Master Bates

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Little Jimmy Scott, Angelo Badalamenti, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, The Lounge Lizards, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Jazz Passengers, Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, The Treniers, The Five Scamps, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles...The High Priest...what a show! Albert Ayler, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Hank Williams Sr., Neil Young, Wilco, Rex Hobart and the misery boys, Bukka White, Wayne Hancock, Hank III, Neko Case, Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Ms. Kelly Hogan (the only actual goddess I've ever known), Astor Piazzolla, Marvin Gaye, Mr. Google Eyes with Billy Ford and his musical V-8'S, Orso, Stan Getz, Edith Piaf, Slim Gaillard Music to paint to: Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me, Interview with the Vampire, The Last Temptation of Christ, John Zorn, etc. Also opera works well: La Boheme, Butterfly, etc. Classical: Zbigniew Preisner, Penderecki, Mozart, Mahler, Brahms, Dvorak... Then there's Cesaria Evora, Charles Trenet, The Afro-cuban Allstars, Omara Portuondo, Elvis Costello, The Specials, The Selecter, The English Beat, The Clash, Snooks Eaglin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kiss, The Rolling Stones, The Replacements, The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames, Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Cachao, Eliades Ochoa, Barbarito Torres, Ruben Gonzalez, Eric Dolphy Cannonball Adderley, DRIP, Southern Culture on the Skids, Five Eight, The Labrea Stompers, Jonathan Richmond, Sonic Youth, Portishead, Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Morphine, PJ Harvey, Drive-by Truckers, Smoke, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, Sunbrain, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Mighty Joe Young, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holliday, Pearl Traylor with Chuck Thomas and his All Stars, Gerry Mulligan, James Brown, Danny Barker, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, The Beach Boys, Thin Lizzy, Built to Spill, Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Duke Ellington, Bob Wills and his texas playboys, Lyle Lovett, Porter Waggoner, Roy Orbison, Cowboy Junkies, Big Maybelle, Jackie Wilson, Lefty Frizzell, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Tammy Wynette,Robert Pete Williams, The Beatles, B.B. King, R.L. Burnside, The Ramones, Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Johnny Cash.

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Movies:

The Ken Burns Baseball Documentary, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, Raise the Red Lantern, The Sand Pebbles, House of Flying Daggers, Kill Bill, Crumb, Vertigo, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Taxi Driver, Vincent and Theo, The Brothers Quay collection, Eyes Wide Shut, Love is the Devil, The Cheyenne Social Club, Zatoichi, Diva, Bubba Ho-Tep, A Love song for Bobby Long, Roman Holiday, The Misfits, Pollock, Mystery Train, Collateral, Come Blow Your Horn, A Very Long Engagement, The Last Temptation of Christ, Psycho, The Naked Maja, LOTR, The Party, West Side Story, Dirty Harry, Sonatine, Stardust Memories, Dog Day Afternoon, The Cowboys, Night on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Lost in Translation, Annie Hall, The 400 Blows, My Life as a Dog, Radio Days Dr. Strangelove All early Mitchum films (His Kind of Woman, Night of the Hunter, Thunder Road, Cape Fear, Out of the Past), Painters Painting, The Lords of Flatbush, The Matador, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Mickey One, Apocalypse Now, Das Boot, Frida, Key Largo, Murmur of the Heart, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Face/Off, Kitten with a Whip, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet Harry And Tonto, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Wicker Man, Marathon Man, Rebel without a Cause, To Have and Have Not, The African Queen, Bad Lieutenant, High Plains Drifter, What's New, Pussycat?, Spring summer fall winter and spring, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Fire Within, The World's Fastest Indian, The Tunnel of Love, Lolita, Middle of the Night, Kings Go Forth Audition A Streetcar named Desire, East of Eden, Die Hard, From Hell, La Femme Nikita, Seven Samurai, Gandhi, Brazil, Manhunter, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Junebug, The Rounders, Batman Begins, The Last Picture Show, Sunset Boulevard, Mean Streets, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Hannibal, Heavens Gate, Sabrina, La Haine, The Godfather trilogy, From Here to Eternity The Jungle Book, The Seven year itch, Goodfellas, The Sea Inside, Hero, The Exorcist, Henry and June, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Crash, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, I love saturday matinee type films: The Star Wars films, The Indiana Jones movies, old 50's westerns, some old war flicks, Tarzan movies, Pirate movies, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, etc. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Papillon, The Ninth Gate, Amelie, Silence of the Lambs, In Like Flint and Our Man Flint, Kagemusha, Grand Prix Delicatessen, The Killer, Casablanca, The Thin Red Line, The Shining, Finding Neverland, Heat, Bang The Drum Slowly, The Hustler, Unbreakable, The Matrix, The Bequiled, El Dorado, Rounders, You and me and everyone we know, Bonjour Tristesse, The Girl Next Door (1953), Midnight Cowboy, The Mouse that Roared, The Racers, Planet Terror, None But the Brave, Marriage on the Rocks One From The Heart, Casino, Blood Simple, Down By Law, Cinderella Man, The Natural, Reds, The Double Life of Veronique, Naked Lunch, The Birds, Von Ryans Express, All That Jazz, Captain Blood, Pirates of the Caribbean, Blade Runner, Blue, White, And Red Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, Rosemary's Baby, Ju Dou, Midnight Express, Sketches of Frank Gehry, The Rookie, Sexy Beast, Father Goose Last Tango in Paris, To Catch a Thief, Bird, North By Northwest, Paris Blues, Stranger Than Paradise, Ronin, The Lady in Cement, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, La Dolce Vita, The Straight Story, On The Waterfront, The Elephant Man, Nashville, The Marriage-go-round, Ringu, 2046, Barfly, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Wolf at the Door, Hud, Mulholland Drive, Save the Tiger The Big Lebowski Broken Flowers, True Romance, Straight No Chaser, Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog, The Right Stuff, A Fistful of Dollars, Sonny Chiba Kung Fu movies, Bruce Lee Kung Fu movies, The Man with the Golden Arm, El Santo movies, Wings of Desire, Manhattan, Interview with the Vampire, Strangers When We Meet, The Reluctant Astronaut Chinatown, Forty shades of Blue, Five Easy Pieces, The Original Oceans Eleven, The Lady from Shanghai, Field of Dreams, The Apartment, Scarface, The Last Detail, Ran, Betty Blue, 50's Sci Fi:The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Fly, The Fly Returns, etc., 50's horror: The Wolfman, The Mummy, Dracula, The Invisible Man, etc., The Big Knife all Sean Connery 007 movies, The Wild Bunch, Braveheart, Gladiator, Insomnia, American Splendour, Kingdom of Heaven, Angel Heart, Se7en, Fight Club, Lord love a Duck, Sin City... Raging Bull

