Sense & Sensibility

nighthawk at the diner: Paul Simonon, Bassist, The Clash

Today, a friend of mine educated me on the softer, more cerebral side of a punk rocker's heart.

I refer specifically to Paul Simonon, the bassist of a little band known formally

as The Clash, and his following quote:

"The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian, and we were Pollock.

As a painter, though, I'm essentially old-fashioned.

Conceptualism just doesn't do it for me.

I love Walter Sickert, Samuel Palmer, Rubens and Constable. That's just the way I am."

The qualities I find most attractive in a man

are the same that I appreciate in a Constable painting:

inwardly spiritual, moody, romantic, characterized by equal parts darkness and light.

John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831.