Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the… Continue reading On The Violent Lesbian: Part 3
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On the Violent Lesbian: Part 2
“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.” Stieg Larsson, The Girl that Played with Fire (2006) So, in the Violent Lesbian world: if Villanelle from Killing Eve represents the contemporary fictional psycho-killer and Aileen… Continue reading On the Violent Lesbian: Part 2
On ‘Mandy’
Still from 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' (dir. Panos Cosmatos, 2010) I've been feeling I've been far too intense and convoluted in these posts, and they are getting so long that no one's going wade through them to the end, so I'm going to bring it back to basics with a lovely chat about some interesting… Continue reading On ‘Mandy’
On the Future of Art
'The artist is the antenna of the race.' Ezra Pound This week I finally, at last, started my MA Fine Art. I've been trying, over the course of this crazy week, to pull together strands of conversation, sights, places, experiences to find the common themes that will help me make sense of one of the… Continue reading On the Future of Art
Sertraline Dreams 