Sex, Drugs and Gospel Music. And readin' an ritin'. Watching Movies in the nude , Confusing invertabrates and small reptiles , working as a Logic Mechanic -as well as an Assistant Marketing Chef.
Smart, Funny and beautiful people from Ulan Bator
XTC, Ennio Morricone, The Clash , Colourbox ( criminally overlooked innovators) , Todd Rundgren, Shivaree, Bernard Herrmann, Oingo Boingo , Bowie , Eno ( not Fripp-that bastard) Herbie Hancock , Frank Sinatra ( Only The Lonely period w/ Nelson Riddle) ,Al Green , Van Morrison , The O'Jays , The Who , Badfinger , The Raspberries, Steely Dan , Graham Parker , Elvis Costello & The Jam.
I thought you'd never ask...(1). Chinatown (2). Network (3). Dr. Strangelove (4.) The Godfather (5) Manhattan (6) 2001 A Space Oddessy (7).Casablanca (8). Seven Samurai (9). Lawrence of Arabia (10). Psycho . ***** Special, Cross- Medium award Kill Bill 1 & 2 ( the most fun I've ever had in a theater watching the director having the most fun ever , en homage. The best Pop Art example of film ever) *****Bubbling under the Top 10 in no particular order : Blue Velvet , Once Upon A Time In The West , Gojira (No Raymond Burr), Henry Fool , Being There , Cool Hand Luke, King Kong (1933), Pulp Fiction , A Face In The Crowd, Jaws, Nosferatu , Amadeus, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Citizen Kane, The Wizard Of Oz , Fargo and Fantasia. *****Guilty Pleasures- Henry Fool, The Forbidden Zone, Eraserhead, Being There , Monty Python's Life Of Brian , The Giant Claw , The Quick and The Dead , Goldfinger , Night Of The Living Dead & Myra Breckinridge. and...PAN'S LABYRINTH ,it's rare when film achieves not only art -but myth. The finest film of this decade.
Anything With Bill Bonds in it: Beneath The Planet of The Apes , Channel 7 Action News, and those Gardner-White furniture commercials. Oh , and the Weather Channel too.
Vineland -Thomas Pynchon , Trout Fishing In America - Richard Brautigan, Times Arrow - Martin Amis , Neighbors-Thomas Berger , To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee , Breakfast Of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut, Foucault's Pendulum- Umberto Eco , The War Of The Worlds- H.G. Wells, Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov , Let It Blurt ( Lester Bangs Bio) - Jim DeRogatis , Adventures in The Screen Trade - William Goldman , The Wanting Seed - Aldous Huxley, The Difference Engine - William Gibson , The Crying Of Lot 49- Thomas Pynchon , The Monkey-Wrentch Gang - Edward Abbey , In Cold Blood- Truman Capote & Snuffy The Tugboat-Gertrude Crampton.
( Overdose List) Lenny Bruce , Del Close , Lester Bangs & John Belushi . (Dead As Hell List) Lou Reed ...Oh , He's not dead yet? How about Keef Richards...? him too? William S Burroughs ( Dead , but he looked it for 20 years) Terry Southern & Stanley Kubrick. (Mythic) Hercules , Zeus and Jesus. (Super) Thor , Iron Man and Cap'n Crunch. (Ensemble) The Firesign Theatre & Monty Python