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How do you write something like this? Those of you who have been commenting on this blog and/or reading it for a while will know d.l. Jheorgge. He commented on and contributed to the blog for a long time, almost daily for a few years. He last commented here in August of 2013 to share some of his work and give us what seemed to be tentatively promising if unsettling news about his battle with lymphoma, which he had been diagnosed with not so very long before then. Jheorgge's real name was George Michael Taylor, and he was a writer and artist. Very horribly, I was told yesterday by a close friend of his that he passed away a few days ago. I only met George in person twice, once in London, and once in Glasgow, and we had of course necessarily far too brief visits and conversations on those occasions, but I knew him well and loved him a lot because we had talked and shared so much here, and so our in-persons were very sweet, and he was an incredible, lovely, very talented guy. This news is so sad, and there are no words for it. But I want to pay tribute him here in some way, so I've gone back and gathered together all the contributions he made to the blog that I could find, and I'm sharing them with you below.
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from Self-Portrait Day: My Halloween Costume, October 29, 2011
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http://twitter.com/#!/philipghostuhh
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from Favorite Books Lists, as devised by some readers and distinguished locals of DC's, October 12, 2011
'A Clockwork Orange'– Anthony Burgess
'A Crackup at the Race Riots'– Harmony Korine
'Actual Air'– David Berman
'Anarchy of the Imagination' (Fassbinder interviews & essays collection)
'Chroma'– Derek Jarman
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
'Deathtripping'– Jack Sargeant (collection focussing on the Cinema of Transgression)
'Elective Affinities'– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'– Philip K. Dick
Francesca Woodman, 1992 Scalo publication of photographs w/ Philippe Sollers introduction
'Franny & Zooey'– JD Salinger
'From Hell'– Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell
'Gerhard Richter October 18th, 1977'– ed. Robert Storr
'Giles Goat-Boy'– John Barth
'Good Morning, Midnight'– Jean Rhys
'Guide'– William Eggleston
'HARPO SPEAKS!'– Harpo Marx
'Herzog on Herzog'
'Infinite Jest'– David Foster Wallace
'La-Bas'– J.K. Huysmans
'Le Grand Meaulnes'– Alain-Fournier
'Lynch on Lynch'
'My Loose Thread'– Dennis Cooper
'Notes on the Cinematographer'– Robert Bresson
'On Nietzsche'– Georges Bataille
'Our Lady of the Flowers'– Jean Genet
'Passacaglia'– Robert Pinget
'Period'– Dennis Cooper
Peter Greenaway: Interviews collection
'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'– James Joyce
'Project for a Revolution in New York'– Alain Robbe-Grillet
Projections 11: New York issue (interviews with New York filmmakers)
'Ray's a Laugh'– Richard Billingham
'Selected Poems'– James Tate
'Stoner'– John Williams
'Story of the Eye'– Georges Bataille
'The Atrocity Exhibition'– J.G. Ballard
'The Bad Son'– Harmony Korine
'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'– Nan Goldin
'The Basketball Diaries'– Jim Carroll
'The Confidence Man'– Herman Melville
'The Notebook'– Agota Kristof
'The Perfect Childhood'– Larry Clark
'The Theatre & its Double'– Antonin Artaud
'The Weaklings'– Dennis Cooper
'The White Hotel' - D.M. Thomas
Time Out Film Guide 9th edition, 2000
'Topology of a Phantom City'– Alain Robbe-Grillet
'True Norwegian Black Metal'– Peter Beste
'Wittgenstein's Mistress'– David Markson
'Writings of the Vienna Actionists'– Gunter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler
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a video created by and featuring Jheorgge, April 11, 2011
SUM DUM STOREY UF WUN DUM FUK'N RABBITT (2011)
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for Writers Day, August 9, 2008
I get into things kinda obsessively so, like to the point where I suffer multiple stab wounds off the saturation point and am left for dead in my bed while my inspiring whatever has am-scrayed.
So my writing ends up being inconsistent, or it has so far cause I'm really just sucking up whatever style and content is fascinating me at the time and dropping it down on paper.
I think this makes me feel like a charlatan a little, or mebbes dilettantish but I think it's alright really cause out of all the obsessions writing and all it's opportunities and perversions and dead forests has never grown stale (unlike the corpse in the washing machine).
I've sent in two really recent features I did for the UK based music magazine Plan B, both of which I enjoyed doing a lot.
The other pieces are fragments from a series of poems titled 'Black Metal Hospital' that I'm in the middle of writing. They are based on some recent trips to Ward 8 at the Western General Hospital here in Edinburgh, reimagined through the blunt prism of a fifteen-year old boy who lives only for True Norwegian Black Metal music and silent comedy.
