The Beach is the ultimate borderland or no-man’s land. It is the boundary between land and sea, solid and liquid, man and nature, civilization and the wild, reality and fantasy, inhibition and liberation. Moral, cultural, political and personal battles are fought on this front-line.
Welcome To The Beach
Welcome To Foulweather #2
Foulweather is going on hiatus for a little while. Well not really, I'm going deep undercover and don't anticipate much computer access for the next month or so, at least I hope not. When I get back it will be full speed ahead with foulweather zine issue #2. Until then, if you are looking for some cultural stimulation here is a dumb and incomplete list of some of the things that have inspired foulweather, as a whole, in one way or another...
Fiction
The Road
Crime And Punishment
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Famished Road
From Empty Harbour To White Ocean
Grits
The English Patient
Blood Meridian
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep
How Late it was, How Late
The Trial
The Wasp Factory
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The God Of Small Things
Slaughterhouse Five
Non Fiction
Down And Out In London And Paris
Homage To Catalonia
My Revolting Life
The Revolution Of Everyday Life
Jumping The Line
Against Civilization
Running On Emptiness
Gone To Croatan
The Society of the Spectacle
The Authorized Biography Of Miki Dora
No Logo
Out Of The Night
You can't Win
Maus
Palestine
Persopolis
The Authorized Biography of Miki Dora
Poetry/plays
Keats
Blake
Thomas, Dylan
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Neruda
Snyder
Baraka
Miller
Music
Fugazi
Fela Kuti
Massive Attack
Godspeedyoublackemperor/ A Silver Mt Zion
Joy Division/ New Order
The Ex
Iggy
Dirty Three
Reem Kalani
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Crass
The Clash
Gang Of Four
Black Eyes/Flag/Sabbath
Sigur Ros
Dub and reggae comps
Film
American Beauty
Baraka
Brazil
Breaking The Waves
L'Haine
Wings Of Desire
Dead Man
Days Of Heaven
Down By Law
Empire Of The Sun
Stroszek
Pichote
Streetwise
The Seventh Seal
The Big Blue
The Thin Red Line
The New World
Geography
The Persian Gulf
The Atlantic
The Pacific
Unfamiliar cities, everywhere.
The streets
