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Frank Difficult

Yog Sothoth save me - the three-lobed burning eye

About Me

http://frankdifficult.com

My Interests

current music projects: Frank Difficult , Barnacled , V. Majestic , Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores and coming soon PPYCOC --- plus photography , film and video

Music:

Alphabetically for now: Alice Cooper, Ash Ra Tempel, Albert Ayler, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Boredoms, David Bowie, John Cale, Can, Captain Beefheart, Cheap Trick, Chrome, Circle, John Coltrane, Tod Dockstader, Eric Dolphy, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, The Fall, Faust, The Flaming Lips, The Frogs, H.N.A.S., The Hafler Trio, Bernard Herrmann, Charles Ives, Philip Jeck, Judas Priest, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Love, Christian Marclay, Merzbow, Charles Mingus, Ennio Morricone, Mott the Hoople, Nurse with Wound, Pere Ubu, Pink Floyd, Queen, Tom Recchion, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Slayer, Sparks, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sun Ra, Television, Thin Lizzy, This Heat, Throbbing Gristle, Van Der Graaf Generator, Edgard Varèse, Scott Walker, Wire, Robert Wyatt, The Zombies, Zoviet France

Movies:

King Kong (1933, Cooper & Schoedsack) Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick) Once Upon A Time In The West (1968, Leone) The Birds (1963, Hitchcock) Crash (1996, Cronenberg) Last Year At Marienbad (1961, Resnais) Suspiria (1977, Argento) O Lucky Man (1973, Anderson) Stalker (1979, Tarkovsky) Tribulation 99 (1992, Baldwin) Careful (1992, Maddin) The Conversation (1974, Coppola) Point Blank (1967, Boorman) Don't Look Now (1973, Roeg) Santa Sangre (1989, Jodorowsky) Songs From the Second Floor (2000, Andersson) Conspirators Of Pleasure (1996, Svenkmajer) The Third Man (1949, Reed) The Bride Of Frankenstien (1935, Whale) Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (1970, Jires) L'Eclisse (1962, Antonioni) Juliet Of The Spirits (1965, Fellini) The Innocents (1961, Clayton) Citizen Kane (1941, Welles) Eraserhead (1977, Lynch) Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock) Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese) The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (2001-03, Jackson) A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick) Dellamorte Dellamore (1994, Soavi) Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974, Rivette) Visitor Q (2001, Miike) Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972, Bunuel) Alien (1979, Scott) Starship Troopers (1997, Verhoeven) Rosemary's Baby (1968, Polanski) Pierrot Le Fou (1965, Godard) Naked (1993, Leigh) Le Cercle Rouge (1970, Melville) Zed And Two Noughts (1985, Greenaway) Dead Man (1995, Jarmusch) Dawn Of The Dead (1978, Romero) Gummo (1997, Korine) High and Low (1963, Kurosawa) Danger: Diabolik (1968, Bava) Frankenstien (1931, Whale) Fellini Satyricon (1969, Fellini) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998, Gilliam) Faust (1926, Murnau) The Exorcist (1973, Freidkin) Duck Soup (1933, Mccarey) The Big Lebowski (1998, Coen) The Thing (1982, Carpenter) Withnail And I (1987, Robinson) Videodrome (1983, Cronenberg) Un Chien Andalou (1928, Bunuel) Touch Of Evil (1958, Welles) Sunrise (1927, Murnau) Sherlock Jr. (1924, Keaton) Old Boy (2005, Park) Metropolis (1927, Lang) The Kingdom (1994, Von Trier) Jaws (1975, Spielberg) Psycho (1960, Hitchcock) 8 1/2 (1963, Fellini) Breaking The Waves (1996, Von Trier) Nashville (1975, Altman) The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966, Leone) Branded To Kill (1967, Suzuki) Boogie Nights (1997, Anderson) Archangel (1990, Maddin) Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Hooper) Head (1968, Rafelson) Performance (1970, Cammell & Roeg) Fireworks (1997, Kitano) Ed Wood (1994, Burton) Jason And The Argonauts(1963, Chaffey) Alice (1988, Svenkmajer) Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1971, Herzog) Zardoz (1974, Boorman) Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964, Parajanov) Playtime (1967, Tati) Pickpocket (1959, Bresson) Petulia (1968, Lester) Orpheus (1949, Cocteau) The Nutty Professor (1963, Lewis) Night Of The Demon (1957, Tourneur) Kwaidan (1965, Kobayashi) The Draughtsman's Contract (1982, Greenaway) Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964, Kubrick) I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Tourneur) Holy Mountain (1974, Jodorowsky) Help (1965, Lester) This Is Spinal Tap (1983, Reiner) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988, Tsukamoto) Bad Timing (1980, Roeg) Black Sunday (1960, Bava) Grizzly Man (2005, Herzog) The