Monthly Archives: December 2011

Restless: Gus Van Sant’s take on death.

Ok. I have a confession to make. Everyone who reads this blog is no stranger to the fact that I adore film.  No – let’s do a take two on that – I adore good film. I’m not willing to say (as a very dear writer friend says to me regularly) that film has replaced […]

Salvatore Martirano: Ballad (1966)

  I’m placing this here just because I can. I am obsessed with this album at the moment – It’s number 6 in the Creel Pone list, the second post of which I am currently preparing. But I couldn’t wait to deliver this to you lucky folk now. It sends me direct to heaven this […]

The Black Herald #2: Freedom from the necessity of success – Part One.

It is the ambitious hopes of editor poets Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs that The Black Herald only publish works that are: “… vital and original, and above all else, might well incubate itself to the exterior world of publicity – though this is the hope of the editors, not necessarily the writers themselves.” They […]