A Personal Golgotha
A bit of fun… Stuff I’ve done over the years at 3:AM thanks to legends Andy Gallix and Andrew Stevens… It’s all DIY – hardly proof-read and done too fast in between day jobs to be anything but jump-start writing. So forget about the writing. What matters is what its about. It adds up to a boss reading list and a cranked up gang of characters smoking up the haunted back bars of the eerie early morning for the last twenty five years. 3:AM’s been around since 2000 and I joined Gallix’s punkstorm early on. It’s one of the oldest literary sites on the web. And back in the early days there was hardly anything out there so we were literally making it up as we went along. We still are. Lots of things have changed since the start and people have come and gone of course. There’s a new crew now. Still, I like that Andy’s still throttling the helm and Andrew keeps lighting fires. All this stuff is pretty temporary and outside the walls of more conclusive materials. So think of this as a personal Golgotha.
Interviews
An Interview with Mark Amerika at the ICA
An Interview with Steve Aylett
An Interview with Steve Bell and Martin Rowson
The Relentlessly Depressing Squares Have Taken Over
An Interview with Michael Bracewell
Bombs and Buddhism: An Interview with Billy Childish
An Interview with Matthew Collings
Sex And Economics: An Interview With Cyber-Punk Economist Diane Coyle
Graphene-punk economics vs darth vader: Diane Coyle
In Griot Time: Interview with Banning Eyre
Giving anarchists cigarettes: an interview with mick farren
Bad Blood Boy: An Interview with Psycho Cinemas Christian Fuchs
Bob Dylan and Me: An interview with Jill Furmanovsky
South of the Border :Coco Fusco
Still Swinging: An Interview with Subway Sect’s Vic Godard
It Murders Your Heart: An Interview with Richard Hell
Legendary Misbehaviour:Ernest Hilbert
An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson
Whiskey a Whore Galore- 69 Things to do with Stewart Home.
An Interview Random Things about Maxi Kim
A Decennial Appreciation & Celebratory Analysis:Jarett Kobek
Two Americas Passing Strange: An Interview with Sally Macleod
The Secret Language of Poetry: An Interview with Gerard Malanga
Tokyo Bloodbath: Stanley Manly Interviewed
The Madman’s Magnifying Glass: An Interview with Collaterally Damaged Mark Manning
The Road to Perdido: An Interview with China Mieville
Suzy, Led Zeppelin, Punk and Me: An Interview with Martin Miller
Poet, Painter and Punk Sexton Ming
Literary Doppelgängers:Wu Ming
A Choral, Polyphonic World: Wu Ming
An Interview with Jan Mladovsky
Breaking Windows: Part One of an Interview with Michael Moorcock
Strange Connections: Part Two of an Interview with Michael Moorcock
A little bit more Upstairs: An Interview with Courttia Newland
Semina’s Dark Object:Katrina Palmer
The Novel’s Nervous Breakdown:Bridget Penney
Thinking Dangerously:Jean-Michel Rabat é
Dreaming with his Eyes Open:Jeremy Reed
Out of the Darkness: Marcus Reichert
An Interview with Greg Rowland
At a Hard Right Angle: An Interview with James Sallis
An Interview with Gerald Scarfe
No Compromises: An Interview with Jack Sergeant
Free-thinking london babble: my fucked interview with iain Sinclair
The Nude Brain: An Interview with Kenji Siratori
The Point: Body, Time and Experience: An Interview with Spike
The Artist as Marxist:Julian Stallabrass
Sex In the Brain: An Interview with Mitzi Szereto
An Interview with Matthew Sweeney
Virtual Prey: An Interview with Adam Prusan and Mitch Lerman
Restless Hauntings: An interview with Marina Warner
Make Mine a Haut Medoc: Lyrical Libertine Mark Waugh
The White Stuff: An Interview with Tony White
Black Eyed Skank :Bobby Joseph
Psychogeographic Soul Sister:Clare Brant
t.s. eliot’s untrendy underwear: Becci Dobbin
To Not Dishonour the Dead:Tony White
Sing if You’re Winning:Alina Simone
Sins Against the Soul:Daniel Harris
Reviews
perfection’s therapy: albrecht durer’s melencolia 1
hefner: the virginia woolf of pornotopia
homo sovieticus and mind control
femicide machine and the iguana 43
fairy tales for the disillusioned
dylan’s american poetical company
louis armand’s the combinations
skank: the world’s most dangerous comic book
trade encroaching a sacrament…sam dunn is dead & theory of the great game.
alan moore’s nemo: river of ghosts
the curious legacies of the brothers grimm
wittgenstein’s radiator and le corbusier’s treacherous knot.
the rottweiler’s guide to the dog owner
knausgaard: norse dwarf, norse god
the utter silence of the andalusian refugee
oblique drawing & bazin’s error
the violence of the impossible: patti smith’s blakean conversations
rogue economics, adam smith & twin peaks twenty years on
illusory illusion: jarett kobek’s hoe #999
teenage hooker became a Zizek machine
blood rites of the bourgeoisie
the people’s republic of Workington
metaphysical prison literature
gonzo at the heart of the american empire
impulsive nihilism: mark waugh’s bubble entendre
the bitter stillness of jack marsden
ever cranked-up stories of ruthless murder
the realist’s morning prayer & other turkish delights
Stewart Home’s Memphis Underground
utopian connotations and stewart home industries
popular culture at its most mental
65 the defiant prose of stewart home
Tony White’s Satan!Satan! Satan! – Britpulp’s Northanger Abbey
Book Review of Michael Bracewell’s – ‘Gilbert and George: The Rudimentary Pictures’ Milton Keynes Gallery, Gagosian Gallery.
Judas Pulp: ‘Raiders Of The Low Forehead’ by Stanley Manly.
Review of ‘Mark Manning’s Attack! Book
Michael Bracewell’s Perfect Tense
Steven Wells as the New Jane Austen: Tits Out Teenage Totty as Pride and Prejudice
Rory Cellan-Jones’s ‘dot.bomb. The Rise & Fall Of Dot.Com Britain’
Collateral Damage, Bad Wisdom, How To Be An Artist
Jack Sargeant’s Naked Lens: Beat Cinema
Not Knowing Who Hugh Grant Is: Michael Bracewell’s The Nineties: When Surface was Depth
Seeing Ghosts: Gerard Malanga’s Archiving Warhol: An Illustrated History
The Primitivist Offence Of Tommy Udo’s ‘Vatican Bloodbath’
Essays
‘the stuckness that isn’t exhaustion’: beckett and caspar david friedrich’s ‘the tetschener altar’
twin peaks as islamic process metaphysics
the elephant in the boat: what ernest gellner can tell us about brexit and trump
shadow in the night: dylan at the royal albert hall
kamal daoud: l’ étranger nouveau
resnais, giacometti and seductive maniera
the prophetic silence of Bollano’s ‘2666′
a cheerful, tranquil, immoral beckett
gellner’s islamic nietzscheans
beckett the nietzschean hedonist
reloading beckett’s philosophical libraries
An Aside On Sonny Liston, The Last Boxer.
The Clerkenwell Literary Festival
Linder Sterling’s Manchester Voodoo. ‘Clint Eastwood, Clare Offreduccio and me: Requiem.
The Travelling Blues of Tom Paulin’s William Hazlitt
Jill Furanovsky’s Bobquest Evening