‘Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?’ — T.S. Eliot

Jessica Calvert

‘I am a part of all that I have met.’ — Tennyson (Ulysses)

On My Shelf

  • Alan Lightman — Einstein’s Dreams
  • Oscar Wilde — Collected Works, esp. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Collected Works, esp. In Memoriam A.H.H.
  • T.S. Eliot — Collected Works, esp. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • William Blake — Collected Works and Etchings
  • Albert Camus — Selected Writings
  • Chuck Palahniuk — Notable Novels and Stories
  • Edgar Allan Poe — Collected Works
  • Susanna Clarke — Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  • Li-Young Lee — Poetry Collections
  • Toni Morrison — Beloved
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky — Major Works
  • Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series
William Blake, Europe: A Prophecy, 1794

‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust.’ — The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

On My Screen

Darkling I Listen

  • The Machinist
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Saw series
  • Dark City
  • Pi
  • The Dark Knight series
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series (original Swedish adaptations)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Edward Scissorhands

Strange Discords

  • Big Fish
  • The Last Unicorn
  • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  • Lars and the Real Girl
  • Mars Attacks
  • 9
  • Pirates of the Caribbean series
  • The Lord of the Rings series
  • Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart
  • Maleficent
  • The Matrix series
  • Wristcutters

The winds of fortune

  • Elizabeth
  • Gladiator
  • Poetic Justice
  • Citizen Kane
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Skeleton Twins
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Benny and Joon
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Enola Holmes
  • Squid Game
  • Trainspotting

‘I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you …’ — Ian Curtis, ‘Shadowplay’

On My Radio

  • The Smiths
  • Lady Gaga
  • Nirvana
  • Fiona Apple
  • Linkin Park
  • Collective Soul
  • Korn
  • Janet Jackson
  • Radiohead
  • Garbage
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Soundgarden
  • The Script
  • Prince
  • Edwyn Collins
  • Metallica
  • Bat for Lashes
  • Cake
  • The Cure
  • Kid Cudi
  • Mad Season
  • Coldplay
  • Madonna
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Heart
  • U2
  • Beck
  • Alice in Chains
  • The Killers
  • Florence and the Machine
  • New Radicals
  • 2Pac
  • Solange
  • Keane
  • Adam Lambert
  • Queen
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Slipknot
  • Christine and the Queens
  • Dermot Kennedy
  • Eisbrecher
  • Daniel Spaleniuk