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Name and occupation check in the New York Times in the last 'graph
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Long out of touch old friends please note: the kid in the pics is my nephew.
Moving master shots, thirty-second note downstrokes, pepper (though not in a spray), spinach in every edible variety, India pale ale, staring into the sun.
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13th Floor Elevators, Jerry Lee Lewis, Booker T and the MG's, The Creation, Ricky Nelson, Bo Diddley, Roxy Music, bubblegum records, The Modern Lovers, Carter Family, Ramones, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rogers, Yo La Tengo, Arthur Alexander, Flipper, The Germs, Hollies, Kinks, The Kinks, Kinks, The, Joe Meek and the Blue Men, Popol Vuh, Buck Owens, Benny Joy, Slim Harpo, Stooges, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Laura Cantrell, Reagan Youth, The Troggs, Badfinger, Spittoons, Little Killers, Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, Black Lips, George Jones, Dead Kennedys, Albert Ayler, Sonics, Elvis Aaron Presley, Bernard Herrmann, Tommy James and the Shondells, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Lyres, Ike Turner, The Mummies, you know...
ACCATONE, CANYON PASSAGE, THE GREAT ECSTACY OF THE WOODCARVER STEINER, CHARLIE VARICK, KILL!, MARY POPPINS, CATCH US IF YOU CAN/HAVING A WILD WEEKEND, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, THE PASSENGER, THE RED SHOES, RED DESERT, THE RECKLESS MOMENT, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, THE SMALL BACK ROOM, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, LE PLAISIR, RABID, HICKEY AND BOGGS, 2001, the version of PETER PAN that came out a few chirstmasses ago, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, DRAGON GATE INN, FIRES ON THE PLAINS, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, COME AND SEE, LES YEUX SANS VISAGE, SPIRAL STAIRCASE, RIDE LONESOME, YOJIMBO, THE TALL T, DAYS OF BEING WILD, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, THE NARROW MARGIN, ALL THE REAL GIRLS, OBSESSIONE, SHAMPOO, BROKEN BLOSSOMS, A CORNER IN WHEAT, SKATER DATER, THE BROOD, THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, A ROMANCE OF HAPPY VALLEY, GUN CRAZY, Siegel's DIRTY HARRY, THE RED HOUSE, BLACK NARCISSUS, BLACK SUNDAY (both), SECONDS, I WALK THE LINE (the one with Tuesday Weld), THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, STARS IN MY CROWN, YOUNG AND INNOCENT, NOWHERE TO HIDE, SALT FOR SVANETIA, FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, THE PHENIX CITY STORY, COME DRINK WITH ME, SOLARIS (both), A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL, SHOCK CORRIDOR, TWO LANE BLACKTOP, THE WRONG MAN, THE CONQUEST OF SPACE, MARNIE, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, THE NAKED DAWN, WINDY DAY, THE CRANES ARE FLYING, GONKS GO BEAT, THE OUTFIT, DEAD RINGERS, TOY STORY II, BADLANDS, LOVE ME TONIGHT, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, POINT BLANK, MOONRISE, BATTLE OF ALGIERS, SCARLET STREET, PERE NOEL A LES YEUX BLEU, TWO RODE TOGETHER, THE LAST DETAIL, THE LUSTY MEN, STREET FIGHTER (the Sonny Chiba one), THE SEARCHERS, LOVE STREAMS, PERSONA, REPULSION, THE NIGHT PORTER, HARD DAYS NIGHT, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, THE PIGEON WITHIN, MUDHONEY, ENDLESS SUMMER, SALESMAN, STRAW DOGS, FRENCH CANCAN, NINE DAYS OF ONE YEAR, OTOTO, PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, THE BIG COMBO, THE NAKED SPUR, PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (Turner preview cut only, please), THE UNSENT LETTER, AN ITCH IN TIME, KING-SIZE CANARY, WHAT'S BUZZIN' BUZZARD? LONESOME LENNY, PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, THE LIFE OF OHARU, ZARDOZ, GET CARTER, PITFALL, RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11, MOUCHETTE, THE GETAWAY, YELLOW SKY, PLAY DIRTY, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, 2046, THE SEVEN UPS, HORROR OF DRACULA, GODFATHER Pt. II, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, KISS ME DEADLY, ACROSS 110TH STREET, SILVER LODE, AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, DUCK YOU SUCKER, EXCALIBUR, BACK STREET, I'VE ALWAYS LOVED YOU, KING CREOLE, THE BREAKING POINT, THE KILLERS (both), CRISS CROSS, ROMANCE OF RADIUM, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, SCARAMOUCHE, OUT OF THE BLUE, DEEP END (the 1971 one with Jane Asher), etc., etc., etc.
Old Star Trek, Insight, Combat!, BBC version of Antiques Road Show, Captain Scarlett, Kimba the White Lion, Bat Fink, F Troop, Police Squad (in color), Abbott and Costello sitcom, UFO, Pennies From Heaven, the bikini waxing episode of ANTM. Deadwood, Future Shock, Singing Detective, (old) Outer Limits, (new) Battlestar Gallactica, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Get Smart, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, Land of the Lost, Lidsville, I Spy, The Simpsons, 70's TV movies, Lost, Shindig.
Varieties of Relgious Experience by William James, Jacques Tourneur by Chris Fujiwara, The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, John Ford by Tag Gallagher, Negative Space by Manny Farber. Those big Overlook film genre guides edited by Phil Hardy, Anything by David Bordwell. The Onion AVClub and Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader. Guralnick's Elvis bios. Till We Have Faces, That Hideous Strength and Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. The Room by Hubert Selby. Soapy 70's Marvel superhero comics, 70's DC war comics and ultra-retarded 60's Superman comics. The Velvet Light Trap magazine. Krazy Kat. Little Nemo in Slumberland. Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Barton, everything by Flannery O'Connor, especially the one about the kid drowning at the baptism, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame preferably read aloud by my dad, lots more film history esoterica...
Don Siegel, Eddie Phillips, Wilko Johnson, Stacy Sutherland, Phil Karlson, Max Ophuls, Bob Quine, Audie Murphy, Don Rich, Sideshow Bob, Tex Rabinowitz, East Bay Ray, Kihachi Okamoto, James Burton, Rowland Brown, Jimmie Spruill, Alan Dwan, Mickey Baker, Jaques Tourneur, whoever it is that kicks the cannon over in the F Troop titles, John Riggins, Terence Fisher, Ted Falconi, Sam Fuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Miriam Linna, Georgia Hubley, Ned Hayden, my brother Andrew, Al Swearengen, Ham Hamilton, Russell Quan, and Brian Donlevy as George Camrose.