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Brad

The damn thing was crazy

About Me

I get flustered occasionally. I like old things, and things I have trouble understanding. I can't get my words straight. I like the shape of things, and certain strange sounds.

The best advice I've ever received:
Just hang out for 40 years.... 5 of them at a truck stop.
-Ramblin' Jack Elliott

I have a website: www.likeanoldfilm.com

My Interests

Silent movies, film theory, old chinese things, slow boring movies, singing saw, the circus, the 1920's, makeup, costumery, Clara Bow, ghosts, good cinematography, obscurity, imprecise meaning, eroticism, spontaniously growing angel wings, folk & blues music, America, anything grainy, Peking Opera, epics, Sake, Murder Ballads, Pretty things, time.

I'd like to meet:

People who remind me of a time long past. People who don't understand language. Nogoodniks

Music:

Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Anthology of American Folk Music, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Skip James, Nick Cave, Music with lots of white noise, anything recorded before the advent of hi-fi (1927-28), The Microphones, Blind Willie Johnson, Hobart Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, The Music Tapes, Tom Waits, Field Recordings, Tommy Johnson, June Carter Cash, Elizabeth Cotten, Hank Williams, Earl Scruggs, The Birthday Party, Sacred Harp Music

Movies:

Animations from Edward Muybridge movement studies. Close Ups of Various Body parts. The wind in the trees.

Television:

Hootnanny Television, The Smothers Brothers, The Continental, Twin Peaks, The Daily Show

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Tao Te Ching, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, The Picture of Dorian Gray, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, HongLouMeng (Dream of The Red Chamber), What is Cinema?, Nadja, Camera Lucida, Ovid's Metamorphasis, anything by Borges.

Heroes:

Andre Breton, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan, Edward Muybridge

My Blog

new website

www.likeanoldfilm.comsoon with content!
Posted by Brad on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:38:00 PST

website

Its still under construction, but one day it'll be the greatest website ever made. likeanoldfilm.blogspot.com
Posted by Brad on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:46:00 PST

Home

So I'm home, as most of you probably already know. I'm in San Jose, which contains no one I know anymore. I had to rewrite my "description," and had a hard time of it. If anything on there makes me so...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

See the morning light

I can't sleep, so I should be studying, but instead of that I'm bumming around the internet, listening to folk music, and thinking about curly dark headed women. It'll soon be 5 AM. The sun will start...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bob Dylan

I'm listening to a Bob Dylan bootleg album right now. Its making me very very happy.
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

going crazy once again

So for a variety of reasons I'm going a bit crazy right now. Its a regular occurance when your living abroad... and well.... when your me. Its kind of nice though, because while I'm going crazy (which...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My day's adventures

I have a new haircut as of two days ago, and today I went to work a bit early. I was wearing a scarf, and a jacket, and feeling pretty good about myself. Walking with a spring in my step. So tha...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Madness

"the woman that I love... Woman that I love woman that I love... took her from my best friend but he got lucky took her back again" Instead of saying things with meaning, we just push back a...
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Muybridge

As I was sitting here I was thinking about the way people move. like the chin going a little bit up.
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST