bad photography (i don't enjoy bad photography - i take bad photographs), coney island (for pizza, skeeball, burlesque, mermaids, the sideshow and looking at old rides about to fall after a century of rusting away, but not riding on them), dogs and cats, cats and dogs, living without cars, walking, walking in the cold, riding on trains, animation, puppetry, movies, the discovery of food, the discovery of music, trying to sleep through the mess that's being made of the world, and wanting to change it at the same time, fun houses, watching tennis on tv, and the search for the perfect cupcake. And http://rupertmag.typepad.com .
I'd like to meet:
... myself, but i always end up coming apart at the seams.
Music:
The Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista, Carla Bozulich, Scarnella, Ethyl Meatplow, The Night Porter (there is a running theme here), Nels Cline, 2 Foot Yard, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney, R.E.M., The Handsome Family, Carolyn Mark, Curtis Mayfield, Prince, Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields, Carla Kihlstedt, Charming Hostess, anything involving the sublime genius of Shahzad Ismaily, VOCO, Misscincinati, Nellie McKay, Flare, Metric, LaVern Baker, Smoke (Benjamin Dickerson), Jim White, Kiki and Herb, X-Ray Spex, Bettye Swann, Blossom Dearie, Dreaming Ferns, Forget Cassettes, Dolly Parton, Bootsy Collins, Richard Hell, Holly and the Italians, Freakwater, Run On, Skeeter Davis, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Marianne Faithfull, Public Enemy, Julian Koster, Ketty Lester, Sly Stone, Bill Withers, Kimya Dawson, The Evolution Control Committee, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Cibo Matto, Lord Invader, Quintron and Pussycat, Irene Moon, Kelly Hogan, Ethel Waters, Dresden Dolls, Death Cab for Cutie, The Kropotkins, Deerhoof, Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, The Mountain Goats, Low, Cooper-Moore, Marc Ribot, Susie Iberra, Chocolate Genius, M. Ward, Smokey and Miho, Joy Division, Burd Early, Pink Nasty, Billie Holiday, Judy Holliday as a singer (and she's really one of my favorite singers), Fred Astaire as a singer, Zooey Deschanel as a singer and of course Hoagie Carmichael (who also acted in To Have or Have Not)
Movies:
Vagabond, The Gleaners and I, La Pointe Courte, Down By Law, Dead Man, Stranger Than Paradise, Gas Food Lodging, Grace of My Heart, Things Behind the Sun, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Faces, Gloria, Big Night, Harold and Maude, Safe, The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble In Paradise, To Be of Not To Be (with Lombard and Benny), The Shop Around the Corner, The Death of Mr. Lazerescu, Pan's Labyrinth, Shoot the Piano Player, 3 Women, Nashville, Belle du Jour, The Last Metro, Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind, It Should Happen to You, Spirited Away, Night of the Hunter, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Black Cat, The Old Dark House, The Face Behind the Mask, Waitress, All The Real Girls, Bright Leaves, Sherman's March, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ed Wood, Stage Door, Christopher Strong, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, A Face in the Crowd, The Thin Man, The Bandwagon, Singin' in The Rain, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Junebug, The Station Agent, The Baxter, You/Me/Everyone We Know, Monsieur Verdoux, The Circus, The Gold Rush, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Hair, The Apartment, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hair, Almost Famous, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Dark Crystal, Young Frankenstein, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Shall We Dance, Swing Time and every Astaire and Rogers musical, the animated films of Faith and John Hubley, the animated films of Bob Clampett, the animated films of Dave Fleischer, the animated films of Nina Paley, Begone Dull Care by Norman McLaren, the short films of Maya Deren.
Television:
If you know who lives in Sunnydale, Stars Hollow and Cicely, we're friends. I like The Boondocks a lot. Just watched Twin Peaks all over again. Enjoyed that Tin Man thing a lot.
Books:
Up In The Old Hotel (Joseph Mitchell), all the Glass family things, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Requiem for a Dream, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Razor's Edge, Evil by Rennie Sparks, The Blindfold by Siri Hudsvedt, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote, Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler, The Unprofessionals by Julie Hecht (thanks Franny), Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the essays of EB White, and what the hell, Charlotte's Web, The Age of Innocence, The Dispossesed by Ursula LeGuin, Mother Night by Vonnegut, the poems of Kenneth Koch, Pnin by Nabokov, Franky Furbo, Vonnegut's stuff, Shakespeare, especially The Tempest and I Henry IV
Heroes:
Bennett Cerf. No, really...
