Truth and Lies at Christmas – a Seasonal Encounter With Mr Luke Haines 2
‘There is no mental illness in your own family, is there, sir?’
My concern was met by a slight raising of Mr Haines’s hand, which then tilted from side to side a couple of times, like an aircraft signalling with its wings. As it did so, he watched it carefully, with brows briefly knotted. It was as if he suspected it of having taken on the kind of autonomous existence developed by “Pyewhacket” – as Peter, the narrator of Mr Robert Irwin’s novel Satan Wants Me, names his own right hand when it begins to write autonomously and against his own will.
Read the second part of Tim Mitchell‘s Christmas story.
The Missing Links
Issue 11 of the extraordinary Taiwan-based White Fungus to be launched in NYC on 14 January. * “This could so easily have been a shoddy cash-in, but in throwing down the gauntlet for pop music to provide more than entertainment, Lydon is back where he belongs”. * On Terry Taylor. * FLicKeR — the story […]
A 3:AM Xmas: Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne & co. are dreaming.