The main interest at the moment is bringing up a happy and healthy child. Painting is obviously the next all consuming passion. After that there's books and music and film and the playing and collecting of multifarious instruments. At the moment I'm trying to build a lyre out of a loo seat.I work for the local Oxfam in the music department and am currently looking for any musicians who may want to save the world from having to listen to a midddle-aged hippy strumming a guitar for a few hours in October for Oxfam
I'd like to meet:
Myself, coming back the other way to find out what a long, strange trip it's been & myself as I'm going back just to tell me de-ja-vu doesn't happen for the first time...Caravaggio, so I can learn a bit about painting & how to spell his name without checking a dictionary...the Francis Bacons so some-one can buy the six of us a drink and Elvis, to ask him for my space-ship back....& on a more serious note Jumbo Winterbottom a truly gentle man artist & precursor of my childhood clown prince of a where are you now & who still puts the flowers on your grave? Beri bim.
Music:
Mostly World Jazz and Folk. Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Tarnation, Badi Assad, Toumani Diabate, Astor Piazzolla, Segovia, Ancient Future, Dead Can Dance,Rodrigo & Gabriela, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia are the main things I'm listening to at the moment, to keep a long list short & not conforming to my opening statement but ...
Movies:
The Servant( a nasty little English film made with love & my all time personal favourite.),La Dolce Vita , The Rebel,
Pan's Labyrinth ,Andrei Rublev , Lust for Life, Bucket of Blood ,Riding Giants, Il Postino, Como Agua para Chocolate, Themroc, Tristana, Cinema Paradiso (oh god this list just goes on & on when I think about it).
Television:
I quite like the old fashioned black and white ones which you can pick up and move about until you get a picture. They never seemed to have 24 hours of kids programmes. On the other hand the news is much easier to handle on CBeebies.They were also just the right size to put in the fridge (which is the one place no submarine-licence-detective can go).
Books:
Dylan Thomas-'A Prospect of the Sea','Under Milk Wood'
Albert Camus-'The Outsider', 'The Plague'
Salman Rushdie-'The Moore's Last Sigh', 'Midnight's Children'. Margaret Atwood-'Cats Eye'
Frederico Garcia Lorca-'Blood Wedding'
Irving Stone-'Lust for Life'. Tarkovsky-'Andrei Rublev'
Nadine Gordimer-'The Soft Voice of the Serpent'
Gilbert & George -'Intimate conversations with Francis Jonquet'. David Sylvester-'Interviews with Francis Bacon'
Heroes:
PATTI SMITH lyrics
