I love Graham Coxon and I think his guitar-playing is something absolutely wonderful - sensitive and true.
And yes, his new album is punky AND very entertaining (but not as good as, say 'The Sky Is Too High' or 'Crow Sit on Blood Tree')

one more addition...
Roberto Benigni is one of the three leads (along with Tom Waits and John Lurie) in probably my favorite movie of all-time -- 'Down by Law'. It's a truly beautiful and funny film by Jim Jarmusch. I recommend!

Thank You! to everyone involved

My favorite book of LC poetry. It's naked and it's bitter. There IS some throwaway stuff too but mostly the poems burn..
(like this)

Love is a fire
It burns everyone
It disfigures everyone
It is the world's excuse
for being ugly

I just have to join and sing my praise for the album, it is almost too good to be true. when i hear Music like this life makes more sense.

I first LC when I was six years old, my mother used to play a cassette in the kitchen a lot. a part of my childhood I guess. My true obsession began when I was 16 or 17, maybe because I started to grasp a little what this man was singing about.. so I bought album after another (my mother had lost al...

Beautiful pictures! That's all I can say really.. We have quite the same taste, I'd say

Talking of off beat movies has anyone seen the French film The delicatessent, it was called The butcher in english. Absolutely wild humour, right up my street Yeah, 'Delicatessen' is a great one! I love the cello+saw duets :D I'd really like to see McCabe, I'm a friend of Altman's movies, especiall...

yes, I feel he's 'writing the letter'/singing to himself (former self). (biographical) evidence >> * the '59 raincoat * waiting on a train station (which is a recurring theme in his work btw) * 'building a house deep in the desert' = the cabin in Nashville * 'a thin gypsy thief' LC has often called ...