Love’s Long Listen-In
Broadcast Australian tour video Broadcast is just a week away. Can’t remember the last time I was this thrilled about an international tour. It’s nice to feel a teen exhilaration a good decade after the fact. Australian tour dates & tickets here, so come along, why don’t you?
Jiwawa
Every so often I like to revisit this article from June 2006 in the New York Times about Pat Lillis, a volunteer pet detective in the Hamptons. It’s really the kind of story you’d expect to find in a local paper or perhaps assigned as a high school summer assignment: lady is into finding pets, [...]
The Pirate & the Crystal Ball
A short fantasy sequence made for/by The Incredible String Band in 1969, featured in Be Glad For the Song Has No Ending originally planned to screen on BBC Arts Omnibus program. The pirate’s costume is totally panto steez (he’s behind you!) but the coven looks cosy. Found in a roundabout way via Stopping Off Place
Mania
New York, 10th February, 1964 (from a terrible book I bought just for this photo) Teen photo of Cynthia from Word Is Out Starshooter Get Baque, 24th December 1977. NB 1:10
The =^-^= wore #-#
Až přijde kocour/ The Cassandra Cat / The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses / When the Cat Comes rewatch recently (’63 Cannes Special Jury Prize!). Even more than the scene in which the audience springs into colour once the sunglasses come off, I like the free feeling of the classroom at the beginning, the children painting [...]
The whole room moved
A special Sunday. Early preview of a really good new Australian film first thing in the morning (still wondering what the conversation between Jane Campion & Ronan Keating afterwards might have been about). Later on, a poetry reading by Tracey Emin. She stood, barefoot, on top of an ottoman in the family room to read [...]
Doing it right, day and night
LIKE IT T-I-IS. More soon but right now I’ve gotta move i-i-i-it.
Solar Flares
Not much spare time on my hands right now. When I do get a bit of hush, you’ll find me spacing out to films like the one below that is feeling just RIGHT ON right now. The busy city turns country and then the landscape descends into a serious trip. Did I mention the mime? [...]