Praia Mole: The white horses flow

Praia Mole: the white horses flow, oil on card, 9.1 x 11.2 cm   AVAILABLE

The second of this week's series of paintings from Praia Mole.

The title is taken from a line in singer Jeff Buckley's "Mojo Pin":

Well, I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole
If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied
Don't wanna weep for you, I don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so
Precious, precious silver and gold and pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms
The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for

By Jeff Buckley, Gary Lucas (© Gary Lucas Music BMI)

Waves, Praia Mole

 

Waves, Praia Mole, oil on card, 9.9 x 11 cm - - available

The first of four Praia Mole sea paintings I shall do this week, using increasngly limited colours.

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Whatever Works (2009): review: 7/10

In New York, an opinionated misanthrope meets and helps a simple young woman from the south.

The piece has the construction of a sitcom, with plain sets and uninteresting photography.

The script is often extremely funny, making a virtue of the -somewhat obvious- set-piece character contrasts that lend it momentum.

Choke (2008): review: 2/10

An actor on a colonial heritage visitor centre is addicted to sex. He attempts to find out who his real father is by visiting his demented mother in a mental institution: she is relucatant to help him.

Although the film has flashes of comic excellence, it lacks a core and meanders hopelessly.

Fight Club (1999): review: 8/10

An insurance evaluator seeks escape from his alienation, first by visiting support groups (for conditions for which he does not suffer), then through fighting.

This film is diverting: violent and comical- simultaneously a satire on consumerism, corporate values, therapy culture, the "mens' movement", and anti-corporatism.

The denoument is far too long, however, and the film could happily be reduced by 20 minutes.

A kilo restaurant

 

A kilo restaurant, oil on card, 14.5 x 9 cm

One of the good things about Brazil are these kilo restaurants where you can get a cheap, healthy lunch.

The Third Man (1949): review: 10/10

Just after the war an Amercan  writer of Westerns goes to occupied Vienna to take from emploment from his old friend Harry Lime, a racketeer.

The themes of friendship, evil, love, and loss are pursued though Graham Greene's witty script- the film wears its messages lightly, it's seriousness countered by playful aesthetic effects of lighting, music and an almost insoucient acting style.