The Cardinal & The Corpse / The Falconer / Asylum (Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair 1992 - 2000)

The Cardinal & The Corpse The Falconer 

...and the final part of the trilogy, Asylum (2000) can be watched on Vimeo 

HERE 

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Reimagining Loneliness: In Conversation with Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit

Return of the Reforgotten

Stewart Home - Shamen of Discontent or The Revenge of The Mirror People: A Detective Story In Four Acts

I was sending a message to Adam of the Bagging Area parish and while chewcking up the details of Peter Whitehead's Wholly Communion film I found that Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's The Falconer film, which also has the added bonus of featuring Dave McKean's special effects and animation, had been uploaded online. 

Man I have been waiting to see this for SO long and then also realised that the complete trilogy can now be viewed.

Where to start?

Well when I first moved to London in 77/8 I was soon buying books with alarming regularity from Iain Sinclair's stall down in Islington's Camden Passage. I'd been introduced to him by Mike Hart, who had let me crash with him and his kid Stephen at their place in Wood Green until I got myself sorted out in the Big Smoke.

When I first saw Radio On I wasn't all that impressed to be honest and then I remembered that all the people telling me to see it were the same ones that had recommended Eraserhead to me the previous year. (I love Chris's novels tho).  Dave McKean? Well...he's been on the blog a few times

So many boxes are ticked. Interesting that some of the links above redirect to the very early days of Exile. And the cast? Well I knew a fair few of them back in my London days...anyway enjoy the films as much as I did. 

You never know you might get a few a few curiosities piqued...

BONUS

Sodom & Begorrah (A Christy Moore Mix)

Tracklist: 

Who Cares? - Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh - The Auld Triangle - Poitin - Whiskey In The Jar - Delirium Tremens - Cunla/The Well Below The Valley (Planxty) - Irish Ways and Irish Laws (Moving Hearts) - Quiet Desperation - Ordinary Man - Middle Of The Island (with Sinéad O'Connor) 

For CathyX

Heading Home Mix

Tracklist: 

1 Hallelujah - The Maffia 

2 Microtonics 09 - Broadcast 

3 Voice From The Gallery - Sainkho & Nicholas Lam 

4 II - Andy Stott 

5 Cala LLonga - Prins Thomas 

6 Take It (Lauer Remix Dub) - Black Cab 

7 88 Tram - Adam X 

8 Murder One - Alan Vega 

9 The Waiting Room - Mark Stewart & The Maffia 

 #nextstopplease 

 #thankfullynotlivinginbundoora

47 Minutes Until The End of The World (The Hate Keeps Passing On) Mix

Tracklist: 

1 Surface Tension - Rob St. John 

2 R.A.F. - Eno & Snatch 

3 Knife Slits Water (12" Mix) - A Certain Ratio 

4 Europa - Automat 

5 The Smoke (Dennis Bovell RMX) - The Smile 

6 Release The Pressure (Adrian Sherwood Mix) - Leftfield
7 Death March (Prurient Remix) - Algiers 

8 30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu

For Gavin Martin (R.I.P.)

ReelingandarockingawopbopaloobopalopbamboomaTackhead Mix

'a drug band with a rock problem'

Pills, Thrills, and Jaffa Cakes Mix

Tracklist: 

1 Under The Milky Way Emily Barker 

2 I Had A Dream Joe Cat Power 

3 Kid Codeine The Delines 

4 I Couldn't Help it If I Tried Dexys Midnight Runners 

5 No Time For Hello Harry Beckett 

6 Thème de Yoyo Art Ensemble of Chicago 

7 Misty Winter Digital Mystikz 

8 Stoat The Bug (ft Jason Williamson) 

9 Continue to Fight (Ramjacs Gloriously Funky Mix) Indigenous Resistance 

10 Fear No Man Little Simz 

11 Am I Just A Man Steve Mason 

12 Only Love Can Break Your Heart Saint Etienne 

Black Dot (220mcg) Mix

Tracklist: 

1 A Gathering of the Tribe Jon Hopkins / Vylana 

2 Acid Lies, Ageless Loves Earth House Hold 

3 Master Builder Gong 

4 Invisible Burning Sussan Deyhim 

5 Dance With Me Germany XTC 

6 An Even Whiter Car The Associates 

7 I Should Have Known Better Wire 

8 White Car In Germany The Associates 

9 Funk You Up (Two Lone Swordsmen remix) The Sequence

Win Red Valentine Original Art (International Edition)

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Mainline (Music For Scribbles) Mix

A wee mix I've just put together to help with my scribbling 

Tracklist: 

1 Written On The Forehead (Demo) PJ H 

2 Cyst Muslimgauze 

3 A Pair Of Brown Eyes Cat Power 

4 Mainline SPZ 

5 Happy (Slow Burner) Michael Rother 

6 Beyond Good & Evil boris 

7 The Lash Wovenhand 

8 Loose The Idiot Dogs GY!BE 

9 Ono Yoko The Jesus & Mary Chain 

10 The Letter Steve Mason 

11 Written On The Forehead PJH

About me

Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor (Heathrow 1970)

 Richard Burton carrying his Olivetti Valentine typewriter

Ad Break: Olivetti Valentine by Milton Glaser

Olivetti's 'Valentine' typewriter

One of THE design classics of the twentieth century. 

The typewriter was designed by Olivetti's Perry King and Ettore Sottsass (who later went on to form The Memphis Group)

Although not a commercial success at the time it has now a part of the design collection of such museums as New York's The Met and MOMA and Melbourne Museum

The typewriter was also featured in Alex's bedroom in the film of A Clockwork Orange

Contemporary adverts

How Ettore Sottsass made the typewriter sexy

Be My (Blue) Valentine

How I got there...

Background is Be My Valentine Repeater 

(written horizontally and vertically producing abstract pattern)

A blue ink wash was a BIG mistake

Start over

Glass breaking due to miniscule difference in size of frame. 

Not once but twice

But...finally we arrived there