Celebration (1998, Vinterberg) The Wizard Of Oz (1939, Fleming) Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970, Meyer) It's A Gift (1934, McLeod) Gimme Shelter (1970, Maysles) Flesh For Frankenstein (1974, Morrissey) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry) El Topo (1970, Jodorowsky) Blood For Dracula (1974, Morrissey) Beauty And The Beast (1946, Cocteau) American Movie (1999, Smith) The Thing From Another World (1951, Nyby) Star Wars (1977, Lucas) Sexy Beast (2000, Glazer) Safe (1995, Haynes) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Anderson) The Road Warrior (1981, Miller) Bedazzled (1967, Donen) Freeway (1996, Bright) American Psycho (2000, Harron) Evil Dead 2 (1987, Raimi) Babe (1995, Noonan) Schizopolis (1996, Soderberg) Satan's Brew (1976, Fassbinder) Russian Ark (2002, Sokurov) Rushmore (1998, Anderson) The Wicker Man (1973, Hardy) Repo Man (1984, Cox) Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1974, Jones & Gilliam) The Fast Runner (2001, Kunuk) Robocop (1987, Verhoeven) Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg) Sunset Boulevard (1950, Wilder) Dazed And Confused (1993, Linklater) The Decalogue (1989, Kieslowski) Daughters Of Darkness (1971, Kumel) Cure (1997, Kurosawa) Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese) Fight Club (1999, Fincher) Last Tango In Paris (1972, Bertolucci) Alphaville (1965, Godard) Dead Ringers (1988, Cronenberg) Come and See (1985, Klimov) North By Northwest (1959, Hitchcock) The Haunting (1963, Wise) A Hard Days Night (1964, Lester) The Straight Story (1999, Lynch) Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937, Disney) The Seven Samarai (1954, Kurosawa) Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock) Harold And Maude (1972, Ashby) Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983) Primer (2004, Carruth) Planet Of The Vampires (1965, Bava) Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch) The Manchurian Candidate (1965, Frankenheimer) La Age d Or (1930, Bunuel) The King Of Comedy (1983, Scorsese) The Ice Storm (1997, Lee) Heavenly Creatures (1994, Jackson) Haxen (1921, Christiansen) Habit (1996, Fessenden) The Godfather (1972, Coppola) The Godfather: Part II (1974, Coppola) The Last Frankenstien (1992, Kawamura) Adaptation (2002, Jonez) Hero (2002, Zhang) Yellow Submarine (1968, Dunning) To Die For (1995, Van Sant) Ghosts Of The Civil Dead (1988, Hillcoat) Images (1972, Altman) Brazil (1985, Gilliam) Walkabout (1971, Roeg) The Wages of Fear (1953, Clouzet) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, Lynch) Irreversible (2002, Noe) The Incredibles (2004, Bird) Quartmass And The Pit (1967, Baker) Blade Runner (1982, Scott) Black Narcissus (1947, Powell & Pressburger) Annie Hall (1977, Allen) The Devils (1971, Russell) Deliverance (1972, Boorman) Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese) Ghost Dog (1999, Jarmusch) Deconstructing Harry (1997, Allen) Decasia: The State of Decay (2002, Morrison) A Shot In The Dark (1964, Edwards) Sherman's March (1986, McElwee) Female Trouble (1974, Waters) Dumbo (1941, Sharpstein) Django (1966, Corbucci) Drugstore Cowboy (1989, Van Sant) Little Otik (2000, Svenkmajer) Le Samourai (1967, Melville) Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002, Maddin) Down By Law (1986, Jarmusch) Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Lumet) Of Freaks And Men (1998, Balabanov) Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa) Wings Of Desire (1988, Wenders) The General (1926, Keaton) Naked Lunch (1991, Cronenberg) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman) The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Coen) The Apartment (1960, Wilder) Stroszek (1977, Herzog) O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000, Coen) Night Of The Living Dead (1968, Romero) Mean Streets (1973, Scorsese) The Maltese Falcon (1941, Huston) Onibaba (1964, Shindo) Airplane! (1980, Abrahams & Zucker) Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005, July) The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah) Strangers On A Train (1951, Hitchcock) Step Across The Border (1990, Humbert & Penzell) Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki) Ganja & Hess (1973, Gunn) The Limey (1999, Soderberg) Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder) The Beyond (1981, Fulci) The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976, Roeg) Macbeth (1971, Polanski) The Prestige (2006, Nolan) Love is the Devil (1998, Maybury) The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Has) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Arnold) Fast Cheap And Out-Of-Control (1997, Morris) Fargo (1996, Coen) The