imomus

By admin | July 16, 2017

Here are various Momus links, mostly sleeping… imomus Click Opera Early LPs to listen to and sigh are here.

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JGB does Advertising

By admin | July 9, 2017

Following on from his 1958 Project for a New Novel, Ballard made this series of  five ‘Advertiser’s Announcements’ created and published from 1967 to 1971 in Ambit magazine. According to Ballard: ‘Back in the late 60s I produced a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications (Ambit, New Worlds, Ark and various continental alternative magazines),…

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I Love Dick on the telly

By admin | June 18, 2017

And I can’t be the only one. Lots to love in Jill Soloway’s  TV version of Kraus’ novel. Excruciating in its accuracy of artists and desire. Hilarious of course. Some episodes directed by Andrea Arnold! Local fact: Ciara Philips has been in a lift with K. Bacon.

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The Handmaid’s Tale 2017

By admin | June 18, 2017

This 1985 Atwood has never shifted from my top ten, and, like 1984, it works because there’s nothing in it that isn’t happening right now, to someone, somewhere. While Orwell’s future is made richer with language (it includes a glossary), Atwood’s uses small, creeping increments of privation in the hope our ears prick up a…

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Free Fire

By admin | April 14, 2017

The new Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump film is so well written, there’s not a bullet that doesn’t count. The only downside for me is genre, but that’s a personal thing, init. When there’s a Wheatley/Jump American high school film out… Free Fire Trailer but don’t watch this before you get to the pictures… Interview here.

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Twilight City, 1989

By admin | April 14, 2017

Made for Channel 4, Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City is the absolute, no question, stand-out work at the CCA’s The Sky is Falling show. Get along, get comfy and watch it all… Trailers for three other Black Audio Film Collective works here.

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