Television – ‘1880 Or So’ from ‘Television’ 1992
Television – ‘1880 Or So’ from ‘Television’ 1992
‘Walking half-drunk in a strange pad, making it out to the cool grey San Francisco dawn – white gulls over white houses, fog down the bay, Tamalpais a fresh green hill in the new sun, driving across the bridge in a beat old car to work’…North Beach Alba by Gary Snyder. Photograph copyright John Rose
The Lily’s 7″ single from Better ‘Can’t Make Your Like Better’
Charles Bukowski – Splash
Charles Bukowski 1920 -1994), American poet and novelist, born in Andernach, Germany and moved to Los Angeles, California three years later. He lived there much of his life. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, drinking, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. The F.B.I. kept a file on him as a result of his column ‘Notes Of A Dirty Old Man’ in the LA underground newspaper Open City. In 1986 Time magazine called Bukowski a “laureate of American lowlife” and one critic described Bukowski’s fiction as a “detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free.”
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You from Later 1994
Antoni Tapies – Fils I argolla (Threads and Ring) 1946
The Fundacio Antoni Tapies is a must-see gallery in Barcelona. Tàpies helped co-found the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau al Set which was connected to the Surrealist and Dadaist Movements, working in a style known as pintura matèrica, in which non artistic materials are incorporated into the paintings. In 1953 he began working in mixed media; this is considered his most original contribution to art. One of the first to create serious art in this way, he added clay and marble dust to his paint and used waste paper, string, and rags.
She Keeps Bees – ‘Gimmie’ from the Nests album
The Go-Betweens from ’16 Lovers Lane’ 1988
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” Jack Kerouac
Pavement from Slanted And Enchanted from 92′