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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 23m

#nowplaying Autumnal.

An album release on compact disc: Sunset Mission (2000) by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.

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Pam Grossman @phantasmaphile.bsky.social · 2h

MAGIC MAKER IS OUT NOW! May it help you make the magic you’re meant to. So mote it be and SO IT IS 🪄♾️💫

Thanks so much to those of you who have picked one up already - or who are about to! I’m so grateful to you.

Here’s to creativity, imagination, and the Mercurial magic of making things. ✨🩶✨

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 3h

What I didn't know is that Utpatel had done a few more illustrations for the book, none of them as good as the above, unfortunately. "Sluggish sales, poor-quality binding and innumerable typographical errors led to over 200 copies being destroyed instead of distributed."

An illustration by Frank Utpatel from The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft: The unnnamed narrator is watching Zadok, the two drunk, guzzling a bottle of whiskey. Beneath the illustration are the words: "...Odd how he could stand so much whiskey."

An illustration by Frank Utpatel from The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft: Humanoid piscine figures creep along a street at night. One of them holds a lamp.

An illustration by Frank Utpatel from The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft: More humanoid piscine figures thronged outdoors at night. Are they pursuing the narrator? Hard to tell.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 3h

An illustration by Frank Utpatel for the first publication of The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft, 1936. I've always liked the inadvertent Expressionism of this, it's very different from the Weird Tales norm. WT rejected the story for reasons of length so it was published as a book.

A pen-and-ink illustration with heavy cross-hatching showing the back view of a male figure standing at the top of a steep street looking down on a coastal town of decayed houses and a ruined church. The black sea in the distance is lit by a full moon. Beneath the illustration are the words: "I looked over the squalid sea of roofs below me."

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 21h

#nowplaying Drone du jour.

An album relase on compact disc: The Sky Torn Apart (2018) by Paul Schütze.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 21h

It's a first-rate compilation.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

New blog post: Ambagious Tactics

Ambagious Tactics

Ambagious Tactics is a box containing 120 small white cards, most of which show a short aphorism, suggestion or piece of advice for the creatively-minded. A few cards at the end of the box feature line drawings instead of words; there are also three blank cards for the user's own contributions. Anyone familiar with Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies…

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

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.O.rang Herd Of Instinct The Wire , 1994 by Simon Reynolds Talk Talk always were a band teetering on the brink of 'too-much...

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

.O.Rang: Paul Webb and Lee Harris from Talk Talk, plus Beth Gibbons, Matt Johnson and others. More stuff from the 1990s that ought to be reissued, originals are increasingly scarce and expensive.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

#nowplaying Always have to play them one after the other.

An album release on compact disc, and a CD EP: Herd Of Instinct (1994) and Spoor (1994), both by .O.Rang.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 1d

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

#nowplaying Drone Month.

A 2-CD compilation album: Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) by Various Artists. Compiled by Kevin Martin.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

Ta. Always a challenge to do it without running the sentence too far.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

#nowplaying Autumnal. (Well, it has a version of Autumn Leaves on it...)

An album release on compact disc: Ellington Indigos (1958) by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 12th 802701 - George Wells' time machine finally stops travelling forward. After saving Weena, and meeting the Eloi, he discovers the underground race known as Morlocks.

📽️📅 The Time Machine (1960)

3 Screenshots from the movie "The Time Machine" (1960): First, a close-up of the time machine's control panel with colorful dials and ornate detailing, indicating a time of October 12. Second, a scene with a man and a woman sitting on steps, engaged in a serious conversation with the subtitle "Twenty of your friends were watching you drown." Third, a group of Morlocks, creatures with pale skin and white hair, standing in a cave-like environment, exuding a menacing presence.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

A yellow badge with with word AKLO printed in black inside a double-lined oval frame.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Amour fou.

A pair of badges for the Mad Love publishing imprint each of which shows a black heart dripping onto the handwritten words "Mad Love".

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

It's interesting seeing them thrash out the issues in real time. And with no idea of what was coming ten years down the line...

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Every time Mescalina is mentioned I imagine a small dog wandering around a house in Canada in the 1950s, vibrating like one of Louis Wain's cats.

$Six drawings/paintings of cats by Louis Wain in various stages of psychotropic flux, from the straightforwardly representational to the fractally polychrome abstract.$

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Reading a book of letters between Aldous Huxley and Humphrey Osmond (psychiatrist, psychedelic researcher & the man who coined the word "psychedelic"), one of the minor revelations is that the Osmond household included a chihuahua they named "Mescalina".

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Odd, StudioCanal released it on BD only two years ago. Maybe he's talking about a US version?

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

New blog post: Weekend links 799

Weekend links 799

A Night Alarm: The Advance! (1871) by Charles West Cope. • At Spoon & Tamago: Meet the artist creating humorous, nihonga-style images of daily life with their rescue cat. • The thirteenth installment of Smoky Man’s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi). • New music: I Remember I Forget by Yasmine Hamdan; …

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Shambleau is great! I've got a small paperback with all the Jirel stories. Tempted to read some of them again.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

One of my fragile copies of Weird Tales (Feb. 1935) contains a Gertrude Hemken letter in which she praises CL Moore and her Jirel of Joiry stories (quite right, too), and suggests that if the USA had a Conan of its own "there wouldn't be any depression" (debatable).

A photo of the letters page of Weird Tales magazine with the following section highlighted.

"Jirel of Joiry

Gertrude Hemken, of Chicago, writes: "About C. L. Moore and The Black God's Kiss: that Amazon, Jirel, is a gal after me own heart, by gum. Somehow I always preferred women of that type, to clinging vines, or sweet little ones who shudder at the thought of killing a fly. Of course, it isn't supposed to be nice for women to curse a blue streak as Jirel did, but, shucks, it makes her all the more interesting (to me). And now we find Jirel again in this issue (December). Gosh,I could stand her for every issue, and keep yelling for more. She's just that kind of a girl. What more can I say but that I am immensely fond of her, and stand a bit in awe of such a maid, although fictitious? Long live C. L. Moore, who has the ability to create such dynamic characters as Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith of the skyspaces. I must also commend Robert E. Howard for his new Conan story. Such a brave man as Conan may exist only in fiction, but, doggone it, we should have such men in our times. Maybe there wouldn't be any depression. Conan, like Jirel, is a dynamic character — what would happen should the two ever meet some day? Or maybe I'm crazy. I don't know, I don't care, but I'd do without all my other reading matter rather than give up WT. It takes me from the realm of harsh reality to enchanted gardens that no man can ever conceive other than in his mind. To descend the dizzying..."

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 3d

I don't like to burst bubbles, but this is from the Mar 1938 issue of WEIRD TALES, and was in a letter from Gertrude Hemken (1912-1992). Who was not a teenage girl, but one of the prolific letter-writers in WEIRD TALES during its initial run (1923-1954).

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