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John Murry was adopted at birth into the family of William Faulkner. Some have speculated that the Faulkner blood might also run in his veins, but that should be left for a Southern Gothic novel yet to be written (or perhaps re-written). Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, in the shadow of Elvis, his undiagnosed autism led to troubles at an early age that led to prescribed medication, which led to un-prescribed medication, which led to being institutionalised for addiction and mental health issues at a too young age. Eventually, discarded onto the streets of Memphis, he found music, which became the one constant positive force in his life. Memphis led to San Francisco and San Francisco led to heroin and heroin led to a near fatal overdose on the corner of 16th and Mission, so harrowingly memorialized in his song Little Colored Balloons.
Music again came to his rescue and led him to Tim Mooney (American Music Club) and the group of musicians that helped create his 2012 masterpiece The Graceless Age. The accolades rolled in..
'A Masterpiece' UNCUT 9/10
'A work of genius' THE GUARDIAN 5/5
'Intensely beautiful… Like Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan and Josh T Pearson
rolled into one really broken dream' Q MAGAZINE 4/5
'Completely blows your mind' THE SUN 5/5
MOJO 5/5
And John toured the world. He entranced and devastated audiences with his raw, unfiltered live performances, and it looked like his trajectory was set, that music had won and would have the final word. And then Tim Mooney, John’s mentor, his beacon, his bedrock, died suddenly and unexpectedly… and John’s world fell back in to chaos. Over the next few years, John would lose the footing that he had struggled so hard to establish. He would lose his wife, his daughter, temporarily his freedom and ultimately his country.
Somewhere along this volatile journey, John crossed paths with Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies. John had opened for the band at a show in Glasgow and Michael watched side-stage transfixed by John’s performance. Over the next few years the two of them kept in touch, they talked about the music business, politics, books, but most of all they talked about music. And they talked about making an album together. Michael wanted to capture the rawness of John’s songs, capture the vibe that he experienced that night in Glasgow and was even more convinced of this approach when John came through Toronto opening for Chuck Prophet and did a solo set at The Horseshoe Tavern, which was as disarming and emotional as the set of music that he had experienced in Glasgow a couple of years earlier. “On The Graceless Age you can hear John’s affinity to artists such as Mark Linkous and Mark Lanegan, but seeing him on stage, with just his guitar and his songs reminded me of Townes (Van Zandt), that raw-boned, exquisite beauty, so real that it borders on the uncomfortable, you feel you should look away, but it’s just too compelling to do so. The pain, the intensity, the honesty just draws you deeper”.
Eventually John completed his descent and landed in Kilkenny, Ireland where he found some solid ground as part of a welcoming arts community. Michael then convinced him to travel to his Toronto studio where Michael put a band together consisting of brother Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) on drums and Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers, Gord Downie, Lee Harvey Osmond) on bass. John brought along Cait O’Riordan (The Pogues, Elvis Costello) whom he had met in Ireland and who wanted to be a part of John’s journey. The five of them put aside five days to record all bedtracks and overdubs, with the brief that they would let the songs dictate where the journey took them, spontaneity was the order of the week. Michael Timmins describes the sessions, “I felt that it was important that John got out of his own way and that we set up a situation where he would just play and sing and the rest of us would just react, no second guessing, just react and capture the moment. It was a very inspired and inspiring week of playing and recording. Very intense. And I think we captured the raw essence of John’s writing and playing”.
A Short History Of Decay is an intensely personal document of an artist’s fall from grace. It contains all the tragic elements of that unwritten Southern Gothic novel: the revelations of a man coming to terms with the personal shortcomings, the flaws and the perverse twists of fate that led him to the end of one journey and the beginning of another.
‘Grief, divorce and excile inspire more gems of burnt, bruised Americana’ UNCUT 8/10
‘A Short History Of Decay delivers in gloriously dysfunctional bucketloads’ MOJO 4/5
‘The longer you spend in the darkness with him, the more beauty you’ll see’ COUNTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE
‘Gothic Americana from the recovery room’ 4/5 Q MAGAZINE
‘There is more than a touch of Cave’s brooding darkness about Murry, who’s rumbling voice and preoccupation with morality place him in a genre somewhere between Mark Lanegan and Mark Linkous’ THE QUIETUS
Media praise for The Graceless Age.
