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“We're often led to believe that getting older is in itself somehow a betrayal of our idealistic younger self, but sometimes I think it might be the other way around. Maybe the younger self finds it difficult to inhabit its true potential because it has no idea what that potential is. It is a kind of unformed thing running scared most of the time, frantically trying to build its sense of self - This is me! Here I am! - in any way that it can. But then time and life come along, and smash that sense of self into a million pieces.
And then comes the reassembled self, the self you have to put back together. You no longer have to devote time to finding out what you are, you are just free to be whatever you want to be, unimpeded by the incessant needs of others. You somehow grow into the fullness of your humanity, form your own character, become a proper person - I don't know, someone who has become a part of things, not someone separated from or at odds with the world.” (pages 128, 129)
#cave#nick cave#sean o’hagan#faith#hope#carnage#age#aging#idealism#freedom#book#book lover#waterstones
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My Year In Books
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Here’s what my year in books looked like. Follow me on GoodReads for details and reviews. You may note that at least three of the books feature disabled lead characters. Some of my favorites (not necessarily released in 2023) are:
10. Cut Loose! by Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz (The sequel to The Chance to Fly)
9. What Kind of Motber by Clay McLeod Chapman
8. Tombs by…
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#Ali Stroker#Andrea l Rogers#Celeste Ng#Cindy Otis#Clay MacLeod Chapman#Diane Ladd#disabled lit#Junji Ito#Laura Dern#Nat Cassidy#nick cave#RF Kuang#Sean O’Hagan#Stacy Davidowitz
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Tangerine - dir. Sean Baker - (2015)
#movie#tangerine#sean baker#lgbtqplus#kitana kiki rodriguez#mya taylor#mickey o’hagan#karren karagulian#james ransone#Alla Tumanian#louisa nersisyan#iphone#sundance
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Nick Cave in conversation with Sean O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage, 2022
#nick cave#nick cave and the bad seeds#grief#stuff: quotes#ana says stuff#how silly to miss what you will become#this everyday human light
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“‘[The Liverpool Institute is] where me and George went to school, so I just have to walk in there, and I’m back there with him,’ [McCartney] says fondly. ‘It’s George smoking behind the shelters, or George nodding one of my mates. We were all chatting this day, and this boy must have said something to annoy him and next minute, it’s BOOF! He’s nutted him.’ McCartney cracks up laughing. ‘He was a bit of a terror, young George was. Him and his quaff.’
‘You obviously miss him,’ I say, stating the obvious. ‘Oh, you know, it’s just very sad,’ he says, looking away.”
Paul McCartney, Interviewed by Sean O’Hagan in the Guardian, Macca Beyond, September 18th, 2005
#interviewers be normal to paul challenge (impossible)#interviewers treat paul like a human being challenge (impossible)#seriously though who the fuck says shit like this#‘this place reminds me of good memories of my friend!’#‘damn you must have been really sad when he died then huh’#like that’s not a normal thing to say#my quotes#paul mccartney#george harrison#the beatles
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'In my later work, the person who is navigating the space, his or her experience becomes the content. So, the whole subject-object relationship is reversed. The content is you! If you don't walk into the work and engage with it, there isn't any content. That's really what I've been dealing with ever since I saw the Velazquez painting.' (Las Meninas)
- Richard Serra
- Article/Interview 2008: Sean O’Hagan for The Guardian
Art Quotes About What is Art, Art History and Interpretation
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Berenice Abbott :: Portrait of Lucia Joyce [wearing the mermaid costume she designed and made for the Mermaid Ball], 1926–1927, printed 1982. | src The Clark
The life of James Joyce’s schizophrenic daughter Lucia requires no particular embellishment to move and amaze us. The “received wisdom,” writes Sean O’Hagan, about Lucia is that she lived a “blighted life,” as a “sickly second child” after her brother Giorgio. As a teenager, she “pursued a career as a modern dancer and...
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#berenice abbott#bérénice abbott#lucia joyce#1920s#dancer#danseuse#dance pose#dance costume#tanzerin#danzatrice#bailarina#mermaid#mermaid costume#mermaid ball#costume design#tragic life#lucia anna joyce
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Nan Goldin is an American photographer. She is just as famous for her art as she is for social activism, particularly around gay and transgender sub-cultures and also the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic in the USA. Discover her photographs.
Some of the images are haphazard, some are blurry, some are taken in rooms that are either too dark or overexposed by a flash. Some are cluttered with the ephemera of daily life. That is one of Goldin’s trademarks. She wants to photograph in the moment, so setting a scene, selecting props, or checking light levels isn’t on her radar. Her work is immediate and instinctive.
"My photography has come out of emotional need not aesthetic choice. I came from a family and a culture, that was based on `don’t let the neighbours know´. I wanted to let the neighbours know." - Nan Goldin. Interview with Sean O’Hagan, The Observer, 23 March 2014.
