#james graham ballard

[jimmyspades]

1989 | 1996 | 2017

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OK, everyone. I'm a little playlist-manic and impulsively make ones for characters/actors/films that I love. Here are my Spader-oriented ones. I hope you enjoy it if you are interested in any of those.

[dahliavxvii]

Every girl should have a secret space like this

[jesuisgourde]

A list of all the books mentioned in Peter Doherty's journals (and in some interviews/lyrics, too)

Because I just made this list in answer to someone's question on a facebook group, I thought I may as well post it here.

-The Picture of Dorian Gray/The Ballad Of Reading Gaol/Salome/The Happy Prince/The Duchess of Padua, all by Oscar Wilde -The Thief's Journal/Our Lady Of The Flowers/Miracle Of The Rose, all by Jean Genet -A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote -Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold -Venus In Furs by Leopold Sacher-Masoch -The Ministry Of Fear by Graham Greene -Brighton Rock by Graham Green -A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud -The Street Of Crocodiles (aka Cinnamon Shops) by Bruno Schulz -Opium: The Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson -Howl by Allen Ginsberg -Women In Love by DH Lawrence -The Tempest by William Shakespeare -Trilby by George du Maurier -The Vision Of Jean Genet by Richard Coe -"Literature And The Crisis" by Isaiah Berlin -Le Cid by Pierre Corneille -The Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon -Junky by William S Burroughs -Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes -Futz by Rochelle Owens -They Shoot Horses Don't They? by Horace McCoy -"An Inquiry On Love" by La revolution surrealiste magazine -Idea by Michael Drayton -"The Nymph's Reply to The Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh -Hamlet by William Shakespeare -The Silver Shilling/The Old Church Bell/The Snail And The Rose Tree all by Hans Christian Andersen -120 Days Of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke -Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -In Favor Of The Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anais Nin -La Batarde by Violette LeDuc -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -Juno And The Paycock by Sean O'Casey -England Is Mine by Michael Bracewell -"The Prelude" by William Wordsworth -Noise: The Political Economy of Music by Jacques Atalli -"Elm" by Sylvia Plath -"I am pleased with my sight..." by Rumi -She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith -Amphitryon by John Dryden -Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman -The Song Of The South by James Rennell Rodd -In Her Praise by Robert Graves -"For That He Looked Not Upon Her" by George Gascoigne -"Order And Disorder" by Lucy Hutchinson -Man Crazy by Joyce Carol Oates -A Pictorial History Of Sex In The Movies by Jeremy Pascall and Clyde Jeavons -Anarchy State & Utopia by Robert Nozick -"Limbo" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -Men In Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty

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-Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Innocent When You Dream: the Tom Waits Reader -"Identity Card" by Mahmoud Darwish -Ulysses by James Joyce -The Four Quartets poems by TS Eliot -Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare -A'Rebours/Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell -The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates -"Epitaph To A Dog" by Lord Byron -Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard -"Not By Bread Alone" by James Terry White -Anecdotes Of The Late Samuel Johnson by Hester Thrale -"The Owl And The Pussycat" by Edward Lear -"Chevaux de bois" by Paul Verlaine -A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting by Richard Burton -Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling -The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling -Ask The Dust by John Frante -On The Trans-Siberian Railways by Blaise Cendrars -The 39 Steps by John Buchan -The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol -The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol -The Iliad by Homer -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -The Volunteer by Shane O'Doherty -Twenty Love Poems and A Song Of Despair by Pablo Neruda -"May Banners" by Arthur Rimbaud -Literary Outlaw: The life and times of William S Burroughs by Ted Morgan -The Penguin Dorothy Parker -Smoke by William Faulkner -Hero And Leander by Christopher Marlowe -My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie -All I Ever Wrote by Ronnie Barker -The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys -On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey -The Void Ratio by Shane Levene and Karolina Urbaniak -The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -Dead Fingers Talk by William S Burroughs -The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage -London Underworld by Henry Mayhew

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Different anon but I recently watched crash because of your james spader posting and I loved it!! I also am exclusively picturing daniel as him now, he’s the perfect face claim. Also would love to hear your film recs!

yessss, it's such an insane movie, it's SO good! and it's not vampire-relevant at all but somehow a man who chases vampires and dates one and a man who chases the sexual thrill of car accidents are just two sides of the same coin imo

(and he is perfect, right?? welcome to the club 🥹)

so my offical spader recs are:

Sex Lies and Videotape

Spader plays Graham, a gentle weirdo who is impotent and has a kink for interviewing women about their sex lives and then watching the videos of said interviews back when he's alone.

watch it for: the interviewing the impotency combo have huge vampire!daniel vibes. he's so non-threatening, so politely weird, so eager to lie back and let a pretty auburn haired person touch his face. 100% molloy vibes.

