Highsmith-Matmos

[BertoConsalvi]

Angelo Badalamenti?

[AwkwardRamen]

She was a distant cousin of mine we are a weird brood I'm on here under my daughters account but we are Highsmith's and we are all writers, artist ,and musicians I didn't see eye to eye with pat because she hated capitalism but she

didn't seem to mind spending money From her books.

[setamonkeytoy]

i love the snail solo at the end those crazy crazy snails

[lesmorriset]

i love this piece of music, most alluring

[danceofthegoblins]

Wow! Trippy, interesting and mind expanding! I think PH woulda loved it!

[danceofthegoblins]

Also, a little creepy and, if in a certain mindset, perhaps disturbing: other reasons PH woulda loved it-perhaps even more so!

[BeatBuddy]

She really did consider snails her pets, but perhaps less so than cats. She preferred the company of animals over that of people, even though she had a few friends, two of them being Arthur Koestler and Jeanne Moreau.

BTW, this music is on CD as part of larger work, just like Shostakovich's tribute to Garcia Lorca falls under the heading of the 14th Symphony.

[danceofthegoblins]

Have you read a bio of HP? Just curious how you know these things (not that I doubt them)?

[BeatBuddy]

There's an excellent bio by Andrew Wilson called Beautiful Shadow. It came out some four or five years ago. He also offers some analysis why she is far more popular in Europe than in the USA and why Hollywood is afraid to touch her.

[gwendefortun]

Nice. I haven't looked closely at a snail since I was ten. Also the whole piece is vaguely reminiscent of a Bond title sequence. But I'm sure you knew that.

[klakkin]

did you know that a snail can sleep for three years !?

[BeatBuddy]

Patricia Highsmith carried some 300 snails in her purse. Needless to say, she was a strange person with many other eccentricities. But she is the most brilliant writer of crime fiction the United States has yet produced. Rational people bored her as she plunged into the world of psychosis. She is the author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. Her books are often of special interest to gay people; they are fraught with gay and lesbian characters.

[VileRiley]

Interesting music.

[EarthFromSpace]

holy macro! ...uh love This!

[klakkin]

awsome thanks for adding this

[cedqwig]

This video is awesome! Any chance you could share the original copy of it with me?

[ashtongrist]

I really like this video a beutifull tribute to a fantastic writer. Her love for snails was well known she use to smuggle them to france under her breasts.

[aintiswuzwillbee]

and the snail would last exactly how long once in france? (slow death rmx).

what's up drew!

[BeatBuddy]

She loved crocodiles too, but how does one smuggle them?

[danceofthegoblins]

The babies would fit in a handbag!

[BeatBuddy]

A cop did ask her once for her ID and noticed a purse full of snails. He could have taken her in under suspicion of being under the influence.

[danceofthegoblins]

Or for a 5150 observation!