FrostMellor <frostmellor@gmail.com> 

Oct 29 (6 days ago)

to Christian


I'd love to.

Rules for this time around:

Don't trust me.

Give me no responsibility.

Let me just riff and get Chris Sharp to weed out anything of merit from what I might say.

I think 'Ivy' is dead now for this cycle. There's a bigger discussion to be had which has a certain conception of Dandyism at its heart.

Whatever your conception for what you now have in mind, place me two or three people below you so I don't bother you. Have me report to somebody that will filter my garbage before it gets to you.

Brief them that I'm unreliable and untrustworthy and will drive them to drink but I will provide a volume of text which they must use all their editorial skills to find anything of merit in and discard all the rest.

I'm deep into morphine now and have really interesting synesthetic episodes that I'm trying to cash in on... Maybe there's something usable there. Not sure.

http://www.garmsville.com/post/52551927937/lifes-a-beach-by-jimmy-frost-mellor

I've a novel called 'The Comfort of Strangeness' and a collection of ten vignettes about my time in London based on the structure of Hemmingway's 'A Moveable Feast' called 'In Pieces' which are both currently doing the rounds in London. Primarily I tease publishers with the books, extract money, become impossible to deal with, get written off and then move on to the next publisher. I'm about to be sacked from Hamish Hamilton after being sacked from Faber and am moving on to Bloomsbury next.

All of this you can check. My name is mud, but my incremental notoriety is what I'm aiming to exploit. So far it works as a business plan.

Any use to you ?

x

FrostMellor <frostmellor@gmail.com> 

Oct 29 (6 days ago)

to Christian



Yes, you must.

I suppose what I was offering was input as a contributor to your work. I haven't the time or energy for anything more now and the less you expect from me then the less I'll let you down.

I was just chatting to our mutual contact Stanshall... Maybe he should reconsider your repeated requests that he should consider writing for you. Also I think if you had a pet English 'Ivyist' who isn't a ridiculous 'Mod' writing for you it might be an interesting aspect too. I talk to everybody under endless phony names...

The bigger picture interests me more now than the narrow world of Ivy from a promotional point of view, although I'll never change my style of dress. Ivy has been promoted, time to promote the spirit of style in a greater sense beyond just offering people a shopping list.

Anyway, nice to be in touch as ever. I'll copy you in on an email that will let you know where I'm up to next. It's just context to make sense of my lack of activity these days.

Best -

Jim.

Christian M. Chensvold via eigbox.net 

Oct 29 (6 days ago)

to me



Who'd believe any of that?

... And answer came there none.

... ... ... ... ... ...

You are always of interest Jim even though you are a crazy mutha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAlNrtcPCLw

I think Hunter S. Thompson once referred to himself as a 'professional alcoholic', so there is a precedent for that as a career.

I think I'll settle on Professional English Opium Eater then. The fact that I drink a version of the stuff and don't actually chew it is something I'll have to explain away somehow...

Still funny that Chens wants me on board and then got humpty because I seem not to view blogging as the pinnacle of human achievement. Me becoming a Grandfather interests me much more, and fooling around with books. And then there's fanny, smokes and booze...  A busy life...