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Melissa Laura Osborne

jews' muse

About Me

woodland sex worker with normal hopes:

My Interests

home. heart. lines of flight. atomic super-collision. hearing 'the flying hearts'. henry darger. post. collage...bibble-bobble…winnowing.

I'd like to meet:

treasure resplendent on sunlit hilltops

Music:

currently thriving on some: otis redding, the ronettes, the shangri-las, buffy saint-marie, emmylou harris, iris dement, judee sill, melanie safka, bonnie prince billy, catherine irwin/freakwater, michael hurley, john prine, pw long, bruce langhorne, larry jon wilson, mickey newbury, brett eugene ralph's kentucky chrome revue, son volt, uncle tupelo, le monde fabuleux des yamasuki, shirley collins, archie fisher, kath bloom, nina nastasia, loren connors, jonathan kane, nils økland, moondog, arthur russell, mark hollis, talk talk, francois rabbath, rameses iii, carter tutti, circle, fovea hex, tren brothers, labradford, stars of the lid, basil kirchin, dorothy ashby, alice coltrane, albert ayler, supersilent, arvo part, philip glass, georgian polyphony, the knife, the field, matias aguayo (and other select kompakt pickings) sally shapiro, trans am, kevin coyne, reigning sound, 'the boss'!, guided by voices, the modern lovers, sonics rendezvous band, devo, wipers, butthole surfers, jesus lizard, slayer, carcass, napalm death, satyricon, ulver, enslaved

Movies:

alice in the cities, le mepris, a woman under the influence, gloria, husbands, love streams (all cassavetes' films), stroszek, the enigma of kaspar hauser, nosferatu the vampyre (all herzog's films), foxes, days of heaven, badlands, don't look now, tenebrae, the passion of joan of arc, l'atalante, the seventh seal, dancer in the dark, grey gardens, how's your news?, 3 women, punishment park, heartworn highways, rockers, princess mononoke, jaws, ghostbusters, 5 easy pieces, saturday night fever (stayin' alive - but for completely absurd reasons), the hired hand, mccabe and mrs. miller, went the day well? les yeux sans visages, whistle down the wind, this is england, the lives of others, silent light, no country for old men, wild combination: a portrait of arthur russell, buddha collapsed out of shame...

Television:

the simpsons, the wire

Books:

prose: flannery o'connor, raymond carver, tod wodicka. poetry: raymond carver, csezlaw milosz, wallace stevens, brett ralph. pictures: the beautiful island, une semaine de bonté

Heroes:

gena (i love you) rowlands. john cassavetes. jon snow. susan harrington from 'how's your news?'

My Blog

Taxi To The Darkside - Dir. Alex Gibney

Taxi To The Darkside - Dir. Alex Gibney By Melissa Osborne for Dazed.   Awarded Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars, Taxi to the Darkside, directed by documentary film-maker, A...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:14:00 PST

Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell - Another Man Magazine

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell Dir Matt Wolfe, 2007 By Melissa Osborne   Sixteen years after the premature death of the obscure cellist and disco producer from Oskaloosa, Matt...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:11:00 PST

Silent Light - Interview With Carlos Reygadas for Dazed

Silent Light - Review & InterviewBy Melissa Osborne for Dazed & ConfusedHailed as one of contemporary cinema's most distinctive auteurs, Carlos Reygadas' third feature is a deeply moving and v...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:41:00 PST

Studio Ghibli/IV w/ Goro Miyazaki - Dazed & Confused

Founded in 1985 by hardcore animation obsessives, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Japan's consistently successful animation studio, Studio Ghilbli, continues to honour its extant fledgling principle...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:37:00 PST

Paris Je TAime/Gena Rowlands Interview - Dazed & Confuse

Picture postcard Paris, with its atmospheric narrow streets and outdoor cafes populated with amorous lovers, is the officially designated 'City of Love'. Fitting then that it should provide the Gauloi...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:59:00 PST

Terry Gilliam on Tideland for i-D Magazine

Could the latest film from beleaguered director Terry Gilliam be a quenching return to visionary form after the critically reviled Brothers Grimm? Filmed on a tight three week schedule, on a 6th of th...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:24:00 PST

New York Doll (interview with Greg Whiteley) for i-D Magazine

Fan or no fan of 70's, gender-bending, proto-punk band The New York Dolls, Greg Whiteley's debut documentary New York Doll, is a compelling rock 'n' roll fairytale. Eschewing standard rock-doc fo...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:42:00 PST

Julien Temple on Glastonbury for i-D

For anyone lamenting the absence of this year's Glastonbury Festival, Julien Temple's visceral journey through three and a half decades of music, jugglers, mud, rain and sunshine should go some way to...
Posted by Melissa Laura Osborne on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:32:00 PST