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from David Lynch Day, July 19, 2008
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'Fred Madison/Pete Dayton (for The Weaklings)'
by Humors
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from The Best of Me According to Some of You, June 13, 2008
reckless, my fist
in his throat now,
face leaky, embar-
rassed and pleading,
zoned, urinating
all over himself.
jerk off, come,
pay, and he's split-
ting, says, "hey,
thanks a whole fuck-
ing lot," like it's
a joke, like he isn't.
-'Some Whore'
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from Self-Portrait Day: I, Xmas Present, December 14, 2007
I uploaded an MP3 of 'Coptic Light' by Morton Feldman. Here's the direct link.
I also wanted to offer this youtube link of Sonic Youth demolishing a piano -
and finally 'Bertie's Christmas Eve' by Saki. Here's the first part -
It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and random mirth which the occasion demanded. A long and lavish dinner had been partaken of, waits had been round and sung carols; the house-party had regaled itself with more caroling on its own account, and there had been romping which, even in a pulpit reference, could not have been condemned as ragging. In the midst of the general glow, however, there was one black unkindled cinder.
Bertie Steffink, nephew of the aforementioned Luke, had early in life adopted the profession of ne'er-do-weel; his father had been something of the kind before him. At the age of eighteen Bertie had commenced that round of visits to our Colonial possessions, so seemly and desirable in the case of a Prince of the Blood, so suggestive of insincerity in a young man of the middle-class. He had gone to grow tea in Ceylon and fruit in British Columbia, and to help sheep to grow wool in Australia. At the age of twenty he had just returned from some similar errand in Canada, from which it may be gathered that the trial he gave to these various experiments was of the summary drum-head nature. Luke Steffink, who fulfilled the troubled role of guardian and deputy-parent to Bertie, deplored the persistent manifestation of the homing instinct on his nephew's part, and his solemn thanks earlier in the day for the blessing of reporting a united family had no reference to Bertie's return.
Arrangements had been promptly made for packing the youth off to a distant corner of Rhodesia, whence return would be a difficult matter; the journey to this uninviting destination was imminent, in fact a more careful and willing traveller would have already begun to think about his packing. Hence Bertie was in no mood to share in the festive spirit which displayed itself around him, and resentment smouldered within him at the eager, self-absorbed discussion of social plans for the coming months which he heard on all sides. Beyond depressing his uncle and the family circle generally by singing "Say au revoir, and not good-bye," he had taken no part in the evening's conviviality. ----Eleven o'clock had struck some half-hour ago, and the elder Steffinks began to throw out suggestions leading up to that process which they called retiring for the night.
"read the rest"
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2 photos of Jheorgge from a performance of 'Kindertotenlieder' in Glasgow, May 28, 2007
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(l. to r.) Rigby, Jheorrge, Wolf, Emma Mackay, Atheist
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(l. to r.) Emma Mackay, Wolf, Jheorgge
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from Self-Portrait Day: My Dead, April 28, 2007
'Looking at a photograph of a gravestone with yr name on it is a pretty immersive mental experience I find. I'd recommend it to anyone, especially to any ghosts. I recently read an interview with Jennifer Herrema from Royal Trux, where she stated that when the group were released from their contract by Virgin records in the late 90's, the reason given was "too many notes, too confusing. Children need something to rollerskate to." I'd like that to be carved onto my gravestone/ e-stone/ torso when I'm kaput.'
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from Naked Self-Portrait Day, January 30, 2007
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I only like my body when it's giving me pain.
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Jheorgge's last comment, August 6, 2013
hey dennis, this is a beautiful day, just as a tribute to the genius of bresson alone. it's an exciting thing to see yr digging into his work for novel inspiration, although I know he's never far from yr thoughts (or mine really).
life update, if that's cool - my lymphoma seems to be cleared up but I know have this rare disease called HLH which I had never heard of and seems to usually affect infants. I've moved to London which is proving to be a pain because the treatment for this HLH is another 2 months worth of chemo and then a stem cell transplant from my sister, and the commute to the hospital, as well as the fact that I can barely walk (!) is proving to make life pretty hard. I'm also alone in my flat all day trying to distract myself. I wrote and finished a new story that I'm happy with - it's called 'A Goat-Fucked Causality', if anybody wants to read it, the link is here - http://jheorggemichaeltaylor.tumblr.com/post/57504647131 or A Goat-Fucked Causality. It's on my tumblr for now.
anyhow, i'm gonna try and soldier on through this time, get better, less angsty. ug. sorry to be the bearer of bad news so often lately man. love to you, and like everyone else i'm sending heavy deep sleep thoughts to yr parisian loft, and dreams that inspire.
