working with Keith Rowe so extensively and deeply on Erstwhile is the professional achievement I’m most proud of in my life, we put out 24 releases containing 39 CDs from 2000-2021. the great Marc Medwin has written about all 24 in a newly posted epic piece on ‘surround’, please check it out.

Theo Angelopoulos retrospective in London: www.ica.art/films/angelo...

RIP KEN JACOBS one of the last masters of lo-fi avant garde cinema. if you don't know his work, do yourself a favor and check it out no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...

Something new from this corner of the internet: a newsletter! It will be irregular, not too frequent, and full of Ursula-related news. The first one, which went out last week, contains a note from Theo Downes-Le Guin, explaining a bit of the why and the wherefore. Here's part of that note.

This is a huge loss in my culture www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Robert Forster and his Swedish Band, Frankfurt, Zoom, Oct. 6th 2025

Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller, 1966), my favourite adaptation.

I've just learned about ‘Sandown Sam’ via the latest Fortean Times – a ghost, alien, cryptid, time traveller clown who appeared to two children on the Isle of Wight in 1973. This blog post has a good summary of the story and theories: www.curiousarchive.com/sam-the-sand...

R.I.P John Woodvine. Seen here in New Scotland Yard - Point of Impact (22nd April 1972).

RIP John Woodvine. He, Jenny Agutter & Brian Glover reprised their movie roles in our BBC Radio ‘An American Werewolf In London’. In rehearsal I took him through an extra scene I had written (with John Landis’s permission). “Don’t worry Dirk”, said John W, “I’ll do my best to improve your writing…”

Restored Hogarth murals at London hospital open to public for first time

Easy to tell which parts were designed by Gaudi before his death

Uhhhhhohhhhhhh

You all really dug the Harlequin trailer on Saturday, so let's open the vault up again and check out some of the wild international posters... (The Thai one is our favourite) Harlequin 4K: tinyurl.com/5n7yn9wc Harlequin Blu: tinyurl.com/c3nbdntb

Portal number 339.

Patented by Louis Lumière in 1900, the Photorama consists of projecting a 360° photograph, presenting a complete tour of the horizon in a round room. The photo is taken in a single shot using a device called a Periphote.

Nancy Carroll by Cecil Beaton for Vanity Fair magazine, 1931.

Happy birthday to Richard Jobson youtu.be/-XzmJ3S_wQo?...

For a glimpse into university life in the late 19th century, this complaint letter from May 26 1893 from the Brighton School of Art archive. Needless to say campus life in Brighton has come a long way since then!

Painting by Peggie Blizard ‘Yellow Roses’ Oil on panel. Size 24 x 18 Inches.

It's interesting that Riddell's supernatural tales comprised only a small fraction of her total literary output, but this plaque specifically commemorates her ghost stories. I wonder what she would have thought of this?

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

Truly extraordinary documentary. One that was a formative influence on my desire to write fiction in ways I can’t quite articulate. Something about the uneasy collision of ambition & disappointment, how we can appear absurd in our most profoundly serious moments & the forces of place that shape us

Harold Budd Abandoned Cities Morning listening

Burn the witch. #NowWatching City of the Dead (1960) #horrorsky #HolyHorror #Spooktober

oh no watching video on English Highwaymen and jotting stuff down...

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

Designer Christopher Dresser, dreamed of creating an art colony in Middlesbrough. Though overshadowed by William Morris, he was a pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement. Dresser pioneered some of the first designer labels in ceramics, wallpaper, glass and textiles. In 1879 he 1/3

Big pro-teacher protest at #ableg in #yeg the day before a province-wide strike shuts down schooling.

@ono-ch1.bsky.social @thesociallondon.bsky.social Back by Dope Demand! #BarTrax youtu.be/Ws6yA-EVHMI?...

#OnThisDay, 5 Oct 1789, thousands of women instigate and lead the March on Versailles. They - along with revolutionaries who join them - besiege the Palace to demand cheap bread. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #RevolutionaryWomen 🗃️ 1/2

sunday service

John Lee Hooker & The Groundhogs: Boom Boom youtu.be/yLOXCzobsT4 (live heute vor 61 Jahren, am 5. Oktober 1964)

Must be referring to the 1980 article by Mark Traugott--1 I still teach in my organizational soc courses--explaining why, when 2 similarly oppressed grps of Parisian workers had the chance to participate in the Insurrection of 1848, only 1 grp actually mobilized: the 1s who lived next to each other.

Come for a spontaneous writing overnighter. Devouring this. Essential for US politics junkies. @dantjenks.bsky.social have you read these? Corruptions Of Empire is outstanding too. Like HST but an English aristo with a hammer and sickle instead of a crack pipe 😝 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

That was such a beautiful evening with Edwyn Collins at the Royal Festival Hall. Will share some more pics and vids tomorrow, but here's one of Paul Cook, Edwyn, Dennis Bovell and Vic Godard at the end of the show

Painting by Mia Bergeron ‘Will O Wisps’ Oil on panel. www.instagram.com/p/DOgm9wkkav...

To explore the edge of criticality, Los Alamos physicists built a “nude” uranium assembly—no shielding, no moderation. They christened it the Lady Godiva device.

I just stumbled across a bootleg DVD site and a bunch of the titles made me think “That’s not rare, they have like three copies at my local video store,” only to realize that store’s been closed for almost 20 years, and most of those titles probably went out of print 20 years before that :(

Last night I dreamt I went to record shops again.

I had so many moments when I almost scrapped this remix, so I'm very happy it's been getting a few airings

There was no-one better than Brett.

"Dying was a new experience. It was part of it that he should be sorting feathers, feathers from long-dead birds, and heavy because of that. A wind along the floor blew him away from the feathers. It was part of dying that a dragon came in and curled up by his feet. It seemed kindly intentioned..."

Images from films shot by cinematographer John Alton - BOTD in 1901 T-Men (1947) He Walked by Night (1948) The Crooked Way (1949) The Big Combo (1955)

Deer stand on a lawn in a forest of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

This is great. How technology drives culture and vice versa.

This seems to be the second half of a 1982 documentary about rural Irish life made for the BBC, I stumbled across it last night and found remarkable viewing. The faces of the men, particularly; you just don't see faces like this anymore. youtu.be/gnmS_kI_p8c?...

#ChallengephotoADay 2025 #Photography #fmspad October 3: something striped quelque chose de rayé Bayonne

OMG I AM *SO* UP FOR THIS (ps: let's have a bread!) observer.co.uk/culture/art/...