Crash

you've already seen this, anon, but for anyone who hasn't: Spader is James Ballard, a guy who gets into a car accident and discovers a whole underground culture of weirdos who are horny for car crashes, and keep escalating their dangerous sex acts to find new thrills

watch it for: listen this movie is so outrageously horny and all about putting other people's lives at risk to get your own thrill, and if that isn't vampire adjacent i don't know what is. also the wife of spader's character is so emotionally flat and full of clinical vocabulary. the scene with her and spader in bed, talking about him sleeping with a man- it's armand and daniel, just trust me.

Secretary

a CLASSIC. he's the original Mr. Grey, deeply repressed dom who hires maggie gyllenhal as his secretary and ends up in a bdsm relationship with her. it's a very sweet movie with lots of kink, it's a lot of fun.

watch it for: the theme of letting your guard down and being fully understood. he's not at his most molloy here, but it's just a great film and gives you lots to think about in terms of what constitutes a relationship and letting another person in.

Dream Lover

Spader has a one night stand turned marriage with Madchen Amick, with all sorts of psychological twists and guessing games about who is the insane one and who is lying about their entire life.

watch it for: he's gorgeous, the sex scenes are 🥵 and if you squint you can blur Madchen Amick into looking like Armand lol he goes from gentle lover to mentally unhinged to murderer and looks beautiful the whole time, what else do you want?

Jack's Back

i don't even know how to explain this movie except to say that it's an 80's serial killer flick that's so bad it's good. Spader plays twins so you get to see him as the good boy and the bad boy here.

watch it for: the twin he plays in the first 1/4 of the movie is very molloy, so sweet and flirty and dedicated to his job. he does a lot of great eye rolling and arguing and then gets into the most weirdly kinky bad spot before his brother shows up. lots of nice shots of spader bloody, sweaty, smoking, exhausted, or some combination of all four. pure 80s trash but molloy adjacent in that he's a beautiful eyeful getting into trouble.

Bad Influence

More schlock in which Spader strikes up a friendship with bad boy Rob Lowe and gets his life ruined/is convinced to do some awful shit before embarking on a quest for revenge.

watch it for: Spader looking gorgeous in glasses, starting out innocent and then doing lots of unhinged things. it's more 'so bad it's good' stuff and seeing him be gentle but also get violent gives me so many thoughts about vampire daniel.

Stargate

A sci-fi flick in which he plays a physics nerd who is able to open a portal to another planet. Basically ancient aliens meets terminator.

watch it for: his character is literally named daniel and he's so sweetly passionate about his science stuff/ancient languages, very 'daniel molloy: pupil of marius' tbh

Other fun movies, but which are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality or how often he appears:

•Tuff Turf (he is SO pretty in this one) •Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (watch a compilation of his scenes via youtube for some 80's daniel/angry daniel fodder) •Pretty in Pink (he's a wealthy 80s bad boy who's only in part of the film, the visuals are nice for picturing Night Island Daniel) •The New Kids (an awful movie in which hs plays an awful person but he gets covered in blood and has the kinkiest scene where he gets tied up, when you see it you'll know) •A Killer in the Family (more god awful stuff, but he's so so pretty and so permanently annoyed I couldn't look away) •Storyville (so, so dry but the jiujitsu scene and the kiss scene with the lawyer lady are worth seeing) •Curtain Call (really, really hard to hunt down but it's a cute romcom where he lives in a haunted house and is permanently annoyed, also him dancing with his love interest is so sweet and lovely i'm still picturing armand and daniel dancing like that)

I think this breaks down 80% of his filmography lol But really, watch sex lies and videotape, crash, and secretary for sure!! The rest are just excellent oggling material/potential smut inspo ♥

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Yes I absolutely am going to be posting about the Met Gala tonight, even if it is all florals (groundbreaking).

If you'd like to read "The Garden of Time," which is the theme for the evening, I have a PDF here:

Hopefully someone (not Jared Leto, please not Jared Leto) will get creative with it.

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Birthdays 6.30

Beer Birthdays

Louis J. Hauck (1866)

Larry Berlin (1961)

Nick Funnell

Hildegard Van Ostaden (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bo Carter; blues musician (1892)

Stanley Clarke; jazz bassist (1951)

Susan Hayward; actor (1917)

Lena Horne; singer, actor (1917)

Brendan Perry; rock musician (1959)

Famous Birthdays

Florence Ballard; pop/soul singer (1943)

Robert Ballard; oceanographer (1942)

Fantasia Barrino; singer-songwriter and actress (1984)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes; English poet (1803)

Madge Bellamy; actress (1899)

Paul Berg; biologist (1926)

Harry Blackstone Jr.; magician (1934)

Brian Bloom; actor (1970)

