Tintinnalogia

A very quick and visually oriented post catching up on various things - it's been a busy time and I'm currently involved in moving house to somewhere hopefully a little more permanent. It's very quiet place that should suit the babies for at least a couple of years…

My copy of Waning Moon's edition of Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus arrived a couple of weeks ago. More images presently, but I must say I'm very impressed by the book's construction - quality printing and paper with great materials, sensitively brought together. As someone previously commented, my chapter is somewhat contradictory compared to the more overarching speculations on either side of it, but I am thankful to Terri and John for giving me the opportunity to submit my opinions on a text that has held sway over various aspects of my life since one fateful day in 1998.

Shortly to be released on Ikuisuus is XETB's The Crooked Pool. It's a double CDr, around an hour and twenty minutes in total. It could have been a single proper CD (which would have been my first) but I don't really agree with the trend for filling CDs with as much material as possible. 40-minute sections are perfect to my mind and ears. One CD is very modal, static and acoustic, the other a bit more experimental.

To follow up my post on Lenkiewicz' book binding: I've adapted this technique with some success. I made a prototype of the kind of thing that could be coming out of Larkfall Press later this year:

Abital, the follow up to Psychogeographia Ruralis, will definitely be in this kind of format - an A6 hardcover book, roughly and rustically bound. The final part of the trilogy concerning the urban genii locorum will most likely be similar in feel to old stapled & photocopied anarcho-punk zines.

Andrew Sharp's essay on Wyrd in Poetry, Theory and Praxis will be a joint collaboration with English Heretic and incorporate supplementary material putting Sharp's original lecture in context, along with supplementary material from other contributors.

More soon - a post about the influence of John Dee on XETB and a considered review of R.J. Stewart's Music and the Elemental Psyche already on the cards, along with some belated Heydoniana. While you wait, why not listen to Melvyn Brag, Peter Forshaw, Angela Voss and Jim Bennett discuss my favourite subject: The Music of the Spheres?

Unexpectedly, two months early, I now have two children! Even more unexpectedly one of them is a boy! On the basis of early scans we'd been told they were two girls. Fortunately we've got lots of hand-me-downs from Neil Campbell's two sons, so plenty of boys clothes for him to wear. Their names are Mervyn and Stella, they had a trouble-free birth, just in time for Lammas night! Thanks to everyone who has helped and offered help, especially Adrian H for driving us to hospital at very short notice!


They interrupted my printing of XETB and English Heretic related linocuts. Those babies have no sense of timing!