I've been known to "consult the I-Ching" and "center my chakra" from time to time. And then, of course, there is the matter of "The Boogaloo."
If anybody's interested, my books are most easily found at Prospero’s Books or Unholy Day Press Thank you. Come again.
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Blade Runner, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, To Kill A Mockingbird, Blade 1, Blade 2, anything by the Cohen brothers, anything by Scorsese, anything by Kurosawa, Lord Of The Rings, anything by Bergman, anything by Woody Allen, Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frakenstein, X1, X2, Batman Begins, City Of Lost Children, Amelie, Alien, Aliens, The Big Sleep, Fight Club, Three Kings, Shaft, Baraka, Down By Law, Mystery Train, anything by Tarantino, Enter The Dragon, Return Of The Dragon, Fists Of Fury, Deliverance, Spirited Away, The Hitcher, Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, Marathon Man, Bowling For Columbine, Farenhite 911, Roger And Me, Silence Of The Lambs, Richard The Third, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, The Seven Deadly Venoms, The Killer, The Killing, Hard Boiled, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Usual Suspects, The Hard Eight, anything by Hal Hartley, Hud, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Ninth Configuration, Olivier's Macbeth and Hamlet, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Incredibles, The Uninvited, all the old Ray Harryhousen movies (Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason And The Argonauts, etc.), Psycho, The Professionals, The Shining, Dead Zone, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, The Getaway, all the old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes, I, Claudius, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Repo Man, Sid And Nancy, Another State Of Mind, King Of New York, Iron Monkey, Shawshank Redemption, Kelly's Heros, To Have And To Have Not, Maltese Falcon, Kalifornia, Reanimator, Two Lane Blacktop, Call of Cthulhu, Straight, No Chaser, etc.
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Authors I dig:Jim Harrison, Albert Goldbarth, Harley Elliot, Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, Umberto Ecco, Lawrence Ferlingetti, Pablo Neruda, Charles Simic, Charles Wright, Raymond Chandler, Ted Hughes, Ted Kooser, Graham Hancock, William Saroyan, William Kennedy, Celine, John Steinbeck, John Irving, Larry Macmurtry, China Mieville, Arthur Sze, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Jim Thompson, John Fante, Ed Tato, W.E. Leathem, Mark Hennesey, Howard Zinn, Bertrand Russell, Octavio Paz, Seamus Heney, Neal Stephenson, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Philip Miller, Hafiz, Frank Miller, Li Po, Su Tung Po, Tom Stoppard, Philip Kimball, Hayden Carruth, Walter Mosely, Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Kenneth Rexroth, Noam Chomsky, Cornell West, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Hunter, some Hemingway, some Miller (essays), Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, some Kerouac, some Borroughs, some Ginsberg, De Lillo, Kosinski, Lorca, William Carlos Williams, John Gould Fletcher, H. D., Campbell Mcgrath, J.D. Salinger, etc.