Beckett, Balthus and baths, a lovely Gill Sans, I used to only love colographs but am now a lino-printing envangelist, Canford card in Azure Blue, Dreadnought Grey and Gunmetal, early Ian McEwan with all of the smell of the canal and the heat or a freezing cold Berlin, good black dresses, good navy blue dresses, Charlotte Gainsbourg's hairdo and jawline, slowdancing down the social club, half-remembered Glasgow of the late 1980s as the sun set down Great Western Road, my mum meeting Lloyd Cole in Warehouse (why he was there one can only hazard a guess, or she might be lying), gentleness, beauty, the space between two peoples' wrists, dust caught in the light, watching Picnic at Hanging Rock in a grey faux-silk dressing gown on a summer evening, drinking a good red.
NIGEL SLATER - The Man With the Child In His Eyes. My love for him is so strong. I want to protect him from all badness.
The Go Betweens--Suede--Kate Bush--Saint Etienne--Tindersticks--the Waterboys--Comet Gain--Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg--the oeuvre of Bryan Ferry--Leonard Cohen (Death of A Ladies' Man, Various Positions, I'm Your man equals sacred holy trinity)--Sylvie Vartan--Jane Birkin--Butcher Boy--Split Enz--the Bunnymen--Richard Hawley--Bananarama--the Banshees--the Betty Blue OST--the Manic Street Preachers--The McKinley Sisters--Evie Sands--Ellie Greenwich--the Smiths--the Associates--Julee Cruise--Timi Yuro--KING--Jacqueline Taieb--Lloyd Cole and the Commotions--Aztec Camera--Orange Juice--Isabelle Adjani's "Pull Marine", maybe more than ANYTHING else... width="425" height="350" ....just watch my little go b's video for spring rain if you want to see some beautiful, tasteful dancing.
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Betty Blue, lots of Charlotte Gainsbourg but especially The Cement Garden and An Impudent Girl. Lots of Isabelle Adjani, but especially Possession, Noseferatu and La Reine Margot. La Double Vie de Veronique, The Haunting, Walkabout, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Grey Gardens, Don't Look Now, Barry Lyndon.
Coronation Street and Gordon Ramsay.
The Misty Annual, Beckett Beckett Beckett, Ian McEwan earlies, especially First Love, Last Rites, The Cement Garden, In Between the Sheets and the Innocent, Nigel Slater, Simone de Beauvoir, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Jacques Prevert, Tous les Matins du Monde by Pascal Quignard, Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, Amelie Nothomb.
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