Eggs and Chips Blues 2 |
So there I was, suffering from a abcess and listening to the great man (Stravinsky 1952 conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, live). When the phone rings. 'Human contact' I think. It's an 0141 number. O...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:20:00 PST |
Bogus Darkmans with a bad case of the egg and chips blues. |
Finally I can see through everything I have ever written and done and it's all drivel. I am having one of my summertime dives and the only thing I can listen to is Stravinsky's 'A Soldier's Stor...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:41:00 PST |
Le Grand Illusion and The Missing Model. |
Reading McClaren Ross's frantic letters I feel he is (was) going to have a nervous breakdown unless he is discharged him from the army soon. He's got to get out to work on his 'Hunted Man' m...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:26:00 PST |
Our Mutual Friend |
My favourite character in literature (for the summer at least) is Silas Wegg from Dicken's 'Our Mutual Friend'. He's a one-legged pamphleteer who's trying to wrangle money out of a man who's made...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:31:00 PST |
Lonely Psychopaths and Urban Foxes |
I've managed to escape my Young Marble Giants and Biberkopf fixation and I've been listening to Rosco by Midlake which is really outlaw music, which brought me back, again to the 'frate...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:55:00 PST |
The Young Marble Giants |
My christmas book seems to have become 'How the Dead Live' by Will Self. I picked it up in a second hand book shop for a quid. It's putting a rather surreal edge on things, but maybe it's just th...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:14:00 PST |
Juddering Cadavers |
Biberkopf has gone so I've been trying to do a bit of scribbling. A few lines and then I switch the telly on. I tune in to Later with Jools Holland and I'm treated to the juddering cadaver of one of t...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:12:00 PST |
RAF and Jellies |
Back to the b-b-b-blog. I've come out my Fassbinder phase only to go and see a film about him at the ICA. The RAF were hijacking a plane while Fassbinder and his boyfriend had hysterical argument...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:08:00 PST |
Berlin Alexanderplatz |
I have been immersed in Berlin Alexanderplatz all week, the only problem has been that Amazon sent the disc with the last episodes first so I am watching it backwards. Never mind, Berlin Alexanderplat...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST |
A Wendy House of Platitudes |
To escape the Elizabethan underworld of rufflers and glimmer girls I decided to distract myself by walking to the supermarket for a bottle of wine. I was moving, wildebeest like, ...
Posted by Gerry Mitchell on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:59:00 PST |
