Solitude. Cats. Playing the banjo. Cats playing the banjo. Ukulele. Moana and Melancholia. Stone circles and landscape temples. The Daily Coyote. Choya plum wine. Cherry blossom. Visits to Prague and Ljubljana. Wolves and their ecology. Dormancy. Acéphale. Thresholds. Dérives. Lacanian psychoanalysis. The Fire of the Mind. Tarot readings. Magick. Lucid dreaming. Erotobotany. Eyes. Clavicles. The nape of the neck. Red-headed strangers. Occasional charms. Secret pacts. Mare's nests. Hare-brained schemes. Abandoned seaside resorts. Dusty old seven inch singles. Santos and Retablos. Religious icons. Dissolution of self. Das Unheimliche. International telephone calls. Jukeboxes. Blue afternoons. Dark angels. Karsts. Baroque architecture. Adriatic ports. American vernacular. Ponderosa pine. Forest floors. Thunderstorms. Serendipity. Psychic research. Haunted houses. Gnosticism. Dogon ghost dances. Magic lanterns. Le rayon vert. Song of the sirens. Beach detritus. Animal skulls. Portmeirion. Topiary mazes. Vodoun. Écriture féminine. Paris. Musee National du Moyen-Age. Postcards. Found objects . Music boxes. Hurdy-gurdys. Margays. Civets. Dragonflies. Glowworms and fireflies. Corvids. Unicorns. Goats. Beehives. Obsidian mirrors. Plant allies. Feeding wild birds. Getting lost. Counting fish. Garden centres. Bento boxes. Kimchi. Wasabi peas. Italian cakes. Melon ice cream. The smell of coriander. Chiles rellenos de queso. Chocolate y chile. Skeins of loveliness. High and low jinks...
The one who is a clearing in the deep forest of my life, the golden sliver of sun peeking through the leaves.
"...
the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song..." - Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather.
Currently playing:
"The Excellent Sides Of Swamp Dogg"
Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
CocoRosie - God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me
Coil - The New Backwards
"Garden Of Forking Paths" compilation
Bonnie Prince Billy - Easy Does It
Sublime Frequencies - Radio Morocco
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Otherwise I like to play "In The Pines" and "Ramblin' Man" on my banjo and sing. And this year I want to learn "Sea Of Love" on ukulele. And I like to sit in the yard and listen to birdsong and windchimes with my one remaining half-decent ear.
Celine And Julie Go Boating | Mouchette | Au Hasard, Balthazar | Last Life In The Universe | Claire Denis | Wong-Kar Wai | Pedro Almodovar | Maya Deren | Kenneth Anger | Harry Smith | Rainer Werner Fassbinder +++ Berlin Alexanderplatz | Nicolas Roeg | Jean-Pierre Melville | Les Enfants Terribles | La Belle Et La Bête | Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid | Head-On | Magnolia | Punch Drunk Love | Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me | The Parallax View | The Colour Of Pomegranates | Masculin Feminin | Prenom Carmen | Badlands | Under The Skin | Night Of The Hunter | Night Of The Demon | The Haunting | Chopper | The Last Seduction | Morvern Callar | The Truth About Cats And Dogs | The Green Ray | The Conversation | Thieves Like Us | I Know Where I'm Going | Black Narcissus | Tales Of Ordinary Madness | Jan Svankmajer | Catherine Breillat | Chris Marker | The Marx Brothers | W.C. Fields | Touch Of Evil | The Apartment | The Wizard Of Oz | Broken English | Lie With Me | Old Joy | Joe Versus The Volcano | The Science Of Sleep | 2 Days In Paris | Winged Migration | Grey Gardens | Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus | Tex Avery cartoons | the hand-made short films of Naomi Uman | et cetera...
I can't remember the last time I turned on the TV (as J.B. once said, "Switch the evil fucking thing off before it switches you off for good!"), it was certainly last year, but in the past I have loved The Sopranos, My Name Is Earl, Six Feet Under (first series), Ideal, I'm With Stupid, Two Pints of Lager, Pulling, Peep Show, Deadwood, Bad Girls, The Book Group, The IT Crowd, The Hits/MTV, The Simpsons, Futurama, classic Tex Avery and Chuck Jones cartoons, Casper The Friendly Ghost, Dastardly And Muttley, Deputy Dawg, Pixie & Dixie, Jacques Lacan's "Television", Berlin Alexanderplatz, Twin Peaks, Father Ted, Bilko, The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, Homicide : Life On The Streets, Oz, M.A.S.H., The Prisoner, Fawlty Towers, The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin, The Stone Tape, MR James adaptations.
Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye, Maurice Blanchot, Fernando Pessoa, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Charles Bukowski, Jacques Derrida, Michael Ondaatje, Gaston Bachelard, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean Rhys, Anna Kavan, Thomas Bernhard, Thomas McGuane, Cynthia Ozick, Annie Dillard, José Saramago, Mariarosa Sclauzero - Narcissism and Death, Raul Nunez - The Lonely Hearts Club, Marc Behm - The Eye of the Beholder, Walter Benjamin, William T Vollmann, the science fiction of Philip K Dick and Richard Morgan, Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat, Graham Greene - The Heart Of The Matter, Marina Warner - Phantasmagoria, Peter Lamborn Wilson - Sacred Drift, the short stories of Bruno Schulz and Katherine Mansfield, Pierre Klossowski, Francis Ponge, Henri Michaux, Lacan, William S Burroughs, Paracelsus, Silva: The Tree In Britain, The Botany of Desire, The Modern Antiqarian, Alan Moore graphic novels (esp. Promethea), arcane religious and magickal texts...et cetera
Jhonn Balance | John Dee | 2D | Laure | Austin Osman Spare | whoever invented cotton candy