Lalo Alcaraz, "La Cucuracha" comic strip, archived for November 8, 2008. I saw it in today's Los Angeles Times. Sums it up.
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- John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
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- Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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"Eve" (1935)
Favorite Books
On a short shelf of ten prose masters, apart from my top 20 (compiled separately farther down):
J.F. Powers' fiction;
Jorge Luis Borges;
Flannery O'Connor;
Primo Levi's memoirs;
Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds';
Shulamith Hareven's 'Thirst' trilogy;
Ernie O'Malley's 'On Another Man's Wound';
Tim Robinson's Aran & Connemara travels;
Alexander Theroux's 'Laura Warholic, or the Sexual Intellectual.'
Henry Glassie's 'Passing the Time in Ballymenone' exemplifies passion wedded to scholarship.
Not to forget Michel Faber's ambitious fables, or Michel Houellebecq's infuriatingly thoughtful, misanthropic pisstakes-as-prose.
Plus requisite egghead tomes: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Torah, Gospels, Dante (I hover between the more literal Durling and Kirkpatrick's looser translation);
Pali texts attributed to the Buddha (tr. Wallis);
the Welsh Mabinogi (tr. Ford or Davies);
Field Day & David Pierce's anthologies of Irish literature;
Old English poems (Crossley-Holland's Oxford anthology in a pinch for you non-medievalists!);
J.F. Powers' fiction;
Jorge Luis Borges;
Flannery O'Connor;
Primo Levi's memoirs;
Flann O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds';
Shulamith Hareven's 'Thirst' trilogy;
Ernie O'Malley's 'On Another Man's Wound';
Tim Robinson's Aran & Connemara travels;
Alexander Theroux's 'Laura Warholic, or the Sexual Intellectual.'
Henry Glassie's 'Passing the Time in Ballymenone' exemplifies passion wedded to scholarship.
Not to forget Michel Faber's ambitious fables, or Michel Houellebecq's infuriatingly thoughtful, misanthropic pisstakes-as-prose.
Plus requisite egghead tomes: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Torah, Gospels, Dante (I hover between the more literal Durling and Kirkpatrick's looser translation);
Pali texts attributed to the Buddha (tr. Wallis);
the Welsh Mabinogi (tr. Ford or Davies);
Field Day & David Pierce's anthologies of Irish literature;
Old English poems (Crossley-Holland's Oxford anthology in a pinch for you non-medievalists!);
Pascal's Pensées (edited, outlined, explained as Peter Kreeft's 'Christianity for Modern Pagans')
Book of Job/ Psalms (Stephen Mitchell's translations).
Recent reads I liked:
Book of Job/ Psalms (Stephen Mitchell's translations).
Recent reads I liked:
Julian Barnes' memento mori 'Nothing to be Frightened Of'
Alexander Berkman's 'Life of an Anarchist' (ed. Clay Fellner);
William T. Vollmann's unfolding 'Seven Dreams' chronicles;
Niall Griffiths' Liverpudlian-Cambrian clashes & cock-ups;
James Blish's novel about Roger Bacon, 'Doctor Mirabilis';
Céline's 'Journey to the End of Night' & 'Death on the Installment Plan';
William Golding's unnerving 'The Inheritors';
Alan Moore's debut novel 'A Voice in the Fire';
Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Muslim travelogues;
John Wehrheim's Bhutan + Kaua'i photo-narratives;
Bruce Seymour's 'Lola Montez: A Life';
Vladimir Nabokov's 'Bend Sinister' and as read by Jeremy Irons, 'Lolita';
David Mitchell's conceptual fiction;
Hugo Hamilton's fiction & memoirs;
Ken Bruen's Galway noir;
George Saunders' fiction;
Seán Ó Riordáin's Gaelic & Ciaran Carson's Belfast poems.
Alexander Berkman's 'Life of an Anarchist' (ed. Clay Fellner);
William T. Vollmann's unfolding 'Seven Dreams' chronicles;
Niall Griffiths' Liverpudlian-Cambrian clashes & cock-ups;
James Blish's novel about Roger Bacon, 'Doctor Mirabilis';
Céline's 'Journey to the End of Night' & 'Death on the Installment Plan';
William Golding's unnerving 'The Inheritors';
Alan Moore's debut novel 'A Voice in the Fire';
Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Muslim travelogues;
John Wehrheim's Bhutan + Kaua'i photo-narratives;
Bruce Seymour's 'Lola Montez: A Life';
Vladimir Nabokov's 'Bend Sinister' and as read by Jeremy Irons, 'Lolita';
David Mitchell's conceptual fiction;
Hugo Hamilton's fiction & memoirs;
Ken Bruen's Galway noir;
George Saunders' fiction;
Seán Ó Riordáin's Gaelic & Ciaran Carson's Belfast poems.
