I'm just a dancing fool. You were singing along with 'Will you still love me tomorrow?' as you held me tight and my 'yes' was a sweet whisper in return. How I miss you.
...I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened his step and why,
He looked upon the garish day with such a wistful eye
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die
For each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young
And some when they are old,
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold
The kindest use a knife, because,
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long
Some sell and others buy,
Some do the deed with many tears;
Some without a sigh
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.
(Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Anyhow, I consider myself an artist. An unfortunately pedantic artist. I can't bear showing my work unless I think it is good enough to be shown. Hence the lack of art in my gallery. I'm a pencil artist, I enjoy details. I'm also not that bad a writer, who thinks too much and says too little.
Lovely to meet you.
Favourite Visual Artist
Roger Dean, Frida Kahlo, John Tenniel
Favourite Movies
Can't choose really. I thought 'Gandhi' with Ben Kingsley was simply breathtaking. "Fetchez la vache!"~Monty Python's Holy Grail, and I am also a Rocky Horror Picture show lover. Woot for Tim Curry!
Favourite TV Shows
Blackadder, Monty Python, Dr Who
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Leonard Cohen, Tiny Tim, Warren Zevon, Janis Joplin, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Tim Curry, Pogues
Favourite Books
Well, Oscar Wilde's works, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest, Beautiful Losers, Favourite Game, Book of Longing, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Clockwork Orange, The bird of paradise, by R. D. Laing
Favourite Writers
Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, John LeCarré, Terry Pratchett, Ken Kessey, Anthony Burgess, C. G. Jung, R. D. Laing
Favourite Games
I suppose I could add Amnesia, the dark descent.
Tools of the Trade
Pencil, charcoal, fusain
Other Interests
Poetry, Drawing, Water, Passion, Guitar, Dancing, Sports, the ocean with big waves, silence