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Philip Ringler

C'est La Deez!

About Me

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My Interests

Art, Teaching, Meditation, Philosophy, Urban Exploration, Tikis, Cats, Haunted Houses

I'd like to meet:

Other Photographers, Musicians, Poets, and Philosophers

Music:

Ludwig Van Beethoven, Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Masami Akita, Danny Elfman, Angelo Badalamenti, Ennio Morricone,Mike Patton/ Mr. Bungle, Rudimentary Peni, Nurse With Wound, Lungfish, Joy Division, Castanets, Comus, Negativland, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai, The Dirty Three, Secret Chiefs 3, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, The Carter Family, The Doors, Matmos, The National,

Movies:

Directors and Films Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen), Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, The Birds), Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Year of The Horse, Mystery Train), Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow), David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man), Akira Kurosawa (Dreams, Seven Samurai, Rhapsody in August), Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Castle In The Sky), Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, El Topo), Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), Kenneth Anger (Short Films, Lucifer Rising), Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Crumb)

Television:

Carnivale, The Addams Family, Scooby Doo Mysteries, Planet Earth/ The Blue Planet, The Twilight Zone, Art 21, Twin Peaks, Elvira’s Movie Macabre

Books:

Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Allen Ginsberg, James Tate, Jack Kerouac, Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, William Blake, Jim Morrison, Millarepa, Khalil Gibran,William Shakespeare, Tom Robbins, James Joyce, Edgar Allen Poe, Neil Gaiman, John Kennedy Toole, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Herman Hesse, Mary Shelley, George Orwell, Mark Twain, H.P Lovecraft, J.K Rowling, Joseph Cambell, Susan Sontag, Stanton Marlan

Heroes:

Buddha, Michele Foucault, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Friederick Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Rudi Rudrananda, Noah Levine, Roland Barthes,Sally Mann, Sir Simon Marsden, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Keith Carter,Ralph Gibson, Jeff Brouws, Greg MacGregor, Sharon Wickham, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mary Daniel Hobson,Frederick Sommer, Aaron Siskind, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Dora Maar, Elliot Erwitt, Man Ray, Robert Frank, Jerry Uelsmann, Duane Michaels,Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentellesci, Francisco Goya, Giovanni Battista, Henry Fuseli,Joseph Mallord William Turner, Louis-Jaques-Mande’ Daguerre, Albert Sands, Juilia Margaret Cameron, Edward Manet, Eadward Muybridge, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, , Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Tapies, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Max Ernst, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, Nick Blinko, Edward Gorey, Carl Barks, Daniel Clowes

My Blog

It is true, Jill and I are engaged!

I'm a very lucky cat. I asked Jill to marry me this evening and she, by the grace of Ganesh (or some other wondrous deity) said YES! So hallelujah and hippity skippity and general merriment of the mos...
Posted by PhilDz on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:50:00 PST

Sobriedeez and the adventures of holideez awakening

Tis unbelievable how fucking good it feels to be sober (yo, almost 3 years) and even smokerette free deez days. Its a weird non-matrixy hyper-reality that allows for really interesting, albeit silly a...
Posted by PhilDz on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:49:00 PST

10 best indy rock records of 90s (not in order)

1. Unwound "Fake Train"2. Chavez "Gone Glimmering"3. Jesus Lizard "Goat"4. Lungfish "nechrophones"5. The Shortwave Channel "Bright Lights they hurt"6. Three Mile Pilot "another desert another sea"7. T...
Posted by PhilDz on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:58:00 PST

Aquarius Records review of The Atomic Bomb Audition

Here is a great review of my band's new record from Aquarius Records in S.F.!!!From aquariusrecords.org:"This is one awesomely confusing record. We weren't sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn'...
Posted by PhilDz on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:39:00 PST

Los Angeles: please crumble into the sea, reprise

I've actually had one trip to Los Angeles that went well. It was filled with old, well dressed magicians, phantom elf encounters, Japanese pagodas, love, symphonies, and sushi. Last night was more fam...
Posted by PhilDz on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:30:00 PST

Please Kill Tom Hanks!

Will somebody please put the milk toast, soup-faced, fed-ex bitch Tom "stain" Hanks out of his fucking misery (that he imposes on others) Why can't directors realize that his half-assed schtick should...
Posted by PhilDz on Wed, 17 May 2006 12:35:00 PST

Black Panther Legacy Tour

I just went on a four hour tour of Oakland, my hometown, with one of the original leaders of the Black Panther Party. Holy shit that was informative! I learned that the Black panthers gave free food t...
Posted by PhilDz on Fri, 12 May 2006 09:52:00 PST