{"id":3525,"date":"2008-10-24T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-96\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T10:53:44","slug":"the-missing-links-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-96\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2969551720_701a52fe1b_m.jpg\"The Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon<\/a> 2008. * Bad Idea<\/em> magazine<\/a> have launched a new blog and will now be holding a monthly event in London (starting on 30th October) called the Butcher’s Shop<\/a>. * Joe Stretch<\/a> in City Life<\/em><\/a>: “Human beings are shit. Aren’t they though? They’re shit. Facebook is not the lie, that’s the lie \u2014 that human beings are at all interesting.”<\/em> * Gerry Feehily<\/a> on Houellebecq\/BHL<\/a>: “Solitude and modesty are key words. No-one, as far as I know, begrudges the retiring Leclezio his Nobel<\/a>, while busy BHL and Houellebecq are two public enemies who not only make the hype, they believe it too”<\/em>. * When Maupassant met Swinburne<\/a>: “Goncourt deliberately drew on Maupassant’s description of Swinburne and Powell when writing his novel <\/em>La Faustin (1882), in which an 18th-century English sadist called George Selwyn not only displays many of Swinburne’s mannerisms, but also happens to retire to a cottage on the coast called Chaumi\u00c3\u00a8re de Dolmanc \u00e9. However, all of Maupassant’s versions, despite their dwelling on perversity, are underpinned by deep admiration for the duo: for their literary and artistic passion, their rejection of bourgeois living, their recklessness and bravado.”<\/em> * Graham Vickers<\/strong> on Lolita<\/em><\/a>. * Bob Geldof <\/strong>and Margaret Thatcher<\/strong> hook up<\/a> at poetry event! * On<\/a> Warhol<\/strong>‘s Polaroids<\/a>: “In these Polaroids, the stars, famous as they are, look miscast in their own lives”<\/em> (plus Warhol <\/a>at the Hayward). * The return of Liquid Liquid<\/a>: “There was always some intellectualising going on, mostly about what we didn’t want to sound like”<\/em>. * Billy Childish<\/a> in the Sunday Times<\/em>: “The poet laureate, Andrew Motion, said of Childish: ‘He looks like he’s having more fun being a poet than I am'”<\/em>. * Steampunk<\/a> goes overground<\/a>. * Ray Lowry<\/a> is no more<\/a>. * The Long Blondes<\/a> R.I.P. * Iain Sinclair<\/a> vs Hackney. * On the British Library’s The Spoken Word<\/em><\/a> CD: “…One of the most poignant recordings is Joe Orton<\/a>, a week before he was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. He explains he has done well out of Loot<\/em> but wants to save his money ‘because I shan’t always be young and I don’t want to do anything grand with it, because there’s nothing I particularly want to do, but I would like to sort of put it away so that when I’m not writing any more … I shall be able to go away and do something else.’ He adds: ‘I only have so much inspiration. I think any playwright does. It’s like a boxer, a really good playwright’s career is quite short. A boxer’s career is usually 10 years and then they start to get punchy, which I think playwrights do as well. Shakespeare’s career was pretty short … probably 15 years. And he wrote some pretty rum plays at the beginning of his life. I hope I’ve never written anything as bad as the early Shakespeares.'” * Hideo Okuda<\/a> reviewed by 3:AM<\/strong>‘s Steve Finbow<\/a>. * Joseph Ridgwell<\/a> interviewed by sundry girl bands. * You can read Jason Michel<\/a>‘s Confessions of a Black Dog<\/em> for free. * More<\/a> stuff about Baader-Meinhof<\/a>. * Babes with books!<\/a> * The TLS<\/em> on the Alasdair Gray biography<\/a>: “‘Be my Boswell!’ he shouted, dancing a jig around the room and raising a finger to the heavens. ‘Tell the world of my genius!'”<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon 2008. * Bad Idea magazine have launched a new blog and will now be holding a monthly event in London (starting on 30th October) called the Butcher’s Shop. * Joe Stretch in City Life: “Human beings are shit. Aren’t they though? They’re shit. Facebook is not the lie, that’s the lie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}