Below: Excerpt from Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law performed live at The Lescar, Sheffield, 25th November 2008.
Below: MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Excerpt from Chapter 32, Sex and Love at the Travelodge Inn, performed live at Words Aloud at The Lescar, 26th February 2008.
Below: MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Excerpt from Chapter 25 - The Kiss. Performed at Runaway Girl, Sheffield, as part of Sheffield's Love2B festival.
Below: MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Chapter 1. Performed at Runaway Girl, Sheffield, as part of Sheffield's premiere open-mic night, Words Aloud
Below: MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Excerpt from Chapter 15 - The Burbage Picnic. Performed at Runaway Girl, Sheffield, as part of Sheffield's premiere open-mic night, Words Aloud
Below: MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Excerpt from Chapter 40 - Spike in a Bubble. Performed at Runaway Girl, Sheffield, as part of Sheffield's premiere open-mic night, Words Aloud
Extracts from MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE which have been performed live.
Chapter 32 - Sex and Love at the Travelodge Inn
Click on Rodin's The Kiss for text version.
Extracts from MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE which have been performed live.
Chapter 25 - THE KISS.
Click on Atkinson Grimshaw's "Boar Lane" for text version.
Chapter 1 - FUCK 'EM.
Click on The Imp of the Perverse for text version.
Extract from Chapter 40 - SPIKE IN A BUBBLE.
Click on Munch's "The Scream" for text version.
Extract from Chapter 15 - The Burbage Picnic
Click on artichoke for text version
WARNING - SEXUALLY EXPLICIT
Extract from Chapter 7 - Joey Zebrowski
Click on blue Ferrari for text version
Music
birdsong,
bagpipes,
flamenco,
ennio morricone,
nick drake,
a certain ratio,
cameron de la isla,
gavin clark,
billy mackenzie,
phil campbell,
mojo and the beatniks,
matthew critchley,
23 skidoo,
abba,
air,
antony and the johnsons,
aphex twin,
ash,
the associates,
aztec camera,
banoffi,
beatles,
ben harper,
billy holiday,
bob dylan,
bob marley,
carole king,
carpenters,
cat stevens,
chemical brothers,
chrissie hynde,
cocteau twins,
colourbox,
cowboy junkies,
CUD,
danza invisible,
dj spooky,
donny osmond,
echo and the bunnymen,
enya,
erik satie,
flowrush,
groove armada,
happy mondays,
hula,
iggy pop,
jack johnson,
jah wobble,
jamiroquai,
jeff buckley,
joni mitchell,
josef k,
kate rusby,
kirsty maccoll,
kruder dorfmeister,
magazine,
marvin gaye,
marianne faithfull,
mike oldfield,
MinusBlue,
the moog,
mozart,
mr scruff,
natacha atlas,
neil sparkes and the lost tribe,
neil young,
nightmares on wax,
oasis,
orange juice,
the orb,
orbital,
PIL,
pink fairies,
pink floyd,
the pogues,
psychedelic furs,
robbie williams,
roxy music,
samuel barber,
scientist,
seth lakeman,
sheryl crow,
sparks,
tangerine dream,
the teardrop explodes,
tinariwen,
tom noonan,
underworld,
vivaldi,
wings,
Movies
directors: krzysztof kieslowski, david lynch, stanley kubrick, terrence malick, hal ashby, martin scorcese, arthur penn, francis ford coppola, werner herzog, sergio leone, ridley scott, michael mann, mike nichols, herk hervey, sam mendes, orson welles, woody allen, ken russell, john carpenter, jane campion, mike leigh, peter care, ken loach, blake edwards, giuseppe tornatore, shane meadows, jaques tati, luis bunuel, kevin smith, roy ward baker, mike hodges, claude berri, robert aldrich, patrice chereau, billy wilder, bill forsyth, douglas trumbull, wim wenders, jonathan caouette, sam raimi, peter greenaway, luc besson, george sluizer, quentin tarantino, michael cimino, clint eastwood, tobe hooper, david cronenburg,
films: this is spinal tap, this is england, three colours red, three colours blue, three colours white, westworld, withnail and i, 2001, eyes wide shut, a clockwork orange, a short film about killing, a short film about love, black hawk down, boogie nights, catch 22, carnival of souls, un chien andalou, stone monkey, pepe le pew, american beauty, annie hall, apocalypse now, assault on precinct 13, badlands, bambi, beauty and the beast, being john malkovitch, being there, bladerunner, blow-up, blue velvet, bonnie and clyde, breakfast at tiffany's, bridges of madison county, brief encounter,