jheorgge x
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3 drawings by Jheorgge, August 6, 2013
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Headbanger’s Ball
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Oh Fuck Something Is Wrong (AS USUAL)
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Ghost Pagoda
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Jheorgge's tumblr: go 2 hell (A Vestal Sinner in the Cave)
Jheorgge's blog: black metal hospital
Jheorgge's Favorite Albums
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p.s. Hey. Sad day. ** Cobaltfram, Hi, John. I always like when someone I meet hasn't had the input of something obvious or something whose input is considered to be a standard or a must. My immediate impression or illusion is that they could be made differently, and it makes me interested. It sounds like 'The Great Beauty' must have long since come and gone here, theater release-wise. I'll look elsewhere, thank you. My writing goes very well. I work on the novel pretty much every day, all the time, and, so far, I can do that and work on my other projects (film, theater) without a particular problem. ** Huskerdont, Oh, Emma, I'm heartbroken, and, yes, I read your message yesterday, and you see what the post is today. I hope you're holding up as best you can. I'll write to you today. It's just so terrible, terrible, terrible. I send you my love and wish for strength. ** Kyler, Hi. 8 a day is pretty good. I'm just under a pack a day. I can write without them, or I have at the times when I've quit, but the months and months of relearning how to concentrate without them is the huge problem. ** Adrienne White, Hi, Adrienne. It's really nice to see you, pal. You're doing the ecigarettes. I'm scared of them. But I shouldn't be? You're okay with them for the most part at least? ** Chilly Jay Chill, Congrats on the book tour's success. I was following it on my FB feed as best I could. Any pix or video of the Solar Anus event? Yeah, I like D. Foy's book a lot. Riippi's too. Megan's book sounds really interesting. I'll go find it. Thank you, Jeff. I'm doing okay. The novel goes steadily and well, I think, and the film stuff too, but it's crazy a lot. Zac and I are power-working on the script for Gisele's film today, and then we do the second round of auditions for our own film this weekend, and then on Monday I go to Halles, Germany for three days to work on the new Gisele theater piece. A lot, but it's all great. How is your novel building at the moment? ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. I'm glad my read on the politics here helped. It' complicated, obviously. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. Oh, yes, the texts are what interest me, and the photos are just illustrative to me, so I'm always happy when people don't just cruise those posts looking for lookers. I know, those Ashbery quotes were such beauties. ** Brendan, Hi, B! Awesome, thank you a lot! ** Zach, Your small bead dream just worked itself into my daydreams. Eerie. Circle of life. 'Ulysses', that's big. What is the class? You digging it? There are literally ecigarette shops here on every other block, and, at the same time, it's very rare that I see more than maybe one person smoking one in public per week. I think either those shops are mafia fronts, or the French consider it uncool to smoke them in public. Probably the latter reason. Double yahoo from me re: your happy return! ** Sypha, Hi, James. I smoke, but I feel pretty great almost all the time, it's weird. I do think that my lifelong vegetarianism has some kind of canceling out effect, so I guess I am in the camp that thinks diet is a key. I only know those two obvious Suzanne Vega songs, or maybe a few more too, so, yeah, I'm a know-nothing re: her, but I believe you. Glad the McCullers is being great. That's enough to get me to go get it somewhere somehow. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I made a deliberate effort not to include Hirst in the post. It would have ruined the whole thing. Do please avoid eating anything that looks the slightest bit wonky. ** Magick mike, Hi, Mike! Me too, buddy. ** Bill, Do you know what profession has the highest number of cigarette smokers? Nurse. I found that out while making that post. Doctor comes in 5th. I'm glad you liked Lim's book. Yes, that's really a very, very good book, I think. I know, I got that same email about Alex's show, and I felt the same thing. Drat. ** Chris Dankland. Hi, Chris. Misanthrope already answered your question correctly, but I smoke Camel Blues. They're the European equivalent of Camel Lights, but they taste a little different and better to my taste buds. When I smoke what I really want to smoke, it's Camel Wide Lights, but they don't sell them over here. It's really, really hard to quit. I think that's true about the smoker empathy/connection. The nods and hellos exchanged between smokers on the doorsteps of restaurants, etc. do seem warmer than the usual ones, at the very least. Definitely would like to smoke a cig with you. Let's make that happen somehow. Hope you're doing great, my friend. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. You met Jheorgge, you remember? In Glasgow. Thanks for letting Chris know. You know me so well. Oh, shit, about the latest and hopefully not last switch in the LPS comes home story. Fuck. I'm really sorry for you both, a lot. ** Rewritedept, Thanks. You did seem like you were in not such a great mood yesterday. Hope it has passed. How are the good things in your life going? I'm good, thank you for asking. ** Robert-nyc, Hi, Robert! Does anyone ever call you Bob? I can't imagine it. You're so not a 'Bob'. Thank you kindly about the post, and big congrats on your 11 years of freedom. I've only heard a couple of tracks off the new Liars album, but I liked them a bunch, and I need to get that. I really like the cut of their ever-surprising jib. Take care. ** Gary gray, Have a great time in LA. Big envy on your Skylight shopping spree. Let me know how it goes, please. Safe travels. Love, me. ** Okay. Today is such a limited celebration of someone as great and dear as Jheorgge, but I hope you'll look at it and think of him. Thank you. See you tomorrow.