Richard Bardsley
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'Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.' - John Donne
Male
34 years old
London, East
United Kingdom
Last Login: 11/16/2009
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| General | Writing and pontificating, photography and design, with a bit of drinking and whatnot in between.
| | Music | Indie, grumpy alt-country, the occasional dip into monstrous bass-driven rap and dance. A dash of Chopin, Gorecki and Mozart now and again, tempered with some doo-wop and a dash of old-style hardcore. Tom Waits above all probably.
Cat Power, Jolie Holland, Martha Wainwright, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Arcade Fire, The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave, M Ward, Papa M, The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, The Shins, Elliot Smith, Devandra Banhart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, Mogwai, Pavement, Talking Heads, TV On The Radio, Pixies, CocoRosie, The Smiths, Antony & The Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Kristin Hersh, Interpol, Entrance, Captian Beefheart, The Sonics, RL Burnside, Jackson C Frank, Philip Glass, Handel, Bach, Bill Hicks, Calexico, Johnny Cash, Peggy Lee, Dylan, ACDC, Public Enemy, Gil Scott-Heron, Beastie Boys, Pitbull, The Hungry March Band, Nina Simone, Django Reinhardt, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Bedouin Soundclash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, ABBA, Lhasa De Sala, Langley Schools Music Project, Queen, Aretha Franklin, Candi Staton, Lee Scratch Perry, Arctic Monkeys, Van Morrison, Michael J Sheehy, Leonard Cohen, Jon Brion, MIA, Lady Sovereign, Salif Keita, Animal Kingdom... on and on... | | Movies | Character pieces from whatever corner of the globe. I'll have a think... | | Television | Oh I dunno. Generally veer between your upscale, obscure documentaries on BBC4 and proper gutter-level exploitative trash. | | Books | Raymond Carver; Joseph Heller; Kurt Vonnegut; Richard Yates; Candide by Voltaire; Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan, Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje; And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave; The New York Trilogy/Leviathan by Paul Auster; Charles Bukowski when he’s not on a misogynistic bender; the poetry of Emily Dickinson; A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis; Joe Gould’s Secret by Joseph Mitchell; Essays In Love by Alain de Botton; most Franz Kafka; The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey; Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes; The Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly; most Hunter S. Thompson; Fup by Jim Dodge; Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse; A Winter Book by Tove Jansson; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy; the essays of Jonathan Ames; The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens; Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel; Straw Dogs by John Gray; Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart; Dave Eggers; David Sedaris, Vladimir Nabokov, JT Leroy, David Shrigley, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, AM Homes, Haruki Murakami... | | Heroes | Anyone who can make this section disappear without going through a dreary process of HTML editing... |
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | London | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
Richard's a writer based in Hackney, London.
His first collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", was released in February 2008, courtesy of Salt Publishing.
For more info and stories, please visit:
http://www.richardbardsley.net
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Richard at Salt Publishing.
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About the book:
“Love’s mysteries in souls do grow,
but yet the body is his book.”
John Donne, The Extasie, Line 71
In these relentlessly inventive stories, each one dedicated to a particular part of the physique, Body Parts: The Anatomy Of Love explores the common themes experienced by all of us at some point during the mating game, whether it occurs at the point of initial, exhilarating attraction and its lavish promise of hope; during the course of an habitual lifetime of snidy remarks; or at some unenviable, fumbling circumstance in between.
Desire, jealousy, belonging, need, tenderness - all emotions have their place. From head to toe via freckles and fingers, by the end of this painfully funny, at times disturbing and never predictable journey, the agony and enchantment of love in all it’s guises has been expertly dissected...
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Who I'd like to meet:
Writers.
Good, thoughtful, interesting people. Or difficult crazy ones.
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