...always coming back to you

Sighing over Scott Walker once again, after watching the documentary 30 Century Man (2006). Cameras are let into his studio for the first time (recording his '06 album The Drift). David Bowie, Johnny Marr, Brian Eno all confessing their love and his influence. It's the first time Scott has been interviewed so intimately. You get a sense of the depth of his marriage to his music, that he can be and do nothing else but create this extraordinary stuff. Although his style has drastically evolved - become more itself, one could say - I will always get chills listening to his solo work from the 60s/70s. It stops you up short. He really is one of the life-changers.

the plight house

Heartbreak, horror, and impossibly brutal choices may all be yours in The Plight House. This first novel by Jason Hrivnak is like nothing I've ever read, and still troubles me.

down the junction

I spent my pre-teen years in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood in the early 80s, and the surroundings of the spartan Crossways Mall (beneath the dual tower blocks pictured), derelict warehouses and railway lines - accompanied by a soundtrack of Soft Cell, Joan Jett and Human League - were heavily formative.

perverted by language

What an excellent, stripped down film, with an amazing performance by Stephen McHattie. Three people in a smalltown Ontario radio station, on air during the development of a ferocious virus transmitted through...words

spring 2010

courtesy of ohne titel; how I love me grey:


and mary karantzou with the mad, beautiful prints: it looks like something grows from it, at the neckline...


liquid metal, or a petrol-puddle:

brevity is the soul of story: Hint Fiction

Robert Swartwood is a Pennsylvania writer editing an anthology of stories, open to all for submissions from August 1 - 31, 2009.

Each of these stories must be 25 words or less. It's called Hint Fiction.

See how close to the bone you can cut it.

the bitch is back

The stunning, striking Kristen McMenamy is back from huge 90s fame followed by obscurity, in a 30-page feature in July's Vogue Italia. Bravo.