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Fuck this http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcMD6YE5F4f-YQgiszTunCUrWw6gD9368TQO0

I couldn't make the first of these but want to go to the rest. The web site recommends turning up in good time to get a place, can anyone who was there tell me if this is really necessary and if so how long before it starts should I get there on Tuesday? and how was it generally? How big is the...

Terence Malick is one of my essential directors, so I was loooking forward to this, and it doesn't disappoint. Very similar in its rhythms to The Thin Red Line, though here, I think, his trademark Heideggereanism if still more to the fore. The New World of the title refers, of course, to the...

I've just been reading C. Carr's take on 1990s New York Bohemia here (courtesy of blissblogger) http://villagevoice.com/specials/0543,50thcarr,69274,31.html An elegiac riff on the fact that the avant-garde is no longer geographically localised. No more Paris. No more New York. NO more Berlin...

Should be an interesting acceptance address, hope he's around for long enough to make it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4338082.stm

Anybody in London catch any of the season at the NFT? I saw three, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse and Red Desert (with Richard Harris) and was whelmed in a big way. That bleak, antiseptic, neurotic aesthetic: totally Ballard innit? All those factories, airstrips, radar stations, mysterious islands...

Badiou gave a very accessible talk last night as part of the Derrida memorial lecture series, lamenting the state of politics at the moment and lambasting 'Texan' attacks on Derrida after his death. I didn't take any notes, and am not an expert so don't take this as, erm, gospel. There will be a...

Libraries Make us Free I've put this in thought rather than literature because I don't necessarily mean novels or poetry, though they can of course be included. What I want to hear about are books that profoundly affected you, so much so that you can think of your life in terms of before and...

I picked up In-Mid-Air recently on Alga Marghen and am digging it, its the first thing I've heard by him. Lovely sine tones and oscillating drones from 1967 to 1970. Looks a bit wasted on the back. Coil have a copy of this somewhere I'll wager. Any other recommendations by, comments on CP?

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/31/robert_creeley_78_poet_leader_of_literary_avant_garde/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4282865.stm

Any nominations for grimmest local? I have fond memories of an Irish bar called the Bohola House on Bethnal Green road, opposite the MacDonalds’s near the tune station. Think it might have been done up now, but when I lived there five years ago, it was on a class of its own, despite fierce...

What historical era or discrete moment would you transport yourself to if you could? Past or future, return guaranteed if things get dodgy. But obviously no interfering, cos that upsets the time-space continuum. And we wouldn't want that would we? Most of mine seem to be in Paris: 1789; 1920...

I see Sounds of the Universe have just opened the basement for second hand vinyl and CDs. Some nice postpunk and Krautrock things down there - Scritti, Cabs, Cluster, Popol Vuh...

Uptown have it, I got one today: somes nice pics inside - D-Double-E and a wee lass especially.

Things i think about when I think about Sam: Tramps, minimalism, dark glasses, the great Billie Whitelaw, the Holocaust, video installations, jokes, bodies, Paris, Adorno, those gnarly close-ups of his face floating in the void, Ireland, bananas, tragedy, absence, surrealism, tape recorders...

Autobiography/ Mad Pride/ Zappa etcetera: http://terriblework.co.uk/capgras_speculations1.htm

Some love being shown to Blake on another thread recently. He's probably the most visible canonical poet in underground artistic activity - Ginsberg, Burroughs, Sinclair, Coil, Jarman all refer to him. So whats the attraction? And what poems or engravings or epigrams do it for you?

Jackson McLow died on Wednesday Amazing, funny, strange and beautiful writing Check: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/maclow/

A feminist take on Bataille? Still reeling from this really. Bloody Nora, as they say.