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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2
Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1
(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy
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Dark Whimsy
(A post that started months ago as I realised my creative attention had moved for the time being toward something between the poem and the prose poem. These pieces arose from my engagement with social media rather than the conventional … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruno Schulz, Charlie Kaufman, Clark Ashton Smith, David Bowie, Edward Lear, Franz Kafka, George Herriman, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ivor Cutler, James Finlayson, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Woodring, John Ashbery, Krazy Kat, Lewis Carroll, Michal Ajvaz, Michel Gondry, Monty Python and The Goodies, Mood Indigo, Morrissey, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Pete and Dud (and Derek and Clive), Philip Guston, Robert Crumb, Spike Milligan, The Flaming Carrot, The Goons, The Simpsons, The Wipers Times, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson
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