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Jarman’s Garden
I’ve been watching Derek Jarman’s The Garden (1990) in order to write about it for the book. I wasn’t looking forward to this, because I’ve conceived such an annoyed dislike for such films as Sebastiane and War Requiem – the glacial pace, the stiff acting, the cheesy tech. But I was immediately enchanted by this…
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The larger sense of time
Late last night, after a day of getting some things done and some falling aside, looking for a book to take to bed: and I picked up the big collected poetry by Czeslaw Milosz. A beautiful book – well, a book full of beautiful stuff – but really too large for a poetry book, even…
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Hi guys
Sorry to stop blogging for, what, about three weeks now. A TypePad employee fixed my last Stuttgart blog post, then rather tartly e-mailed me to say that they didn’t expect to give customers that kind of help. Which kind of soured me on the whole blog thing for a bit… didn’t know how to fix…
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TypePad mess
Apologies, I have several posts waiting in various formats, and others in my head unwritten; but TypePad’s new setup messes with the formatting in invisible ways, and I can’t seem to resolve it. Will post when I can either figure out what to do, or they fix the mess they’ve made. (Although – admittedly –…
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Sitges: Fragments
Salou Monday, I spent the day taking trains to see Dennis in Salou (not, as it happens, Salo – the subject of the infamous Pasolini film, which Goffredo always wants to tease me to see again – that’s on Lake Como in Italy). A not unpleasant visit to another, larger, more crowded beach city, with…
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Sitges: People, and people
I remain confused about the position of other people in my life… my family, my friends, my colleagues. Lately I’ve allowed two friendships to become somewhat damaged: one because a dear friend’s husband is going through a rough time, and I have little respect for how he’s handling it – thus, in an admittedly ruthless…
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Paul Attinello 