Music? Herrmann, Rosza, Barry, Goldsmith, Schiffrin, Wiliiams, Tiomkin, Morricone, Bernstein...New Orleans...Gil Scott-Heron...Miles, Coltrane, Cleo, Ella, all that jazz, and did you ever hear Wynton Marsalis on a roll talk about jazz? sublime...Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, all that jive...Georgie Fame via Brother Jack McDuff...60s...Jake Thackray... William Shatner...theremins and Hammond organs everywhere...my talented friends...
Movies
Film review by Quentin Crisp: "I saw Betrayal at Cinema 2 on Third Avenue, where I would like to report that the staff is incredibly courteous."
Films: Orson Welles...Michael Powell...Jim Jarmusch... Roman Polanski...Ken Russell...Kazan...Hitchcock... Woody Allen...John Huston... Joseph Losey...David Lean...Robert Aldrich...Billy Wilder...Gene Wilder... Edward D. Wood:http://groups.myspace.com/EdwardDWood
...Antonioni (what was it about again?)... James Whale...Godard...Rohmer... Norman Jewison... Sidney J. Furie...Tony Richardson...Howard Hawkes... Franklin Schaffner... Wes Anderson...Terry Gilliam's interviews...Hammer Films...Ealing... noir...50s Sci-Fi...
Film review number 2, Quentin Crisp: "My Dinner With Andre is as boring as being alive."
Television
T.V. Everything documentary film-maker Adam Curtis does, from Pandora's Box and The Mayfair Set through The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares to The Trap , enlightens the world. See for yourself:
And did you ever see Public Eye (1965-1975) ? Alfred Burke: what a magnificent, realistic actor and what exquisitely downbeat and sensitive scripts. This was British TV making no concessions to transatlantic trade, which is to say, perhaps the best TV I've ever seen. And if you like that British New Wave streetwise realism, a later, hardened example would be The Sweeney. As Albert Finney once said, All the rest is propaganda.
And a world away, this, ladies and gentlemen, is the phenomenon known as DAVID HOYLE:
Radio: John Peel died in 2004, and with him went a stand against the spin culture of cons and soundbites and the aggressive hard-sell. John Peel was a BBC radio broadcaster and dj who addressed his audience and his interviewees as peers, so genuinely low-key that I now see his banal style as a political statement, which he would have laughed off. And that's how far gone we are now: being genuine is now a radical political statement.
Margi Clarke hosts some intelligent and witty radio on Saturday nights at
www.citytalk.fm , rich with values like community and honesty. That makes Margi radical radio nowadays.
...Lenny Bruce...Ray Bradbury...Alan Bennett... Sally Belfrage...Dickens... Dostoevsky... Bertrand Russell...New Journalism...Howard Zinn...graphic novels/comic books that make you go Wow and Hmm... my talented friends...
Heroes
Heroes : All our superheroes have forgotten how to fly. So anyone still standing on the far left - or outside the system - or living on a barge.
About me:
I'm the writer you see nursing a coffee for two hours in the corner of your cafe bar, with Kafka's complexion & Dostoevsky's wallet.
Camp in Literature was published by McFarland in USA, 2006. I classify camp as a style of writing for the first time in literature and ask who are the great camp authors. Feel free to read my Preface in an old January blog.
I have a
Tony Wilson tribute in December 2007 issue of that fine magazine that came out of Chicago, Stop Smiling.
And
Stop Smiling published my satire on the 1970s' stampede of
Tax Exiles from the UK.
They also ran my review of Nixonland that will tell you what New Journalism is, too, should you care to know, along with the low-down on Rick Perlstein's fine book on Nixon.
My 2 articles for Sight & Sound discovered secret deleted scenes you can find in vintage movie trailers...and guided you through films set in New Orleans to wonder what will become of that rich cinematic tradition. My feature on the changing face of Berlin in cinema appeared in Film International June 2009. I've never been to Berlin. Never went to New Orleans. I don't even go to the cinema anymore.
An Ideal Husband sets the limitations on seriousness when Lord Goring cautions, “I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday in every month, from four to seven.” Any extension on this doctor’s surgery of seriousness “makes me talk in my sleep,” implying equivalence and contesting the common school of thought that esteems seriousness as truth itself.
As Wilde premiered Lady Windermere’s Fan, young E.F. Benson was writing a wonderfully frivolous novel called The Babe, whose protagonist wants to lose his baby-faced innocence. His Cambridge friend advises, “ ‘But you should take yourself more seriously. I believe that is very aging’.” Perhaps that is the untold moral of The Picture of Dorian Gray, too.
"A BAYBERRY CANDLE BURNED TO THE SOCKET, BRINGS FOOD TO THE LARDER AND GOLD TO THE POCKET." - origin; old Germanic poem
-- traditionally, bayberry candles burned to the nub on New Year's will bring health, wealth, friends, and good luck in the coming year xxx Have a peaceful and joyous new year!!! Love, Renee
Friend of mine; excuse blanket comments - but I really need to touch base with all of you - and thot you would love to see this picture. It's called, "FLYING." At some point we grew up and forgot we could ALL FLY at one point in our lives - so, please remember that today. We used to know how - we just need to open ourselves up to learn again xxx lots of love, Renee
