"Dragging my captive shadow like the train of my mourning along the sand, sad and lonely I come and go along the shores, remembering and forgetting the cause of my sadness." - Manuel Altolaguirre ............................................................ ....................................................
" You have to remember...the film audience is not an audience that is awake, it is an audience that is dreaming " - Gertrude Stein_______________________________________________________ 'Mrs. Fanchier at the movies'..................................................... .................. " If I could reply, but once, to these many new kindly companions I have found / ( Now that so many of the old are gone, so far and for so long ) / Overhearing them on the radio or the phonograph, or here in the motion pictures, as now -- / ... /These electrical voices, so sure in the sympathy they extend, / Offering it richly through the long hours of the day and the longer hours of the night / ... /( Closer at hand, and although automatic, somehow more understanding than a live friend ) / Speaking sometimes to each other, but often straight at me -- / Wishing I could reply, if only once, / Add somehow to the final burst of triumphant music, or even in tragedy / Mingle with the promise of the fading clouds -- / ... / But wondering, too, what it really was I at one time felt so deeply for, / The actual voice, or this muted thunder? These giant shadows, or the naked face? / Or something within the voice and behind the face? --/ ... /And wondering whether, now, I would have the courage to reply, in fact, / Or any longer know the words, or even find the voice. " - Kenneth Fearing ___________________________________________________________ _________________________ 'Pomegrante: for Duccio' (Manny Farber, 2006): "ONCE we dreamt that we were strangers..................... We wake up to find that we were dear to each other."-Tagore
"...music is the brandy of the damned" -Bernard Shaw ('Man and Superman')...... , Nothing Painted Blue, Georges Delerue, the Rondelles _________________________________________________________
I love all, or near-to-all of the films, by these 112 marvelous directors: ............................................................ .......... Robert Aldrich __ Michelangelo Antonioni __ Alexandere Astruc __ Tex Avery __ Boris Barnet __ Mario Bava __ Jacques Becker __ Ingmar Bergman __ Stan Brakhage __ Albert Brooks __ Luis Buñuel __ Benjamin Christensen __ Vera Chytilová __ Rene Clair __ Jane Campion __ Alan Clarke __ Jean Cocteau __ Joel and Ethan Coen __ Joseph Cornell __ __ Terence Davies __ Peter Delpeau __ Andre Delvaux __ Jacques Demy __ Maya Deren __ William Dieterle __ Alexander Dovzhenko __ Carl Theodor Dreyer __ Clint Eastwood __ Sergei M. Eisenstein __ Jean Epstein __ Victor Erice __ Pierre Etaix __ John Farrow __ Marco Ferreri __ Louis Feuillade __ Robert J. Flaherty __ Georges Franju __ Abel Gance __ Philippe Garrel __ D.W. Griffith __ Henry Hathaway __ Howard Hawks __ Hou Hsaio-hsien __ Tran Anh Hung __ Kon Ichikawa __ Ken Jacobs Miklós Jancsó __ Humphrey Jennings __ Chuck Jones __ Buster Keaton __ Abbas Kiarostami __ Barbara Kopple __ Masaki Kobayashi __ Akira Kurosawai __ Fritz Lang __ Mike Leigh __ Claude Lelouch __ Richard Lester __ Hershel Gordon Lewis __ Joseph Losey __ Ernst Lubitsch __ Len Lye __ Gregory Markopoulos __ Alexander Mackendrick __ Norman McLaren __ Rouben Mamoulian __ Anthony Mann __ Georges Méliès __Kenji