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Art & Painting. Photography. B&W's of the naked female form. Film.. full stop. I'm a bit of a cinephile! Just about any artistic endevour really! 12th Century farming techniques... not kidding actually, I dig history, recent or late. I like to find out why things are the way they are.. ya know? Hmm.. French Art Deco. Antiques. Kung Fu. Non-Fiction books and Docos. Photobooths. Films.. again. Drawing in charcoals and pastels. Travelling around this big beautiful sunburnt country of ours, and of course, internationally. Pinballs. Balmain Tigers. Coffee.. any will do but I am a bit of a snob when given the opportunity. My mac laptop and photoshop. Mans effect on environment and animals. Op shops and vintage clothes. Cowboy boots and Trilby hats. Both of which you will see me wearing on a frequent basis. Hidden funky cafes.. and wine joints... so I can' go past Melbourne in this regard. Wouldn't you agree?
Of course there's many. Many more than I'll recall! Different people for different... times. Sinatra in his Vegas prime. Eastwood on set of a Leone western. Bacall before she got Bogey'd! My grandparents just one more time. Yorkie! (neighbor I hated as a kid). Johnny Cash playing Falsom. Hepburn.. the eyes,.. the style. Bruce Lee doin his Green Hornet. John in his New York apartment. Steve McQueen livin large in the 70's. Yul Brynner.. forever cool. Michaelangelo Antonioni. Rembrandt painting himself in his dim dutch atelier. Van Gogh in his greatest time of need. Artists of any and all descriptions, hard at play. And of course my gorgeous and inspirational friends.. anytime.
Love the old Vinyls! Cannot beat that sound! I might even consider listening to Spears on Vinyl!! Nahhh... Tom Waits! Radiohead. Johnny Cash. Carol King. Pixies. ELO. Calexico. Chris Isaak. Aimee Mann. Iggy. Neil Finn. Jeff Buckley. Bob Marley. Garbage. Marvin Gaye. Ramones. Soundgarden. Nirvana. The Killers. Gunners. Stranglers. Ella. Dinah. Billy H. Rodriguez. Vanilla Ice & Milli Vanilli... What?? Ahhh.. Beck. Bowie. U2. Goldfrapp. Led Zep. Lennon. Kings of Leon. I grew up with rock so that is my default music.. but I listen and love a myriad of diff styles. Not into doof doof or techno tho! I sing with just about all the crooners from the 40's onward! I can't help it. You know, Martin, Como, Frank, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jnr, Chet, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Al Hibbert, Billy Eckstein, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughn, Edith Piaff, etc.. Am a bit of a Grandpa :) Classical.. at times. Beethoven/Mozart. I lurve a good movie soundtrack!Enuf said!
Such a blog really wont do justice to the passion with which I feel for certain films. Yes, most are rubbish but occasionally one comes along that resonates such power, it can alter the course of your life.. just like a book can! Something like.. The Griswalds Family Vacation. :) My fav pic is 'The Passenger'. WOW! If you aint seen it then you are in for a treat. What are you waiting for?? Go get it!! Gotta mention Straw Dogs. Ah.. Sam Pekinpah! Such a love of violence in his films, but he does it so so well. See also the Magnificent Seven. The Searchers.. Not only one of John Waynes best films, but also arguably the best film from the legendary director John Ford. I adore a good western.. Rio Bravo also rates very high! I woke late one night, aged 13, and 'Sophies Choice' came on TV. I fell in love with cinema that night. I could go on and on about so many more but alas.. I don't wish to bore. So I'll just write down the titles of others I love.. let me know if you agree? Shawshank Redemption. The Ice Storm. Boogie Nights. The Goonies. Happiness. Fight Club. The Godfather pt1 and 2. Lost Highway. Pulp Fiction. Blue Velvet. Eternal Sunshine. Frankie and Johnnie. The Natural... Am a sucker for deadbeat comes good stories. Love a good Bio-Pic too! Like Walk the line.. La Vie en Rose.. Amadeus.. etc... Many films by the following... Lynch. Coen Bros. Most Hitchcock! Not all.. (Rear Window, Vertigo and Rebecca are Favs)! And the winners in my fav directors category.. M. Antonioni. Cronenberg. Lynch. Fellini. Scorcese. Wenders. Milos Foreman. Clint "the man" Eastwood. Egoyen. Fincher. Wes Anderson. Early Burton and many more!
Sopranos! Old eps of just about ny long running show.. (love that dated look)! Northern Exposure.. (only two seasons!! Bastards!) Twin Peaks. Late night 'Scrubs'. The Goodies.. Kenny Everrit.. heck, any Brit comedy of the 80'sand early 90's. Muppets. Old Tarzan Ep's. Futurama. Long gone shows like.. 21 jump street. Monkey. The 'A' Team. Wonderwoman. 6 million $ man. Welcome back Cotter. HR puff 'n stuff. Grizzly Adams... guess I just like TV the way I remembered it! Cannot go past The Family Guy! Peter Griffin Rocks!! Ummmm... SBS shorts and Docos. Loathe reality TV shows.. American made especially!
Of course just about any non-fiction book on, or about an historically famous person or period! Any Jared Diamond or Bill Bryson. Books on philosophies past and present. Photographers and painters picture portfolios. Wuthering Heights. Norweigan Wood by Murakami. Books on Shakespeare and his time, as much as his sonnets and plays. Would like, and need, to read more on the subject though. The classics.. J.Austin, O.Wilde, T.Woolf, B.Brecht, E.M. Forster, E.A.Poe, Dr. Suess! and sooo many more.
Kermit.. for repeatedly taking such domestic violence poundings, on air! Roger Ramjet.. for his flagrant use of steroids, despite the personal dangers, to save folks like u an me! Hmm.. Darwin. G.Martin (Sifu). Muhatma Ghandi. Einstein. Dalai Lama. Charles Dickens. Martin Luther King. Peter Griffin. Clint Eastwood. Oscar Wilde. Man Ray. Vincent Van Gogh. Claude Monet. Goya. Rembrandt. Leonardo DaVinci. Beethoven. Anyone out there fighting for their beliefs at great personal cost.