fever

Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West (1937)

Extract from Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers:


“Can you remember what you were dreaming of just now?” he asked.

“Only that I was being restricted,” I said.

“You kept saying, I am in the tent! I am in the tent!”

“I don’t remember.”

“I am in the tent!”

“Help me stand up.”

He assisted me and in a moment I was circling the camp on wooden-feeling legs. I was slightly nauseous but ate a large meal of bacon and coffee and biscuits and managed to keep this down. I decided I was well enough to travel and we rode easy for four or five hours before settling down again. Charlie asked me repeatedly how I was feeling and I attempted each time to answer, but the truth of it was that I did not exactly know. Whether it was the poison from the spider or the harried doctor’s antivenom, I was not entirely in my body. I passed a night of fever and starts and in the morning, when I turned to meet Charlie’s good-day greeting, he took a look at me and emitted a shriek of fright. I asked him what was the matter and he brought over a tin plate to use as a looking glass.

“What’s that?” I asked.

“That’s your head, friend.” He leaned back on his heels and whistled.

The left side of my face was grotesquely swollen, from the top of my skull all the way to the neck, tapering off at the shoulder. My eye was merely a slit and Charlie, regaining his humor, said I looked like a half-dog, and he tossed a stick to see if I would chase it. I traced the source of the swelling to my teeth and gums; when I tapped a finger on the lower left row a singing pain shot through my body from top to bottom and back again.

“There must be a gallon of blood sloshing around,” said Charlie.

“Where did you find that doctor? We should revisit him and have him lance me.”

Charlie shook his head. “Best not to search him out. There was an unhappy episode regarding his fee. He would be glad to see me again, it’s true, but I doubt he would be eager to assist us further. He mentioned another encampment a few miles further to the south. That might be our wisest bet, if you think you can make it.”

“I don’t suppose I have a choice.”

“As with so many things in a life, brother, I don’t suppose you do.”


http://www.vice.com/read/the-sisters-brothers-634-v17n12

Baba Gogo #4 @ Drouthy's 17.02.12

Friday February 17 from 8pm

Baba Gogo #4: Valentine's Special with boutready2jack and ben 'jack your body' robinson

It is a night for couples, to commune under the candlelight with your loved one, find your future half or show despondency for your past liaisons to the orgasmic interplanetary melt of music box jams, acid, disco and house provided by our two guests, boutready2jack and ben 'jack your body' robinson. Not even our djs want to be alone tonight.

As for ourselves, we will travel musically the phases of enchantment, power struggle, honeymoon, resentment and self-destruction.

Romance and pandemonium for free at Drouthy's basement.

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Zazou @ Kage 27.01.12

To the Kage nitespot last night for Zazou, billed as "a phantasmagoria of Italo, Hi NRG and obscure Disco". I took a few photos and here they are:


Italo like you mean it


Zazou resident DJ Il Discotto


Stefan Blomeier meets his public


Dancers


Deejay for money

receipts

Bought a few records:


Book Of Love - Boy (Sire) 12", € 2.00


Jellybean – Just A Mirage (Chrysalis) 12", £0.99


Blancmange - Waves/Game Above My Head (London) 12", £4.99

Yuck 'n Yum - Our New Cover Artist – Helen Flanagan

Yuck ‘n Yum are delighted to announce that our new cover artist for 2012 is Helen Flanagan.



Helen is a photographer based in Birmingham, returning there after graduating from Falmouth University of Arts in 2010. Her photography captures human fragility with a delicacy in framing and the slightest of touch. She has exhibited across the UK and has been featured in multiple photographic publications including Dazed and Confused magazine. She is also cofounder of Books & Others, a project aimed at promoting photographic works, with visual artist Alex Bailey.

We at Yuck ‘n Yum are very excited to have Helen as our first photographic cover artist and are curious to see what direction Helen takes YNY in 2012. Helen has been featured twice in Yuck ‘n Yum in our summer and winter editions of 2011. You can view these works amongst others by heading to our zine archive.

You can read a nice interview about Helen’s project ‘No Strings Attached’ courtesy of It’s Nice That magazine here and view her photography and other projects at 
 www.helenflanaganphotography.co.uk, www.booksandothers.org and www.whenimsleepy.blogspot.com



We would also like to say a big thank you to Ross Hamilton Frew who is handing the baton over to Helen. Ross produced four stunning covers for us last year and we wish him all the best for the future.

The deadline for the Spring 2012 issue is the 23rd of February.


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curious

Gregor Schneider - Totes Haus u r, 2001

Extract from H.P. Lovecraft - Supernatural Horror in Literature:

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. Against it are discharged all the shafts of a materialistic sophistication which clings to frequently felt emotions and external events, and of a naïvely insipid idealism which deprecates the æsthetic motive and calls for a didactic literature to "uplift" the reader toward a suitable degree of smirking optimism. But in spite of all this opposition the weird tale has survived, developed, and attained remarkable heights of perfection; founded as it is on a profound and elementary principle whose appeal, if not always universal, must necessarily be poignant and permanent to minds of the requisite sensitiveness.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to tappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience. But the sensitive are always with us, and sometimes a curious streak of fancy invades an obscure corner of the very hardest head; so that no amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood. There is here involved a psychological pattern or tradition as real and as deeply grounded in mental experience as any other pattern or tradition of mankind; coeval with the religious feeling and closely related to many aspects of it, and too much a part of our innermost biological heritage to lose keen potency over a very important, though not numerically great, minority of our species.

Jane & Louise Wilson @ DCA 21.01.12

To the DCA tonight for the opening of the Wilson Twins show. I took a few photos and here they are:


Face Scripting – What Did the Building See?




Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum)






The Dundee art massive



http://www.dca.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jane-louise-wilson.html