Dancing, making movies, eating big breakfasts, listening to melancholy records, watching movies, zombies, drinking white russians, all things P-Ratt, landies, trees, ice cream, traveling, exercise, exploring, bikes, breakdancing, cotteges in the woods, the open road, guitar, popcorn, autumn, etc etc........ .. width="425" height="350" .... (May 18th 2005, Pratt Ratts at Kenchington Cottage, performing Flaming Grimsdyke "I'm Flaming")(shot by Elena Mangione)
the open road
Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Television, Patti Smith, Modern Lovers, Belle and Sebastian, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Drake, Willie Nelson, Kimya Dawson, Daniel Johnston, White Stripes, Tori Amos, Motorhead, echo and the bunnymen, papa m, joe ely, equivel, the jesus and mary chain, PJ Harvey, Roy Orbinson, Palace Music, Phil Spector, the crystals, lee hazelwood, serge gainsbourg, the clash, talking heads, leadbelly, Mickey Newbury, Guy Clark, Fred Neil, Stevie Wonder, Pogues, Dave Van Ronk, Parliament/Funkadelic, John Jacob Nile, Tex Ritter, Leo Kottke, The Handsome Family, the carter family, hank williams, Son House, Slayer, Bauhaus, REM, Johnny Thunders, Julie Cruise, This mortal Coil, Woody Guthrie, Towne Van Zandt, Bonnie Prince billy, Van Morrison, The Doors, Iron and wine, Adam Green, Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Danzig, The Misfits, Jackson c frank, Al Green, loretta lynn, beach boys, Ramones, suicide, Nuitral Milk Hotel, swans, modest mouse, the band, pulp, beethoven, wagner, etc
Any and All Werner Herzog films(favorites: Stroszek, signs for life, the enigma of Kasper Hauser), David Lynch- Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Elephant man; Woody Allen - Annie Hall, Manhattan; Kubrick 2001: Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon: Wes Anderson - Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic;Fassbinder films - In Year with 13 moons, Ali fear eats the soul; Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man, Stranger then Paradise, Down by law, Broken Flowers; Gus Van Sant - MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, Elephant, Drugstore cowboy, Mala Noche; Terrence Malick - Badlands, Days of Heaven, the Thin red line, The New World; David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor zhivago, bridge of the river kwai; Michelangelo Antonioni - L' Avventura, La Notte, L'Éclipse, The Passenger; Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, Sans Soleil, Night of the Living Dead, dawn of the dead, Evil Dead, Kenneth Anger - scorpio rising; Don't look now, adventures in babysitting, bonnie and clyde, waking life, pink flamingos, texas chainsaw(original), gummo, Robert Altman, mccabe and ms miller, the wild bunch, the searchers, last tango in paris, the conformist, weekend, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, Robert Bresson, Mouchette, au hasard balthazar, me and you and everyone we know, 400 blows, night of the hunter, mash, freaks, rosemarrys baby, koyaanisqatsi, lord of the rings, last picture show, big labowski, o brother where art thou, jfk, tarnation, last of england, Dog Days, Slacker, Wings of Desire, King of the Road, paris texis, The passion of Joan of arc, Once upon a time in the west, tokyo story, the tin drum, cabaret, donnie darko, apocalypse now, the good the bad and the ugly, citizen kane, legand, blade runner, brakhage, cool hand luke, western films, super 8 films, etc...
TWIN PEAKS, Entourage, sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Aqua Teen, law and order, etc...
.. width="425" height="350" ....Salinger - catcher in the rye; Leonard Cohen - beautiful losers, poerty; Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn; Bukowski - ham on rye, Factotum, The most beautiful girl in town; Jack Kerouac - On the Road; Albert Camus - L'Etranger; Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5; William Burroughs - Naked Lunch; Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf, JT Leroy - sarah, the heart is deceitful about all things, howard's end; Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself To Live; Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian; Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises; Go Ask Alice; T.S. Elliot poetry, Georg Buchner plays; Allen Ginsberg poetry, etc
Leonard Cohen, Werner Herzog, Bob Dylan, Henry Miller, Neal Cassidy, Jim Jarmusch, Warren Oats, Richard Burton, Robert Mitchem, Mickey Newbury, Andre Gregory, Tom Waits, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull-Spalding Gray-