Mizoguchi __ Mikio Naruse __Nanni Moretti __ F.W. Murnau __ Manoël de Oliveira __ Max Ophuls __ Nagisa Oshima __ Yasujiro Ozu __ George Pal __ Sergei Paradjanov __ Otto Preminger __ Satyajit Ray __ Lotte Reiniger __ Alain Resnais __ Leni Riefenstahl __ Auturo Ripstein __ Alain Robbe-Grillet __ Francesco Rosi __ Jean Rouch __ Nelson Pereira dos Santos __ Claude Sautet __ Mack Sennett __ Kaneto Shindo __ Victor Sjostrom __ Jack Smith __ Michael Snow __ Mauritz Stiller __ Whit Stillman __ Erich von Stroheim __ John Sturges __ Preston Sturges __ Arne Sucksdorff __ Jan Svankmajer __ Paolo & Vittorio Taviani __ Jacques Tourneur __ Maurice Tourneur __ Agnes Varda __ Jean Vigo __ Luchino Visconti __ __ Raoul Walsh __ William Wellman __ James Whale __ Robert Wise __ Valerio Zurlini ............................................................ ............................... And, the early, 'first phase' works of these 43 fimmakers: Thomas Guttierrez Alea __ Alexandre Alexeieff __ Yves Allegret __ Lindsay Anderson __ Dario Argento __ Bertrand Blier __Walerian Borowczyk __ Robert Bresson __ Mel Brooks __ Tim Burton __ Frank Capra __ Charlie Chaplin __ Shirley Clarke __ Rene Clement __ Walt Disney __ Federico Fellini __ Richard Fleischer __ Bill Forsyth __ Abel Gance __ Jean-Luc Godard __ Sacha Guitry __ Curtis Hanson __Curtis Harrington __ Marcel L'Herbier __ Juzo Itami __ Alain Jessua __ Stanley Kramer __ Stanley Kubrick __ Alberto Lattuada __ Jerry Lewis __ Leo McCarey __ Paul Morrissey __ Léonce Perret __ Lupu Pick __ Roman Polanski __ Richard Quine __ Nicholas Ray __ Jacques Rivette __ Roberto Rossellini __ Josef von Sternberg __ Frank Tashlin __ King Vidor __ Wim Wenders ____________________________________________________
TeeVee Show's written /&/or created/produced by: Larry David __ Rod Serling __ Rickey Gervais __ Tracey Ullman __ Bill Moyers __ Charles Marquis Warren ................................. Television Films by: Alan Clarke __ Curtis Harrington __ Steve James __ Barbara Kopple __ Mike Leigh __ John Llewellyn Moxey __ Joan Micklin Silver __ Jeannot Szwarc .......................... ............................................ Other's I like: "The Carroll Burnett Show" * "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" * "The Colbert Report" * "Wagon Train" * and some C-SPANN ...and 'toons with Plastic Man, Foghorn Leghorn, Bugs, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Porky, Elmer Fudd, Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Slappy Squirrel, Gertie the Dinosaur, Chilly Willy, Droopy Dog, Koko the Clown, an' Tex's Wolf.
______________235 of the writers I've enjoyed reading the most, so far______________ Edward Abbey __ Kobo Abe __ Thedor Adorno __ James Agee __ John Ashbery __ Manuel Altolaguirre __ Kingsley & Martin Amis __ Guillaume Apollinaire __ Louis Argagon __ W. H. Auden __ Aurelius __ Jane Austin __ Alan Ayckbourn __ Mikhal Bakunin __ James A. Baldwin __ Honoré de Balzac __ Georges Bataille __ Charles Baudelaire __ Samuel Beckett __ Robert Benchley __ Nikolai Berdyayev __ Henri Bergson __ Georges Bernanos __ Ambrose Bierce __ Wm. Blake __ Ray Bradbury __ Bertold Brecht __ André Breton __ the Brontes __ Robert Burns __ Wm. S. Burroughs __ Lord Byron __ James Branch Cabel __ Willa Cather __ James M. Cain __ Italo Calvino __ Albert Camus __ John Dickson Carr __ John Le Carre __ Lewis Carroll __ Raymond Chandler __ Anton Chekhov __ G. K. Chesterton __ Noam Chomsky __ Jean Cocteau __Ethan Coen __Joseph