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Eric's in L.A.

The future's not what it use to be.

About Me

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or as heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Life is now, every moment." -Henry Miller

My Interests

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)

I'd like to meet:

the open road

Music:

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

Movies:

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...

Television:

TWIN PEAKS, Entourage, sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Aqua Teen, law and order, etc...

Books:

.. 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

Heroes:

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-

My Blog

15th day on the road: An America of the Mind...

America, the imagination, and life on the road - a summation by Henry Miller. (I've never read truer words about the act of travel.)"Is it really 'me' that is rotting in this bright California sunshin...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:30:00 PST

It’s official, I’m moving to California...

I'm leaving Boston and the East Coast and driving cross-country to live in Los Angeles California!I plan on leaving the east coast in less then 2 weeks, and I'd like to see all my Boston friends befor...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

I returned from Europe a year ago today: Last Journal Entry.

'Because I know that time is always time / And place is always and only place / And what is actual is actual only for one time / And only for one place'  T. S. Elliot "Ash Wednesday"-It's Good To Be ...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:55:00 PST

I left for Europe a year ago today. Here are the final 120 select photos...

It was a year ago that I left for my 3 month sojourn in Europe last summer. Here are the final 120 select photos.-GERMANY - Dinkelsbuhl, Rothenburg, Bacharach, Munich, Fussen, Berlin-NETHERLANDS - Ams...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

Once I dreamed...

Once I dreamed I was walking in a cemetery, and suddenly I noticed something strange. The inscriptions on the graves were not like those I knew. Usually you see "Born 1918, died 1968" or "Born 1927, d...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:42:00 PST

Reflecting and Reassessing: 'cutting out the noise'

11:42pm Febuary 5th 2007, on arrivng home from Los Angeles. Reflecting and reassessing two years:  Boston, graduation, New York, Europe, New Hampshire, Los Angeles, and back to Boston. -The words...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:49:00 PST

Cancer: How to better understand the crab in your life.

Cancer: the Teddy Bear or the Tumor of the Zodiac? Cancer is an astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Cancer. Under the tropical zodiac, Cancer is occupied by the Sun from June...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:42:00 PST

Back in the Boston area & starting a new job...

"...when I reached my prime, I left my home in the maritimes/and  I headed down the turnpike for new england, sweet new england..." I'm officially back in the Boston area ...at least for the...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

More Photos from my trip to Europe - Part 2

100 more select photos from my travels in Europe this past summer.  This set is from my travels in:   -ITALY -  Florence, Orvieto, Rome, Venice   -GREECE - Athens, Kos(where Herzo...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:27:00 PST

Letter: 'Autumn'

"Praised be man/he is existing in milk, and living in lillies/and his violin music takes place in milk and creamy emptiness/praised be the unfolded inside petal flesh of tenderest thought/praised be d...
Posted by Eric's in L.A. on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:31:00 PST