"Blue Lines" - Méira Cook"Says she favours tattoos, impermanentas the memory of these blue lines. Hey,beautiful, throw me a line, she calls,too low to hear. Every third word slightlyerased, as if blurred by a wet thumb. Alwaysknown we are lost in a long poem, fragmented to gloss memory, she says. Nevertheless, she adds, treading water,I am not as melancholy as I seem to bewhen that complaint escapes me."
Beirut, Cocorosie, Sigur Ros, Tortoise, Arcade Fire..but also..Interpol, Cabaret Voltaire Joy Division, Killing Joke,.., and Radiohead (why not?),..Tom W.,..T.Will... (who is that?), Bonie Prince Billy.. ..and of course..Micky Avalon..(everybody like this stuff these days). Edit Piaf, J. B. (these 2 do together), my bloody V...+++ Satie, Faure, Chopin, ha...ha,, Aha,..Trost (wow), louise attaque (thks Sw. S.), The Postal Service, Sundays, David Byrne, V.U., Antony & J., Culture Club, Cat Power, Tuxedomoon, K.o.C.,Bjork, M.A.
Bad Guy, Days of Being Wild, Paris-Texas, Songs from the Second Floor, Brazil, Persona, Lost Highway, Lost and not Found, Pi, Violent Cop, Bad Lieutenant, Motherland, Time of the Gypsies, Eraserhead (..), To Spirtokouto (that's greek), me and you and everyone I (oder we) know, Buffalo 66, Dead Man, Down by Law, J. F****** C., Naked, The Following, Aaltra, London-Brighton
Never had one
A.M. Homes, Plath, Judith Hermann, D. Thomas, R. Carver, Will Self, Italo Kalvino, Bukowski (!), M. Houellebecq, T. Mann, Barico, E. Yelinek, P. Bowls, Camus, Flaubert.. Doyle, Joice, Tsomski, Pynchon, ...Vonnegut..
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