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Music:

Vinicio Capossela, Zucchero, Gianmaria Testa, Giorgio Conte ( some of my favorite Italian musicians currently working), Fred Buscaglione, Dusty Springfield, Bettye LaVette, Roy Brown, Ruth Brown, Milton Brown, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Wynonie Harris, Blossom Dearie, Ester Phillips, Shemekia Copeland, Louis Jordan, Fats Waller, Dinah Washington, Big Maybelle, Booker T & the MGs, the Mar-Keys, Cesaria Evora, Dean Martin, Dr. John, Ella Fitzgerald, Marianne Faithful, Eartha Kitt, Bebel Gilberto,Dandy Livingstone, Jimmy Cliff, Elmore James, Karrin Allyson, Koko Taylor, Duke Robillard, The Beat, Madness, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Chet Baker, Chris Connor, Chuck E. Weiss, Nat King Cole, Perez Prado, Yma Sumac, The Mavericks, Quadro Nuevo, Ricki Lee Jones, Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Sam Butera, Louie Prima, Keely Smith, Mel Torme, Etta James, Etta Jones, Aretha Franklin, The Pasedena Roof Orchestra, The Drifters, The Coasters, Sergio Mendes, Flaco Jimenez, Chris Smither, The Pretenders, Chris Isaak, Ry Cooter, The Buena Vista Social Club, John Prine, Iris Dement, Rory Block, Bonnie Rait, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Patsy Montana, Sarah Vaughn, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Madeleine Peyroux, The Holmes Brothers, Roy Orbison, The Skatalites, The Specials, Southern Culture On The Skids, The Staple Singers, Susan Tedeschi, Toots Thielemans, Spike Jones, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Cindy Cashdollar, Hank Snow, Roy Rogers, The Sons of the Pioneers, Bob Wills, Rudy Casoni...

and Janiva Magness...

Movies:

Freaks (1932)

Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1919), They Drive By Night (1940), Casablanca (1942), Detour (1945), The Killers (1946), Kiss of Death (1947), Out of the Past (1947), The Lady From Shanghai (1948), D.O.A. (1949), The Third Man (1949), Stray Dog (1949), Night and the City (1950), Gun Crazy (1950), PickUp on South Street (1953), On The Waterfront (1954), The Seven Samurai (1954),
Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Night of The Hunter (1955), Bob le Flambeur (1955), The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Throne of Blood (1957), Touch of Evil (1958), The 400 Blows (1959), Cape Fear (1962), Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill (1965), The Samurai Trilogy (1967), Le Samoruai (1967), The Graduate (1967), Great Escape (1963), High and Low (1963),The Party (1968), I Love You Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Magic Christian (1969), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore (1972), Fat City (1972), Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto Swept Away(1974), Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Stranger Than Paradise (1982), Blade Runner (1982), Diner (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Blood Simple (1985), Brazil (1985),

Down By Law (1986),

Blue Velvet (1986), Chinatown (1974), Farewell My Lovely (1975), Forbidden Zone (1980), Big Top Pee Wee (1988), Mystery Train (1989), Jacob's Ladder (1990), Miller's Crossing (1990), Goodfellas (1990), The Grifters (1990), Wild at Heart (1990), Cry-Baby (1990), Reservoir Dogs (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Usual Suspects (1995), Swingers (1996), LA Confidential (1997), Jackie Brown (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Run Lola Run (1999), Saving Private Ryan (1999), The Matrix (1999), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Oh Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), Snatch (2000), Nine Queens (2000), High Fidelity (2000), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Amelie (2001), Bourne Identity (2002), Identity (2003), The Singing Detective (2003), Underworld (2003), Kill Bill Vol.1 (2002) & Kill Bill Vol.2 (2004), The Triplettes of Bellville (2004), Layer Cake (2004), Broken Flowers (2005), Kinky Boots (2005), and any Timothy Carey movie...he's just the best thing on the screen. For MORE on Timothy Carey, please contact his son Romeo's company:

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Timothy Carey as Nick in Convicts 4 (1962)

Television:

I don't watch that much TV, but I have enjoyed a few series over the years. One of my favorite shows was the old 1950's show, TheHighway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford.

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I'm just now getting around to watching HBO's ROME and I'm sorry as hell that they couldn't continue it. I felt the same way about HBO's Carnivale. I've also enjoyed The Sopranos, Showtime's DEXTER, The Brotherhood, and WEEDS. I also loved WONDERFALLS which I never even saw when it aired, but ordered it on Netflix. I haven't been the same since. That Caroline Dhavernas drives me wild.

Books:

I do like books...especially gritty realism, crime, mysteries, American short story collections, the Beat poets and writers, fiction, non-fiction and humor. Some of my favorite authors are...

Jack Kerouac, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Bowles, K.C. Constantine, Mark Helprin, Ross MacDonald, Chester Himes, James Cain, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, Howard BrowneElizabeth Tallent, James Elroy, John Fante, Elmore Leonard, F.X. Toole, Ralph Ellison, Mark Jude Poirier, David Sedaris, Joseph Heller, William S. Burroughs, Jerzy Kosinski, Timothy Williams, Chuck Palahniuk, Lawrence Block, Charles Bukowski, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Don DeLillo, John Burdett, Andres Camilleri, Martin Limon, Qui Xiaolong, Sara Vowel, John T. Edge, Calvin Trillin, Jane Haddam, Richard Russo, Richard Ford, Louisa Ermelino, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Raymond Chandler, Dash Hammett, Jake Arnott, Robert Anton Wilson, Larry Brown, Louis Nordan, Breece D'J Pan, Hemingway, Frederick Brown, Andre Dubus, Nicholson Baker, Edward Gorey, Tom De Haven...

and my friend Eddie Muller who has written some of the greatest books on Film Noir ever published He's also a great novelist ( and no, he didn't pay me to say that! )

Heroes:

I guess my father was my hero. He was a skillful carpenter and a contractor, but he always wanted to be an actor. He did impressions of Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Bogart, John Wayne and Groucho Marx... and taught me how to do them. That's really him below there. But he wasn't a tuff guy...he's just acting