stay tuned (working on it, I SWEAR...) .......Photography and memory (has anyone on here seen "Sans Soleil"?) —Searching the southwest for the perfect soft taco ("El Tejavan" in Amarillo, TX is numero uno at present) —Searching my record collection for the perfect piece of vinyl... —Kicking people who kick dogs— Cycling
rembrandt + francesca woodman + john edgar wideman + robert frank + david wojnarowicz ("So my heritage is a calculated fuck on some faraway sun-filled bed while the curtains are being sucked in and out of an open window by a passing breeze. I'd be lying if I were to tell you I could remember the smell of sweat as I hadn't even been born yet.") + anyone in the Netherlands or Czech Republic willing to offer me a job in conservation and/or digital imaging of photographs and other 2/D objects.
johnny cash, roots manuva, nuggets + pebbles anthologies, billy childish (especially thee headcoats), swamprats, pixies, le tigre, anita o'day, charlie parker, charles mingus, ornette coleman live in stockholm, howlin wolf, pretty things (oh yeah), earliest stones, frantix + fluid + early mudhoney, stooges, snivelling shits, pagans, electric eels, ramones, x, avengers, crime, wierdos, chiefs, buzzcocks, magazine + howard devoto, wire, gang of four, gene vincent, carl perkins, patsy cline, hank williams, bob wills, link wray, otis redding, irma thomas, big maybelle, al green, hendrix, the undertakers, the surgeons (RIP), cynics, jack & meg white seem like nice people, augustus pablo + any 70's dub, sweeney todd (the demon barber of fleet street), tom waits & crystal gayle soundtrack for one from the heart, de la soul + all the old tommy boy stuff, early outkast, beatles live in hamburg xmas of '62, first pink floyd and a bunch of other "first" albums (patti smith, cramps, siouxsie, joy division, urge overkill, nirvana, stone roses, etc.), the birthday party, p j harvey's demo tape, new york dolls demo tape, saul williams demo tape and so on
holy smoke, rashomon, lawrence of arabia, help!, secretary, the limey, my beautiful laundrette, eating raoul, withnail & i, affliction, the return of martin guerre, strangers on a train, viridiana, prick up your ears, bamboozled, triplets of belleville, to have and to have not, the ruling class, los olvidados, the godfather, a bridge too far, i shot andy warhol, glengarry glenross, lost in translation, end of the century, wings of desire & the wild child are personal favorites for personal reasons... -- 2 gael garcia bernal flicks out now (1/05) you should see
“If style is the power to move freely in the length and breadth of linguistic thinking without falling into banality, it is attained chiefly by the cardiac strength of great thoughts, which drives the blood of language through the capillaries of syntax into the remotest limbs.†— Walter Benjamin - "I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean over and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me. My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books, but that's how I've stayed attuned to myself and the world around me for the past thirty-five years. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel." — Bohumil Hrabal - "Theatre is life, cinema is art, and television is furniture." — Unknown
the arcades project by walter benjamin, too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal, digressions on some poems by frank o'hara: a memoir by joe leseur, the tremor of forgery by patricia highsmith, the devil and sonny liston by nick tosches, murder in amsterdam: the death of theo van gogh and the limits of tolerance by ian baruma
lili taylor, walter benjamin, saul williams, camille claudel, frida kahlo, james gandolfini, bohumil hrabal, flannery o'connor, my friend amy, eva hesse, charlie parker, muhammed ali, tommie smith, jeremy wariner, eddy merckx, patricia highsmith, patti smith, david wojnarowicz, monica vitti, tina modotti, dee dee ramone, brian deneke, that one beatle, velvet underground, edward said, all the bands that never "made it"