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 […]
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Jules and Jim: Genius locked away in a moment in time.
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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.
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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.
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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
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“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 […]
Short story : A work in progress
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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 […]
Henry Miller: Don’t be an artist if you can help it.
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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
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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.
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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: […]
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Francois Ozon: Film as art, art as film.
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“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 […]