cinderella, cinema paradiso, clerks, crash,cry baby, damage,dark star, days of heaven, dead man's shoes, dogma, don’t bother to knock, don't look now, eraserhead, escape from new york, (carpenter original),falling in love, far from heaven, get carter, gladiator, battleship potemkin, goodfellas, halloween, the texas chainsaw massacre, (tobe hooper original), hannibal brooks, harold and maude, jay and silent bob strike back, jean de florette, les vacances de monsieur hulot, mallrats, manon des sources, mean streets, johnny yesno ,kiss me deadly, double indemnity, (wilder original), lady chatterly (ken russell), la reine margot,local hero, lost highway, manhattan, manhunter, mulholland drive, nashville, nosferatu,
once upon a time in america, once upon a time in the west, one from the heart, paris texas,
pinocchio, pulp fiction, raging bull, scum, sex lies and videotape, shrek, silent running, sleeping beauty, snow white and the seven dwarfs, something’s got to give, (reconstructed from incomplete footage),
spoorloos, (ie the vanishing dutch original),tarnation, taxi driver, the big blue,the deerhunter, the devils, the double life of veronique,the draughtsman’s contract, the evil dead, the evil dead part II, the godfather, the godfather part II,
the jungle book, the last picture show, the lion king, the little mermaid, the magnificent ambersons, the offence, the piano, the proposition,
the shining, the thin red line, the sound of music, thelma and louise,
touch of evil, toy story, trainspotting, twin peaks fire walk with me, unforgiven, women in love,
Books
authors:
dostoevskey, thomas hardy, gabriel garcia marquez, d h lawrence, hunter s thompson, f scott fitzgerald, jean paul sartre, emile zola, tom wolfe, william golding, john updike, damon runyon, paolo coelho, luke reinhardt, graham greene, j g ballard, agatha christie, william shakespeare, aldous huxley, antoine de saint-exupery, anais nin, albert goldman, kenneth anger, peter biskind, philip k dick, alfred bester, marianne faithfull, paul morley,
books:
hell's angels, the age of reason, crime and punishment, lady chatterly’s lover, lord of the flies, love in the time of cholera, on broadway, the alchemist, the brothers karamazov, the dice man, the doors of perception, the electric kool-aid acid test, the gambler, the great gatsby, the name of the rose, the quiet american, therese raquin, the heart of the matter, faithfull, the little prince, rabbit run, rabbit redux, high rise, super cannes, the quiet american, the demolished man, rabbit is rich, romeo and juliet, jonathan livingstone seagull, a bright shining lie, black vinyl white powder, chickenhawk, cops, perfume, the lovely bones, murder on the orient express, dispatches, nam, snow blind, the hite report, touching the void, women who run with the wolves, fear and loathing in las vegas, a scanner darkly, the godfather, the biography of nick drake, down the highway (biography of bob dylan), heavier than heaven (biography of kurt cobain), ladies and gentlemen lenny bruce, down and dirty pictures: miramax, sundance and the rise of independent film, easy riders raging bulls, american film now,
down and dirty pictures: miramax, sundance, and the rise of independent film, nothing,
Warning! Some book descriptions contain explicitly sexual language which
people of a sensitive nature may find offensive. This is an info site. There are regular articles over at the Blog.
Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law
Chapter 1
My wife doesn’t want to fuck me. But my mother-in-law does.
My wife is always off having ‘down time’ with her secret life. My mother-in-law’s got a secret life too.
With me.
Synopsis
Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law is the sexually explicit tale of lonely people trying to find happiness by daring to follow their hearts. Some people shout about finding the wild place, whilst others are quietly swimming in it...
Kate married far too young. Now husband Alex, once the love her life, bores her to tears. He's so busy gardening and watching repeats of Top Gear on the tele, he would never guess about Kate's secret life with her lover Colin.
But gardening and Top Gear can keep a man happy for only so long. Especially with a Mother-in-Law as voluptuous and gorgeous as Julia, a lonely widow who hasn't had sex for five years.
Love is the only path to take, amongst the many confusing and tangled branches of paths which present themselves to us every day of our lives.
But sometimes we choose to go down the wrong path, and sometimes, that’s what makes life all the more entertaining; our failures, our insecurities, listening to the subversive whispers in our ears of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Imp of the Perverse’.
