Accessions 15jan24

Many crimes committed.

Kluge’s RUSSIA CONTAINER was such a revelation to me that KONG’S FINEST HOUR, another container of variations on a theme, was an essential if pricey purchase. I find Kluge fascinating, and I need to write down my thoughts on RUSSIA CONTAINER at some point.

McLuhan came up again in my podcast listening recently: it’s been a good few years since I read him, and my reading was always incomplete, so I went on a wander and turned up THE GLOBAL VILLAGE, which I hadn’t read and was apparently his last book. The foreword by co-author Powers, written in 1988, hooked me immediately.

STONE COLD, because I realised I’d never actually read Parker, even though I recall the SPENSER tv show (featuring everyone’s favourite, Avery Brooks) and I have an odd fondness for the Jesse Stone tv films starring Tom Selleck.

And THE PATIENT because I have become weirdly fascinated by Tim Sullivan’s series – I still find all the protagonists quite annoying, but Tim Sullivan is a storied screenwriter and director, and so what keeps me riveted is the sheer engineering beauty of his storytelling. They are small and exquisite machines, and turn perfectly.