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jude calvert-toulmin

Granny, Mum, Writer, Photographer

About Me


(background courtesy of Key-Z productions , the official site of ken kesey /merry pranksters merchandise.)
i'm jude/muz/granny jude/that fucking bitch of an ex wife/jct/fluffybunnykins/that bird who spouts shite on her blog/mum/the human who puts out the cat food and bird food/ma depending on your perspective.
the editing on my first novel, STARBIRTH , which was inspired by my rather rollercoaster life both in and out of cyberspace, is now finished, and i'm in the process of querying literary agents. meanwhile i'm writing the sequel.
this is a selection of my published articles . click on link above for my blog. as well as presenting a series of cybexes (cyber exhibitions of artists whose work has moved me) i'm also writing a series of articles about my time on the turn of the 80's music scene in london, sheffield, manchester, liverpool and malaga, when i was larking in the same daisy fields as aztec camera, orange juice, a certain ratio, teardrop explodes, sade, echo and the bunnymen and danza invisible.
i've got two daughters, the gorgeous and wonderful jodie (my top myspace friend, also known as pud), the fantabulous hollie (also known as boll/mum), the coolest son jasper (also known as son/jed/jaz) who is rapidly morphing from a little boy into an emo, and a grandson, reese (also known as "the cutest baby in the universe".)
apart from flash, this is my favourite place to go ... a place where you can see the results of your html as you type them in . it's orgasmic, man.
if you don't want me to bin your comment, have the courtesy to address it to me. i don't like rudeness.
below, a selection of portraits, self-portraits and photoshop CS2 doodles.
the spirit of stanage. stanage edge, derbyshire, 2001.
This week on my blog: The Best of Glasto 2007 (don't fall for the anti-glasto hype - no, it's not shite.)
Over here on YOUTUBE: cowboymod's video to accompany Clayhill's cover of The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want", which is on the This Is England soundtrack and appears towards the end of the film.
Over here on YOUTUBE: Trailer for Stone Monkey, possibly the greatest climbing film of all time, featuring the legendary climber and genius Johnny Dawes. Check out my article about Johnny, "A Dictator in his Underpants" and my live online interview with him here .
Over here on YOUTUBE: Phil Campbell's home made vid for Cold Engines, from his album Joy. Check out his MySpace and also my blog entry about him.
some of my mosaics:

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:


Too late:
Oliver Reed -he is totally misunderstood and misrepresented.The man is a legend; William Hogarth ; Lenny Bruce ; Krzysztof Kieslowski ; Marilyn Monroe ; Diana Dors ; Richard Beckinsale ; Mike Pratt ; Sam Kydd ; Thomas Hardy ; Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Theodore Gericault who was a genius.
Not too late:
Gavin Clark - brilliant, brilliant singer/songwriter ; Tom Noonan ; Tracey Emin - we think alike in many ways; Gil Elvgren ; Peter O'Toole - the thirty second mutual gaze in 1988 was great but I'd like a proper chat; Germaine Greer - cool as fuck; Andy Connell (again. but properly!); Tim Wheeler (again. but properly!); Marianne Faithfull ; Sir Patrick Moore - a legend; Sir Ridley Scott ; Kira Od ; Kevin Smith ; Paul Morley (again); Jason Mewes ; Willem Dafoe ; Edwyn Collins (again); Paolo Coelho ; Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; Bill Granger ; Pete Firman ; Marco Pierre White ; IrkThePurists ; Rupert Everett ; All my Spanish friends (again); All my dear friends who live abroad (more often.)
Maybe in another part of the universe:
Top Cat, Benny, Choo Choo, Brain, Fancy, Officer Dibble ; Huckleberry Hound ; Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy ; Quick Draw McGraw ; Fluid Man ; Ralph Wiggum .

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Music:

THE UNIVERSE: birdsong, GOD: ennio morricone, THE SON OF GOD: nick drake, HEAVEN: gavin clark THE CHERUBS: my children singing when they were toddlers, THE CHORUS OF ANGELS:bagpipes,camerón de la isla,a certain ratio,phil campbell,23 skidoo,abba,air,antony and the johnsons,aphex twin,ash,(early) aztec camera,banoffi,beatles,ben harper,billy holiday,billy mackenzie,bob dylan,bob marley,carole king,carpenters,cat stevens,chemical brothers,chrissie hynde,cocteau twins,colourbox,cowboy junkies,danza invisible,dj spooky,donny osmond,(early) echo and the bunnymen,enya,erik satie,flowrush,groove armada,happy mondays, hula,iggy pop,jack johnson,jah wobble,jamiroquai,jeff buckley,joni mitchell,josef k,kate rusby,kirsty maccoll,kruder dorfmeister,magazine,marvin gaye,marianne faithfull,mike oldfield,MinusBlue,the moog,mozart,mr scruff,natacha atlas,neil sparkes and the lost tribe,neil young,nightmares on wax,(1st 2 albums) oasis,(early) orange juice,the orb,orbital,PIL,pink fairies,pink floyd,the pogues,psychedelic furs,robbie williams,roxy music,samuel barber,scientist,seth lakeman,sheryl crow,sparks,tangerine dream,(early) the teardrop explodes,the associates,tinariwen,tom noonan,underworld,vivaldi,wings.

