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danball

Music/Artist Photographer, Over 001 billion soul'd

About Me

"Have Nikon, Won't Shudder" www.danball.com, allmusic.com, livefrommemphis.com, imdb.com, MemphisFlyer/MemphisMag_Archives.

My Interests

Recognizing beauty, dodging bullets and cultivating a life long body of work...and play.

I'd like to meet:

*R.I.P. Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007) & Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)*Veruschka, Tilda Swinton, Leni Riefenstahl, Falconetti, Mario Bava, Pete Frame, Ray Davies, Peter Beard, Bigfoot and anyone who wants to be my client.

Music:

The Kinks, Sam Cooke's Night Beat, Love, Scott Walker, Big Star, Badfinger, T-rex, Yo la Tengo, Rolling Stones, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, The Grifters, The Oblivians, The Sonics, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Broadcast, Tav Falco/Panther Burns, Mouserocket, Viva l'American Deathray, Skip Spence, Bloodthirsty Lovers, Magic Sam, Scott Bomar, Lost Sounds, Flaming Lips, Guided by Voices, Jackson C Frank, Hound Dog Taylor, River City Tanlines, Daniel Johnston, Syd Barrett, Gram Parsons, Guitar Wolf, Joe Meek, Os Mutantes, MC5, Lou Reed/VU, The Stooges, Roy Orbison, Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra, ? & The Mysterians, Impala, Jimi Hendrix, The Fugs, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Chico Hamilton, Yusef Lateef, Taj Mahal, Beach Boys, Serge Gainsbourg, Gabor Szabo, Charles Lloyd, Howling Wolf, Al Green, Stereolab, Ugly Things, Compulsive Gamblers, The Amps, Reigning Sound, Sonic Youth, Alan Vega/Martin Rev, Ramones, Dan Penn, Megan Reilly, Country Rockers, Shelby Bryant, The Clears, Alicja Trout, Jack Oblivian, Dutchmasters, Gris Gris.

Movies:

Children of Men (2006), Art School Confidential (2006), The Proposition (2006), City of God (2002), War Photographer (2001), Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2005), Hybrid (2000), The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005), Darling (1965), Little Big Man (1970), Monterey Pop (1967), Gimme Shelter (1970), The Loved One (1965), Billy Budd (1962), Little Murders (1971), Pulp (1972), Cisco Pike (1971), The Unknown (1927), 8 & 1/2 (1963), Breathless (1960), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999), The Passion of Joan of Arch (1928), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), A Fine Madness (1966),The President"s Analyst (1967), Bedazzled (1967), The Knack..and how to get it (1965), Medium Cool (1968), Point Blank (1967), The Cockfighter (1974), Juilet of the Spirits (1965), Klute (1971) A film about Jimi Hendrix (1973). They Shoot Horses, Don't they? (1969), I love you, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Party (1968), Fantastic Planet (1973), Nico Icon (1995), The Hill (1965), Blow up (1966), Mystery Train (1989), After Hours (1985), 'Round Midnight (1986), The Looking Glass War (1969), Crumb (1994), Theremin (1994), Beatles Anthology (1995)/The Rutles (1978), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Female Perversions (1996), The King of Marvin Gardens(1972), Midnight Cowboy(1969) Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Bullitt (1968), Love and Death (1976), Siesta (1987), Diva (1981), Barfly (1987), To live and die in L.A. (1985), Chinatown (1974), Rushmore (1998), Dirty Harry (1971), The Swimmer (1968), Lilith (1964), Paths of Glory (1957), Barry Lyndon (1975), Slaughter House five (1972), Montenegro (1981), Blume in Love (1973), Cinema Paradiso (1989), Henry & June (1990), Electra Glide in Blue (1973), Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Django (1966), Flim Flam Man (1967), Coogan's Bluff (1968), Smithereens (1982), Diabolik (1968), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Ciao Manhattan (1971)but, read Edie: An American Bio before viewingComing soon in 2007...Control (2007), Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007)

Television:

BBC news, PBS, C-span, Simpsons, The Office(UK), Numbers, Life, Bionic Woman (ouch!).

Books:

It came from Memphis by Robert Gordon, Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, The Good War by Studs Terkel, Art and Artist by Otto Rank, On Photography by Susan Sontag, Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, Anything by Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald or Jim Thompson, Diane Arbus an Aperture Monograph, Tulsa by Larry Clark, The Americans by Robert Frank, William Eggleston's Guide, The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult.

Heroes:

Lord Buckley, James Nachtwey, Robert Capa & Gerda Taro, Roberto Clemente, Steve McQueen, Evil Knievel, Diane Arbus, Brian Wilson, The Diggers, Any Astronaut(except for the diaper/stalker lady) and T-Model Ford.