I love Whitby in winter...
I'd like to meet:
I WOULD LIKE TO MEET LOVERS OF MUSIC & CREATIVITY & PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND TO ANIMALS. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MET... the Bronte sisters (because they were so ahead
of their time, so talented, passionate and true), Laurence Olivier (because
he was georgeous when he was younger yet still held his appeal through sheer
talent as he got older) and I hope to meet my mum in another life, because I know I can't ever see her again in this one x
Music:
A FEW VIDEOS I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU
ASHES & SNOW - an incredible journey ...TARKOVSKY 'STALKER' clip with NIN soundtrack...PETER BRUNTNELL 'false start'...NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS 'moonland'...THE MARS VOLTA L' Via L' ViaquezNILS PETTER MOLVAER (live at Rockefella)GILLIAN WELCH 'time (the revelator)'...
STEVIE NICKS & TOM PETTY stop dragin my heart around'...CROSBY & NASH 'Guinnevere'...
FRANCIS CABREL 'C'etait l'hiver' (It was winter)...
CHRISTY MOORE 'ride on'...
PINK FLOYD 'echoes' (my fave part)...
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PAUL WELLER 'HEAVY SOUL'...
I CAN'T POSSIBLY NAME EVERY GROUP/MUSICIAN I LIKE, BUT ALL I CAN SAY IS I HAVE GOOD TASTE & NEVER WASTE MY TIME LISTENING TO TALENTLESS RUBBISH!
*Eivind Aarset, Tori Amos, BACH, Chet Baker, Kjetil Bjornstad, Bjork, Blue nile, Mari Boine, Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Francis Cabrel, Captain beefheart, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Deep purple, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, E.L.P, Neil Finn (& crowded house), Fleetwood mac (70's), Peter gabriel, Jan Garbarek, Genesis (earlier stuff), Lisa Gerrard, Trey Gunn, Peter Hammil, Roy Harper, Hawkwind, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Hollis (Talk talk), Mike Johnson (ex-dinosaur junior), Rickie Lee Jones, King Crimson, Led zeppelin, John Lennon, Marillion (with steve Hogarth), Bob Marley, Mars volta, John Martyn, Tom McRae, Pat Metheny, Stephan Micus, Joni Mitchell, Nils Petter Molvaer, Christy Moore, Van Morrison (earlier stuff), Ozeric tentacles, Arvo Part, Tom Petty, Pink floyd, Jocelyn Pook, Elvis Presley, Lou Reed, Henry Rollins, Terje Rypdal, Santana, Stuart A.Staples, Rod Stewart, Stranglers, Supertramp, E.S.T, David Sylvian, Talk Talk, Thin Lizzy, U2, VDDG, Velvet underground, Whitesnake, Yes, Neil Young, Dhafer Youssef and Frank Zappa.
I love the music of Michael Nyman. He works so well in his own right, but I particularly like his stirring music that he composes for Peter Greenaways films. Nyman has made Greenaway films even more creative and beautiful than they already are!
Good CLASSICAL MUSIC can be moving to the point of tears. Besides Nyman, I also like Arvo Part, Bach (particularly cello suites), Monterverdi, Gorecki, Faure and Biber.
Movies:
Dracula movies appeal to me in many ways - sexy, scary, artistic, funny! I loved the Mina and Dracula relationship in the Francis Ford Coppela version, but didn't like the movie as much as the Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi films...
CHRISTOPHER LEE IS DRACULA...I also love ghost stories like: A warning to the curious and whistle and I'll come to you, plus early sci-fi stuff, Sherlock Holmes, Peter Greenaway and David Lynch films.
English/American films I like are often old and obvious such as: 39 steps, Wuthering heights, Rebecca, Gone with the wind, Casablanca, Scaramouche, whatever happened to baby jane and much more...
I'm an English romantic rose at heart and I will always love Wuthering heights (above).
The film with Olivier is wonderful making you attracted to and yet feel sorry for Heathcliffe, which is SO DIFFERENT to the book where he is a hateful character! I grew up with the film and later came to love the book, so I like both equally - there is room for love & hate.
Scaramouche with James Stewart will always be a fave too. It is romantic and comic...
I LOVE NORMAN WISDOM! This is from 'TROUBLE IN STORE'...
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS I LIKE ARE...
Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky and French films such as Orphee, La belle et la bete, Amelie, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean de Florette and Manon des sources etc...
LA BELLE ET LA BETE ...
DETECTIVE FILMS APPEAL TOO such as Marlowe and Sherlock Holmes...
I loved the humour and innocence of the Basil Rathbone Holmes and the sarcasm and camp/drug-frenzied version by Jeremy Brett!
Both so different, yet both wonderful.
English comedy stuff I like is Norman wisdom, Laurel and Hardy, Ealing etc.
American comedy stuff I like is Cheers, Frasier, Third rock etc.
Television:
I don't watch a lot of tv and instead prefer to buy DVD's of series, then I can watch them when I want to! I have got things like Smallville, Twin peaks, Sherlock Holmes, Belle & Sebastian,Twilight zone, ghost in the shell (stand alone complex), house of cards, our friends in the north, one summer, thunderbirds, moomins, noggin the nog, Inspector Morse, Kavanagh, Columbo etc. This painting is by peter Falk himself...
CAPTAIN SCARLET TRAILER...
Books:
This novel is a Scandanavian medieval epic. A book that once you get used to the names of characters, will draw you in so deeply that they become part of your life. It is simply stunning.
Some other great and incredible novels to try are: Wuthering heights, Dracula, Frankenstein, Titus Groan and Gormenghast, Count of monte cristo, les miserables, Lord of the rings, the Magus (Fowles), the first 3 Anne Rice vampire chronicles, Jim Dodge (particularly 'fup'),Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins stuff . I tend to read a lot of older classics, but I do read newer stuff too when it takes my fancy - I ALWAYS have a book on the go.
ANIMALS...
All kinds of animals and creatures are beautiful - I love them to be free and hate to see anything in cages.
I often use insects and animals as inspiration in my textiles. Here's a really tiny mouse (about 1" long) that I found in my back garden...
This was a photograph I took of birds on a tree from my kitchen window...
Wonderful memories of mum, dad and me in Paris - I miss you lots mum, what else can I say ...
Richard & Alex in Whitby...
JOES AUDITION FOR MOTORHEAD...
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TIP OF THE DAY...
Don't make porridge in a microwave!
Heroes:
Well, my husband and dad have to be in there. SUPERMAN is a huge favourite because I need him to balance out my Dracula fascination!
Wonderful memories of mum, dad and me in Paris - I miss you lots mum, what else can I say ...
JOES AUDITION FOR MOTORHEAD...
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There is absoloutely no excuse for anybody to be wearing cosmetics that have been tested on animals these days. All animal lovers should check out the above site if you care about 'beauty without cruelty'. Here's my cat 'puss', sleeping on a commission...
All kinds of animals and creatures are beautiful - I love them to be free and hate to see anything in cages. I use insects a lot to inspire pattern in my textiles...
Richard & Alex in Whitby...
Don't make porridge in a microwave...