Movies:

directors: krzysztof kieslowski, david lynch, stanley kubrick, terrence malick, hal ashby, martin scorcese, arthur penn, francis ford coppola, werner herzog, sergio leone, ridley scott, michael mann, mike nichols, herk hervey, sam mendes, orson welles, woody allen, ken russell, john carpenter, jane campion, mike leigh, peter care, ken loach, blake edwards, giuseppe tornatore, shane meadows, jaques tati, luis bunuel, kevin smith, roy ward baker, mike hodges, claude berri, robert aldrich, patrice chereau, billy wilder, bill forsyth, douglas trumbull, wim wenders, jonathan caouette, sam raimi, peter greenaway, luc besson, george sluizer, quentin tarantino, michael cimino, clint eastwood, tobe hooper, david cronenburg,
films: this is spinal tap, this is england, three colours red, three colours blue, three colours white, westworld, withnail and i, 2001, eyes wide shut, a clockwork orange, a short film about killing, a short film about love, black hawk down, boogie nights, catch 22, carnival of souls, un chien andalou, stone monkey, pepe le pew, american beauty, annie hall, apocalypse now, assault on precinct 13, badlands, bambi, beauty and the beast, being john malkovitch, being there, bladerunner, blow-up, blue velvet, bonnie and clyde, breakfast at tiffany's, bridges of madison county, brief encounter, cinderella, cinema paradiso, clerks, crash,cry baby, damage,dark star, days of heaven, dead man's shoes, dogma, don’t bother to knock, don't look now, eraserhead, escape from new york, (carpenter original),falling in love, far from heaven, get carter, gladiator, battleship potemkin, goodfellas, halloween, the texas chainsaw massacre, (tobe hooper original), hannibal brooks, harold and maude, jay and silent bob strike back, jean de florette, les vacances de monsieur hulot, mallrats, manon des sources, mean streets, johnny yesno ,kiss me deadly, double indemnity, (wilder original), lady chatterly (ken russell), la reine margot,local hero, lost highway, manhattan, manhunter, mulholland drive, nashville, nosferatu, once upon a time in america, once upon a time in the west, one from the heart, paris texas, pinocchio, pulp fiction, raging bull, scum, sex lies and videotape, shrek, silent running, sleeping beauty, snow white and the seven dwarfs, something’s got to give, (reconstructed from incomplete footage), spoorloos, (ie the vanishing dutch original),tarnation, taxi driver, the big blue,the deerhunter, the devils, the double life of veronique,the draughtsman’s contract, the evil dead, the evil dead part II, the godfather, the godfather part II, the jungle book, the last picture show, the lion king, the little mermaid, the magnificent ambersons, the offence, the piano, the proposition, the shining, the thin red line, the sound of music, thelma and louise, touch of evil, toy story, trainspotting, twin peaks fire walk with me, unforgiven, women in love,

Television:

skins, road wars, sopranos,extras,shameless, h.r.pufnstuf, banana splits, desperate housewives, heston blumenthal in search of perfection, the sky at night, space, simon schama power of art, randall and hopkirk (deceased) (original '69 series with mike pratt and kenneth cope),stingray, monkey magic (magic show), murun buchstansangur, futurama, the simpsons, the office, bill granger bill's food, saturday morning kitchen, dr terrible's house of horrible, saturday cooks!, jamie oliver, rugrats, delia smith, have i got news for you, simon schama history of britain, sopranos, thirtysomething, horizon, afterlife, pre 80s hanna barbera, the expert, department s, my so called life, 40 minutes, seven up, the singing ringing tree, belle and sebastian, the long chase, pepe le pew, captain pugwash.

Books:

currently reading: "hell's angels" by the legendary hunter s thompson.
the age of reason, crime and punishment, lady chatterly’s lover, lord of the flies, love in the time of cholera, nothing, on broadway, the alchemist, the brothers karamazov, the dice man, the doors of perception, the electric kool-aid acid test, the gambler, the great gatsby, the name of the rose, the quiet american, therese raquin, the heart of the matter, the little prince, rabbit run, rabbit redux, rabbit is rich, romeo and juliet, jonathan livingstone seagull, the biography of nick drake, down the highway (dylan biog), heavier than heaven (cobain biog), ladies and gentlemen lenny bruce, marilyn the last take, napoleon in love, the assassination of marilyn monroe, 20th century factory glass, arabic geometrical pattern and design, cosmic tribe tarot, gil elvgren - all his glamorous american pin ups, les tres riches heures du duc de berry, moroccan interiors, star wars episode 1 the visual dictionary, star wars the visual dictionary, the art of hanna barbera, the decorated dolls house, the last sitting, the mosaic book, brassai - the secret paris of the 30s, this is rome, this is san francisco, this is paris (all of the miroslav sasek "this is" series are great), a bright shining lie, black vinyl white powder, chickenhawk, cops, dispatches, richard wilhelm I ching, nam, snow blind, the hite report, touching the void, women who run with the wolves, argos catalogue, complete cookery course (delia smith), CAMRA good beer guide, lakeland plastics catalogue, my favourite chinese recipes (ken hom), oriental cookbook (priya wickramasinghe), summer collection (delia smith), the chocolate book(helge rubinstein), the curry secret(kris dhillon), winter collection (delia smith), blackberry farm, busy busy world (richard scarry), cars and trucks and things that go(richard scarry), cinderella (ladybird 1965), )elves and the shoemaker(ladybird 1965, fat freddys cat, green eggs and ham, huckleberry hound annuals, kandy meets the bunny babes, sleeping beauty(ladybird 1965), viz annuals

Heroes:

anyone who fights for truth, justice and liberty. harry enfield's yorkshireman character ("ah NOR serfistikayshun ahv BEEEN ta leeds!"), my partner brian, paolo coelho, goya, jamie oliver, boudicca, thomas hardy, oliver reed, william hogarth, theodore gericault, pete care, kieslosvski, caravaggio, joan of arc, gaudi, marilyn monroe, dostoevsky, joe simpson, franz marc, adrian cooper, marco pierre white, velasquez, gabriel garcia marquez.