'A Masterpiece’ UNCUT - 9/10
'A work of genius' THE GUARDIAN - 5/5
'Intensely beautiful...Like Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan and Josh T Pearson rolled into one really broken dream' Q MAGAZINE - 4/5
'Completely blows your mind’ - THE SUN 5/5
MOJO - 5/5
Media praise for A Short History Of Decay
‘Grief, divorce and excile inspire more gems of burnt, bruised Americana’ UNCUT 8/10
‘A Short History Of Decay delivers in gloriously dysfunctional bucketloads’ MOJO 4/5
‘The longer you spend in the darkness with him, the more beauty you’ll see’ COUNTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE
‘Gothic Americana from the recovery room’ 4/5 Q MAGAZINE
‘There is more than a touch of Cave’s brooding darkness about Murry, who’s rumbling voice and preoccupation with morality place him in a genre somewhere between Mark Lanegan and Mark Linkous’ THE QUIETUS
‘Seer Of The Week’ – SUNDAY TIMES
Presented in voice by Trolley Trollop
Did you ever wonder how the name Emily became so popular in horror and strange fiction? Come listen to "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner read by Miss Trolley Trollop, a real Southern lady! I call her a female version of Shelby Foote... you will surely love this experience as much as I do. Here's thought provoking article on Emily: kimerskine.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/why-are-all-of-these-...
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Glass slide advertisement for The Story Of Temple Drake from 1933. The movie was extremely controversial because of its content matter. It was banned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Production Code Administration head Joseph Breen ordered that the film never be re-released once the Production Code came into effect in mid-1934. The film did not resurface until the mid-1950s. The movie is based on William Faulkner's also very controversial book, Sanctuary. The movie has been completely restored by The Museum Of Modern Art & Turner Classic movies, so hopefully it will be released on dvd sometime soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Temple_Drake
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_%28novel%29
Here is a great essay about the restoration of Temple Drake: www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/10/14/out-of-the-vau...
William Faulkner : Treize Histoires
club français du livre - Paris, 1964
vol. 45, récits
édition numérotée hors commerce,
maquettes Jacques Daniel
These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... They are happily appreciated!
Enjoy!
Just HAD to play with this image.
It begged to be painted!
“The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man,
it can be one of the props,
the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
~ William Faulkner ~
Oxford, Mississippi is located in the central northern part of the state. It is home to the University of Mississippi and is the seat of Lafayette County.
Author William Faulkner, as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1954.
Image courtesy of Marquette University Archives. Image No.: MUA_KJP_00846front
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bone Chilling Collection of Eldritch Tales!!!!, November 13, 2013
By bigbopper52
The golden age of pulp horror fiction lives on in this collection of short stories by MIchael Vance. While Vance shows the influence of past masters like Lovecraft, Bloch, Howard and Bradbury,Vance's writing stands on it's own. While some of his prose leans towards the poetic style of Bradbury, his plotting calls to mind the clean but detailed method of Derleth. As well as writing fiction, Vance is known as a scholar of comic book history and many of these stories have been adapted into this format and are also highly recommended. A great read and sure to please fans of weird fiction!!!
William Faulkner: Monnaie de singe
( Soldier's Pay )
Garnier Flammarion - Paris, 1987
n° 921
couverture: "Gamma jaune", 1907, Kupka
I watched the old movie The Big Sleep last night on my new TV set. The technical quality of the film was OK so I tried to take a few pictures of the sreen, while watching this Hollywood classic, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Borgart and Lauren Bacall.
The film is based on the novel by Raymond Chandler and another famous writer, William Faulkner was involved in writing the screen play.
I watched the old movie The Big Sleep last night on my new TV set. The technical quality of the film was OK so I tried to take a few pictures of the sreen, while watching this Hollywood classic, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Borgart and Lauren Bacall.
The film is based on the novel by Raymond Chandler and another famous writer, William Faulkner was involved in writing the screen play.
We climbed around inside Ice Cream Point discovering all the cracks and holes. Very interesting place.
William Faulkner: Lumière d'août
(Light in August)
Gallimard - Paris, 1974
collection Folio, n°
illustration de Corentin
William Faulkner : Moustiques
présenté par Raymond Queneau
Collection 10 / 18, n°101 / 1002
Union Générale d' Editions - Paris, 1963
Couverture : Dessin de Franklyn Webber
Grip-n-grin shot of Welty presenting a gold medal to Faulkner at the 1962 annual meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was the last trip Faulkner took outside Mississippi.
Eudora Welty presented William Faulkner with the Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters on on May 24, 1962 in New York.
"Mr. Faulkner, I think this medal, being pure of its kind, the real gold, would go to you of its own accord," Welty said, "and know its owner regardless of whether we were all here to see or not. Safe as a puppy it would climb into your pocket . . ."
Welty is fond of telling the story that the medal was indeed already in Faulkner's pocket as she spoke. She had passed it to him during dinner and presented an empty box.
It was the last trip Faulkner took outside of Mississippi. He died six weeks later and is buried across the street from my old apartment in Oxford.
No, I didn't take this. An art gallery I used to work for sold prints. This image is purposely low-res to head off any temptation for copyright violations.
Photo credit: Sidney J. Waintrob
Budd Studios, New York