Bank Dick (1940, Cline) Seconds (1966, Frankenheimer) Bad Lieutenant (1992, Ferrara) Delicatessen (1991, Jeunet & Caro) Bad Boy Bubby (1993, De Heer) Heathers (1989, Lehmann) Buffalo 66 (1998, Gallo) The Last Wave (1977, Weir) Breathless (1959, Godard) Chinatown (1974, Polanski) The Aristocrats (2005, Provenza) Belle De Jour (1967, Bunuel) Begotten (1991, Merhige) Ashik Karib (1988, Parajanov) Nosferatu (1922, Murnau) Midnight Cowboy (1969, Schlesinger) Trainspotting (1996, Boyle) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974, Cimino) Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979, Jones) The Milky Way (1969, Bunuel) Double Suicide (1969, Shinoda) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978, Landis) The Shining (1980, Kubrick) The Night Of The Hunter (1955, Laughton) Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990, Kurosawa) A Night At The Opera (1935, Wood) Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2 (2004, Tarentino) Napoleon Dynamite (2004, Hess) If ... (1969, Anderson) Cat People (1942, Tourneur) Bringing Up Baby (1938, Hawks) Being There (1979, Ashby) Audition (2000, Miike) The French Connection (1971, Friedkin) Amelie (2001, Jeunet) Reanimator (1985, Gordon) Barjo (1992, Boivin) Ratcatcher (1999, Ramsay) Punch Drunk Love (2002, Anderson) Matango (1963, Honda) F For Fake (1976, Welles) The Graduate (1967, Nichols) Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1919, Wiene) Izo (2004, Miike) The Iron Giant (1999, Bird) The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Kershner) Election (1999, Payne) 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993, Girard) Wise Blood (1979, Huston) Aliens (1986, Cameron) The Party (1968, Edwards) Solaris (1972, Tarkovsky) Solaris (2002, Soderberg) The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Bunuel) Being John Malkovich (1999, Jonez) Cabaret (1972, Fosse) Hitler: A Film From Germany (1975, Syberberg) The Falls (1980, Greenaway) The Horror Of Dracula (1958, Fisher) The 39 Steps (1935, Hitchcock) Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Vertov) Phantasm (1978, Coscarelli) Female Convict Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 (1972, Ito) Mad Max (1979, Miller) Invaders From Mars (1953, Menzies) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987, Haynes) Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jarmusch) Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975, Weir) The Masque Of Red Death (1962, Corman) Science of Sleep (2006. Gondry) Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Del Toro) Children of Men (2006, Cuarón) Spirits Of The Dead (1968, Fellini, Vadim & Malle) I Am Cuba (1964, Kalatozishvili) Sleeper (1973, Allen) Persona (1966, Bergman) Targets (1968, Bogdanovich) The Phantom Of Paradise (1974, De Palma) Star 80 (1983, Fosse) Trust (1990, Hartley) God Told Me To (1975, Cohen) Shampoo (1975, Ashby) The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman) Ginger Snaps (2000, Fawcett) Ghost World (2000, Zwigoff) Magnolia (1999, Anderson) Koyaanisqatsi (1983, Reggio) The Squid and the Whale (2005, Baumbach) Lunacy (2005, Svankmajer) Get Carter (1971, Hodges) Bob Le Flambeur (1956, Melville) The King Is Alive (2000, Levring) The Killing (1956, Kubrick) The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci) Easy Rider (1969, Hopper) All That Jazz (1979, Fosse) 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut) Marebito (2004, Shimizu) Vital (2004, Tsukamoto) The Fourth Man (1983, Verhoeven) The Naked Kiss (1964, Fuller) Man Without a Past (2002, Kaurismäki) Halloween (1978, Carpenter) West Side Story (1961, Wise) Cannibal Holocaust (1980, Deodato) From Russia With Love (1963, Young) In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Oshima) Donnie Darko (2001, Kelley) Chungking Express (1994, Kar-Wai) Carrie (1976, De Palma) Simple Men (1992, Hartley) Desperate Living (1977, Waters) Brothers of the Head (2005, Fulton & Pepe) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956, Siegel) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978, Kaufman) The Return (2003, Zvyagintsev) The Host (2006, Bong) Hard Boiled (1992, Woo) Butcher Boy (1997, Jordan) Bottle Rockets (1996, Anderson) Strange Brew (1983, Moranis & Thomas)

Television:

The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Office (UK), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Father Ted, Battlestar Galactica (new), Star Trek (original), Dr. Who (new and old) Mr. Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Da Ali G Show, Metalocalypse.

Books:

H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Terry Southern, Mark Leyner, Arthur Machen, Nathanael West, the Tarot