Television:

Twin peaks Deadwood, The Shield, 24, Mad Men , The Sopranos, Gunsmoke, The Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, Walt Disney Presents the Wonderful World of Color, Vegas, Millenium, Carnivale Homicide: Life on the street, The Bullwinkle Show, Leave it to Beaver, American Gothic, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Jonny Quest, The Jetsons, The Flintstones The Rockford Files SCTV, The Three Stooges, The Green Hornet, The Andy Griffith Show, The Blind Swordsman, Dragnet, Fishing with John, Then Came Bronson, Miami Vice, Real Time with Bill Maher, Dexter Where am I? The Village What do you want? Information Who's side are you on? That would be telling... The Dick Van Dyke Show, Green Acres, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Honeymooners, M*A*S*H, Ren and Stimpy, Dallas, Harry-O, All in the Family, The Twilight Zone, , Hawaii 5-0, Mister Ed, Get Smart, Lost in Space The Rat Patrol, Mission Impossible, Late Night with David Letterman, The Night Gallery... Kill my t.v.? I don't think so. I'm too lazy.

Books:

.... Samuel Beckett's "Not I"No Longer human (Osamu Dazai), Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz), Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Under the Roofs of Paris, Quiet Days in Clichy (Henry Miller), Journey to the End of the Night (Celine), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mishima), Boy in the Air (Don Bajema), The Setting Sun (Dazai), The Logic of a Rose (Billy Lombardo), The Box Man (Kobo Abe), Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey), Been Down so long it looks like up to me (Richard Farina), Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Post Office, Women, Factotum, South of No North (Bukowski), A pale view of hills (Ishiguro), The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkein), The Sun Also Rises, To have and have not, Men without women, A farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), The Wine of Youth, The Brotherhood of the Grape (John Fante), Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world (Murakami), This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Borowski), Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky), Red Dirt Marijuana and other tastes (Terry Southern), The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test (Wolfe), Watch fiends and rack screams (Antonin Artaud), Diary of a mad old man (Tanizaki),Who walks in darkness (Chandler Brossard), The magic christian (Terry Southern), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Palm of the hand stories (Kawabata), Moldoror and poems (Lautreamont), Snow Country (Kawabata), Confessions of a mask (Mishima), the pulp fiction of Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler, A confederacy of dunces (Toole), The First Third (Neal Cassady), The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe), The horn (Holmes), A personal matter (Oe), The loser (Konrad), Michel Foucault, Flannery O'Connor, ANYTHING by Samuel Beckett, Kerouac, Anais Nin, and Hagakure (Book of the Samurai).

Heroes:

February 20, 1925 - August 16, 2007 R.I.P.

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Also, Gandhi, Miyamoto Musashi, Vincent Van Gogh, Terry Southern, Willie Mays, Joseph Cornell, Rosa Parks, Arshile Gorky, Max Beckman, Picasso, The '69 Mets, Willem DeKooning, Franz Kline, Balthus, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, Osamu Dazai, Sterling Moss, Juan Manuel Fangio, Sinatra, Carravagio, Joel Peter Witkin, Martin Luther King, Jr., my grandpa and my Uncle Bobby (may they rest in peace), Pee Wee Hermann, and Too Much Coffee Man.