Lizzy Caplan; actress (1982)

Murray Cook; singer, "Wiggles" (1960)

Man Mountain Dean; wrestler (1891)

Vincent D'Onofrio; actor (1959)

Georges Duhamel; French author (1884)

Nancy Dussault; actress and singer (1936)

John Gay; English writer (1685)

Alicia Fox; wrestler, model, and actress (1986)

Archibald Frazer-Nash; English car designer (1889)

David Garrison; actor (1952)

James Goldman; screenwriter and playwright (1927)

Winston Graham; English author (1908)

Rupert Graves; actor (1963)

David Alan Grier; actor (1955)

Larry Henley; singer-songwriter (1937)

Barry Hines; English author (1939)

Joseph Dalton Hooker; English botanist and explorer (1817)

Allan Houser; sculptor and painter (1914)

Mario Lanfranchi; Italian film director (1927)

Hal Lindes; American-English guitarist (1953)

Czesław Miłosz; Lithuanian writer (1911)

Kelsi Monroe; adult actress (1992)

Raymond Moody; parapsychologist (1944)

Tony Musante; actor (1936)

Clive Nolan; English musician (1961)

José Emilio Pacheco; Mexican poet (1939)

Brendan Perry; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1959)

Michael Phelps; swimmer (1985)

Monica Potter; actor (1971)

Julianne Regan; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1962)

Andy Scott; rock guitarist, singer (1949)

Harry Shields; jazz clarinetist (1899)

Glenn Shorrock; English-Australian singer-songwriter (1944)

Thomas Sowell; economist (1930)

Stanley Spencer; English artist (1891)

Mark Spoelstra; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1940)

Ron Swoboda; New York Mets OF (1944)

Eleanor Ross Taylor; poet (1920)

Mike Tyson; boxer (1966)

Dave Van Ronk; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1936)

Horace Vernet; French painter (1789)

Friedrich Theodor Vischer; German author, poet (1807)

Brian Vollmer; Canadian singer (1955)

Rich Vos; comedian (1957)

Heinz Warneke; German-American sculptor (1895)

Mark Waters; film director (1964)

Philip Adrian Wright; rock keyboardist (1956)

Ed Yost; hot-air balloon inventor (1919)

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Met Gala’s Garden of Time

FROM A FUNDRASING SUPPER TO A GLOBAL FASHION EXTRAVAGANZA, DWELVE INTO THE MET GALA’S “GARDEN OF TIME” WHERE HAUTE COUTURE MEETS FAIRYTALE AND SLEEPING BEAUTIES COME TO LIFE

The met gala a yearly fundraising prestigious event that the public and media eagerly anticipate takes place on Monday 6th of may at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Hosted by Jennifer lopez, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny

 It is one of the most important fashion events , this year featuring the 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' exhibition displayed at the Costume Institute in New York  inspired by the J.G. Ballard short story “garden of time “that holds symbolical elements of beauty and time,flowers,plants,...etc The Met is an event where fashion designers from all around the world showcase their most prestigious fashion pieces based on their different interpretation of the theme.

The Costume Institute Benefit, also referred to as the Met Gala, is a yearly fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A prestigious event, with around 450 guests it unites celebrities from the film, fashion, music, and visual arts industries. The Popess of Fashion, Anna Wintour, is the organizer of one of this most anticipated fashion events of the year. Every year on the first Monday in May, the Met Gala is held, and each year's theme is different. The Costume Institute's current fashion show determines the theme, which is frequently associated with a certain designer or fashion movement.

Founded in 1948 by leading pioneer in American fashion, Eleanor Lambert and has grown in prominence over time and has become one of the most important and anticipated occasions for the fashion industry. It has gained worldwide attention with its well-known lavish red carpet, guests’ parade in luxury clothing, and for its fashion exhibits at the Costume Institute, which frequently correspond with the topic of the event.

According to Anna Wintour:” This year’s theme is an inspiration of a short story of the same name by J.G. Ballard “Garden of Time” featuring the ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion'exhibition displayed at the Costume Institute in New York”. The exhibition showcases nearly 250 fashion pieces from the Institute's archives. Garments by Schiaparelli, Givenchy, Christian Dior from fall/winter 1949, a 17th-century ballgown by Charles Frederick are among the more than 400 years of fashion that will be on display through video animation, light projection, AI, and CGI so that museum visitors can experience it in a new and imaginative way.  According to a CNN Style article, these items are so rare and antique that since being shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they have truly evolved into works of art on their own. Thus, the term "sleeping beauties" describes these gowns, which are now too delicate and priceless to be worn.

