IT ALL GOES INTO THE ARTISTIC MIX

A few things that have recently nourished my eyes, ears and soul! It all goes into the artistic mix. Be omnivorous!

WORDS
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances — Neil Gaiman
Cy Twombly Fifty Days At Iliam — Basualdo
The Waste Land (Facsimile & Transcript of original drafts) — T. S. Eliot
The Greatest Album Covers of All Time — Barry Miles, Grant Scott & Johnny Morgan

MUSIC
Negative Capability — Marianne Faithfull
David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht's Baal — David Bowie
Nordub — Sly & Robbie + Nils Petter Molvaer
Nocturnes & Impromtus — Chopin (again and again!)
Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims — Jutta Hipp
Flowers Of Romance — Public Image Ltd
Thursday Afternoon — Brian Eno
Infectious Diseases — Michigan & Smiley

FILM/TV
The Cement Garden — Andrew Birkin
House of Cards (Season Four)
Nightwatching & Rembrandt's J'Accuse — Peter Greenaway
Frida — Julie Taymor
Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman
The Party — Sally Potter
Séraphine — Martin Provost

LIKES
Golden Hare Books, Edinburgh
These autumnal days
Leith Theatre
Patriothall Studios, Edinburgh
www.instagram.com/thisispattismith/?hl=en
Velvet Easel, Portobello Edinburgh

PROSPECTS / QUOTATIONS
The prospect of travlling to Tallinn next month
The prospect of seeing The Last Days of Mankind — Featuring The Tiger Lillies
"Relax. Nothing is under control." Adi Da
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?" — Frida Kahlo

ART
Georg Baselitz, A Focus on the 1980s — Galerie Thaddaeus RopacGerard
Pin-Ups | Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity — Scottish National Gallery

Cy Twombly, Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire That Consumes All Before It