Screenwriting, playwriting, songwriting, poetry, acting, music and film; I play a little acoustic guitar, banjo, etc.. and if I ever get my act together(no pun intended) I can do something with it. I also love roughing it in the great outdoors; camping, hiking, just being me. "To live is to fly, all low and high, so shake the dust off of your wings and the tears out of of your eyes."-Townes Van Zandt. I love the history of the 19th century American West, the myth and the facts! My dream would be to write about, sing about, play about or travel back in time;o) to work as a cowboy...if I become an actor I would seek out the 19th century roles, I'd fit in just fine. I LOVE IT!! Another dream of mine is to own a working ranch like my grandfather......but even if some of my dreams don't pan out, at the end of the day "all I want to do is enter my house justified."-Joel McCrea in Sam Peckinpah's 'Ride The High Country.
I'd like to meet:
.. width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" .."A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."-Rudyard Kipling.... Who I'd Like To Meet?!Hmmmmm, well, the first person that comes to mind is Countess Marlene Townshend, we're good buddies!
Music:
I love John Prine, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake, Tom Russell: musicians who could also be poets. "Lord this world will make you crazy, crazy as a loon."-Sir Prine..My favorite musical group of all-time is The Band: Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel. I LOVE early 20th century American Folk music, bluegrass, hillbilly or traditional 'country,'Mississippi delta blues, ragtime or early jazz etc..
Movies:
Alphaville, Five Easy Pieces, Wild Strawberries(anything by Ingmar Bergman), Barton Fink, Cool Hand Luke, Inherit The Wind, Ghost World, The Misfits, The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Sunset Blvd.,About Schmidt, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Hired Hand, Midnight Cowboy, The Third Man, The Elephant Man, The Straight Story(anything by David Lynch) High Plains Drifter, The Lavender Hill Mob, do you want me to keep going?haha..Ride The High Country, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia or anything by Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone too, John Ford. I love a great western! Sadly the western genre is a dead art but I'd like to change that.Ingmar Bergman is one of my favorite directors as well, it would have been interesting if he had made a western,haha.WARREN OATES is my favorite actor along with Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Robert Duvall, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson. Also, it's a shame that Marlon Brando's brilliant western 'One-Eyed Jacks' doesn't get the recognition it deserves. David Lynch again....Wim Wenders' "Paris, Texas," FW Murnau's "Faust."
Television:
British comedies, Turner Classic Movies, PBS, Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," and David Lynch's "Twin Peaks." Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny is one suave lil' rabbit....I could easily do without a TV today.
Books:
W.C. Fields & Me, beatnik literature....Bukowski..Edward Abbey, writer of 'Lonely Are The Brave,' and Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry...Eugene O' Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard..William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber, Mark Twain...Roald Dahl, Walt Whitman. I could go on.....
Heroes:
"I love winners when they cry, losers when they try, and honest, open smiles."-Tom T. Hall. How could I forget Countess Marlene Townshend?! She is a hero;o)
