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Stu

'..and the rooks, they seemed to follow him, wherever he goes, hanging in the flat sky, dangling fro

About Me

I'm a 35 year old artist / illustrator / painter, a lapsed tarot card reader, living in the slightly ramshackle and fading Georgian resort of Brighton. Lots of things inspire me, some explicitly, others less so... pre-Raphaelite paintings, old horror comics from the 1950s / 1960s, ghost stories, going out dancing, having coffee with my lovely friend Sarah, going for long walks on the beach at sunset, drunken doodling on beer bottle labels, lost loves, unrequited desire, autumn evenings, summer mornings, and... I also have a surname no-one can, until told, either pronounce or spell; Hermolle... You Pronounce the E...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Oh well, you know... anyone who is an artist, writer, musician (the general creative thing...) or who spends a lonely, windy autumn afternoon reading ghost stories...

Music:

And Also The Trees, Sol Invictus, Kate Bush, Dead Moon, Cranes, Voivod, The Merry Thoughts, Fields Of The Nephilim, Voices of Masada, The Sisters of Mercy, Tori Amos, Bjork, Christen Death, Cocteau Twins, Current 93, Das Ich, Dead can Dance, Descendants of Cain, Garden of Delight, The God Machine, Killing Joke, Lhasa de Sela, Mephisto Walz, Nfd, Ordo Equitum Solis, Suspiria, The Third and the Mortal, X-Mal Deutschland, Play Dead, UK Decay, VNV Nation, Amebix...

Movies:

Picnic At Hanging Rock, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Gothic, The Shawshank Redemption, Karma Sutra, Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond, City of The Living Dead, Secretary, Quills, Suspiria, Inferno, Bend It Like Beckham, (yes, I know, something to do with Parminder Nagra...) Bridget Jones Diary, The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue

Television:

Dr Who,(old) Sapphire and Steel, Coupling, The Office, Peep Show, Torchwood, The Omega Factor, Dark Season, Space:1999, Bleak House, ER (Yes, Parminder Nagra again...)

Books:

Emily Bronte - 'Wuthering Heights' Donna Tartt - 'The Secret History', Mark Z Danielewski - 'House of Leaves' Emile Zola - 'Germinal' M.R.James -'The Collected Ghost Stories' Fernando Pessoa - 'The Book of Disquiet', Mario de Sa-Carneiro - 'The Great Shadow' Dino Buzzati - 'The Tartar Steppe' Stefan Grabinski - 'The Dark Domain'

Heroes:

Emily Bronte, I would probably say. I dreamt once I met her in some shadowy manor house on some twilight moorland... There were servants dressed in armour, and rumours of labyrinthine stairways, old galleries and dusty libraries... I can't remember very much, but she had beautiful eyes...

My Blog

...A Quiet Sunday... (September 2nd)

Strange how some sleep can seem... haunted. I had gone back to bed halfway through the afternoon with a sense of relief... my attempts at spending the day productively had long since been abandoned, a...
Posted by Stu on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:52:00 PST

...things I wrote whilst on the Sussex Downs... (August 27th)

Written Under a Tree in the Sussex Countryside Late summers day,perfect day and night-cooled wind.Sound of an aeroplanein the sky.Voices.Scampering leaves. Across the fields; stillness and silence,sli...
Posted by Stu on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:09:00 PST

...A Miniature Autumn Twilight... (August 20th)

Twilight tonight was like a perfect miniaturisation of autumn, an autumn only an hour long, but a pure and beautiful distillation of the season to come. A premonition laced with something shivery...
Posted by Stu on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:35:00 PST

A Tale from my Student Days -Part Two- (August 15th)

...oh well, back from work, and now to finish my story from last night. hope all the suspense won't prove to be a vast disappointment! Now I can't remember how to spell disappointment... or is it diss...
Posted by Stu on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:43:00 PST

...A Tale from my Student Days (August 14th)...

During my last two years at Worcester University I lived in a house that was nearly two hundred years old. All of us who lived there, being of a somewhat imaginative nature, did our best to convi...
Posted by Stu on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:51:00 PST

Sunday Night Meandering (August 12th / 13th)

Fox-cries out in the garden, all unearthly and sounding like the night... if I close my eyes, the sound of the fountain next door could be a stream, and if I ignore the streetlamps, I might not be in ...
Posted by Stu on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:20:00 PST

Lines Written on Hove Beach, in the Wind (August 12th)

foamy wind, dog-wild and drowning voices,shark fin sails in gray-green wave hollows,the sky in summer lies, bone-break whitelike gull backs, un-still dark evening sun,elongating shadows, night-ti...
Posted by Stu on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:44:00 PST

...what I am doing at midnight... (August 7th)

1. Watching 'Misery' on television. I remember reading this when it first came out... My parents bought it for Christmas 1987... I read it over that strange dead week between Christmas and the New Yea...
Posted by Stu on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:10:00 PST

...time travelling back twenty nine years... (August 3rd)

Strange evening tonight. Sat here by the window, listening to trains and children-cries. They play on the corner of the road, across the tracks. They always seem to be there when I walk by, sitting on...
Posted by Stu on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:37:00 PST

...on Deep Summer Eve... (July 31st 10:12pm)

...August 1st tomorrow, and thus, the last chapter of summer...Summer isn't really a season, more three distinct chapters; there is the bright and refreshing hope of June, hot and celebratory Jul...
Posted by Stu on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:48:00 PST