The bar is crowded, packed with hysterical people frothing at the mouth and baying for my blood.
I cannot see a face, I cannot hear a sound.
For this is cyberspace.
I have arrived, and instinctively I know that whilst following my natural inclination to dole out love, these fuckers are going to get punished. This is the gold rush, they have inadvertently drawn me into the fray, and I’m going to get those gold nuggets and leave them incredulous and furious.
Fuck ‘em.
Synopsis
MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE, by Jude Calvert-Toulmin, is set in Sheffield and on an internet discussion forum, back in the pioneering days of forums at the turn of the millennium.
Inspired by the author's life, it is a humorous, erotic dark tale of an unhappily married mother of three, Dominique DuBois, who falls in love with a man on a forum, without knowing what he looks like, merely by dint of his writing. Think Brief Encounter in cyberspace.
Below, Jude Calvert-Toulmin talking about her sexually explicit new book, Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law which is not a part of the MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERPSACE trilogy. Buy it here.
Above: Recent performances from MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE
If you want to find out more about her she's been running a successful blog for nearly 3 years now which has had over 32,000 visitors. On the blog are articles about her time on the turn of the 80's music scene and also CYBEXes (cyber exhibitions) profiling the work of other artists and musicians.
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Don't forget to check out the author's MySpace pics for more pictures, including some of her home cooking, which is, after all, incredibly relevant to promotion of the book.
"FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI SOMNVM NE RVMPE QVIESCO", as they say in Rome.
hi Jude tarana are recording their 77th album live at the Cremorne this saturday two complete improvised sets 7 players on each. 8 while late hope to see you there rob tarana
Ah your's is a life less ordinary indeed.. Thank you for you kind comments..
Mr Grimshaw did have a habit of *churning them out* at times, to pay the bills. However, at his best his capture of the light and feel of night time scenes was simply divinely blessed.
Best of luck with your endeavour, i have a feeling that when it finally does come right you will be swept off your feet coping with it.. Ergo maybe it isn't quite time to have that success just yet?
Thanks once again for the comments, it really does help as I'm sure you know. I decided not to start my novel on here as it needs more work ( doesn't everything?) and just start a new short episodic story.
It sounds like you are leading a very fulfilling life. I am inspired by you and can't wait to spend more time on your page.
OMG, cornish pasties, and a fresh raspberries on chocolate mousse in a chocolate shell tart!!! That sound incredible. Now I have to get something to eat. I would love to have the recipe.
My great, great grandfather is from England. I always wanted to know my English heritage but don't know what area he was from. I would love to visit England one day. The novel that I am attempting to write -- my characters go places that I have never been to - they only experience that things that I have read about in tour guides and travel magazines!!! I am guessing that my characters are going to make it to England before I do!!
Have a great day and stay in touch.
Cheers,
Annie -------- Co-author, Where People Feast, An Indigenous People's Cookbook -- is now available. Visit www.wherepeoplefeast.com
hello there thanks for the add alas i cannot lay claim to the violin playing on "silence and dignity" that contribution is from a guy called rob tarana my contributions were guitar/effects/drums/synth.the track is taken from a double cd entitled "silence and dignity"(the best album of the 9 i worked on with rob)recorded in my home studio nov 30th 2005....i worked with rob tarana march 2005 to jan 2006 but sadly no more and never again due to non musical related differences.the other track is erm just a mess about and erm yes its me on violin on that sorry i cannot play violin....some new material is being recorded at the moment and examples will be posted soon the existing tracks will disappear...silence and dignity is being remastered additional instrumentation and spoken word will be added. best wishes dreamspirit
thanks so much for taking the time to listen & your kind words of support, I appreciate it! Will keep you posted on when I'm coming home for a UK tour! Have a beautiful day.
Hey STARBIRTH,
Wzup?
Thanks for the comment. Hope your Monday is going well. I should be working on my music, but as you can see I'm on myspace doing mythang getting at mypeeps. LOL
Hi, just stopping by to wish you a happy Sunday, and to let you know that the new Rain book, Requiem for an Assassin, comes out on May 22. I'll be on the road for a month promoting it, in the San Francisco Bay Area (Menlo Park, San Mateo, Santa Rosa), Seattle, Ft. Lewis, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Boulder, Houston, Ft. Hood, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Carmel (Indianapolis), Bethesda (DC), West Chester (Philadelphia), NYC. Details on my profile page. If you're around for one of these events, come on by -- it would be great to see you!
