{"id":268,"date":"2004-01-08T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2004-01-08T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T07:29:53","slug":"2003-best-of-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/2003-best-of-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"2003 best of part three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Books<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t read nearly as much as I wanted to last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Iain Sinclair \u2013 <i>London Orbital.<\/i> (courtesy my Mum)<br \/>\nApparently he was on The Today Programme yesterday discussing the widening of the M25 and was admirably bonkers \u2013 talking about collective hallucinations and how the widening of the M25 would just lead to orbitals around orbitals. The way to break this cycle of road making madness? \u201cEveryone will have to learn to walk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>2. Luther Blissett \u2013 <i>Q<\/i>. (courtesy Luther and Random House)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.co.uk\/catalog\/book.htm?command=Search&#038;db=main.txt&#038;eqisbndata=0434010006\">Blurb.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wumingfoundation.com\/italiano\/downloads.shtml \">Download.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Jonthan Franzen \u2013 <i>The Corrections.<\/i> (courtesy of the better half)<br \/>\nThought it was pretty damn fine, but then I hardly ever read fiction.<\/p>\n<p>4. Beth Lesser \u2013 <i>King Jammys.<\/i> (courtesy my sister)<\/p>\n<p>5. David Keenan \u2013 <i>England&#8217;s Hidden Reverse<\/i>. (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/dubversion.blogspot.com\/\">Dubversion<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=309\">Waffle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke \u2013 <i>Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity<\/i>. (courtesy Hackney Libraries)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=17\">Waffle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7. Richard Gombin \u2013 <i>The Origins of Modern Leftism. <\/i><br \/>\nPretty good skinny Pelican job, on the situationists, council communists, Socialism or Barbarism etc. Translated from da french innit. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/CapitolHill\/Lobby\/2379\/gomlef01.htm\">Download.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. Stewart Home \u2013 <i>Defiant Pose. <\/i><br \/>\nOne of his early pulp polymorphously-perverse-anarcho-skinhead &#8220;he fell backwards spitting out gouts of blood and the occasional tooth&#8221; jobs, which originally cost a packet cos it was a hardback but I got it for a fiver at the anarchist bookfair off Haven Distribution. Anyway &#8211; it does the trick if you like that sort of stuff (and I do!) but you wouldn&#8217;t pay 12 quid for it.<\/p>\n<p>9. Edward Gorey \u2013 <i>The Object Lesson.<\/i><br \/>\nSurreal dark cartoons (courtesy of Andy &#038; Thea)<\/p>\n<p>=10. Fred and Judy Vermorel \u2013 <i>Sex Pistols<\/i><br \/>\n=10. Jon Savage \u2013 <i>England\u2019s Dreaming<\/i> (courtesy Hackney Libraries)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Zines\/other texts:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Howard Slater  \u2013 <i>Lotta Continua: Roots Music and the Politics of Production <\/i><\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/datacide.c8.com\/\">Datacide<\/a> issue 8<\/p>\n<p>3. Melancholic Troglodytes  \u2013 <i>Uncle Louis, his Fruits and Vegetables: A Proletarian Critique of the Nation of Islam<\/i><\/p>\n<p>4. RPM \u2013 <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-star-research.org.uk\/rap\/rap1.html\">The Rich at Play: Fox Hunting, Land Ownership and the \u2018Countryside Alliance\u2019<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>5. Wu-Ming Foundation \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infopool.org.uk\/\">Infopool<\/a> #7 pamphlet (\u201cWhy Not Show Off About The Best Things\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>6. Paul Petard \u2013 <i>More Politics Please<\/i> (ace commie cartoons)<\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnftiu.cc\/mnftiu.cc\/war29.html\">Get Your War On<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. Paul Petard \u2013 <i>Communism, Liberty &#038; Freedom some brief notes towards a libertarian communist critique of marxism (yes it&#8217;s boring)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>9. The piece in Fortean Times about Juan Posadas:<\/p>\n<p>10. Humanist Philosophers&#8217; Group \u2013 <i>Religious Schools: the case against. <\/i><br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanism.org.uk\/site\/cms\/contentViewArticle.asp?article=1412\">British Humanist Association<\/a>. A bit polite and theoretical for my unrefined tastes, but an important issue for sure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miscellaneous other stuff to follow shortly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books I didn\u2019t read nearly as much as I wanted to last year. 1. Iain Sinclair \u2013 London Orbital. (courtesy my Mum) Apparently he was on The Today Programme yesterday discussing the widening of the M25 and was admirably bonkers \u2013 talking about collective hallucinations and how the widening of the M25 would just lead &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/2003-best-of-part-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2003 best of part three&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookzine-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}