Rockwell Kent
"Annie McGinley" (1950)
Desert Island Reading List: Top Twenty
- Black List, Section H: Francis Stuart
- Book of Genesis (ed. Nahum Sarna)
- Book of Psalms (tr. Stephen Mitchell)
- Commedia: Dante (tr. Robin Fitzpatrick/ Sandow Birk, illust.)
- Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon (ed. David Wormersley)
- English-Irish Dictionary: Tómas de Bhaldraithe
- Everything Must Change: Grahame Davies
- Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature
- Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla: Niall Ó Dónaill
- Lanark: Alasdair Gray
- Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: Samuel Beckett
- Nine Rivers from Jordan: Denis Johnston
- Oxford English Dictionary
- The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann (tr. John E. Woods)
- Times Atlas of the World
- To A Mountain in Tibet: Colin Thubron
- U.S.A.: John Dos Passos
- Ulysses: James Joyce
- Vanity Fair: William Thackeray
Alasdair Gray
"Liz Lochhead" (1977)
Desert Island Discs: Top Twenty
- Andy Irvine & Paul Brady: s/t
- Another Music from a Different Kitchen: Buzzcocks
- Days for Days: The Loud Family
- If I Should Fall from Grace with God: The Pogues
- May I Sing with Me: Yo La Tengo
- Murmur: R.E.M.
- Perverted by Language: The Fall
- Please to See the King: Steeleye Span
- Porcupine: Echo & the Bunnymen
- Roxy Music: s/t
- Sell Out: The Who
- Slanted & Enchanted: Pavement
- Space Ritual: Hawkwind
- Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy): Brian Eno
- The Book of Invasions: Horslips
- The Notorious Byrd Brothers: The Byrds
- The Scottish Play: Wire
- The Scream: Siouxsie & the Banshees
- Village Green Preservation Society: The Kinks
- What We Did on Our Holidays: Fairport Convention
Peter Blake
"Ophelia" (1977-2002)
Music
The Fall;
Buzzcocks;
Loud Family;
Pavement;
older REM;
much of what passed for alternative/college/ postpunk a generation ago;
same goes for much punk/pop/new wave subtract five to ten years prior;
shoegazers;
old and neo-psychedelia;
Joy Division and the earliest New Order;
Roxy Music, most of, and Steely Dan, some of--made my mid-70's adolescence endurable, but why, why revive its "fake thrift-store" hirsute, grubby fashions?;
The Who & Kinks late 60's;
Yardbirds post-Clapton;
early Fairport & Steeleye Span;
Hawkwind's pre-'75 phase;
Spacemen 3 when they droned rather than channelled gospel;
Velvet Underground when Mo isn't singing;
New Zealand 80s-90s' "Dunedin Sound" on Flying Nun (Xpressway's "crumbling guitar" honorably mentioned) indie-label rock;
lots of Wire & Husker Du;
Horslips;
Irish folk & sean-nós;
droning, pipes and tin-whistles (the last of which I try to play, "mediocre" in elder son's opinion.)
1000s of cd's/lp's more.
Buzzcocks;
Loud Family;
Pavement;
older REM;
much of what passed for alternative/college/ postpunk a generation ago;
same goes for much punk/pop/new wave subtract five to ten years prior;
shoegazers;
old and neo-psychedelia;
Joy Division and the earliest New Order;
Roxy Music, most of, and Steely Dan, some of--made my mid-70's adolescence endurable, but why, why revive its "fake thrift-store" hirsute, grubby fashions?;
The Who & Kinks late 60's;
Yardbirds post-Clapton;
early Fairport & Steeleye Span;
Hawkwind's pre-'75 phase;
Spacemen 3 when they droned rather than channelled gospel;
Velvet Underground when Mo isn't singing;
New Zealand 80s-90s' "Dunedin Sound" on Flying Nun (Xpressway's "crumbling guitar" honorably mentioned) indie-label rock;
lots of Wire & Husker Du;
Horslips;
Irish folk & sean-nós;
droning, pipes and tin-whistles (the last of which I try to play, "mediocre" in elder son's opinion.)
1000s of cd's/lp's more.
Jack B. Yeats
"Market Day, County Mayo" (1906)
Movies
(For content): 'Decalogue.'
(For form): 4 classic faves: 'Citizen Kane', 'Sunset Blvd.', 'Some Like It Hot'. 'M'.
For brave if flawed attempts to combine form & content: Terry Malick's films 'Badlands,' "Days of Heaven,' 'Thin Red Line,' 'The New World,' 'Tree of Life,' 'Into the Wonder'; Philip Gröning's documentary meditation on time's silent experience: 'Die Große Stille,' {Into Great Silence}, Gasper Noe's 'Into the Void'
(For form): 4 classic faves: 'Citizen Kane', 'Sunset Blvd.', 'Some Like It Hot'. 'M'.
