Yesterday I saw one lying dead by the side of the road. A blackbird lay dead by the cottage door.Saturday 24 March 2007
Hare march
Yesterday I saw one lying dead by the side of the road. A blackbird lay dead by the cottage door.
Friday 23 March 2007
Family Famille Familia Familj Familien
By Gary Baseman an artist among many other things. This is my family tree. Can you spot me?
TWISTED
Twisted a new show by Lamar Peterson opened last night in NYC at Fredericks and Freiser gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Congratulations!
23 March 2007
Damon Albarn in Courtney Love's arms. He was born 1968 in Leytonstone, London. Formerly lead singer/songwriter of the BLUR.
Michael Nyman, English composer born in 1944 in London. He supports Queens Park Rangers soccer club.
Akira Kurosawa born in Ota, Tokyo, Japan in 1910. One of the great film directors!
Juan Gris ( Jose' Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez ) born in 1887 in Madrid, a Spanish cubist painter.
Thursday 22 March 2007
Etruria 4
Oinochoe, a wine jug with the special trefoil-shaped mouth.Such a robust simple form, I would really like to pour wine from it.
The dream has gone but the baby is real
Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
A Taste of Honey the first play by Shelagh Delaney written when she was 19 in 1960.In 1961 Tony Richardson directed the film version with Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin.
It is one of my favourite "kitchen sink" plays/films, another is look Back in Anger by John Osborne. This film A Taste of Honey however has it all, hardship, tenderness, sorrow, hope and making the impossible happen then having it all undone and all this in Black and White!
My favourite scene is the two of them leaping, in silhouette, up in the air calling out "We're unique!" under a railway arch. Gorgeous and so touching.
Morrisey is a big fan of Shelagh Delaney by the way, check out some of his album covers.
Breakfast on Pluto
Just saw Breakfast on Pluto last night. It is a film by Neil Jordan based on the book of the same title by Patrick McCabe. They wrote the script together and it stars Cillian Murphy above. Stephen Rea, Gavin Friday, Bryan Ferry, Liam Neeson are also in the film. Cillian is gorgeous amd reminds me a bit of Candy Darling the most beautiful cross dresser ever!I enjoyed the music from the 60's and 70's in the film most of all. Some real classics like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep! Robins play a part in the film also! It seemed to be driven by the score really.
Cheesy in filmic terms. Like the title actually!
I snuck a photo of Brian Jones in there as well.
Wednesday 21 March 2007
Gary Oldman rocks!
Born today in 1958 in New Cross, London. Gary Oldman has played Beethoven, Dracula, Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald to name a few. His own film Nil by Mouth about his life and directed by him was tough, and good.
Bach, Renoir and Stanshall
Vivian (Victor) Stanshall born in 1943, an English eccentric renaissance man best known for his Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Pierre Renoir Jr. as Jericho. Actor and director of Comedie Francaise, brother of Jean Renoir and son of Pierre Auguste Renoir.
J S Bach's geburtshaus in Eisenach.
Johann Sebastian Bach, born in 1685 a German composer and organist of Baroque period. This is his seal. Listen to Yo-Yo Ma play his cello concertos and Glenn Gould play the Goldberg Variations.
Tuesday 20 March 2007
Spring birthdays
Henrik Ibsen born in 1828 in Skien, Norway. A playwright and one of his best known works is A Doll's House.
Publius Ovidius Naso aka Ovid born 43 BC in Sulmo in the Apennines. Master of the elegiac couplet and Metamorphoses is his best known work.The sun and the spring
Vernal Equinox in Guilin, China.
The Vernal Equinox sunset at Blakeley Standing Stones in Cumbria.Vernal Equinox - a time of balance
The balance of day and night, light and dark, freeflow and stillness, open and closed, warm and cold, yin and yang and all other dualities.This is the time to find balance.
Monday 19 March 2007
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