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Michael K

The dream is the night's aquarium...

About Me

peripheral figure, hovering between light & shadow. Optimistic, but guarded (sometimes) - deep and meaningless. Empty beaches, troilism, and the novels of Angela Carter. The occasional avocado...

My Interests

finding the holy grail, finding my bus pass, doing the funky chicken...

I'd like to meet:

those interested in keeping the bohemian spirit alive, the aspidistra flying, kindred spirits, flies in the corporate ointment, dancers, wings, feathers...reaching out, reaching out...

Music:

La Monte Young, Terry Riley (persian surgery dervishes), Alice Kemp, Erik Satie, Eno, Flying Lizards, Van Dyke Parks, Jack Nitzsche, Scott Walker ("The Drift"), John Cale ("Paris S'Eveille"), Nico, Kevin Ayers, Carol Grimes, Martin Stone, Mick Stannard, Ladies of PTHHHH, Bark Psychosis, The Fish Brothers, Dates, The Dials, Alasdair Willis and the Vitamin b12...

Movies:

Man Ray, Maya Deren, Annabel Nicolson, Georges Méliès, Jack Smith, Bulle Ogier, Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, Kerry Laitala ("Secure the Shadow"), Ron Rice ("Queen of Sheba meets the Atom Man" and "Chumlum"), James B Harris ("Some Call it Loving"), Kenneth Anger, Jacques Rivette ("Duelle", "Histoire de Marie et Julien"), Joseph Cornell, Orson Welles ("The Immortal Story"), Bunuel and Dali, Kumel's "De Komst van Joachim Stiller" and "Malpertuis"; the improbable landscapes of Pat O'Neill...

Television:

a mixed blessing

Books:

Angela Carter, Nicholas Royle, Anais Nin, Marguerite Duras ("Whole Days in the Trees"), Truman Capote ("Music for Chameleons"), Thomas Pynchon ("V"), John Collier ("Sleeping Beauty"), Rimbaud ("The Illuminations"), short stories of Guy de Maupassant, Jean Ray ("Malpertuis"), Antonin Artaud, John Latham, Alfred Jarry...

Heroes:

germseed

My Blog

woken dreams

Rain blustery morning.  Picked up from our front door by taxi driver rejoicing in the name of Rowlinson Carter and driven, past revolving Avengers-type signposts, into the dark woods of Chiddingl...
Posted by Michael K on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:46:00 PST

the wrong man

Raw, razorkeen  -  Ian Chenery's anger crystallized and his temper shot sky-high in aheartbeat.  He quickly metamorphosed from Jekyll, the magnaminous family man he hadprided himself on...
Posted by Michael K on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:34:00 PST

changing reels

Changing ReelsSitting alone in the darkened arena, just three people, who've all ventured out that winter's Friday night to see Volker Schlondorff's 1966 film "Mord und Totschlag" (one is me, another ...
Posted by Michael K on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:31:00 PST

the man who became his own shadow

The Man who Became his Own ShadowIt was fair to say he was not, currently,  the happiest of men.  The freak thunderstorm had raged long and far into the June night, and, when it was over, he...
Posted by Michael K on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:46:00 PST