According to Andrew Bolton and Wendy Yu Curator in charge of the costume institute: “The exhibition will be shaped around. Three main zones land sea and sky paying tribute to the natural world, the fashion pieces will be all inspired by nature, melancholic flowers botanicals and plants”

James Graham Ballard most well-known story, “Garden of time”, released in 1962, served as the model for the theme Anna Wintour chose for the 2024 Met Gala,

In his book Ballard tells the story of a beautiful garden known as the Garden of Time stretches out in front of the old count Axel and his wife's property. The vandals march relentlessly until they reach the final bloom, yet each clipped blossom has the effect of forcing the approaching barbarian army to recede a little. The land is broken into and destroyed. But the heroes are still there among the rubble; they have become statues, one of them clutching a rose.

The story is a metaphoric representation of time and human evolution proving that no power can stop the time neither money nor beauty, moreover this could be addressing the conflict between social classes, those who have authority over others and lastly could be also interpreted as a societal denunciation of social issues such as environmental degradation

The garden of time definitely aligns with the exhibition as it symbolizes reincarnation, beauty preserving and time.

By: Malak Habib

[jimmyspades]

Favorite JS character I’m sorry I could only pick a few for the poll please yell at me if I forgot your guy

[aguilarmia]

LITERATURE FOR ENGLISH

3. "The Drought", novel by James Graham Ballard (England)

The novel “The Drought” by James Graham Ballard (England) is a work of science fiction that explores the consequences of a global water crisis. The novel takes place in the near future where ocean pollution has caused an impenetrable layer on the surface of the water. This layer prevents water evaporation, leading to global drought.

Its importance in relation to water conservation is based on the fact that the novel highlights the importance of water for human life. Without water, agriculture, livestock and industry collapse. The novel also shows how water scarcity can cause social and political conflicts. In addition, it warns about the dangers of environmental pollution. Ocean pollution is the trigger for the global drought in the novel.

The novel addresses the issue of water conservation in the next ways: First, water scarcity is the triggering event of the plot. Pollution of the seas, caused by industrial waste, causes a strange layer on the surface that prevents water evaporation. This leads to a global drought that has a devastating impact on society.

Secondly, water is a symbol of life and hope in the novel. In a world where water is scarce, water becomes a precious and coveted commodity. "Water was the only resource left, and the fight for it was a fight for survival." This passage suggests that the search for water is a metaphor for the search for life and hope.

The main message of the novel “The Drought” by James Graham Ballard is a warning call about the importance of taking care of water. The novel describes a world in which water scarcity has caused social and economic collapse. People are forced to abandon their homes and jobs in search of water. Violence and chaos take over the world.

Therefore, Ballard decides to use this dystopia to show us how fragile our society is and that water is an essential resource for life, and its scarcity can have catastrophic consequences.

The novel also shows us that water scarcity can cause changes in our behavior. In a world without water, people become more aggressive and competitive. This leads us to reflect on the importance of cooperation and solidarity.

The novel offers several tips on water conservation. Some of these tips are:

• Reduce water consumption at home. Turning off the tap while soaping or brushing our teeth, repairing water leaks, not washing the car with the hose, etc.

• Recycle and reuse water. Reuse water from the washing machine to water plants, collect rainwater to water the garden, etc.

• Avoid using products that require a lot of water. For example, cars with large engines, washing machines with long wash programs, etc.

In short, the novel "The Drought" is an important work that reminds us of the importance of water as it shows us the consequences of water scarcity and invites us to take measures to avoid it. Water is a vital resource for life. We must take care of it and protect it.

We can all contribute to water conservation with small gestures in our daily lives.

[dahliavxvii]

My friend sent me a video about sables, it says wild sables feed on rabbits and squirrels.

OH NO💦

in dahlia's rabbit universe musicians are little animals and

dio → sable

graham → rabbit

russ → squirrel

…and dio didn't like sybg and other love songs

OHHHHH NOOOOOO😢… I'm worried

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9 settembre 2009

Vincent van Gogh – Covone sotto il cielo nuvoloso Credo nel mistero e nella malinconia di una mano, nella gentilezza degli alberi, nella saggezza della luce. James Graham Ballard

[icarus-suraki]

"The Garden of Time" dot pdf

What is the dress code?

This year’s 2024 Met Gala dress code is “The Garden of Time.” Inspired by J.G. Ballard's short story of the same title, written in 1962, it can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Still, we'll likely see many a floral and botanical looks grace the famed Met Gala red carpet.

Oh cool. The guy who wrote "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" and Crash huh?

"The Garden of Time" is cute (hmu if you want a pdf) and it reminds me of Lord Dunsany but I expect it to be wildly misinterpreted by the celebs since it can potentially be regarded as a poetic depiction of the cycles of life and death or destruction and rebirth over the course of humanity's history but I like to read it more like rich people desperately trying to stave off their inevitable end in the face of the masses.

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J.G. Ballard

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