Conrad __ Samuel Taylor Coleridge __ Julio Cortázar __ Noel Coward __ Harold L. Davis __ W.E.B. De Bois __ Guy Debord __ Daniel Dafoe __ Angela Davis __ Rene Descartes __ Robert Desnos __ Charles Dickens __ James Dickey __ John Donne __ Fydor Dostoyevsky __ Emily Dickinson __ Theodore Dreiser __ W.E.B. DuBois __ Marguerite Duras __ Friedrich Duerrenmatt __ George Eliot __ T. S. Eliot __ Paul Éluard __ Joesph Sheridan le Fanu __ Manny Farber __ Wm. Faulkner __ Kenneth Fearing __ F. Scott Fitzgerald __ Jack Finney __ E. M. Forster __ Charles Fourier __ Robert Frost __ Lawrence Ferlinghetti __ Carlos Fuentes __ Sunil Gangopadhyay __ Jean Genet __ André Gide __ Goethe __ Nikolai Gogol __ David Goodis __ Alastair Gray __ John Gray __ Grahame Greene__ Aleksandr S. Griboyedov __ Dashiell Hammett __ David Hare __ Nathaniel Hawthorne __ Seamus Heaney __ Martin Heidegger __ Lillian Hellman __ Patricia Highsmith __ Friedrich Holderlin __ A. E. Houseman __ Victor Hugo __ Joris-Karl Huysmans __ Aldous Huxley __ Henrik Ibsen __ Henry James __ Wm. James __ Alfred Jarry __ Samuel Johnson __ James Joyce __ Franz Kafka __ Patrick Kavanaugh __ Weldon Kees __ Søren Kierkegaard __ Kenneth Koch __ Jerzy Kosinski __ Jack Kerouac __ Ring Lardner __ Philip Larkin __ Comte de Lautreamont __ D.H. Lawrence __ Konstantin Leontiev __ Michael Z. Lewin __ Sinclair Lewis __ Primo Levi __ C.S. Lewis __ Federico Garcia Lorca __ Pierre Louys __ Hugh MacDiarmid __ Maurice Maeterlinck __ Stephane Mallarme __ Andre Malroux __ David Mamet __ Thomas Mann __ Walter de la Mare __ Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez __ Jose Marti __ Richard Matheson __ Guy de Maupassant __ Andre Maurois __ Herman Melville __ David Mercer __ George Meredith __ Montaigne __ Brian Moore __ Edwin Muir __ Alfred de Musset __ Vladimir Nabokov __ Frank Norris __ Pablo Neruda __ Flannery O'Connor __ Frank O'Hara __ Eugene O'Neill __ George Orwell __ John Osborne __ Thomas Paine __ Dorothy Parker __ Blaise Pascal __ John Dos Passos __ Benjamin Péret __ Harold Pinter __ Luigi Pirandello __ Sylvia Plath __ Edgar Allen Poe __ Marcel Proust __ Alexander Pushkin __ Raymond Queneau __ Francois Rabelais __ Graciliano Ramos __ Ruth Rendel __ Pierre Reverdy __ Jean Rhys __ Rainer Maria Rilke __ Arthur Rimbaud __ Theodore Roethke __ Alain Robbe-Grillet __ Philip Roth __ Arundhati Roy __ Bertrand Russell __ the Marquis de Sade __ George Sand __ George Santayana __ Jean-Paul Sartre __ Arthur Schopenhauer __ Will Self __ Wm. Shakespeare __ George Bernard Shaw __ Mary Shelly __ Nevil Shute __ Alan Sillitoe __ Shel Silverstein __ Georges Simenon __ Steven Spender __ Oswald Spengler __ Gertrude Stein __ Stendhal __ Laurence Sterne __ Wallace Stevens __ Robert Louis Stevenson __ Jonathan Swift __ A.C. Swinburne __ Rabindranath Tagore __ Junichiro Tanizaki __ Elizabeth Taylor __ Dylan Thomas __ Ross Thomas __ Leo Tolstoy __ Georg Trakl __ Trollope __ Ivan Turgenev __ Mark Twain __ Kenneth Tynan __ Lao Tzu __ Horace Walpole __ H.G. Wells __ Paul Valery __ Paul Verlaine __ Gore Vidal __ Alfred de Vigny __ Voltaire __ Alan Watts __ Simone Weil __ Nathanael West __ Edith Wharton __ E.B. White __ Walt Whitman __ Oscar Wilde __ Tennessee Williams __ P.G. Wodehouse __ Virginia Woolf __ W.B. Yeats __ Paramahansa Yogananda __ Vernon Young __Howard Zinn __ Emile Zola
'Sticks' (Farber):"Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable" - Wilde _______________________________________________________
