'Oh yes indeed,' Yvonne smiled, full of thoughts that had already swept her a thousand miles in frantic retreat from all this. Yet she was walking on slowly beside him. And deliberately as a climber on a high unguarded place looks up at the pine trees above on the precipice and comforts himself by saying: 'Never mind about the drop below me, how very much worse if I were on top of one of those pines up there!' ... (M.Lowry, Under the Volcano)
the loopy too
Interpol, Wolf Parade, the arcade fire, south, kamila thompson, Liam Gerner, Gwyneth Herbert, pavement, steve M (errit & alkumus), Muse, Jarvis Cocker, Bjor, Prokofiev, semi gloss. maG Fields, DeaN Wareham, Galaxy 500, 9 Iron, ed harcourt, cat power, south, rufus wainwright, martha wainwright, beth orton, liz phair, kid loco, mogwai, the bees, nick cave, pulp, blur, swayzak, bonnie prince billy, the ralphe band, basement jaxx, the hows your news band, rhinocerose, scumfrog, basement jaxx, portishead, prokofiev, the pixies, stevie wonder, dylan, willie nelson, teddy thompson, mahler, prokofiev, fiona apple, she wants revenge, smith & mighty, lamb etc etc and on
jesus' son, angel baby, surviving desire (hal hartley in general), bill & ted 1, international velvet, badnews bears, dancer in the dark, breaking the waves, celebration, au revior les enfants, don't look back, unbearable lightness
the mighty boosh, father ted, the dog whisperer, curb your enthusiasm, 24, 6 feet under, sopranos, antiques roadshow, little house on the prairie
the swank bisexual wine bar of modernity, the outsider, the white album, slouching towards bethlehem, voyage into darkness, wide sargasso sea, the raw shark texts, a golden year, a certain smile, quartet, dreaming to some purpose, lay down in darkness, revolutionary road, portrait of the artist as a young man, ulysses, gravity and grace, I love dick, video green, notes from the underground, the bell jar, ritual in the dark, origin of the species, james flint, norman mailer, don delillo, semiotexte, the pusher, see how they burn (the hot and the cool), poorboy at the party, the poetry of john keats, edna st vincent millay, donne, browning, st coleridge, ee cummings, ts elliot, plath, hughes, mark ford, andrew motion's biographies of john keats & the lamberts, bullfinches mythology, under the volcano
hp tinker, jean rhys, colin wilson, simone weil, nijinsky, nietzsche, margery latimer, avital ronnell, joan didion, dh lawrence, rufus wainwright, wolf parade, interpol, gwyneth herbert, howard moon, vince noir, milky joe, john keats, dostoevsky, william burroughs, bob dylan, south, french & saunders, chekhov, proust, edna st vincent millay, st agnes