#photo#photography#analog#film#35mm#real#cool#reference#technique#shot#shoot#diary#life#people#hood#lgtbi#queer#night#street#documental
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THROWBACK THURSDAY #42!- Mark Eitzel – Songs of Love Live (Demon)
Right as Eitzel’s band American Music Club (one of my all-time faves) were really taking off (well, I guess it depends on how you define taking off…for me they sure were) vocalist Mark Eitzel had a chance to a do a gig in London. This happened on 1/17/91 at a club called The Borderline (I’ve read that the last two songs on here were recorded in the Demon Records offices).
It’s just Eitzel and an acoustic guitar (and that uncanny, sharp wit) to, I’m guessing, an audience full of AMC lovers.
He plays a bunch of gorgeous versions of songs that had been on the previous albums Engine, California and United Kingdom (and even one or two from Everclear which had not been released quite yet).Oh and let’s not forget “Room Above the Club” from their debut, The Restless Stranger.
Classics like opener “Firefly” (where in the middle of the song Eitzel quips “I’m always fucking this part up” with a chuckle), plus the moving “Outside This Bar,” the lovely “Western Sky,” the haunting “Kathleen,” “the goofy “Crabwalk,” the hilarious “Gary’s Song” and plenty more.
I played this obsessively when it came out and even now, thirty plus years later, it still gets plenty of play in my home. If you want to hear one of the finest songwriters of the 20th/21’s century then pick up a copy of this and listen to the beauty within.
Side note from back of cd: “Guitars loaned by Sean O’Hagan, Nick Haeffner and Harvey Williams”
www.markeitzel1.bandcamp.com
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The Beatnigs meet Sean O’Hagan.
Photo by AJ Barratt. NME, 3 December 1988
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BOOKS READ IN 2022
Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.
168 books. 54,494 pages.
Renata Adler- Speedboat
Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate
Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life
Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon
Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021
JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition
Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch
Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half
Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw
Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America
Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage
David Chang- Eat a Peach
Dan Charnas- Dilla Time
Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers
Lee Cole- Groundskeeping
Teju Cole- Black Paper
Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life
Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy
Antoine Cosse- Metax
Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain
Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk
Travis Dandro- King of King Court
John Darnelle- Devil House
Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell
Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse
David Duchovny- The Reservoir
Jennifer Egan- The Candy House
Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture
Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise
Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz
Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life
Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism
Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads
Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
James Gavin- George Michael: A Life
Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom
Andrew Sean Greer- Less
Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker
Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior
Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer
Noah Hawley- Anthem
Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World
Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan
Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand
Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin
Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place
John Irving- The Fourth Hand
Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci
Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun
Junji Ito- No Longer Human
Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets
Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World
Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw
Rax King- Tacky
Stephen King- Billy Summers
Katie Kitamura- Intimacies
Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties
TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door
Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star
Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream
Milan Kundera- Slowness
Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True
Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race
Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down
Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This
Ling Ma- Bliss Montage
Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead
Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2
Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis
Mike McCormack- Solar Bones
Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died
Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian
Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona
Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling
Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls
Grant Morrison- The Invisibles
Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark
Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy
John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf
Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him
Jenny Offill- Weather
Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States
Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole
Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours
James Patterson- Hear No Evil
Larissa Pham- Pop Song
Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls
Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters
Keith Phipps- Age of Cage
Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants
Richard Powers- Bewilderment
Questlove- Music is History
Kristen Radtke- Seek You
Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground
Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation
George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead
Karen Russell- Orange World
George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain
George Saunders- Liberation Day
Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream
Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger
Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli
Seth- Clyde Fans
Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101
Zadie Smith- Feel Free
Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond
Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography
Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!
J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly
Manjit Thapp- Feelings
Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob
Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion
Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man
Stanley Tucci- Taste
Una- Becoming Unbecoming
Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother
Chris Ware- Rusty Brown
WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan
John Waters- Liarmouth
Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body
Missouri Williams- The Doloriad
Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth
Sarah Winman- Still Life
Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles
Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise
Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives
Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
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Day Sixteen
Lavender Fields
I’ve been listening to a lot of Nick Cave while I read Faith Hope and Carnage his book of interviews with Sean O’Hagan. The song Lavender Fields is one of my favourites.
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‘Haunted and haunting’: Canada, 1955. Vivian Maier
A posed portrait of a young girl standing, arms crossed, in front of a shop window, her gaze so intent it takes a moment to notice her dirt-streaked face and eyes brimming with tears. It is a complex image, haunted and haunting, vulnerable but defiant. Sean O’Hagan
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Nick Cave in conversation with Sean O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage, 2022
#the fact that these conversations happened before his other son died like damn#nick cave#nick cave and the bad seeds#faith hope and carnage#grief#stuff: quotes#ana says stuff#how silly to miss what you will become
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UNDER THE RADAR: New Album - High Llamas – "Hey Panda", released on March 29, 2024
UNDER THE RADAR: New Album – High Llamas – “Hey Panda”, released on March 29, 2024
“Sean O’Hagan finds inspiration in Tierra Whack and Tyler The Creator and welcomes collaborators Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Rae Morris for High Llamas’ most invigorating album in nearly 30 years”. brooklyn vegan
“Adding R&B and pop flourishes while stripping the long-established sound of the group down to the…
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