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The Earl Of Rank

Looking for a honeypot in which to dip my gorilla finger.

About Me

This is me with my new Depression Era haircut: This is a video featuring a song called "Why Do You Do Me Like You Do" from a band I play with called The Sads:

My Interests

Music, theater, films, improvisation, making love to John Lee Hooker's "It serve you right to suffer" album.

I'd like to meet:

This is Daniel Johnston

Music:

Dinosaur Jr., Ben Folds, Son House, My God Man!!! The New William Shatner Album!!! Ok, what was that other shit I used to listen to... oh, yes... Anthony and the Johnsons, Nina Simone, Loretta Lynn, White Stripes, T-Model Ford, Karate, Riener Maria, Black Sabbath, Bjork, Reverend Horton Heat, Operation Ivy, American Ska-thic, Mingus, The Eels, Manu Chao, Mississippi John Hurt, Magnetic Fields (all the time), Lambchop, Barbeque Bob, Bob Log III, Hank III, Threelonious Monk... The Boredoms, The Pogues, Bebel Gilberto, John Lee Hooker, They Might Be Giants, Nick Cave, Fear Of Pop, Tuvan Throat Singing, Vic Chesnutt, Smoke, Opal Foxx Quartet, Bill Taft, Soundtrack to Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sun Kil Moon, The Sea And Cake, Red House Painters, Thievery Corporation, Motorhead, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Erik Satie, Kraftwerk

Movies:

John Waters, David Lynch, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmeyer, Russ Meyer, Khrystof Kyrzlowsky-- My Life As A Dog, Shakes The Clown, Crumb, Ghost World, Down By Law, The Taste Of Cherry (Abbas Kirostami), Amores Perros, A Room With A View (I can't help it), Raising Arizona, the "Fishing With John" series... uh, all the rest of that kind of stuff too.Also:.... The Chris Mess Movie Marathon! Including: Buffalo 66, Night On Earth, Willard, Dogtown and Z Boys, Laurel Canyon, Owning Mahoney, Blue, White and Red, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Wild At Heart, Reservior Dogs, Boogie Nights, Fargo, Blazing Saddles, Nuda V Brne (Bored In Brno), 24-hour Party People, Conspirators Of Pleasure, Living In Oblivion,... I can't remember the rest...

Television:

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Books:

Henry Miller "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare," John Berryman "The Dream Songs," Bruce Campbell "If Chins Could Kill," Raymond Chandler "Killer In The Rain," Anthony Summers "Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe (high tripe content, but revelatory if yer into the ways the Kennedys related to Frank Sinatra)," Kieth Johnstone "Impro for Storytellers," John Irving "The World According To Garp," George Orwell "Down And Out In Paris And London," Irvine Welsh "Porno," Ivan Klima "Love and Garbage," Joseph Campbell "Hero With 1000 Faces," Baba Ram Dass "Be Here Now"

Heroes:

Tom Waits, Tristan Tzara, Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther, Thelonious Monk, d. boone, Arthur Cravan, Samuel Beckett, Garrison Kieler, Antonin Artaud, J.R. Dobbs, Pat Nixon, Hakim Bey, Nikola Tesla, Snoop Doggy Dogg, John Locke, Bill Hicks, Jaap Blonk, Bill Taft, Nielsen, Mr. Bill and Montgomery Clift.
You Are Ernie
Playful and childlike, you are everyone's favorite friend - even if your goofy antics get annoying at times.

You are usually feeling: Amused - you are very easily entertained

You are famous for: Always making people smile. From your silly songs to your wild pranks, you keep things fun.

How you life your life: With ease. Life is only difficult when your friends won't play with you!

My Blog

Things

Its Saturday morning. I woke up about 9:30. Now that I really want to sleep in, I cant. So, I found something constructive to do. Writing down things thatve been springing to mind lately. I keep fe...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:36:00 PST

Pätek

About a month ago, Petr and I got two new roommates. His ex-girlfriend Martina was having her bathroom renovated and it was pretty invasive. So she came and stayed with us for a while. Along with her ...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hranice

Went to Hranice last week. It's a little village between Olomouc and Ostrava (see map of CZ somewhere). Finding I really enjoy travelling around this country. I'm working at this children's theatre wi...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Groundhog Day

is not celebrated in Czech Republic. Niether is the movie as far as I can see. But I know of film students back home who consider it the finest film of... whatever decade it was shot in. My grandfathe...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I can't tell my mother about this...

I was being responsible. I left the bar at 2am to go home and get a tolerable 6 hours of sleep before my 9am Sunday rehearsal today. Yesterday I was late. So, I was determined to be good. Well, I got ...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Settlin' in.

Ok. Got an apartment, a line on jobs that are slowly coming to fruition and Wednesday, my christmas box arrived from America with a pair a boots, sorely needed long-johns and socks, pistachios and tas...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It's a new year!!! Where are my clothes???

My holidays,... I spent the 24th through the 28th with a rather mad Scotsman in David's villa while he was away for Christmas. We watched about 15 videos including Buffalo 66, Night On Earth, Living I...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Good Goulash!

After the bit I'd written about the bad goulash I ate that made me puke, I've had two much better experiences with it. The first was on December 18th as I was about to be Santa Claus at a preschool in...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bus Accident

Last Sunday night in Prague, I missed the Student Agency bus to Brno. I saw another bus that went through Brno enroute to Slovakia. I managed to ask (in very broken Czech) if I could buy a ticket. The...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

From a letter to my brother Doug, describing Czech goulash...

Ugh, the magic of the goulash... There's this restaurant near the theatre on Holesovice (Prague 3). There's a Pilsner Urquell sign out front. That's what lured me in. The goulash isn't on the menu, it...
Posted by The Earl Of Rank on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST