Hello everyone, Out of interest, I thought I would post the first draft of a short story I am currently working on. This has been read by 3 of my feedback partners and will be sent out to magazines for publication soon. Please feel very free to give comments. This is my work. I’m interested […]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Henry Miller: Don’t be an artist if you can help it.
posted by lisathatcher
When you take on the responsiblity of being a creative person, you can’t walk out on it any more. Youre either going to live or die. The artist doesn’t follow the herd. They lift up their voice. They say this is what I think, this is what I say and this is what I’m doing. […]
Bill Cunningham New York: Depth behind the frivolity of fashion
posted by lisathatcher
The Wider World perceives fashion as a frivolity that should be done away with. The point is that fashion is the armour to survive the reality of every day life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization. Fashion as the armour to survive the reality […]
Remainder by Tom Mc Carthy – What’s left over is all we are.
posted by lisathatcher
About the accident itself I can say very little. Almost nothing. it involved something falling from the sky. Technology. Parts, Bits. That’s it, really: all I can divulge. Not much, I know. It’s not even that I’m being shy. It’s just that – well, for one, I don’t even remember the event. It’s a blank: […]
The Weeknd – House of Balloons: R&B chic horror
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve been listening to this chilling album for a few days now – I was introduced to it on Monday, downloded my free ‘mixtape’ Monday night. At that stage there were one hundred thousand or so hits on the song on You Tube and my boyfriend was saying “you’ve got to hear this! Everyone is […]
Drive: A boys film the girls will love.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok! So I saw drive this weekend. I went with my guy, which I think makes for a better movie experience in this case because this is a celebration of some great ‘blokey’ flicks and it’s kinda nice to do the viewing with a man you have that soft spot for. After all, Nicholas Winding Refn […]
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Francois Ozon: Film as art, art as film.
posted by lisathatcher
“I think cinema has to deal with desire. In the cinema, you are with a big screen, it is dark, and you watch some images, like a fantasy, so I think it is important for you to feel desire for what you see.” So, I did write in my post Top ten films blog-a-thon, that […]