For brave if flawed attempts to combine form & content: Terry Malick's films 'Badlands,' "Days of Heaven,' 'Thin Red Line,' 'The New World,' 'Tree of Life,' 'Into the Wonder'; Philip Gröning's documentary meditation on time's silent experience: 'Die Große Stille,' {Into Great Silence}, Gasper Noe's 'Into the Void'
David Jones
"Everyman" (1929 detail)
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"The Kiss"
Listmania: Learning Irish
I've studied Irish off and on, living in the U.S., from books and tapes. While I have attended an immersion course in Ireland (Oideas Gael, Glencolmcille in Donegal), most of my learning has been on a self-taught basis. Irish does not come easily to me, but the pleasures from self-disciplined study make the halting ability for me to read the language of my ancestors utterly rewarding. Therefore, my recommendations tend towards the materials that will help the independent learner of the Irish language; many of these have been reviewed in more detail by me at their specific entries on Amazon. Furthermore, my emphasis may be more towards a reading knowledge rather than spoken fluency. For the latter, attend classes, preferably in Ireland!
Amazon Listmania: Learning Irish Gaelic
Amazon Listmania: Learning Irish Gaelic
Margaret Clarke
"Mary & Brigid" (1917)
Beginner's Guides: Learning Welsh
Andrew Dickson
"A Country Road" (2012)
What I'm Into (for now)
Books: (both dipping into for the long haul to dip in and out of, among shorter reads) Emma Goldman's Living My Life. Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Karamazov Brothers (Ignet Avsey, tr.) .
Music: Bedhead, The Fall, The Gun Club, Hawkwind, High on Fire, Pavement, Roxy Music, Uncle Tupelo, White Fence, Wire.
Screen: Black Mirror, Game of Thrones.
Music: Bedhead, The Fall, The Gun Club, Hawkwind, High on Fire, Pavement, Roxy Music, Uncle Tupelo, White Fence, Wire.
Screen: Black Mirror, Game of Thrones.
John Luke
"The Road to the West" (1944)
What I May Read Next
"Autobiography" J.C. Powys; "Black Robe" Brian Moore; "Chaos + Night" Henry de Motherlant; "The Human Age" Wyndham Lewis; "Icelandic Journals" William Morris; "The Man Without Qualities" Robert Musil; "The Prague Cemetery" Umberto Eco; "Prophets of the Eternal Fjord" Kim Leine; "The Red and the Black" Stendhal; "Time Must Have a Stop" Aldous Huxley.
Anselm Kiefer
"Sternenfall" ("Falling Stars" 1998)
Miscellanea
Lifelong learner of Irish, fascinated by languages--Old/Middle English and Latin of course; Spanish too, at it in French now; shards of Italian, Welsh + Hebrew: if never that skilled at retaining more than scattered nouns and cognates. Certainly dazes and confuses my family, friends, students.
Food: fish & chips; oatmeal; mince or my wife's from scratch blackbottom pie (even if she only made it once). Digestive biscuits, with or without currants. Bavarian pretzels. My wife's homemade chocolate chip or my oatmeal-raisin cookies.
Drink: Murphy's dry stout (not merely for its name--it's less bitter than Guinness) or Mackeson's sweeter stout. Or, a heady Belgian brew. Organic reds: syrahs, hardy blends, Spanish or Italian varietals I never heard of. Tea with milk & sugar, long brewed with loose leaves. Ballygowan sparkling water (which is not exported to the U.S., unfortunately).
Food: fish & chips; oatmeal; mince or my wife's from scratch blackbottom pie (even if she only made it once). Digestive biscuits, with or without currants. Bavarian pretzels. My wife's homemade chocolate chip or my oatmeal-raisin cookies.
Drink: Murphy's dry stout (not merely for its name--it's less bitter than Guinness) or Mackeson's sweeter stout. Or, a heady Belgian brew. Organic reds: syrahs, hardy blends, Spanish or Italian varietals I never heard of. Tea with milk & sugar, long brewed with loose leaves. Ballygowan sparkling water (which is not exported to the U.S., unfortunately).
John Kindness
from "The Belfast Frescoes" (1994)
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- steak
- taken by spouse at our sederette.
- tapestries
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Molly Crabapple
"A New England" (2012)
George Yepes
"Mujer de Los Angeles" (1989 mural)
Augustus John
"The Girl on the Cliff," or "Nirvana" (1936)
My Favorite Place (away from home)
Above Santa Cruz CA; my photo Oct. 2009).
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