CHAOS, BEAUTY, what goes on INSIDE PEOPLES' HEADS. . . ROSES, roses, roses. . .because there's no such thing as beauty without thorns. . WRITING . . At the moment I am in love with my book. But tomorrow it could all change. Tomorrow I could hate it. Either way, I would rather slit my wrists than not write at all. . . TATTOOS. . . a much prettier way to exorcise the desire to self-mutilate. . . DANCING through midnight all night to the eternal sex beat that never fades. . . DREAMING of Keith Richards in "Cocksucker Blues". . . SETTING THE CONTROLS FOR THE SUN. . .and then waiting for the apocalypse begin. . .
hell raisers, dreamers, chancers, snake charmers
BAD MUSIC FOR BAD PEOPLE. . . on the stereo this week. . Battles, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Black Devil Disco Club, Panda Bear, Dinasaur L, The Fall, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth
anaesthetic for the soul.
THE RUSSIANS, THE VICTORIANS, THE BEATS, ALL THINGS METAPHYSICAL. . .Current reads. . . Nietzsche's "The Birth Of Tragedy". . . his treatise on the Dionysion power of music to connect with the great eternal . . . Jean Rhys' "The Wide Sargasso Sea" . . . love, loss, insanity, strange dreams, heavily scented flowers and voodoo in nineteenth century Jamaica. . .
Poison Ivy, William Burroughs, William Blake, Louise Brooks, Granny Robinson, Ginsberg