“The creator has a mastertape/ but he left it in a cab”
Graphic arts, theater, writing, sneezing when the sun hits my eyes for the first time, pop culture, my record collection, technology, cooking, Go, invisible arts, certain leather things, Sunday mornings.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Just imagine: ‘Another Green World’ and ‘Before and After Science’, all original musicians, live. Side one of each album, then side two, in sequence. [Illustration by Colin, 1997]
I'd like to meet:
David Bowie , Viggo Mortensen , Kevin Spacey (again), Catherine Deneuve, the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Ideally at the same time. If Johnny Depp or Cate Blanchett stopped by, that would be nice too.
Who I'd like you to meet:
My Mom. My Dad. Tara . Bill Collins . Phillip Lenihan. David Latimer. Jason Carpenter. Kris Saunders. Amy Thomason . Winston Smith . Jack Perkins. Drew Betterton.
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My World Visitor Map!
Music:
“And we saw St. Elmo's fire/spitting ions in the ether”
Someone has cast a spell on me with Tous les matins du monde .
Never enough Kraftwerk , Japan , Ministry , Tubeway Army , early Cocteau Twins, Joy Division.
Other eternal favorites are Brian Eno , DavidBowie, Velvet Underground , The Clash , Pixies, Roxy Music, Bauhaus, Talk Talk ( Laughing Stock is easily one of themost beautiful records ever made).
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TalkTalk - 'I Believe In You' [Dutch TV, 1988]
..TalkTalk - 'Life's What You Make It'
Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Tarentel at the right moment.
Nick Cave, early Talking Heads, Pixies, Golden Palominos (with Lori Carson), Emmylou Harris,Johnny Cash. Motorhead. James Gang, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Grassy Knoll, Consolidated, Meat BeatManifesto. 808 State. A Certain Ratio . 23 Skidoo , 400 Blows, Stockholm Monsters.Can, Yello, Ryuichi Sakamoto (especiallyNeo Geo ). Skinny Puppy, Chris & Cosey, Cabaret Voltaire.
Liquid Liquid (hidden originators).
Anything connected to Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, StyleScott ( tackhead in the area!). Fats Comet, Mark Stewart, African Head Charge, Singers and Players, Dub Syndicate, Akabu.
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Tackhead featuring Gary Clail - 'Hard Left' [Original Southern Studiosvideo, 1986]
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Keith LeBlanc - 'Major Malfunction'
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Mark Stewart - 'Hypnotised'
Captain Beefheart...you are one of the first modern fucked-up geniuses. When it comesto creating, you rank right up there with the likes of James Mangan, John Wilmot and EdvardMunch.
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Movies:
“...it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor”
All time favorites are Blade Runner , Raising Arizona , Excalibur , Princess Bride, The Third Man, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Falcon and the Snowman. Betty Blue.
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The last scene of Betty Blue .
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near theTanhauser gate...”
“All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain.”
“Time todie.”
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Television:
“Antagonism rising/you know you're trying to categorize me/but it's all you want/all you want” *
House , The Riches , CSI Miami (they're piling up on the DVR but I watch whenever I can). Lucky Louie is really funny. Battlestar Galactica was fascinating and then somehow I lost the connection. Heroes is fun in a, well, comic book sort of way. All the science and history on cable is great...mind numbing and edifying at the same time. Nova rules. Oh, and I love Attack of the Show ...geekboy heaven.
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Firefly blooper reel
Books:
“All the words float in sequence/no one knows what they mean/everyone just ignores them”
Neal Stephenson . Paul Auster . JG Ballard . William Burroughs. Kobo Abe. Iain M Banks. [This is going to take some time to expand on...I read ALOT.]
Portrait of William Seward Burroughs circa 1958. [Colin, 1997]
An illustration for the JG Ballard interview that Dark Carnival never published. [Colin, 1994]
Heroes:
A machine should never come into a child's backyard and kill his sacred pet.
Queen Elizabeth I . Benjamin Franklin . Katherine Hepburn . Richard Branson , James Dyson , Emmett Grogan .
And of course Planck , Bohr , Heisenberg , and Schrödinger .
Batman.
