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IanJarrold

ianjarrold

About Me

I live in London, work for a charity, spend most of my spare time on the band redjetson. When I bought my glasses, although I was going for a Tunde Adebimpe/David Sitek/Kyp Malone, I was also going for a Ronnie Barker!

I like to take photos and you can find some here

I have a 15.5 inch neck. A man in John Lewis measured it.

"You should pay rent in my mind" GP

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music. Film. Architecture. Photography. Graphic Design. Interior Design. Guitar playing. Playing the guitar. Keyboards. Wanderlust. I am a member of the band REDJETSON. I love Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, NYC, London, Reykjavík, Athens. I also feel inexplicably nostalgic/romantic about lighthouses. I like falling asleep to the sound of rain outside. Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville.

I'd like to meet:

Can it be true? Nobody warned you, nobody told you to make up your mind. Nobody told you that I could just waltz through and shake up your style. I'm inside, like a wrecking ball through your eyes and I change it all from inside...

Music:

Current favourites would include: The Berg Sans Nipple, Efterklang, Blonde Redhead, TV on the Radio, Liars, Sigur Rós, Björk, Interpol, iLiKETRAiNS, Elliott Smith, Youthmovies, Celebration, Iron and Wine, Serge Gainsbourg, Kraftwerk, Bat For Lashes, YYY's, !!!, Electrelane, Æla, The Album Leaf, Bloc Party, Emilie Simon, Low, Death Vessel, Stereolab, Amiina, Múm, The Concretes, Do Make Say Think, Grace Jones, The Organ, Benoît Pioulard, Depeche Mode, Gang of Four, Sonic Youth, Nina Nastasia, Marvin Gaye, Mew, Joy Division, Tired Irie, Shellac, Justin Timberlake, American Analog Set, early Aerosmith, dEUS, Hall and Oates, The Strokes, Explosions in the Sky, The Great Eskimo Hoax, Asobi Seksu, Miles Davis, Regina Spektor, John Coltrane, Radiohead, Cats and Cats and Cats, The Knife, ...Trail of Dead, Jeniferever, Arab Strap, Nina Simone, Lift To Experience, Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Slint, Woe, Wolf Parade, Hood, The Rapture, Apparat Organ Quartet, Ships A Going Down, Frank Sinatra, The Arcade Fire, Les Savy Fav, Fugazi, Benni Hemm Hemm...

Movies:

De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté. Anything by Ken Loach (especially Land And Freedom, My Name Is Joe, The Wind That Shakes The Barley). Les 400 Coups. Russian Ark. M. "Three Colours" Trilogy. La Double vie de Véronique. Das Leben Der Anderen. Dancer in the Dark. Wong Kar-Wai (In The Mood For Love, 2046). La Haine. Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Before Sunrise/Sunset. Waking Life. Best in Show. The Dreamers. Cléo de 5 à 7. So I Married An Axe Murderer. The Maltese Falcon. Life is Beautiful. Todo Sobre Mi Madre. Les Poupées Russes. Lucas Belvaux's Trilogy. Jean-Luc Godard (especially Weekend, Le Mépris, À Bout de Souffle, Bande à Part). Casablanca. Ghostbusters. The Science of Sleep. Frantic. Belleville Rendez-vous. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. Lola Rennt. Mignight Cowboy. All The President's Men. Amelie. The Edukators. David Lynch (especially Blue Velvet, Lost Highway). Stanley Kubrick (especially The Shining, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange). Woody Allen (especially Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam). Good Bye Lenin!. The Squid and the Whale. Young Adam. Lost in Translation. Breakfast At Tiffany's. North by Northwest. Elefant. Nosferatu. The Third Man. Me and You and Everyone We Know. Anything with Bill Murray in it!....

Television:

No.

Books:

George Orwell. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Franz Kafka. Anna Funder. Laurie Lee. Alexander Trocchi. Aldous Huxley. Anthony Burgess. Jean-Paul Sartre. Harper Lee. Jack Kerouac. Albert Camus. Henry Miller. Anaïs Nin. Mikhail Bulgakov. Truman Capote...

Heroes:

Lots of Musicians (especially Kjartan Sveinsson, each member of TVOTR, Alan Sparhawk, Guy Picciotto, Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill, Bob Weston, Jerome and Shane = The BSN), the writers and film-makers listed above, Romain Duris, Tony Benn, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Clement Freud, Andreas Gursky, Robert Doisneau, Peter Saville, Walter Gropius, Ronnie Barker, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames...

My Blog

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

I seem to have become mildly obsessed with the film "De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté". I often find myself watching only a single scene as a stand alone miniature,  which is ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:31:00 PST

Revisiting Siamese Dream...

The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream soundtracked my early teenage years - as the hormones really kicked in I was enthralled by Billy Corgan's Big Muff-soaked riffage. As my interest in musi...
Posted by IanJarrold on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:31:00 PST

Iron & Wine

I've been listening to a lot of Iron & Wine recently. I'm finding I pay more and more attention to lyrics these days, when once upon a time they were a mere distraction from great music ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:25:00 PST

Well dressed. Well heeled...

I just saw Blonde Redhead play at Koko in London. Well dressed, they played like master craftsmen/women. Cloaking me in a blanket of warmth and mystery, the took me for a ride for&...
Posted by IanJarrold on Thu, 31 May 2007 04:08:00 PST

Do Make Say Think

Do Make Say Think. London Cargo. Two drum kits. Two guitars. A bass. At least two trumpets. At least one sax. A violin.... Nine incredible musicians.  Oh me oh my. Keys are jangling. Ears ar...
Posted by IanJarrold on Sun, 13 May 2007 03:50:00 PST

Avant La Haine

Lui: Sais-tu ma belle que les amours Les plus brillantes ternissent Le sale soleil du jour le jour~ Les soumet au suplice J'ai une idée inattaquable Pour éviter l'insupportable Avant la haine, avant ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:44:00 PST

I wish I could write something as simple, honest and true as this...

I love your eyes, my dearTheir splendid sparkling fireWhen suddenly you raise them soTo cast a swift embracing glanceLike lightning flashing in the skyBut there's a charm that is greater stillWhen my ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Thu, 10 May 2007 04:13:00 PST

The band "Low" from Duluth, Minnesota

I went to see the band Low last night at Shepherd's Bush Empire. It was perhaps the 6th time I've seen them so I began the night with a delicious sense of anticipation. They played a good proportion o...
Posted by IanJarrold on Wed, 09 May 2007 04:31:00 PST

Swedish boys...

Aha! Yes, I went to see a group of young Swedish men play in the band they call Jeniferever last Thursday night and well, they are simply breathtaking. They're playing in London again tomorrow night ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:48:00 PST

I wandered...

Lonely as a cloud ...
Posted by IanJarrold on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:13:00 PST