Rojak: “Jeff, take the word ‘terrify’ and then make every letter as big as Mt. Rushmore.”

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

“Jeff, take the word ‘terrify’ and then make every letter as big as Mt. Rushmore, and you’ll have a good idea how I feel.” David Lynch on his music career. [via Entertainment Weekly]

Sigur Rós to tour. [via Obscure Sound]

Björk in NY. [via Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise]

American Booksellers Association boycotts Amazon. [via MOBYLIVES]

Trailer for Patience (After Sebald), a film based on Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. [via Conversational Reading]

Bulletin

• The Southeast Asian Film Festival at the Singapore Art Museum.
• This year’s Timbre Rock & Roots Festival is headlined by Buddy Guy.
• An excellent essay on Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser.
• Review of Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas.
• Lucian Freud exhibition.
• Happy birthday, Mr. Dickens.

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