According to Simon Reynolds (Writer for The Wire) Creel Pone is a mystery project that started around 2005. To the uninitiated music lover, but serious art lover, this project struck me as beautiful and exciting. For all I know, music lovers do this sort of thing all the time. UP until recently, I was a […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Poet Paul Stubbs: the primordial cry.
posted by lisathatcher
I’m reading The Black Herald #2 in preparation for a review. I wanted to share this quote by Paul Stubbs in his excellent introduction to the magazine (about which I will wax lyrical later) “… It must at all costs remain the brutal single-mindedness of the writer to endure and locate what Paul Celan described […]
We need to talk about Kevin: Cinematic quality in a sea of ambiguity.
posted by lisathatcher
It’s been a bit of a film week for me. I saw We Need To Talk About Kevin, and I need to fess up right away that I haven’t read Lionel Shriver’s book. Nor do I intend to. I have nothing against Ms Shriver, but I read Room by Emma Donoghue and I will confess […]
The Ides of March: Bit of a yawn really.
posted by lisathatcher
The Ides of March is a film full of ‘good moments’ and that is about the best you can say of it. It’s an old story / message – one we all know and suspect Clooney of harbouring. That is politics is tired and cynical itself; driven by a lust for the win rather than […]
Jane Austen: At the top of the Kindle pile.
posted by lisathatcher
Spare me just a moment to bend my knee and worship at the Jane Austen altar. Trawling around the net today in search of Fodder for my best books of 2011 list (groan I know but you know you want it) and realising in horror I have to read IQ84 books one and two before […]
Jules and Jim: Genius locked away in a moment in time.
posted by lisathatcher
There are many ways to appreciate a Francoise Truffaut film. In this respect he is the aesthetes greatest friend. There is never the moral simplicity we see in a Bresson film or the obtuse avantgarde we see in Godard. Truffaut is an artist who makes films he thinks are beautiful. Jules and Jim is an […]
Listening to music over and over contaminates it.
posted by lisathatcher
Listening to music over and over contaminates it. Repeated listening robs the music of autonomy. Listening is stealing. Reading is a collaboration. Music soaks me up. It absorbs me. When I go back to a piece of music over and over I erode its inner direction and I colonize it. The music loses its […]
It’s that which is in plain sight that you can’t see, that is the most interesting.
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve had a bit of a film epiphany this year. I always loved film, but for many and various reasons, only came to discover the very best of film this year – rather late in life. Maybe not late in life, but a long time later than I would have prefered. In 2001 I saw […]
Sun Ra: the sun always rises
posted by lisathatcher
“What’s the difference between a man and a human being?” In early 1971 Sun Ra was artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, teaching a course called “The Black Man In the Cosmos”. Rather few students enrolled but the classes were often full of curious persons from the surrounding community. One half-hour of each class was […]
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