Over on GQ Eye, Glenn O’Brien writes about this Bill Burroughs scarf produced by Kate Simon from a sequence of her photographs of the master.

Read O’Brien’s post here.

Tags: Glenn O'Brien, GQ Eye, Kate Simon, William Burroughs

//Photo: Kyle Zeto.//

NAME: Nicholas Abrahams

RESIDES: London

OCCUPATION: Film-maker

Nick Abrahams’ work includes promos for Stereolab, Add (N) To X and sigur rós. More recently he collaborated with Jeremy Deller on the fascinating exposition of fan’s desires,  The Posters Came From The Walls.

Among Abrahams’ current projects is Jayne County biopic Man Enough To Be A Woman. Judging from the rushes shown last year, this will be a doozy.

Last autumn Abrahams created the 30-minute Stooges film Doghouse. The installation at Tatty Devine included a portrait of our hound Rita.

Abrahams cuts quite a dash in any company; as I say below, I admire his ability to combine the edgy with the traditional without pretension.

Here he answers the Blokes Of Britain questionnaire, covering ground from Tiny Tim to gold teeth by way of Cordings, Trickers, Viv Stanshall and William Burroughs. Oh, and not to forget Edward Gorey’s fur coats, Joseph Beuys’ felt suits and Nick’s own creation: The Denton Welch safety bib.

How would you describe your sartorial style?

My girlfriend says I look like a straight bear (IE: a chubby gay man with beard).

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Tags: Cordings, Cornershop, Crombie, Cutler & Gross, Dali, David Bowie, Denton Welch, Derek Jarman, Doghouse, Earl Brutus, Edward Gorey, Franz Josef, George Melly, Greta Garbo, Jayne County, Jeremy Deller, John Waters, Joseph Beuys, kabuki, Kyle Zeto, Leigh Bowery, Nick Abrahams, Robert Wyatt, Tiny Tim, Trickers, Uniqlo, Vision On, Viv Stanshall, Wilf Lunn, William Burroughs

//Front cover photo by Harriet Crowther.//

A brown envelope I’m always glad to receive is that containing the latest BeatBooks catalogue.

Each quarter the arrival of the 8″ x 6″ booklet soon results in the tapping out of the url of the online order form for Andrew Sclanders’ site.

And the catalogues are treasurable in their own right.

Over the last decade or so Sclanders has carved out a niche for BeatBooks as collector central for all publications – literary, musical, graphic – springing from “beat” and moving through the counterculture and punk to the outer reaches of the avant-garde.

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Tags: Andy Warhol, Angus MacLise, BeatBooks, Charles Manson, David Felton, Gladys Brooks, Ira Cohen, Jack Smith, Jeff Nuttall, John Giorno, John Knight, L. Ron Hubbard, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Ann McClean, Mel Lyman, Mick Jagger, Mindfuckers, My Own Mag, Nova Express, Process, Robert De Grimston, Scientology, Velvet Underground, William Burroughs, Yugen

Maggs has issued a scratch catalogue of William Burroughs’ photographs of London 1972 – 1974.

These are hand-made prints produced a few years ago from the original negatives and are conservation-framed and glazed.

Here are some more pages from the catalogue:

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Tags: Carl Williams, Duke Street, Maggs Bros, William Burroughs