DARK STAR [Photoanarchy]

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Music:

If music be the food of love, play on...

-William Shakespeare

Music is necessary for insipration, I tend to think in visual terms, but there is always a soundtrack that accompanies my thoughts. Just like everything else, my appetite for music is varied, vast and insatiable. I listen to everything...sometimes all at once!!

Great era's of music come and go..

Can/Aphex Twins/Arvo Part/Fiona Apple/Cabaret Voltaire/Bahaus/Boards of Canada/Brian Eno/Clash/Cure/Coctaeu Twins/Coltrane/Frankie Valley/Hendrix/Ian Curtis+Joy Division+New Order/Jah Wobble/Jam/John Cage/Kraftwerk/Lee Scratch Perry/Les Negresses Verte/Lucky Dube/Miles Davis/Mogwai/My Bloody Valentine/Orbital/Radiohead/Rolling Stones/Roxy Music/Sigur Ros/Stranglers/Sly and the Family Stone/Spaceman3/Suicide/TV on the Radio/U2/Zeppelin/William Orbit/Who/

I absolutely adore the Happy Mondays. Talk about madness and excess. Shaun Ryders consumption of ilicit substances is legendary and the Mondays music could never been what it was had it not been fueled by drugs. I was looking at a post someone left on a chat room about him :Ah, you see he might appear to be a chav, but the man is in fact a comedy genius and is the sort of person indie music needs. For instance going to Barbados to make the next Monday's album, smashing his methadone at the airport and then selling his clothes when in Barbados to buy more crack. Superb.

*FUCK* the genius of rock n roll is in it's infamy, It was meant to self destruct.. Now they have given it a hall of fame! I am currently listening to: Henryk Gorecki Symphony NO. 3 (tragic/beautiful!), Front 242 (thanks Nicodemus)

There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to In my room, in my room.

In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears In my room, in my room.

Do my dreaming and my scheming Lie awake and pray Do my crying and my sighing Laugh at yesterday.

Now it's dark and I'm alone But I won't be afraid In my room, in my room In my room, in my room In my room, in my room

-Brian Wilson/Gary Usher

Movies:

There are so many movies that have colored and influenced my life...where does one begin to give credit......but I will try. Any movie with a one word title.... Crash/ Corruption/ Privelege. Anything directed by: Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa or David Cronenberg. French New Wave, German Noir, Outlaw Biker Genre.
I think...... if I had to choose one movie wich I liked for pure cinematic appeal, it would have to be "Bladerunner" a futuristic film noir detective love story, three of my favourite genres rolled into one film! The soundtrack by Vangelis is pretty awesome too. I am not a snob but most of what Hollywood produces is such crap. The most memorable Holywood flicks I have seen in recent times are Magnolia and American Beauty. I revere the actor Klaus Kinski his relationship with the director Werner Herzog was tenuous at best even though they collaborated on over five films. A production crew of maybe a dozen, with a deranged actor and a brillant director in the steaming jungles of South America created one of the most memorable films ever made (Fitzcaraldo). Talk about guerilla filmaking! Kinski lived and performed with such intensity, he was alway's on the brink of sheer madness. He was a great artist, in the sense that he gave everything of himself to his craft. "I am not the Jesus of the official Church...who the police, bankers, judges, hangmen, officers, church bosses, politicians and other people tolerate. I am not your superstar" -Klaus Kinski....Saw a great movie the other evening "NAKED". About a homeless vagrant wandering the streets of London spewing existential litanies. I was stirred..?the individual poised against a mad society?. Once again..I had to think about.. who realy are the crazy and the sane one's?

Television:

What are you Watching??

12:30 PM: Android, a made for TV movie. Two convicts have escaped prison and are on the run in outer space. Will they ruin the experiments of a mad scientist as they try to make their getaway in his stolen spaceship? Stay tuned...

Books:

I have an immense collection of books. Most of the subject matter dealing with Art, Photography, History and Science. Unfortunately I have no time to read them, but I do enjoy looking at the pretty pictures.
Henry Miller is one of my idols. To have sequestered himself in some flat in Paris, cold, broke and hungry most of the time. He managed to be prolific and write about the human condition so eloquently. If ever I am feeling lonely or despair all I have to do is read Miller to be reminded of how ridiculous this drama we call life is. Henry Miller...God bless you..you continue to inspire me like no one ever has.
Adventure and Misadventure are a favourite topic of study. Having traveled wide and surviving several misfortunate incidents myself, I come to enjoy reading about others adventures and survival skills.Peter Beard is an interseting person whom I have had the good fortune to hang out with on several occassions in New York, Montauk and Miami.

Heroes:

Joan of Arc, Sid Vicious, Jesus Christ. Anyone who has been a rebel or visionary and died for their cause.