Jonathan Toussaint

Romantic Tragedian | Shoegaze Guitarist | Metalhead

Author of the romantic tragedy, 'The Girl From Melodia,' & the nightmarish novella, 'Knight Cap.'

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The Girl From Melodia

A literary romantic tragedy of obsession, music, and the love that destroys.

France, 1992. At the Tulle Festival, the English folk musician, Martyn Lockhart, meets Françoise Audrey—a French singer whose voice is a revelation. Her melodies are raw, luminous, alive. His are rigid, starved, desperate.
What begins as breathless love curdles into possession—and spirals into ravenous jealousy.

Told through Martyn’s fevered recollections and Françoise’s hidden diary, The Girl From Melodia is a slow, exquisite heartbreak. There is no redemption here—only the echo of a voice silenced too soon, and the man who learns too late that some muses cannot be caged.

For readers of Giovanni's Room, The Great Gatsby, and The Night Circus—a canal-soaked elegy to the art we kill to create.

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@rorysutherland @WisprFlow You've never met Mavis Beacon who some say is a harder mistress than classical piano

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@RationalMale Women have become the men they want and men have become the women they want to chase

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@Aria_Churchill @PDS013033 @IterIntellectus Notice implied in Aria's response is that it's a skills issue that men must solve. As usual.

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The Girl From Melodia

"A Toxic Musician and A Troubled Muse in a Romance That Reads Like a Folk Song"@reedsy.discovery

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@NewYorker Time for Heroes

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@jollyheretic "May ask what made you undertake such a treacherous journey?"
"Honestly, I came for Money?"
"Money?"
"Yes, Money, the rare Pink Floyd Italian 7" vinyl single. It's been a lifetime dream of mine to own it. If you could kindly point me the way to Rough Trade, I'd be much obliged."

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@goodreads For the romantics among us...

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@ItIsHoeMath INCEL - I Need Courageous & Ethical Love

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@CoffeewClassics It's got to be Revolutionary Road

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@Prodikal_son If they read every Stephen King novel and review them they'll shave off 260 days off their sentence. Might come out less adjusted than they did going in though.

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@CoffeewClassics Hemingway - I'd like to get his take on the modern man

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Avenged Sevenfold - Victim - guitar solo

Here is the mighty guitar solo to the 2010 Avenged Sevenfold song, Victim. What's special about this solo is that the shred break sounds like rapid fire from a photon ray gun.

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Perfect Day - Lou Reed - Sky Guitar (cover)

This is actually a guitar instructional video by the YouTuber Sky Guitar but the performance at the start is bittersweet and highly moving.

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@goodreads Pretty much all of them these days

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@Londonist A public toilet goddammit. I heard there's one somewhere but I can't find it

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All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers - cover (Travis Bigwood)

Here is an enchanting cover of the 1958 classic, 'All I Have To Do Is Dream,' by the YouTuber Travis Bigwood. As you can hear, it was a time when melody meant something.

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I Will Follow You into the Dark - Death Cab For Cutie - Bayside cover

In 2005, Death Cab For Cutie released the song 'I Will Follow You into the Dark' from their album Plans. Critically acclaimed at the time, a starker, more stripped down version was released by the band Bayside some years later. Featuring only a single vocal and nylon stringed acoustic guitar, it's a mesmerising take on a classic song.