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James

the anatomy of improvisation

About Me

watcher of films & scribbler of words

My Interests

watching/reading/writing about films, especially horror films, taking photographs, music, B movies, giallo movies, red wine, mix tapes, drawing, postcards, corduroy flares, old cinemas, seventies wallpaper, short stories, B movie posters and artwork, lightning storms, red velvet curtains, empty window displays, attic rooms, power cuts, mannequins, drinking games based around the sexual innuendoes in Trap Door.

Music:

angelo badalamenti, aphex twin, arcade fire, belle & sebastian, bjork, boards of canada, boathouse, casiotone for the painfully alone, cat malojian, cocteau twins, david bowie, david lynch, dead can dance, depeche mode, devendra banhart, eels, final fantasy, freddie hubbard, grandaddy, hank mobley, hills are mountains, hot puppies, ike quebec, joanna newsom, john coltrane, miles davis, my bloody valentine, nancy elizabeth, nat baldwin, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, nine inch nails, oppenheimer, roy orbison, seventeen evergreen, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, the handsome family, this mortal coil, tom mcshane

Movies:

films made by dario argento, david lynch, abel ferrara, neil jordan, mario bava and val lewton

Television:

twin peaks, spaced, the league of gentlemen, urban gothic, american gothic, dark shadows, the twilight zone, lost, heroes, masters of horror, desperate housewives

Books:

Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Douglas Copeland, Btre Easton Ellis, AM Holmes, Maries Darrieussecq, Chuck Palahniuk, John Wyndham, Carson McCullers

Heroes:



My Blog

article posted on eatmybrains.com

click here to read my interview with writer Pearse Elliott about his film Shrooms... ...
Posted by James on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:37:00 PST

Another feature published in Paracinema...

My feature on the films of shlock-meister Pete Walker has been published in issue 3 of Paracinema... click here for a preview of the magazine......
Posted by James on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:46:00 PST

online reviews for AU

click here and here to view thoughts and words about Bjork and Islands' latest records......
Posted by James on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:08:00 PST

Review of Paracinema Magazine

click here to read a review of Paracinema magazine. The reviewer mentions the feature on Dario Argento i submitted to the mag. enjoy. ...
Posted by James on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:14:00 PST

Writing featured in new issue of Paracinema...

.. click here to preview the new issue of paracinema, which also happens to include a feature I scribbled on Dario Argento... you can click here to order yourself a copy... should you feel incli...
Posted by James on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:52:00 PST

hills are mountains review

click here to read my review of the delightful hills are mountains' ep, as published in AU......
Posted by James on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:01:00 PST

harajuku jam...

www.harajukujam.com - check it out...by clicking here, you can check out my interview with the rather lovely photographers......
Posted by James on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:51:00 PST

Tom McShane

click here to read my article on the delectable Mr McShane......
Posted by James on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:36:00 PST

the living dead in lurgan

was feeling a bit nostalgic... http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/armagh /mccall_grave.shtml...
Posted by James on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

XXX HOT SEXY SEX XXX

HA. bet you thought there'd be porn here. well there isn't. but if you click on this link you get to read my interview with the rather lovely duke special. so it is. http://www.twistedear.com/index.ph...
Posted by James on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:12:00 PST