Holga and pinhole photography, Super-8mm filmmaking, painting, Buddhism, World War One, the Spanish Civil War, photography of the Spanish Civil War- esp. Robert Capa's, the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, pirates, late 19th century and early 20th century outlaws and bank robbers, old radio shows like "The Shadow", Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition on the ship "Endurance", vampire movies made between the 1920's and 1970's, German expressionism (especially the die Brucke group), Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Kirchner, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism,remodernist film, film noir, French new wave, no-wave cinema (like Amos Poe), hardboiled fiction, Link Wray, Medway music scene, Billy Childish, Thee Headcoats, Buff Medways, Thee Mighty Caesars, Tom Waits, Hasil Adkins, Blind Willie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis, Skip James, early raw gospel from the 1920's and 1930's and blues from the same time, older rhythm and blues, jazz, ballsier older rock'n'roll and rockabilly; old soul music; acting, directing plays, co-founded this renegade group/movement of filmmakers, the Remodernists.
I'd like to meet:
Collaborators (models, photographers, filmmakers artists), anyone who wants to show my paintings/photographs, screen my films or give me some goddamn money so some more work can get done! You know you want to give me money!!
Anyone with guts, spirit and authenticity. People who don't know everything or possibly anything at all either and are excited to have a sense of wonder about life and things in general too.
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Music:
Billy Childish and The Musicians of the British Empire, Thee Headcoats,Thee Headcoatees, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Milkshakes, Pop Rivets, Buff Medways, The Delmonas, Wolf Howard, Bruce Brand, Sexton Ming, Masonics, Armitage Shanks, just about anything out of the Medway scene- UK, Link Wray and his Raymen, Papa Lightfoot, Blind Willie Johnson, The Sonics, Lead Belly, Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Hasil Adkins, Son House, the Earls of Suave, Lee Hazlewood, Black Time, the Gories, Stereo Total, Public Enemy, Groovski, the Trashwomen, the Ronettes, Skip James, Rufus Thomas, Little Junior Parker, Robert Nighthawk, Wu-Tang, RZA, Little Jimmy Scott, no-wave stuff, Red Transistor, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, James Chance and the Contortions, Del-Byzanteens, old sloppy raw music with heart, old blues, old rhythm and blues, old rockabilly, some punk and early hardcore, Gustav Mahler, Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns
Movies:
Any movie with: Warren Oates, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Charles McGraw, Robert Mitchum, Harry Dean Stanton.Directors and genres I like: Jean Vigo, Yasujiro Ozu, Andrei Tarkovsky, Maurice Pialat, Dziga Vertov, Wong Kar-wai, F.W Murnau, early Jean-Luc Godard, Carl Th. Dreyer, Amos Poe, Jules Dassin, Jean Rollin (when his stuff was shot on FILM, not VIDEO), Jess Franco (when his stuff was shot on FILM, not VIDEO), Aki Kaurismaki, Kim Ki-duk, Sam Peckinpah, Claire Denis, Tsai Ming-liang except for "Goodbye Dragon Inn" which is boring and pretentious, Monte Hellman, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch (but not Inland Empire), Francois Truffaut, Harris Smith, Wolf Howard, Peter Rinaldi, Nick Zedd, Jacques Tourneur, Nicholas Ray, Busby Berkeley, Fritz Lang, John Ford, Billy Wilder, Maya Deren, some Fassbinder, early Antonioni, Jean-Pierre Melville, film noir, French and Asian new wave, no-wave cinema, Edgar G. Ulmer, Robert Bresson, B-movies from the '40-50's- especially juvenile delinquent movies and poverty row horror (Monogram Pictures, Republic, etc.) serials (SPY SMASHER), and Hammer horror movies, classic horror in general- Val Lewton stuff, Karloff, Lugosi- all that kinda thing... below are some specifics that I like, but there are much more:
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Television:
Twin Peaks, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Freaks and Geeks (lame title- great show). Why do all the tv shows I like (and there aren't many) get cancelled too quickly?Also now "Big Love"- Harry Dean Stanton is the man!
Books:
Knut Hamsun, David Goodis, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Billy Childish, Jim Thompson, George Orwell, Herman Melville, Raymond Radiguet, Bukowski, Horace McCoy, Charles Willeford, Sherwood Anderson, Nathanael West, Dostoevsky, Kafka, most early hardboiled fiction...
Heroes:
Raskolnikov, Arturo Bandini, