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Gary's Interests
General
Music
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 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.
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.
My book Camp in Literature was published by McFarland in USA. 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 my old January blog.
I have a
Tony Wilson tribute in December 2007 issue of that fine magazine that comes out of Chicago, Stop Smiling.
And
Stop Smiling published my satire on the stampede of
Tax Exiles from the UK in the 1970s.
Yes, and they are putting out my book 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 new book on Nixon.
My last 2 articles for Sight & Sound discover the secret deleted scenes you can find in vintage movie trailers...and guide you through films set in New Orleans to wonder what will become of that rich cinematic tradition.
My next book to be pubished by McFarland will be Kurt Vonnegut & the Centrifugal Force of Fate.
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Who I'd like to meet:
CAMP IN LITERATURE quote for the month
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.
oh my god, oh my god jumble sales are good, they are very good. There's stuff! Stuff thats all broke and been owned by someone and they let you take it away and have it! Hoodies with a bit of paint on the sleeve! Shoes with feet moulded in them! Sailor moon dolls with a toe a bit chewed! Something that might be a transformer with a scuffed head! Oh it's like stealing people's souls for 50p its a wonderful world.
nice link to your posters and photos Gary - you look good at Royal Exchange. how long have you been shagging that desk? and where the hell in your apocalyse of a house did you manage photo that?
ah ha ha ah look at you all young and hairy you're gloriousouly(dunno how to spell that) sexy and not even in an incestual uncle way! Kudos on the face! xxx
gary, how the hec' are you, hon - haven't heard from you in a bit - how's everything??? I was away on a trip - whew nearly wore me out - a very tiring vacation - feel like I'm still recovering over it - drove 64 hours!!! in uh, five days??? yeah! sheeeeeeesh !!!
