"You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older " Lillian Gish
So, I feel the need to state this...If you're going to send me a friend request because, at some point, we actually knew each other and there's even an outside possibility I might not recognize you by your picture or your display name, or you are a legitimate request, please send me a message first. If I don't know who you are, I'll deny you straightaway. (If you're a band, no worries- I'll always listen) I'd hate to miss someone I actually know because of the countless spam requests I get on what seems like an hourly basis. Thanks.
Chameleons,VNV Nation,Skinny Puppy,The Frames,Nine Inch Nails,Flogging Molly,Placebo,Recoil,Depeche Mode,Assemblage 23,Material Issue,Tony Bennett,Nina Simone,Cole Porter,The Gershwins,Front 242,The Police,Coil,Fugazi,The Cure,Bauhaus,Peter Murphy,Imperative Reaction,Joy Division,Primitive Radio Gods(shut up, John),The Editors,Interpol,Tom Petty,The Clash,Clint Mansell,Sting,Glenn Miller,Billie Holiday,Wolfsheim,Massive Attack,Royksopp,Catherine Wheel,Artie Shaw,Nick Cave,ABC,Bobby Darin,Covenant,Luka Bloom,Leonard Cohen,Michael Feinstein,Jesus&Mary Chain,Tom Waits,Underworld,Dresden Dolls,Tool/Perfect Circle,FLA/Delerium,Freedy Johnston,Duke Ellington,New Order,Elvis,Pig,Sisters of Mercy,Rotersand,Seabound,Meat Beat Manifesto,Human Drama,Benny Goodman,Collide,Dead Can Dance,Wumpscut,Solas,The Faint,Renegade Soundwave,Einsturzende Neubauten,Numb,LeatherStrip,Yelworc,Out Out,A-Ha,Sticks & Stones,T-Bone Burnett,Psychedelic Furs,Leftfield,Curve,Das Ich,James Hunter,Harry James,The Wonder Stuff,Loreena McKennitt,Nigel Kennedy,Lights of Euphoria,Bad Religion...
The DVD Collection... A Room with a View,The Third Man, Harold Lloyd(any),Gene Kelly(any),Umberto D.,Withnail & I,"M",Amadeus,The 400 Blows,Pepe le Moko,Le Jour se Leve,Eyes without a Face,Grand Illusion,Pandora's Box,The Wind,The Passion of Joan of Arc,Port of Shadows,Seventh Seal,Wild Strawberries,Now Voyager,Brief Encounter,Once,Persona,Winter Light,The Bicycle Thieves,The Double Life of Veronique,Ikiru,Seven Samurai,Rules of the Game,L.A. Confidential,Fallen Idol,Pygmalion,Flesh & The Devil,The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,Wings of Desire,Beauty & the Beast(Cocteau),The Thin Man,Portrait of Jenny,Casablanca,GWTW,Silence of the Lambs,Clerks,The Women,Citizen Kane,He Who Gets Slapped,A Christmas Story,Roman Holiday,The Commitments,The Usual Suspects,Metropolis,Great Expectations(Lean),Testament of Dr. Mabuse,...
I read constantly, so if I had to make a comprehensive list, I'd need a whole other page. Just to hit the highlights: Dead English writers (everything you hated reading in High School)-Thomas Hardy(Tess of the D'Urbervilles),Jane Austen(Pride & Prejudice),Charles Dickens(Great Expectations),Mervyn Peake(Gormenghast)... Dead American writers-Edgar A. Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald(The Great Gatsby IS the Great American Novel), H.P. Lovecraft...(apparently initials are a necessity)...In the land of the living- Neil Gaiman, Patrick McGrath, Caleb Carr, Natasha Mostert,Ian McEwan, Susanna Clarke,Arturo Perez-Reverte, Arthur Phillips, Caitlin Kiernan, Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Carroll, Steven Millhauser, Hari Kunzru, Gregory Maguire, Cormac McCarthy... Not much for poetry, with the exception of Rilke, Rimbaud, and the almighty T.S. Eliot... If you're so inclined, you can view my collection of Bound Printed Matter here: