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The Desperation Gallery

Give what you can. Take what you need.

About Me

I am Clinton Morgan. I write. I do pictures. I fart about on the ukelele.

My Interests

Creating. Sleeping. Idling. Dreaming (whether I'm asleep or awake).

I'd like to meet:

Paul Dodd and Eleanor. Friends I have not seen since I was six.

Music:

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Cramps, Conlon Nancarrow, Wild Man Fischer, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, The Jack and Jim Show, Georges Brassens, The Shaggs, Girls Together Outrageously, Kevin Ayers, The Chieftains, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Anton Webern, J.S. Bach, Henry Purcell, John Zorn, Duke Ellington, 1920s Jazz, Eric Dolphy, Scissor Sisters, Bix Beiderbecke, The Freddy Williams Four and Jake Thackray.

Movies:

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Case of The Mukkinese Battlehorn, Henry 9 Til 5, Rita, Sue and Bob Too,The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Cronos, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, Pan's Labyrinth, 2000 Maniacs, 200 Motels, Cabin Fever, Amazon Women On The Moon, Bless This House, The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Will Hay films, Baby Snakes, Kwaidan, The works of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, Carl Dreyer films, Russ Meyer films, The Doll Squad, Zatoichi films featuring Shintaro Katsu especially Zatoichi At The Fire Festival, Stanley Kubrick films, Quentin Tarantino films, The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1937), Hostel, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Wicker Man (1973), 1930s French Cinema, Dougal and The Blue Cat, if...., It's A Wonderful Life, Derek and Clive Get The Horn and Dario Argento films.

Television:

Tiswas,The Goodies, TV Offal, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Dustbinmen, Inside Victor Lewis Smith, The Avengers, I Claudius, The Young Ones, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) original version, Happy Families, Early Doors, Still Game, Look Around You, Ripping Yarns, Do Not Adjust Your Set, At Last The 1948 Show, Dave Allen At Large, The Kenny Everett Video Show, The Benny Hill Show, Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, Abigail's Party, Home To Roost, Allo Allo, Family Guy, Cream In My Coffee, Goodnight Sweetheart, Attention Scum, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge, Troma's Edge TV and The Incredibly Strange Film Show

Books:

James Joyce, Michel de Montaigne, Peter O'Donnell, George MacDonald Fraser, Ramsay Campbell, Sherlock Holmes, William Shakespeare, Alan Moore, Dudley D Watkins, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, 'Shepperton Babylon' by Matthew Sweet, Daniel Evan Weiss, 'Books, Baguettes and Bed Bugs' by Jeremy Mercer and 'How To Be Idle' by Tom Hodgkinson

Heroes:

The underdog. My enemy are those who bully and walk over people and drop their principles in order to succeed. If you really want to succeed then become a beakless budgie.

My Blog

"I Call My Cancer Rupert"- Dennis Potter

So Rupert Murdoch owner of MySpace (amongst Fox, The Sun, The Times, The News of The World etc) along with Rebekah Wade editor of The Sun newspaper has asked Kelvin McKenzie (former Sun editor) to tak...
Posted by The Desperation Gallery on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:19:00 PST