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Desdichado

About Me

"Learn what the doves of Diana are, that conquer the lion with ..."* Lonely Planet Boy, under the sign of Saturn, and the paws of my (3) cats; ** struggling daily with the disease of procrastination {and currently ... floundering, frankly; suspended somewhere between Thomas a Kempis and Thomas de Quincey, if you know what I mean...?}; *** 'Let's do something crazy / something absolutely wrong / while we're waiting / for the miracle to come...' **** "There is just enough happening. The space behind me comes from everything I've learned or failed to learn. We all want to move out, to imprint an image on another space. But there has been nothing established. There has been no adventure. Thank god. We are saved an adventure." - Rudy Wurlitzer ***** “No one banks on fidelity these days.” – Graham Greene ****** “He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.” - Harry Crews

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

2D. ... otherwise it's mostly a case of 'Would Like To Have Met': John Dee; Warren Oates; Bill Hicks; Philip Larkin; Austin Osman Spare; St. Francis of Assisi; Robert Bresson; Muriel Spark; William Blake; Georges Bataille; RB Kitaj; Thomas De Quincey; Marcel Duchamp; Maya Deren; the young Louise Brooks; Anna Kavan; Ana Mendieta; Edie Sedgwick; Jacques Lacan {both in a social and a professional capacity}...; Who would I invite to dinner tonight (as long as they're not allergic to cats?)? 2D, Chan Marshall/Cat Power, Chris Doyle, Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, Robert Stone; Robin WIlliamson; this is all a bit dark and Celtic and melancholy isn't it? Who makes me alugh? Jonny Vegas maybe, Josie Long, Dylan Moran ... take away Japanese and warm sake from HANA on Seven Sisters Rd ... Barry Humphries, Nick Tosches ..What do I want for 2008? Someone to send me strange, unexpected musical instruments; Try and (finally) read Proust; Not to have another hangover like this one (o god it hurts....) (On Christmas Day I played a bouzouki in a Medieval cottage. Unlikey as this sounds, it is true.) This year I want strange little coral like percussion instruments to fall out the sky. Maybe I wouldnt be much happier; but my time would be strange and rich, like a Polish soup. I want to be a one man band. I hear this light, airy, pointillistic music... dark words and a veil of chords...

My Blog

LISTing

Looking through my Winter notebooks this morning, I found this kind of 'Note to Self'. I don't think I've posted it before, have I?+ + + +so much to doso much to giveso much to read so much to say - s...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:55:00 GMT

envoi

yes, there were other calls after that, for now that trust was established in its shiver and twine i was offered a myriad of priceless things: private ciphers of hurt and lament and self-laceration; t...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:22:00 GMT

your cheap red ring

The distance between us is greater than it's ever been, I guess.Not only are you still in another continent, a 24 hr flight away, but we haven't exchanged so much as a 'Hi, hey, how ya doin'?' for, I...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:21:00 GMT

{w.i.p.}

||| WHERE THE MOUNTAIN GOATS JUMP ||| from "Ondine, et al", a 'work in (err-hrrrm) 'progress'.Bugs would be good fun in bed, he said, dont you think?That made her laugh and they were friends then....
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:28:00 GMT

2 quotes from Gaston Bachelard

Currently reading: THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF FIRE, Gaston Bachelard"But the reverie by the fireside has axes that are more philosophical. Fire is for the man who is contemplating it an example of a sudden...
Posted by on Sun, 21 May 2006 13:51:00 GMT

mood swings & mood rings

I wasnt sure what I thought about the previous post...; it threatens to glance against certain things I feel a bit icky talking about at all (to say the least), things which dont necessarily show me i...
Posted by on Sun, 21 May 2006 11:14:00 GMT

Heights + Falls

OK, then, the first two things that come to mind.I'm really bad at names and dates, but I can remember textures and scenes as if they were still right in front of me.I dont know what exact age i was, ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 May 2006 00:31:00 GMT

plainspeaking (after mistral, & after all)

so here we areso this is itthe dangerous open space no one warned us aboutlacunal plain between two forestswe are so far out in the openbut feel minutely closed offour eyes glassy and fidgetylike a ch...
Posted by on Fri, 19 May 2006 18:31:00 GMT

youd better believe it mister, bellyache (1)

she saidi'm sick of your Risen Christ syndromeyou really do expect us magdalenes to look inyour unholy eyes or read/hear your Wordand KNOW you are The Oneall i care aboutone do you bring home the baco...
Posted by on Fri, 19 May 2006 00:15:00 GMT

2 quotes from John Berger

Currently reading: John Berger: here is where we meet1/All my books have been about you, I suddenly say.Nonsense! Maybe you wrote them so I should be there, keeping you company. And I was. Yet they we...
Posted by on Wed, 17 May 2006 22:42:00 GMT