storing some food in its mouth and making a break for the forest is hit from above and the food pops out of its mouth "like a cork from a champagne bottle")
william_kent
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@catalog
I've just been reading this article about a "Vonu week" in the company of "El Ray" and Roberta, his "freemate" - it's pretty funny
on "El Ray":
on the Vonu diet:
I've just been reading this article about a "Vonu week" in the company of "El Ray" and Roberta, his "freemate" - it's pretty funny
on "El Ray":
on the Vonu diet:
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I just finished reading Goethe's Faust, part 1, and I gather part 2 is quite different. Anyone here read both of them?
dilbert1
Well-known member
Is it an extremely boring read? We read a bit of this in my college days, dry sociological texts can excite me sometimes (Simmel and Huizinga’s writings on play for example) but this book seems to get a suspicious amount of shine
IdleRich
IdleRich
I have done yeah, don't really remember it in enough detail to comment on how the style changes in part two though I'm afraid.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Apparently it dissociates entirely from the narrative, and maybe even the poetic form, of part one.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
my brother said this was a time capsule of anecdotes
there’s Clough in his prime and then Clough as an extremely ruddy faced caricature of himsel
you could clock him round town frequently as a kid, huge aura, have his signature on a Forest match day program somewhere and then the booze accelerated
Also made me look up the first England manager, Walter Winterbottom.
What a name.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah I could be overstating it, maybe theres just a change in context and form.
mixed_biscuits
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I think it's very well written and fascinatingly, curiously comprehensive
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE “Non-Binary”
Bit weird when somebody who lived, breathed and gargled transgression opts for the standard rock biog schtick of discussing parents and childhood homes for the first 40 or so pages. Yeah, yeah…get to TG already. When he finally does, I get an extreme case of déjà vu: feels like he or his ghost writer based large sections of this book on Cosy’s recollections (minus the ‘lobbing objects at her head’ bits).
Interesting part where he mentions a friend who worked with Denis Nilsen at the dole office in Cricklewood, as my sister did too. I asked my sister if she recalled Nilsen making a curry and bringing it to share with the staff, and she said no, he rarely talked to anyone. Not saying GPO’s lying, mind you. Curiously, he skims over the TOPY stuff. I was never mad into PTV, except for maybe NY Scum, Themes 2 and that trippy live double album with the Icelandic Asatru monk chants, but it might have been nice to find out more about the ideas behind that group, and how he considered it in retrospect. Incidentally, I can’t help feeling the title was slapped on to cash in on something or other.
I remember the night he died, in March 2020. His send-off was a bit muted: partly because the abuse allegations in Cosy’s book were still fresh, so none of ‘noise Twitter’ wanted to risk being cancelled by their pals, and partly because that seemed to be thee weekend where everybody suddenly started taking COVID seriously. I loved TG, and they would never have had the impact they did without GPO. But fuck me, this book was a slog.
Now starting: Alison Rumfitt's "Tell Me I'm Worthless", courtesy of Bunnyhausen, which I'm hoping will be a lot better!
Bit weird when somebody who lived, breathed and gargled transgression opts for the standard rock biog schtick of discussing parents and childhood homes for the first 40 or so pages. Yeah, yeah…get to TG already. When he finally does, I get an extreme case of déjà vu: feels like he or his ghost writer based large sections of this book on Cosy’s recollections (minus the ‘lobbing objects at her head’ bits).
Interesting part where he mentions a friend who worked with Denis Nilsen at the dole office in Cricklewood, as my sister did too. I asked my sister if she recalled Nilsen making a curry and bringing it to share with the staff, and she said no, he rarely talked to anyone. Not saying GPO’s lying, mind you. Curiously, he skims over the TOPY stuff. I was never mad into PTV, except for maybe NY Scum, Themes 2 and that trippy live double album with the Icelandic Asatru monk chants, but it might have been nice to find out more about the ideas behind that group, and how he considered it in retrospect. Incidentally, I can’t help feeling the title was slapped on to cash in on something or other.
I remember the night he died, in March 2020. His send-off was a bit muted: partly because the abuse allegations in Cosy’s book were still fresh, so none of ‘noise Twitter’ wanted to risk being cancelled by their pals, and partly because that seemed to be thee weekend where everybody suddenly started taking COVID seriously. I loved TG, and they would never have had the impact they did without GPO. But fuck me, this book was a slog.
Now starting: Alison Rumfitt's "Tell Me I'm Worthless", courtesy of Bunnyhausen, which I'm hoping will be a lot better!