I'd like to meet:
unmutuals, floating weeds, fellow scopophiliacs . .. "We are all members of one another."here's wishing all who read this, if they can get a lift, and the best of luck to you... doh doh doh doh doh doh... dah dah dah....
Music:
everything, it's mother, and heart music from space.. . .
click picture for Smiley Burnett
noise, trumpet, theremin, estranged strangled vocalising, poor man plunking, Children's books, busking, composition, scoring, acoustical experimentation and theory, electronics, ethnomusicology, phonography, plunderphonics, research, musircuses, grand-guignol, junk opera, aestheteras and other street-based musical&theatrical absurdities.
.songs about weather, songs with space, songs about places or the sea or a face, and rambling songs with apparently no aim whatsoever
.but most of all, most especially, love songs, all of them.
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what kind of pets make the loudest noise?
Movies:
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Nights of Cabiria endings. La strada. Wizard of Oz. Fanny & Alexander. Funny Face. always anything Chaplin and Fellini and Fassbinder and Leone and Hitchcock and Cronenberg and Kieslowski and Kurosawa and Kusturica and Wong Kar Wai and Stanely Donen and Dennis Potter and Svankmajer and Servais and Greenaway and with Morricone Herrmann Rota Legrand Nyman or Brogovic scores and faerie tales and slapstick and the surreal and westerns and musicals and psychotronic and schlock and abstract and animation and noir and muppets and Monty Python and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Arsenic and Old Lace, Holiday, The Man Who Came To Dinner, You Can't Take It With You, Life Stinks, The Good Fairy, Funny Face, My Fair Lady, A New Leaf, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The City of Lost Children, A Clockwork Orange, Marat/Sade, Satan's Brew, Solaris('72), Sweet and Lowdown, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, One From the Heart, Night on Earth, Minnie and Moskowitz, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Wings of Desire, Million Dollar Hotel, A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds, The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom, Dead Man, Being John Malkovich, Mona Lisa, Spellbound, Stroszek, Even Dwarves Started Small, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Space Is the Place, Fantasia, Allegro Non Tropo, The Tune and, most of all, The Point.
tv - Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Secret Agent Man, The Singing Detective, Pennies From Heaven, Fishing with John, Mr. Show, Rosanne, Dick Cavett, Carol Burnett, John Carson, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Night Court, Gimme Gimme Octopus
lately - Fur, Crazy People, Nanny McPhee, Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
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Books:
Pan with Us by Robert Frost
Pan came out of the woods one day,-
His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray,
The gray of the moss of walls were they,-
And stood in the sun and looked his fill
At wooded valley and wooded hill.
He stood in the zephyr, pipes in hand,
On a height of naked pasture land;
In all the country he did command
He saw no smoke and he saw no roof.
That was well! and he stamped a hoof.
His heart knew peace, for none came here
To this lean feeding save once a year
Someone to salt the half-wild steer,
Or homespun children with clicking pails
Who see so little they tell no tales.
He tossed his pipes, too hard to teach
A new-world song, far out of reach,
For sylvan sign that the blue jay's screech
And the whimper of hawks beside the sun
Were music enough for him, for one.
Times were changed from what they were:
Such pipes kept less of power to stir
The fruited bough of the juniper
And the fragile bluets clustered there
Than the merest aimless breath of air.
They were pipes of pagan mirth,
And the world had found new terms of worth.
He laid him down on the sun-burned earth
And raveled a flower and looked away--
Play? Play?--What should he play?
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein
The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster
The Secret Autobiography of Salvador Dali
Genesis of a Music and Bitter Music by Harry Partch
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Ulysses, The Decameron, The Obscene Bird of Night, Pat the Bunny, Tuesday, Fellini on Fellini, Kinski Uncut
Italo Calvino, Raold Dahl, Anais Nin, Nelson Algren, Lewis Carroll, Milan Kundera, Henry Miller, Ray Bradbury, Kafka, Beckett, Suess, Twain, Noel Coward, ole Willy of the shaky spears
this goes onlately...Nurse Mathilda by Christianna Brand & Edward Ardizzone
Perfume by Peter Suskind
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Avid Editing: an incoherant manual for the hopelessly inept
Heroes:
Salvador Dali, Federico Fellini, Charlie Chaplin, Ennio Morricone, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Ida Lupino, Joe Turkel
Miles Davis*
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Nikola Tesla
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Sun Ra*
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Woody Guthrie*
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Alan Lomax*
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Studs Terkel*
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St. Mahalia Jackson*
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Dr. Nina Simone*
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Moondog*
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Jim Henson*
- - -*Leo Marks*
- - -*Timothy Agoglia Carey*
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E. Heather Cagle.