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Oh, dear funkypoacher, would that it were - I'm already grievously behind on a big translation project, so will be stuck in the subtropics of my flat for quite some time yet, sleepless and glum. Suppose I'll enjoy the summer metonymically, the water jug will be my seaside and salt can always be spilt for sand to be had. :) How goes it with you?

He's certainly a master of the fine art of immobility, which one should think is at least three-quarters of the job. & Thankyouthankyouthankyou, lolobetrippin!

#funkypoacher #lolobetrippin

#maurice #maurice hall #alec scudder #james wilby #rupert graves #dance of the d/tense

Oh no! I can't have!

*fidgets*

*fidgets more still*

You know what - having semi-deliriously mulled it over, I might yet opt to do my Master's - if only to postpone the dauting tedium of adulthood by a few more years (because as we all know - fear is known to have a big old list of academic papers).

But first - sleep.

Thanks a bunch, funkypoacher. :)

#funkypoacher

andren

#wrote down the story of my life #might've tried to squeeze too much in #books #this belongs to the 'purely for show' category of the gauld comic #I'm guessing

myjetpack

My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack’ is available now: US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461043 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1770461043 Other stockists and info at www.tomgauld.com

#tom gauld #quite a few esteemed personages I know consider the second reading to be the proper reading #in which case I've only ever read a few dozen books #the first few chapters of that unmentionable book by Pierre Bayard are a veritable balm #to all of these feelings of readery-inadequacy

garbino

Cockaigne, Vincent Desiderio (1993-2003)

Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), Not currently on View

#cockaigne #Vincent Desiderio #Telecleides's Cockaigne though #No hawk nor any bird can fly #Half so fast across the sky #As the monk in joyous mood #In his wide sleeves and his hood.#gets a bit rapey after that #to tell the god's honest truth

joannalannister

Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes.

#Carl Larsson #yesterday I found out #that CS-s wife Karin was also a painter and designer #and that most of the backdrops to the domestic scenes Carl painted were actually crafted by Karin #who had abandoned her professional endeavours for the sake of being a proper housewife #should've put inverted commas around those last words #but #her house became her masterpiece #every nook and cranny beautifully decorated #and curiously enough #that's what I always loved most about Larsson's paintings #so I was surprised to have never heard of Karin before

funnyskullgrin

#moomin

#tove jansson #moomin #I shall fail the exam #and don't even think I won't come crying #tears of artistic integrity #by the bucket #oh those blasted ideological state apparatuses #cramping my style

detrituss

Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in the everyday acts of walking, eating, and going to bed, in which ancient revolutions slumber. A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, pp. 108 (via thegullible)

#michel de certeau #the practice of everyday life #reminds me of an elegy written for toporov #something concerning the androgyny of fungi

crackedslate

Don’t you do it, Anne,” entreated Diana. “You’ll fall off and be killed. Never mind Josie Pye. It isn’t fair to dare anybody to do anything so dangerous.” “I must do it. My honor is at stake,” said Anne solemnly. “I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt. If I am killed you are to have my pearl ring.

Anne of Green Gables, chapter 22 (via projectaogg)

#l. m. montgomery #anne of green gables #you may have my collection of teapots and jar of dandelion clouds

corddi-blog

Sans toit ni loi (1985)

#agnes varda #sans toit ni loi

#A cathartically-disjointed-dancing-in-the-darkness song if ever there was one #Mary Margaret O'Hara #I am not here I am not here I am not here #and in a moment I must be here even less

deviatesinc

Christopher Isherwood, 1935

photo by Humphrey Spender

expo63

Tagged: I think about don bachardy quite a lot these days

He turned 80 recently and I failed to notice… *wipes away tear*

mathemata

Have you by any chance seen the 2007 documentary on the...

mathemata

Hadn't a clue about the Ivory project (you really are a fount of wisdom!) - what a shame that it was never made. I have seen Christopher and his kind, but it was a while back and I vaguely remember not having been too impressed with it [the memory isn't fresh enough to point fingers at what it was that irked me, but there was definitely something (Pathemata continues to be informative)].

Chris & Don had two screenings at a film festival I was volunteering at a good few years ago, so I'm fortunate to have seen it twice (can't say whether it would've made that lasting an impression otherwise). It made me think long and hard about the nature of relationships and the combinations that seem to suprisingly work (as synchronicity would have it, I had just finished a book of Isherwood's letters and found that 'meeting' Bachardy really helped better understanding them). The film itself, I think, managed a sort of balance - it worked hard to show Isherwood and Bachardy as equals, even as the latter had very obviously gone through uncertainties about his identity ("I can't help it - I'm an unconscious impersonator") and some feelings of inferiority to do with Isherwood's perceived superiority (experience, intelligence, status etc). Also - bringing in Bachardy's paintings (and Isherwood's own squiggles) to help tell the story was a great move. On the down side, it did have some staged scenes (which tend to rub me up the wrong way where documentaries are concerned), but the slight discomfort was strongly outweighed by the overall emotional impact of the film, I thought. Hope you get a chance to see it.

#exponential63 #Christopher Isherwood #don bachardy