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jenks

jenks

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martin said:
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE “Non-Binary”

Bit weird when somebody who lived, breathed and gargled transgression opts for the standard rock biog schtick of discussing parents and childhood homes for the first 40 or so pages. Yeah, yeah…get to TG already. When he finally does, I get an extreme case of déjà vu: feels like he or his ghost writer based large sections of this book on Cosy’s recollections (minus the ‘lobbing objects at her head’ bits).

Interesting part where he mentions a friend who worked with Denis Nilsen at the dole office in Cricklewood, as my sister did too. I asked my sister if she recalled Nilsen making a curry and bringing it to share with the staff, and she said no, he rarely talked to anyone. Not saying GPO’s lying, mind you. Curiously, he skims over the TOPY stuff. I was never mad into PTV, except for maybe NY Scum, Themes 2 and that trippy live double album with the Icelandic Asatru monk chants, but it might have been nice to find out more about the ideas behind that group, and how he considered it in retrospect. Incidentally, I can’t help feeling the title was slapped on to cash in on something or other.

I remember the night he died, in March 2020. His send-off was a bit muted: partly because the abuse allegations in Cosy’s book were still fresh, so none of ‘noise Twitter’ wanted to risk being cancelled by their pals, and partly because that seemed to be thee weekend where everybody suddenly started taking COVID seriously. I loved TG, and they would never have had the impact they did without GPO. But fuck me, this book was a slog.

Now starting: Alison Rumfitt's "Tell Me I'm Worthless", courtesy of Bunnyhausen, which I'm hoping will be a lot better!
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Be interested to hear your take on Rumfitt - I read it a couple of months ago and used a passage from it with a class to look at contemporary approaches to the gothic.
 
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william_kent said:
This morning I tried to find the documentary of the Darlington Gorean sex cult on youtube, but unfortunately came up empty handed - which is a shame because I remember it being hilarious - it was like a benefits / poverty porn programme with added BDSM
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Is this it?

 
william_kent

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I was reading another article about "El Ray" - this passage about "clusters of people who live in a very primitive way in remote wooded parts" piqued my interest

But others—those who knew him most intimately—believe he succeeded in achieving vonu, that he continues to live today, deep in the mountains of Southern Oregon, living a fulfilling life as a hunter-gatherer, free at last of the oppression of the state.

A few hundred miles north of the Siskiyou National Forest where Tom Marshall was last seen, in a small town on the edge of another National Forest, the Sheriff spoke to a reporter from a big city newspaper.

Sheriff Robert Holder told the man from the Seattle Times that he plans to trade his police car for a four-wheel drive vehicle.

His county, it seems, contains some of the most inaccessible land in the West. “I’ve heard stories that we may have a subculture, clusters of people who live in a very primitive way in remote wooded parts,” he said. “But it’s hard to evaluate what’s really going on there.”
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version

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It might be mine too. I didn't think much of The Black Dahlia, but the other two and this one are brilliant.
 
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DannyL

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martin said:
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE “Non-Binary”

Bit weird when somebody who lived, breathed and gargled transgression opts for the standard rock biog schtick of discussing parents and childhood homes for the first 40 or so pages. Yeah, yeah…get to TG already. When he finally does, I get an extreme case of déjà vu: feels like he or his ghost writer based large sections of this book on Cosy’s recollections (minus the ‘lobbing objects at her head’ bits).

Interesting part where he mentions a friend who worked with Denis Nilsen at the dole office in Cricklewood, as my sister did too. I asked my sister if she recalled Nilsen making a curry and bringing it to share with the staff, and she said no, he rarely talked to anyone. Not saying GPO’s lying, mind you. Curiously, he skims over the TOPY stuff. I was never mad into PTV, except for maybe NY Scum, Themes 2 and that trippy live double album with the Icelandic Asatru monk chants, but it might have been nice to find out more about the ideas behind that group, and how he considered it in retrospect. Incidentally, I can’t help feeling the title was slapped on to cash in on something or other.

I remember the night he died, in March 2020. His send-off was a bit muted: partly because the abuse allegations in Cosy’s book were still fresh, so none of ‘noise Twitter’ wanted to risk being cancelled by their pals, and partly because that seemed to be thee weekend where everybody suddenly started taking COVID seriously. I loved TG, and they would never have had the impact they did without GPO. But fuck me, this book was a slog.

Now starting: Alison Rumfitt's "Tell Me I'm Worthless", courtesy of Bunnyhausen, which I'm hoping will be a lot better!
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Lots of what he did later on was driven by the quest for cash. I wrote a (very nice) review of a book of his years ago, which was a collection of his artwork and collages. I didn't say it in the review but it was a pretty obvious attempt to move into the fine art market and get rich.

Interesting to hear he skimmed over TOPY. Probably because he managed to fuck off and annoy almost everyone he left behind.
 
luka

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ive read a bit since not reading for a year or so. i read maiden castle by cowper powys. liked that a lot. read mayor of castlebridge simply cos maiden castle is a very loose riff on it. i wouldnt bother with that if i were you. re-read steppenwolf hence alienated man thread. loved that. might read wolf solent now. not sure.
 
luka

luka

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read another g. greene too. in my opinion the very best greene. it was set in argentina. forgotten the name of it. fantastic book.
 
luka

luka

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me and @woops did some piss-ups during the period of reading it that will live in legend forever. shattered all known records.
all day all night boozing. hundreds of pounds pissed up the wall for no reason. ordering everything in the bar. lillet? whats that? we'll
have that. permanant physical and emotional damage incurred.
 
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