This is to be a weekly section split into subcategories.
Music: Neutral Milk Hotel
To those of you who haven't heard of this fantastic band, you have no idea what you're missing. They're a what I would define as new folk (although Wikipedia will call them indie rock), I highly recommend checking them out so you can decide what to call them for yourself. They were formed in 1991 by singer guitarist and songwriter Jeff Magnum unfortunately only recording two full length albums in their 7 year long career.
Recommended album: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipO9Tvk1EI&feature=related
Literature: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Most people would of heard of this book already, it is the only novel ever published by the ever-witty playwright Oscar Wilde. Here is a blurb taken from the cover "Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamourous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story…"
I found this book immensely absorbing, you can tell right away that it is written by someone who is used to the format of scripts which is something I really liked. It focuses very strongly on the dialogue which Wilde is rightly famous for and only drifts away from the characters very occasionally to describe insignificant things of beauty,
which might seem frustrating if it were not the main theme of the book.
Where you can buy it: If any book stores don't sell this you are well within your rights to burn the store and it's manager to the ground. It's part of that puffin collection of paper backs which sell for around 10 dollars, so I recommend buying that. You'll say about half price in comparison to any illustrated editions.
Website: Nedroid.com
Go there now, It is a spectacular comic of bizarre stylistic humour.
Artist: Patrick Hughes
Hughes' work is full of irony. By creating a world solidified into perspective he makes pictures that come alive before our eyes.
In the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion makes a stone woman, whom Aphrodite brings to life as Galatea. Hughes makes wooden lumps of space and you bring them to life by looking at them. It is sculpted painting, solid space.
In the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion makes a stone woman, whom Aphrodite brings to life as Galatea. Hughes makes wooden lumps of space and you bring them to life by looking at them. It is sculpted painting, solid space.
Website: http://www.patrickhughes.co.uk/
Recommended artwork: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38864566@N00/2479491895/
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