[Houdini]

Dunno?  The film is super blue (in colour) - it gives a dark and malicious feel to everything does Blue.




I nominate the entire career of Harry Dean Stanton - Proper waddage.

[Houdini]

Americana, you say?


Pretty soon you'll be asking yourself how you managed without Shannon Wright (Myspace) And here you'll find her homepage.








Will certainly appeal to fans of the Quarterstick Records/Touch & Go/Albini aesthetic.

[Jaspersharpe]

Didn't 8mm steal a lot of the ideas from this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8mm_(film)

Answering my own question. Yes, it did.

[BenF]

I nominate the entire career of Harry Dean Stanton - Proper waddage.

Seconded.  A legend.

And for further pop trivia points...  which band released a song in tribute to him?

[slackline]

And for further pop trivia points...  which band released a song in tribute to him?

Pop Will Eat Itself from the album "The Looks or the Lifestyle"

[BenF]

Pop Will Eat Itself from the album "The Looks or the Lifestyle"

Correct (and I'm sure you didn't just Google that).  Well done.

[slackline]

Correct (and I'm sure you didn't just Google that).  Well done.

I knew it was PWEI, but did have to look up the album (as I wasn't at home to dig out the CD's and check  ).

[BenF]

I'll let you off and you can keep the PWEI waddage.

[Falling Down]

Are we really sure we want PWEI sullying the neglected masterprieces thread?? shurely some mistake 

[andy popp]

Change of tack, 'Of Love and Money' by Julian McClaren-Ross, excellent slice of English social realism c. 1947. The same author's 'Memoirs of the Forties' is a brilliant and very funny tour of boozy literary London, set largely in the pubs of Soho and Fitzrovia, should appeal to fans of 'Hangover Square,' which I haven't read.

[Houdini]

More Freudian slippage?

Of Love & Hunger. 






The Hangover Square (Patrick Hamiltonm )tip is welcome, mind.  Sounds great -
London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.


There is a film

[andy popp]

Well spotted, I realized what I'd done later done on and was just coming back to correct it. Have you read it?

[Houdini]

No.  I haven't read it, I was googling for more info.

Andy I'm so behind.  I'll get through all recommendations on this thread (but not PWEI, who are justifiably neglected) over the coming hols and reply then.  Formulating an entirely new grading systems is not easy and takes time.

[Houdini]

(Nothing to see here, merely killing a post, move along)

[andy popp]

Have just been out to get a copy of Hangover Square. Will report back.

[Houdini]

Alright, hands up who hasn't read Knut Hansun

[Houdini]

And another thing



Quarter century of Rudimentary Peni






In the correct thread this time

[Falling Down]

And another thing



Quarter century of Rudimentary Peni






In the correct thread this time

Oh yes. What a fine outfit. The likes of which could only have emerged on these shores.. there's something "Blakean " about Rudimentary Peni that sets them apart from all else. An acquired taste for sure but when you're in the mood there's nothing quite like it. Waddage duly awarded...

[andy popp]

Seconded, thanks for the introduction.

Hangover Square is shaping up very nicely, 'The he remembered without, any difficulty, what it was he had to to do: he had to kill Netta Longdon. He was going to kill her, and then he was going to Maidenhead, where he would be happy.'

I seem to be stuck in the seedy 30s and 40s at the moment having also just read a load of Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier, Keep the Aspidistra Flyingand best of allComing Up for Air. All this has reminded me of an excellent obscurity from the same time, Joyce Cary's First Trilogy comprising Herself Surprised, To Be A Pilgrimand From the Horse's Mouth. Excellent. Despite the name the author was a man.

[Houdini]

Extremely pleased to hear someone listens to/likes the peni


is the definitive Y_Tube clip.  Ruthless lyrics.



Nick Blinko (voice, guitar, lyrics) is mentally ill - has been his whole life.  His book, The Primal Screamer, is both fascinating and bizarre.  Better him than you.

[andy popp]

Following Shannon Wright, My Brightest Diamond,

And this because I was in the audience

[andy popp]

Bow down, you curs.

[Jaspersharpe]

Nice.

Damien Rice is a prick who makes awful music. No surprise then that the band he "left" made one of my favourite albums.





No need to quantify. It's just very good.

[andy popp]

And again you bastards,

[al]

eek