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Partick
Birthday: 1979
Birthplace: Southern California
Current Location: same
Eye Color: blue or green, but not teal
Hair Color: medium light brown
Height: nearly 6' 2''
Right Handed or Left Handed: right, most days
Your Heritage: people of the UK & Scand regions
The Shoes You Wore Today: wine-stained, busted-down boots
Your Weakness: religiously shy
Your Fears: apocalyptic misunderstanding!
Your Perfect Pizza: ...plenty of fresh garlic, asparagus, and other ingredients that do strange | things to your digestive system
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: stop wasting time filling in surveys
Ford or Chevy: ..don't drive anymore, that could as well be : Vauxhall Viva or Citroen Pallas for all I care...
Thoughts First Waking Up: ....too much to dream last night''
Your Best Physical Feature: I have a left elbow that I could sell tickets to a showing of ... crowds would have to be dragged away eventually
Your Bedtime: between Midnight and 2:45am most nights
Bud or Coors: Double Bastard Ale or Anchor Porter more like
Pepsi or Coke: Ciroc or Stolichnaya more like
MacDonalds or Burger King: no, Amy's or Boca
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I'd rather drink poison
Chocolate or Vanilla: gee, hhmmm
Cappuccino or Coffee: I prefer tea (real tea, that is)
Do you Smoke: never again! (well, a little)
Do you Swear: all the time (sometimes in english)
Do you Sing: not so that you'd notice
Do you Shower Daily: no
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: no
Do you want to get Married: no, I mean yes. Or ...?
Do you believe in yourself: and no one else
Do you get Motion Sickness: only when I'm awake
Do you think you are Attractive: yes. To whom or what, is a funny question
Are you a Health Freak: I guess so, when I have nothing else better to do
Do you get along with your Parents: ...sort of, in a manner of speaking, uhh..what was the question?
Do you like Thunderstorms: | yes, on the beach, at "magic hour", frolicking with unicorns and waltzing matildas
Do you play an Instrument: yes
Ever been called a Tease: probably
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: once
How do you want to Die: once
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: | 'Drowning is not so pitiful | As the attempt to rise. | Three times, 'tis said, a |sinking man | Comes up to face the skies, | And then declines forever | To |that abhorred abode | Where hope and he part company, -- | For he is grasped of God. | The Maker's cordial visage, | However good to see, | Is shunned, we must admit it, | Like an adversity.' - Dickinson....then, I guess, I'd like to die every day, until I get it right.
What country would you most like to Visit: | ... Australia?
In a Girl..
Favorite Eye Color: bluegreenbrown
Favorite Hair Color: blondebrownred
Short or Long Hair: depends on what part of the body
Height: proportional representation
Best Clothing Style: yours, naturally..you have such an original style, darling!
Number of DVD VHS movies I own: under fifty, but growing (I've held out against videos for a long time)
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
My Favorite Football Team: doesn't exist..I used to say "The Browns", although truthfully, I never enjoyed watching American football
___________________________________________________________ How can I ever have another grapefruit without remembering you?: How can I ever give blood again without remembering you..both...?: