Anything but angst or Rik-from-The-Young-Ones style quasi-political/social poems that sound really silly.
Music
What Are Birds, Bright Eyes, Foxes!, Ben Tallamy, The Faint, Leonard Cohen, Al Stewart, Two Gallants, Kaito and a host of others.
Movies
Exterminating Angel, lots of Studio Ghibli films, Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, Zoolander, Run Lola Run, lots of Tim Burton, too many to name in full.
Television
Green Wing, Scrubs, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Mighty Boosh, Time Trumpet, Day Today, Brasseye, Alan Partridge, The Armando Ianucci Shows, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers etc.
Books
Blimey - OK, Beautiful Losers, any Kurt Vonnegut, The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break, any Angela Carter, most things by Chuck Palahniuk, and there we'll cut it short for time.
Heroes
The man who invented otters, Leonard Cohen, Spitfire and Shuriken.
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FuseLit! is working like blazes Posted at 3:02 PM Jun 21, 2008 view more
FuseLit magazine was established in August 2005 in Norwich, UK with the aim of promoting new and unusual scribblings and curing Block at least partially. We have since moved to London, but the magazine continues! It's a simple three step plan:
1. Every issue has a FuseWord as its title, advertised on the back of the previous issue, the website at www.fuselit.co.uk and the
mailing list, which you can join without fear of spam by emailing fuselitmag@yahoo.co.uk right away. Contributions of prose, poetry, music and artwork are invited based roughly around this word, or at least using it as a kick-off point, even if you end up a little astray.
2. We respond either with a yes, a no thank you or edit suggestions that we want to discuss with you.
3. Final decisions are made and if it's groovy stuff, you get printed in the mag and receive a free contributor's copy of that particular issue.
A list of suggestions for potential contributors can be found on the website. We suggest you check it out before emailing. Most editors have pet peeves. We're no different, although we try to be at least a little objective.
FOX is out and looking outstanding. Colour artwork for the first time and a FREE MINI CD of FOX-related song and performance poetry, including a fantastic ditty from Foxes! www.myspace.com/foxesfoxesfoxes.
AQUARIUM is in production and looking stunningly weird.
Finally, our next issue, for which submissions are demanded with a warrior-esque bellow, MARS!
No deadline for now, but we'll email everyone when the issue's getting full. Get thee scribing and warbling!
Who I'd like to meet: Writers, artists, musicians and crafty types.
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It's an amazing place, i can't recommend it enough. I mainly stayed in Transylvania which is stunning, hanging out with romanian musicians, counts (not dracula though) and having tea with naturalists in little medieval cottages, i went in the summer, but winter supposed to be beautiful also...
Cheers, it's all getting rather stressful, but on the home straight now i suppose. Heh, it is in fact a Shrike, to accompany a song by the same name. I saw loads of them in Romania, impaling mice and such on the barbed wire, vicious creatures! x
hi kirsty! lovely to meet you! of course, we'd love to! what a theme! we have two songs about water as well, one is called river song and the other one is called ocean drum. whaddya reckon? x x
It goes well, it goes well! It goes so lightly upon my disposition. Thanks for adding us. I believe we have a mutual acquaintance in the shape of Robert Enderby. My drinking comrade from uni.
The next two Salt Margins at The Whitechapel Gallery are unmissable. Hope to see you there!
Thursday 2 August
Luke Kennard Laura Forman Adam Green The Ex-Men
At 26 Luke Kennard is the youngest ever nominee for the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. He reads from The Harbour Beyond The Movie, his outstanding
second book. Lazy Gramophonite Adam Green reads from Satsuma Sun Mover, a surreal coming-of-age tale. Generation Txter Laura Forman performs poems about Bon
Jovi (yes!) and Battersea Power Station. Plus music and spoken word from Glasgow-based duo The Ex-Men. Doors 7pm, free entry. Produced in association with
Salt Publishing.
Thursday 20 September
Melanie Challenger Eleanor Rees Chris McCabe Songdog
Salt poets Eleanor Rees (Andraste's Hair) and Melanie Challenger (Galatea) have both been nominated for this year's Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Which is reason enough to come and hear them read. Like Eleanor, Chris McCabe is a Salt poet and a Liverpudlian. His collection The Hutton Inquiry is a
powerful examination of language under pressure. Musical refreshment is provided by the excellent Songdog, led by playwright Lyndon Morgan.
