The Cinquefoil Press: Strangeness Which Is The Essence Of Beauty

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Strangeness Which Is The Essence Of Beauty

View from Primrose Hill - North London

Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that, when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.

The London Adventure p.127 Arthur Machen

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Films

The idiot - Akira Kurosawa
Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa
Life is a Miracle - Emir Kusturica
Black Cat White Cat - Emir Kusturica
Underground - Emir Kusturica
Time fo the Gypsies - Emir Kusturica
When Father was Away on Business - Emir Kusturica
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - Emir Kusturica
The Tit and the Moon - Bigas Luna
Bright Star - Jane Campion 2009
Creation - John Amiel
Revolutionary Road - Sam Mendes 2008
Che - part 1 - Steven Soderburgh 2008
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy - Graham Coleman 2004
Into the Wild - Sean Pean 2007
Control - Anton Corbijn 2007
Two Short Nights 07, Phoenix Media Bursary Screening - December 2007
Grandhotel - David Ondricek 2006
Once - John Carney 2006
Transylvania - Tony Gatlif 2006
Drawing Restraint 9 Matthew Barney 2007
War on Democracy - John Pilger 2007
Nosferatu - F.W. Murnnau 1922
Kanyini - Melanie Hogan 2006
Ten Canoes - Rolf de Heer 2006
Sketches of Frank Gehry - Sydney Pollack 2005
Taking Liberties - Chris Atkins 2007
Joe Strummer, The Future is Unwritten - Julien Temple 2007
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2007
Los Olvidados Luis Bunuel 1950
Into Great Silence - Directed by Philip Groning, 2006

Exhibitions

Migrations - Tate Britain, May 2012
Patrick Keiller, The Robinson Institute - Tate Britiain 2012
Picasso and Modern British Art - Tate Britain May 2012
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands - The British Library May 2012
Walking in my Mind - The Hayward Gallery August 2009
J W Waterhouse - The Royal Academy August 2009
Picasso - Challenging the Past - The National Gallery May 2009
Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists - Royal Academy, December 2008
Andrea Gregson, A World Within - Exeter Phoenix, May 2008
Pamplemousse - April 2008
Barbette Rails - Exeter, March 31st 2008
Duchamp, Man Ray and Picarbia - The Tate Modern, March 23rd
The Age of Enchantment - The Dulwich Art Gallery, December 23rd
Liese Webley - Exeter Phoenix Arts & Media, May 9th
Gerard Byrne - The Lisson Gallery, London, May 5th
Tacita Dean - The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, until June 15th
Barb Hunt - Exeter Phoenix Arts & Media, till June 14th 2007
Fischil & Weiss: Flowers & Questions, A Retrospective - Tate Modern, Oct 06 - Jan 07
Holbein in England - Tate Britain, Sept 06 - Jan 07
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction - Tate Modern, June - Oct 06
Frida Kahlo - Tate Modern, June - Oct 05
Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists - Royal Academy, December 2008

Current Music

http://www.myspace.com/lalipunalalipuna
Nayan Ghosh
Baluji Shrivastav
http://www.myspace.com/thisistunng
http://www.myspace.com/theliftmen
http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips
http://www.myspace.com/battlestheband
http://www.myspace.com/eelfanzine
http://www.myspace.com/4greenangels
http://www.myspace.com/lauraveirs
http://www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband
http://www.myspace.com/peoniesmusic
http://www.myspace.com/jomf
http://www.myspace.com/susandeleo
http://www.myspace.com/tomkealangreenwood
http://www.myspace.com/theearlies
http://www.myspace.com/cocorosie
www.myspace.com/micahphinson
www.myspace.com/sunrushingin
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band
http://www.myspace.com/mugison
http://myspace.com/nikosveliotis
www.myspace.com/minircke

Events, Trips, Occurences

The Fall - The Phoenix Nov 09
Novuell Vague - Roundhouse 2009
JOMF - November 9th, The Cavern 2008
Acid Mothers Temple - November 6th The Cavern 2008
Birds Orphans and Fools, Phoenix April 6th
FYC Trip to Wonderland, 12th February - Cavern
Laura Veirs, 10th February - Phoenix Arts and Media
Xavier Rudd, Falmouth, 23rd Sept - Cornwall
The Green Man Festival, 17-18th Aug - Wales
Field Day Festival, 11th August - Victoria Park, London
Chartwell Dutiro, Respect Festival, 7th July - Phoenix Arts and Media
Cloud Piece, May 29th - Phoenix Arts and Media
Baka Beyond, May 19th - Phoenix Arts and Media
Martha Tilston, May 18th - New Hall Tiverton
Deerhoof, May 5th - Koko, London
The Earlies, 17th April - Phoenix Arts and Media
The Lighthouse, Monday 16th April,Claudia's performance with Playback - Phoenix Arts and Media

Recent Reading

Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
In Blue Beard's Castel - George Steiner
Charles Dickens - Michael Slater
The Life and Times of Coventry Patmore - Derek Patmore
Willaim Allinghams Diary - Geoffrey Grigson
Dr Zhiargo - Boris Pasternak
Anton Chekhov, A Life - Donald Rayfield
The Golden Bough - James Fraser
The London Adventure - Arthur Machen
The Meaning of Culture - John Cowper Powys
What's Wrong with the World - GK Chesterton
Les Fleur Des Mal - Charles Baudelarie
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Praeterita - John Ruskin
Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Crock of Gold - James Stephens
In Spite Of - John Cowper Powys
The Outsider - Albert Camus
England and the Octopus - Clough Williams-Ellis
A Glastonbury Romance - John Cowper Powys
The Lands End - WH Hudson
Up and Out - John Cowper Powys
Earth Memories - Llewelyn Powys
Rabelais - John Cowper Powys
Making Nature Sacred - John Gatta
The Life and Letters of Edward Thomas - John Moore
Descents of Memory - Morine Krissdottir
In Defense of Sensuality - John Cowper Powys
Animism - Graham Harvey
Gods Architect - Rosemary Hill
Afoot in England - WH Hudson
Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Finders Keepers - Seamus Heaney
The Heart of London - HV Morton
Love, Life, Goethe - John Armstrong
Hampshire Days - WH Hudson
Sesame and Lilles - John Ruskin
Junkmail - Will Self
Autobiograhy - R G Collingwood
Ruskin the Prophet - ed J Howard Whitehouse
The Old Straight Track - Alfred Watkins
Lions Mouth - Kathleen Raine
The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst - Nicholas Tomalin
The Art of Happiness - John Cowper Powys
Nature in Downland - W H Hudson
The life of John Stuart Mill - Michael St John Packe
The Perennial Philosophy - A. Huxley
Paul Verlaine - H. Nicholson
S. de Beauvoir - L. Appignanesi
The Consolations of Philosophy - A. de Botton

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