I've not forgotten my Jack Spicer project - unfortunately these are crazy days at the chalk face & spare minutes, let alone hours, are a rare commodity.
As of April things become possible again.
I've been snatching looks at 'Language' which has sent me back to 'After Lorca' and 'Admonitions' and the early 'Imaginary Elegies'. Simply one word - "ocean" - seems to resonate throughout his work. That's before one looks at a whole poem!
Spicer seems to demand a whole new approach to reading. Or, perhaps, simply taking normal approaches and applying them even more scrupulously?
Ad I suppose I'm cautious about making a fool of myself. Spicer demands a lot of attention.
Anyway ... it will happen.
As for the drawing - up to midday, nothing much was happening. Then things clicked. In an odd way, the collage work seems to have leaked through into the more 'academic' work.
Who knows?
Cheers
The C.
PS - Mr Gum really is good - if you like that kind of thing!
O crikey, I have no view on Duffy whatsoever. I have heard the name, but have absolutely nothing filed away in my brainbox to go on. Zilch. Nada. What I will say, though, if music be the subject of this post, is that the Commix album I mentioned started with a belter of a track, promising great things, but then became progressively less adventurous. Mistabishi, however, was extremely good. Some early tracks reminiscent of the Omni Trio, then a nasty, really quite annoying track sampling a broken printer that could have been early Aphex Twin, then a nice track using a phrase from a Satie gnossienne, reminiscent of DJ Shadow's use of Bach in Entroducing, and even a track that sampled Different Trains. So 10/10 for ingenuity and style and all-round creativity. Well done, Mistabishi.
As for La Duffy ... if 60s-style backings reminiscent of early Scott Walker are your thing plus a girl who can belt it out ... well, you could do worse. I suppose - given her Welsh background - she'll be hailed as the successor to Shirley Bassey when she turns 50.
I know, odd to find oneself 'in tune' with the general voice on the street, but so be it. I've been playing the CD every day & enjoying it. Or maybe it's just some middle-aged bloke syndrome. Abba next ...
Incidentally ... as we're on Songs from the Valley ... ever hear Goldie Lookin' Chain? They were fun.
(Enough Welsh music, Ed.)
Oh, and where do you stand on The Smiths & Morrisey? That Rough Trade prog. has made me think I should give them/him another whirl.
Or is The Fall & Mark E. Smith the poison of choice?
O crikey encore: The Smiths -- ah, The Smiths -- soundtrack of my teens. I loved them then, though I have to say I can't listen to them now. 'Oh has the world changed or have I changed?' as Morrissey once asked.
I think it would be safe to say that The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow, Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead contain their best work. Strangeways, Here We Come is where the rot sets in. Some have argued the rot begins to show through on The Queen is Dead, but I think it holds up.
Morrissey solo is largely awful, IMHO, and well worth avoiding.
I have no knowledge of Goldie Lookin' Chain. The Fall -- or rather Mark E. Smith -- has survived where Morrissey disappeared up his own ****. Having said that, it's a while since I listened to either. Have you heard Imperial Wax Solvent or read Renegade: The Gospel According to Mark E. Smith?
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That's a great space, O Carpenter, but will you have enough books to fill it? ;)
W.
PS Really liked the life class images...
Well ... that is the question.
And the time in which to read them?
I've not forgotten my Jack Spicer project - unfortunately these are crazy days at the chalk face & spare minutes, let alone hours, are a rare commodity.
As of April things become possible again.
I've been snatching looks at 'Language' which has sent me back to 'After Lorca' and 'Admonitions' and the early 'Imaginary Elegies'. Simply one word - "ocean" - seems to resonate throughout his work. That's before one looks at a whole poem!
Spicer seems to demand a whole new approach to reading. Or, perhaps, simply taking normal approaches and applying them even more scrupulously?
Ad I suppose I'm cautious about making a fool of myself. Spicer demands a lot of attention.
Anyway ... it will happen.
As for the drawing - up to midday, nothing much was happening. Then things clicked. In an odd way, the collage work seems to have leaked through into the more 'academic' work.
Who knows?
Cheers
The C.
PS - Mr Gum really is good - if you like that kind of thing!
and Duffy?
O crikey, I have no view on Duffy whatsoever. I have heard the name, but have absolutely nothing filed away in my brainbox to go on. Zilch. Nada. What I will say, though, if music be the subject of this post, is that the Commix album I mentioned started with a belter of a track, promising great things, but then became progressively less adventurous. Mistabishi, however, was extremely good. Some early tracks reminiscent of the Omni Trio, then a nasty, really quite annoying track sampling a broken printer that could have been early Aphex Twin, then a nice track using a phrase from a Satie gnossienne, reminiscent of DJ Shadow's use of Bach in Entroducing, and even a track that sampled Different Trains. So 10/10 for ingenuity and style and all-round creativity. Well done, Mistabishi.
W.
PS Will look out for Mr Gum...
Gosh - will look into this.
As for La Duffy ... if 60s-style backings reminiscent of early Scott Walker are your thing plus a girl who can belt it out ... well, you could do worse. I suppose - given her Welsh background - she'll be hailed as the successor to Shirley Bassey when she turns 50.
I know, odd to find oneself 'in tune' with the general voice on the street, but so be it. I've been playing the CD every day & enjoying it. Or maybe it's just some middle-aged bloke syndrome. Abba next ...
Incidentally ... as we're on Songs from the Valley ... ever hear Goldie Lookin' Chain? They were fun.
(Enough Welsh music, Ed.)
Oh, and where do you stand on The Smiths & Morrisey? That Rough Trade prog. has made me think I should give them/him another whirl.
Or is The Fall & Mark E. Smith the poison of choice?
Advise svp.
The C.
O crikey encore: The Smiths -- ah, The Smiths -- soundtrack of my teens. I loved them then, though I have to say I can't listen to them now. 'Oh has the world changed or have I changed?' as Morrissey once asked.
I think it would be safe to say that The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow, Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead contain their best work. Strangeways, Here We Come is where the rot sets in. Some have argued the rot begins to show through on The Queen is Dead, but I think it holds up.
Morrissey solo is largely awful, IMHO, and well worth avoiding.
I have no knowledge of Goldie Lookin' Chain. The Fall -- or rather Mark E. Smith -- has survived where Morrissey disappeared up his own ****. Having said that, it's a while since I listened to either. Have you heard Imperial Wax Solvent or read Renegade: The Gospel According to Mark E. Smith?
Walrus
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