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Nash Trevelyan.

No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

About Me


I can name all 50 U.S. states in alphabetical order. Ask me to reel them off if there's ever a desperate, embarrassing lull in the conversation.

My Work:

To view my cartoon strip, The Trials & Tribulations of Betty & Bert, click on the following links:

Cigarettes

Christmas Day

Shopping

Dream On

Details of the next Book Club:

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, The Crystal Palace Tavern, East Dulwich, SE22. Monday 10th September, 7pm.

I am part of the collective known as:

This is me, Alex Mahan & Phil Elverum playing for Upset The Rhythm at Bush Hall, 01.08.07

My Interests

RESIDENT EVIL, old man pubs, motorways, making lists, board games, DIY, Trial & Improvement, eccentricity, paradoxes, geometric string designs, biro-art, making tapes, turning ordinary household objects into WMD's (mostly by accident), sock-wearing, continuity errors, cloak-&-dagger, smoke-&-mirrors, Sturm und Drang, clove cigarettes, covert operations, code-breaking, useless facts, things to make & do, cut-out-&-keep, field trips, rambling (both kinds), loitering in stairwells, libraries, dusty old tomes, the history of science, astronomy, lens-flare, irrational fear, the macabre, the peculiar, the sinister & the curious, Edwardiana, Victorian Lowbrow, Nauticalia (smuggler's cove's, lighthouses, shipwrecked ghosts... y'know, that sort of thing) the lore of the land, urban myths & the concept of Subterraneans...

I'd like to meet:


Mogens "Mogge" Moesgaard. We even share a birthday. It was meant to be.

Music:

Raggedy arsed stuff like... Smog, Red House Painters, Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Papa M, Bright Eyes, Edith Frost, The Pastels, Belle & Sebastian, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Guided By Voices, Jonathan Richman, Daniel Johnston, The Langley Schools Music Project, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Paul Simon, Harry Nilsson, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Lee Hazlewood, Hank Williams... Pixies, Wire, Elastica, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Julian Cope, John Cale, Leonard Cohen... Ivor Cutler, Lionel Belasco, Kronos Quartet, Brigitte Bardot, The Chordettes, The Walker Brothers (& all sorts of other brothers), Buddy Holly, The Mamas & The Papas, Edison Lighthouse, Elton John (you think I'm joking, don't you??), The The, The Smiths, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Teenage Fanclub, Beach Boys, N*E*R*D, JT (& anything else that is 'thuggin' or a 'bangin choon'...), Scando-pop, Barbershop, Doo-Wop, torch songs, shanties & sea songs, murder ballads, hymns, dirges, standards, 60's girl groups, 70's MOR, the Charlie & Lola theme tune, Motown, the doomed folkies, my mum's '70's Pin-up's' double CD, POP!!

Movies:

Hmmm... anything by George Melies, Woody Allen, Mike Leigh, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, David Lynch... 80's Stephen Spielberg!! ALSO: Onibaba, The Match Factory Girl, WR - Mysteries Of The Organism, Les Diaboliques, Little Otik, Hidden - Cache, Fucking amal, Next Stop Wonderland, Limelight, The Night Of The Hunter, The Window, Lolita, Barefoot In The Park, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Pi, Last Night, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Phantom Of The Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The House That Dripped Blood, The Fly I & II, Blood Simple, Suspiria, Dont Look Now, Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Wicker Man, Blow Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash, The Man Who Knew Too Little, The Burbs, The People Under The Stairs, Return to Oz, Flight of the Navigator, Stand By Me, The Breakfast Club, The Great Escape, ...

Television:

Twin Peaks, The Kingdom (Riget), This Life, Green Wing, Black Books, Father Ted, Spaced, I'm Alan Partridge, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Quatermass, Dr. Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Crystal Maze, Top Gear (I know, I can't even drive) QI, Room 101, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, Midsomer Murders, What The Tudors/Victorians/...Did For Us, TinTin, Count Duckula, Potsworth & Co., Round The Twist, Come Dine With Me.

Books:

by... Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Douglas Coupland, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov, Italo Calvino, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Gorey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Brautigan, George Orwell, Bill Bryson, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Tim Burton, Daniel Clowes and other Fantagraphics stuffs, Sigmund Freud... Detective's Handbook, Spy's Guidebook

Heroes:


Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

(as mad as a bag of spanners, if you didn't know)

My Blog

Full Moons & Empty Rooms.

(A twee, a VERY twee pop song).   Through the crack of the door Look where the light has hit the floor You'll see the dust as it dances Across the boards and sweeps you off your feet. I think it'...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

S.O.S

S.O.S appeared in the 1st birthday edition of Brutalist lit-zine, Straight From The Fridge, in July 2007. On leaving the house every morning, I would be greeted by all manner of curious objects; stuff...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:36:00 PST

I Wish Id kept my Shoes on.

    When I'm talking to you, I feel like I have stepped out of my own shoes. Not in an out-of-body experience sort of way; I'm not hovering over the skin-and-bones me connected only b...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST

Ode To A Grey Hair.

  On Saturday, I found my first grey, Some say I'll look distinguished. 'Some say? I say!' I say to them, 'I have no doubt I will.' © N. Trevelyan. ...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:43:00 PST

An Observational Study of the Hill Climbing Abilities of Native Brightonians.

  I'm trying to reach the top, chuffing on a fag with a belly full of beer.  I can't jump through the hoops on your  Topographic portrait like they can. '&My home is much flatter. Whe...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:34:00 PST

My Thoughts upon Receiving a Brief and Unexpected Tap on the Shoulder.

  One day I might just                       Drop        &nb...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:41:00 PST

Mornings.

          So I walk out of the front door and the wind hits me like THAT. You know the sort. The sort where there is so much air that you can't breathe. &...
Posted by Nash Trevelyan. on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:29:00 PST