Whittling away the hours, wrestling acrophobia and other ridiculous anxieties, photography, cinema, music, conversation, literature, gastronomy, astronomy, drink, traveling, bric-a-brac and daydreaming.
"Va in mona" se dis a un che l'è drio romper!
Sometimes Les Cowboys Fringants, sometimes Boris Vian or No Comprendo Les Rita Mitsouko. I miss Joe Strummer. I like Caetano Veloso and Paolo Conte. I've a soft spot for Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, the Chicago Flash among other giants resting peacefully here in Cook County. Fresh, new Canadian music as well as what's been around like "Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red and you're speaking far too low. No I can't make out what your master said before he made you go." And that guy who married a Canadian who sang "I hang around dying to be tortured. You'll never be alone in the bone orchard." I really like David Garza, David Bowie and David Bazan. Sometimes I dust off Echo and the Bunnymen and The The and maybe Love and Rockets or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds or Barry Adamson. Alt country and old country, but not new country. Vintage Rhythm and Blues from Motown to Memphis (and Ska and early Reggae). The Kinks, Bad Brains, George Harrison, Motorhead and much in between. Probably a lot of the same bands you like and have listed in your profile if you're still reading this all the way down here. Go ahead, ask me.
From Out of the Past to Shoot the Piano Player, from Touch of Evil to The Third Man, from El EspÃritu de la Colmena to Hombre Mirando al Sudeste, from Seventh Heaven to Flesh and the Devil, from Cleo from 5 to 7 to the Battle of Algiers, from Divorzio all'Italiana to Lamerica, from Popiól i Diament (Ashes and Diamonds) to La Double Vie de Véronique, from the Last Detail to the Last Picture Show. From F.W. Murnau to Carl Dreyer, from Billy Wilder to Howard Hawks, from Wim Wenders to Werner Herzog, from George Stevens to Bob Rafelson, from Agnes Varda to Alain Resnais. Emir Kusturica, Carol Reed, the Coen brothers, the Marx brothers, the Maysles brothers, Antonioni, Tourneur, Visconti, Fellini and finally, though some have lost their way, Scorsese and Coppola. But most of all, F*** that guy Tarantino!Notable quotes from 1989:"Did you make one of these goddamn videotapes?" and"Goddamn hat on the bed's king of 'em all! Hell, that's worth at least what, 15 years bad luck, or even death, and I'd rather have death because I couldn't face no 15 year hex."
My rabbit ears don't pick up very much.
Guess who wrote each passage and you'll win a prize:1.) "The young man had indeed, in a stock taking way, preoccupied himself with this or that among the subjective shadows of things; but the things themselves he had heeded not at all, having a wilful tendency to take the shadow for the substance, and in the substance to see only shadow."2.) "His head was lowered. His eyes were closed. In the darkness under his eyelids he could see the shabby house where Edna Daly lived. Edna was standing on the doorstep. For an instant he saw her clearly, then gradually she faded, like something floating out of a dream. He opened his eyes and saw the fat blonde on the sofa."
Alain Bernardin, Jeanne d'Arc, Barney Ross.