30 years ago (missed the anniversary) - first time I saw Dr Ralph Stanley, Gettysburg bluegrass festival 1996. youtu.be/aDAvnWl5QLQ?...

Except that's not just a "skeletal x-ray version!" This is actually a pretty clever, almost perfectly-suited reference with a lot of layers.

I disabled the AI in Acrobat and it runs SO much faster now.

It's a bit offensive to open a PDF of a document I've spent days / weeks writing, an artist spent days / weeks illustrating, and a designer spent days / weeks designing, and it says at the top, 'This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant.'

I don't wanna brag but today I actually GOT a delay repay refund from a train company.

Gots me some more Dead The Long Years - my psychogeographic novella of magick & modernism in London, 1912! To celebrate, everything at the ol' B.C. is 10% off with the code: ione jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/dead-t...

Game on, Nige.

I once resigned from a job I wasn’t really doing, but it was an electronics factory in the 1980s, and I didn’t lie and say I really loved it either.

Loved ‘Dead the Long Year’ by @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social, a moving evocation of bohemian London just before the Great War, centred on the dancer known as Ione de Forest. Hauntology, psychogeography, and temporal dislocation, with appearances by Arthur Machen, and Victor Neuberg!

Hey since google's fracking useless at this point what search engine do you use instead?

Fuck it, I'm going in.

My interests in American experimental film are slim, and here are most of them: Ken Jacobs. Stan Brakhage. Carnegie Museum of Art film dept. Binghamton Cinema Dept. Sally Dixon. And here is one sentence of a letter from Brakhage to Dixon, containing them all.

New Uncanny Landscapes episode: interview w Stuart Bowditch about his field recording project Constable Ambisonic, recording the locations of John Constable's iconic paintings. Excellent on sound art, landscape in the 21st c, listening as reifying ... uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/constable-...

New zine action courtesy of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social @simonreynolds.bsky.social Michael Smith #fanzine

This Thursday evening I'll be in York for a (free!) screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, plus Q&A and all that good stuff. Brought to you by the York Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group. No ££ / Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-mak...

Report of bull-baiting accident at Hove, Sussex, 1810. I wish newspapers still wrote like this. 'compact phalanx' should be the new collective noun for multiple shoegaze bands.

i mean obviously over simplifying here but I do think a fairly key qualification for the next labour leader should be "proud determination to make us less, not more, dependent on people who openly want to destroy progressive values and incite pogroms"

Shot

Data centre electricity demand could exceed power usage of entire country

What would be really useful would be an encyclopedia of escaping 21st c. Technofeudalism/tollbooth capitalism. A website or other platform that collects info on alternatives to … everything that is shit. Is there such a thing?

Thinking tonight of one of my favourite artworks, Gerard Byrne's series of photographs, 'A country road. A tree. Evening.'

New zines: poetry piece about Enclosure for the 250tj birthday of John Constable, and a small collaborative piece on psychogeography and AI data centres! Avail separately or as a bundle… jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch

The problem with late capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money

Finally

Nick Cave / Flaming Lips & more Brighton next month - 3 tix for sale; 2 adult 1 kid. Face value. Bought these in Sept and obviously somethings come up since… anyone?

At the risk of being a total saddo, a bit of Antiques Road Trip at lunch only to discover the auctioneer has a Crass badge?!

Rutland Weekend Television (2nd June 1975). Time to relax with the latest edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test.

This is a messed-up world for sure but there are also literally too many amazing books and records and films and ideas to devour at the moment and that’s gotta count for something.

New zine/pamphlet/booklet/whateves - A Celebration of the General; a poem of enclosure with words by Justin Hopper, artwork by Tom Eglington and design by Stefan Musgrove. Now available... jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/a-cele...

New zines incoming next weekend, with gorgeous covers (and insides) designed by Stefan Musgrove of Moth House Studios: A Celebration of the General (found poetry of enclosure for Constable 250) and They Live By Lamp Light (psychogeographic strategies for data centres, for Weirding Sustainability)

Events in June - 4th in Norwich at the Bookhive, 5the in Cambridge at the Weirding Sustainability Symposium, 18th in York and 19th in Sussex - all FREE but for Sussex Retold. linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion for the 🔗 s

New game: decrease a graffiti writer. I’ll start:

An ultra low-budget adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, made by a school in Fulham in 1972. Realistically the most interesting film you'll watch this year. youtu.be/Yhht9DFqlxU?...

I went on the Uncanny Landscapes podcast to discuss the complex natural and social history of Epping Forest, the problems of rewilding and nature cure orthodoxy, sex, and instinctual fear of woodland at night. Images from Epping Forest, earlier. uncannylandscapes.podbean.com

On 4 June I’ll be at The BookHive in Norwich, chatting to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social about ‘Paradise’ and ‘Dead The Long Year’. I imagine a conversation about landscape, thresholds, Modernism, art, magic and much more. Come join us! It’s free - reserve your place at www.thebookhive.co.uk/evebnts/

I'm a huge fan of Uncanny Landscapes, so massive thanks to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social for having me along. I still love raving about Epping Forest, now seven years after Out Of The Woods was published. www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/luke-...

Bone tired, so am going to the door in the wood. I may be some time.

My man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Tha missus has been making crochet cryptids and such. Crochet Cthulhu is adorable.

A few reasons to order books from Longbarrow Press: 1. First-rate poems 2. Scrupulously edited 3. Meticulously designed 4. Handsomely produced 5. Fastidiously packaged longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Christopher Budd, of Shindig! and Belbury Poly fame, has released a springtime mix of his current listenings in (mostly) psychedelic pop www.mixcloud.com/cbudd/spring...

I always preferred Billy Bragg's love songs to his political stuff.

"What a queer duck!" —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 Dec 1933 re: Aleister Crowley

At some point being a parent began to mean 40+ WhatsApp’s before 8am.

Lots of deadline pressure today and, unrelated, some granola just fell out of my hair. I swear it didn't used to be this way.

Happy 143rd birth-anniversary to Victor B. Neuburg - poet, publisher, occultist, here in a very rare image from 1917.