Morrissey's Favorite book?

Tasty John Betterman

I seen him at Wimperdon, peering soppily through the hedges...

Doesn't Morrissey like 'Come back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'
I either read it somewhere(likely)or someone met him and asked him.

I can't work out if its good bad or just bad.
 
:D Well, it ain't so very far between Pasolini and de Sade.

especially since pasolini did the movie about de Sade's highbrow porno-pedo-snuff book "120 days of sodom"
 
Doesn't Morrissey like 'Come back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'

I don't care, I do...

a must see, at least 3 times, you might not like it, or get it the first or
2nd time, a true classic, whit 5 lovely middle aged women, who were
around in their teenage days near a place where James Dean made a
fim [or parts of that film]...1 boy came outta happening [as the middle aged
ladies still see it] named Jimmy Dean


I don't tell ya more, see it, thrice or 20 times it'll never bore you
 
Morrissey qouted half a page from 'the well of loneliness' in the intro of
'Morrissey shot'by Linder Sterling, which is a book with only pictures of his
Kill Uncle Tour
Now it's my turn to be pedantic... :p It was Michael Bracewell who quoted that book, he wrote the introduction.
 
I didn't mean their ethics or morals, how many films by Pasolini have you watched?
I still haven't watched the last four yet (Alabian Nights, Cantabury Tales, Decamelon and Solo).

If you've watched Pasolini's earlier work, you wouldn't say "it ain't far between Pasolini and de Sade".
I may sound pedantic, but Pasolini's earlier films reflect the harsh reality and lives of social outcasts in Italy, there's no direct connection between de Sade and him.

I haven't read any de Sade's books, but I understand Pasolini wanted to make a film which challenge the limit of all the aspects of human condition naturally he chose to adopt de Sade.
Unfortunately after Solo he was brutally murdered, he didn't have another chance to make a film, I don't know which artistic direction he was going to.
Decameron, Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights are the only Pasolini films I have seen. My mother used to gush about Pasolini, she really loved Decameron and praised it for its un-Hollywood-like naturalism, for instance people's rotten teeth (as they were likely to have in the Middle Ages) etc. The films are not De Sade-like at all, they present, as you said, the harsh reality, except that instead of modern-day Italy you see Italy, England or Middle East in the Middle-Ages. When someone mentions Arabian Nights, people immediately think about the fairytales and adventure stories -Aladdin, Ali Baba etc.) but Pasolini ignored the fantasy and adventure stories and focused on the lesser known, more realistic ones. Arabian Nights is a darker film than the other two, as far as I remember (I saw it several years ago); in the other two, even though some of the stories are darker, most of them are funny. I wasn't sure if I liked them as much as my mom, though...at times I was put off by the terrible acting of some of Pasolini's actors (he loved to use non-professionals for those films).

I've never read any of De Sade's works, but I've read Angela Carter's very interesting essay-book "The Sadeian Woman", and she retells "Justine" and "Juliette" in detail. And although I enjoyed her analysis and her conclusions about the political implications of De Sade's work and what it says about pornography and gender, TBH, I have no desire to read any of those books. :eek:
 
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Moz's favorite book: "How to wear band-aids on your male-nipples"
 
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