a bibliography of sorts

The last day of November & postings have been decidedly infrequent. Thanks to Metodi for upbraiding me.

Old Year Resolutions exist too - I will try to resume more frequent entries. Honest.

Anyway, this list of books & CDs describes a trajectory of sorts for the past two months.

* Nietzsche – Birth of Tragedy & All Too Human

(to which we return, and return, and return ...)

* Tanner – Nietzsche, A Short Introduction

(pulled it off the shelf 'on the off chance')

* Deleuze – Nietzsche & Philosophy

(the book I should have read 15 years ago - makes Anti-Oedipus & Thousand Plateaus make a lot more sense)

* Holderlin – Essays & Letters on Theory; Poems

(mad poet-tower-fragment obsessions)

* O’Leary – Gnostic Contagion, Robert Duncan & The Poetry of Illness

(fascinated by accounts of Duncan's effect on students - strange unaccountable illnesses - (force fields/radiation?))

* Robert Duncan – Letters to Denise Levertov & Caesar’s Gate & Roots & Branches

(inexhaustible)

* Schiller – On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

(unopened, to be honest)

* W.B. Yeats – A Vision

(memories of a lecture series by Frances Warner. Was I really listening?)

* Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)

(the light fading in Worcester gardens ... )

* Hans Christian Andersen tales etc.

(how he is misrepresented)

* Gibson – Neuromancer

(I can take about a chapter at one sitting - but more interesting than I remember)

* McGregor – if nobody speaks of remarkable things

(started it & liked it & but ultimately remain unconvinced)

* Bonney – Blade Pitch Control Unit

(wish I still had his reading on Resonance FM on minidisc)

* Graham Foust – both volumes

(wow!)

* Pound – Selected Prose

(going cheap in the Reading Oxfam bookshop)


* David Toop – Haunted Weather & Ocean of Sound

(he has generous ears)

* Mondo 2000 A User’s Guide

(dodgy & fascinating)

* Berlioz – Memoirs

(Nelly was right)

* Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan

(finally I get to know the books behind the name)

* The Gnostic Bible & The Gnostic Gospels (Pagels)

(like a whisper in the ear)

* Echoes of the Ancient Skies (Krupp)
* The Monthly Sky Guide (Ridpath & Tirion)
* Philip’s Guide to the Stars (Moore)
* Pi in the Sky (Poynder)
* The Mapping of the Heavens (Whitfield)

(so that's what's going on in the sky)

* Celtic Mysteries (Sharkey)

(what has been erased - or nearly)

* The Amazing Brain (Macaulay)
* The Human Brain (Corrick)

(attempt at getting medical verification for poetic hunches)

* Jakob Boehme writings

(good enough for Duncan so good enough for me)

* The Mystery of Numbers (Schimmel)

(coincidentally watching CBeebies & a show in which numbers have magic powers)

• Aphex Twin

(especially the prepared piano-sounding stuff)

• Boards of Canada

(womb radio documentaries)

• Ivor Cutler

(Peel nostalgia & English Dada)

• Joanna Newsom

(I see Ron Silliman listens to her too)

• Gravenhurst

(one lovely track - the rest 'close but no cigar')

• Glenn Gould (the Wagner transcriptions for piano)

(yes!)

• Jimi Tenor

(Finnish sleaze - some great brass parts)

• The Fall

(Mark E. Smith is a media detergent)

• Mark Wastell

(sadly the concepts sound more interesting than the CDs - maybe recording just doesn't do him justice?)

• Jon Hassell

(undecided)