The Dissensus Reading List

[john eden]

I will always acknowledge Dan, but perhaps not on this thread. It really depends what the thread is for I guess.

 

[version]

Dan Hancox?

 

[john eden]

Now wondering if Steve’s plea for info about Les Dawson could have been a lost chapter in his book on Sonic Warfare that I didn’t read.

 

[john eden]

Dan Hancox?

Shh.🤫

 

[john eden]

I think it’s interesting that this place and a lot of us old-timers have been influenced by things which we shared at a point in time but are now inaccessible.

There is a wyrd occult glamour to that but it is also just simply being really old.

 

[luka]

i reckon dont read anything. write something instead. by the age of 21 you should have read enough books anyway.

 

[luka]

have you ever tried writing version? is it something you'd like to do? or are you too humble and self-effacing?

 

[john eden]

I reckon don’t listen to Luka, kids.

There is too much writing and music making and mixes and podcasting and photos being taken and poetry being written.

 

[john eden]

Don’t do it until you reach a point where you have to do it.

 

[version]

have you ever tried writing version? is it something you'd like to do? or are you too humble and self-effacing?

I've thought about it, but never really tried. I'm not convinced I've enough to say to make it worthwhile.

 

[luka]

Meanwhile, my own kitchen, I wager, is a little Garden of Eden, a mini-Avalon of dinner time in Bow, a triumph of invention over underwhelming circumstances. It's like Madhur Jaffrey crossed with Elizabeth David crossed with Oliver Craner. The British diet is very bad, but very good if you know how to exploit its obscure delights, just like Britain itself.

 

[luka]

The only way I can describe it is by saying that it's like sitting down to an argument with a full bottle of red and a fresh pack of cigs and getting stuck in for the evening and then falling into bed with Claire Luce before leaving in the morning for the Amalfi. Or, it's like this: once when I left for the Arctic, I came back with a beautiful block of ice in a tin for a lovely Soho stripper, and she smiled when I gave it to her. And I'd expected a kick in the chops, or a sneer of derision. Look, what kind of definition do you want exactly? I know you know what I mean, anyway. Don't make me drag this blather out any longer.

This spiel is dedicated to the woman in my life, Monica Bellucci.

 

[luka]

Craner is the greatest comic writer of our times.

 

[version]

Which is his best blog?

 

[luka]

citta violenta

 

[luka]

a time for fear seems to have lost 99% of its content. blogger is whimsical like that. i never deleted my first blog. it just disappeared.

 

[version]

If I can figure out how to get a WordPress url without paying for it, I'll start a blog.

 

[craner]

Craner seems to have had tons of blogs. I've got like five bookmarked atm.

It's true, I could never stay still. I had:

A Time for Fear (2003-4)
Citta Violenta (2003-9)
World War Four (2004-2009)
The Kirkpatrick Mission (basically 2011-2015, although I added old stuff onto it as well)
Cinecittà (which just functioned as a place to put film writing)

These are all defunct now, although most are still accessible.

If I had to stand by any of them, it would be Citta Violenta and the one I do now.

 

[luka]

I'm the greatest and most perceptive Craner critic of our times. I might start a blog and write an essay on the art of Craner.

 

[luka]

Nobody is as astute as me in divining the scope and nature of his achievement and the ways his effects are generated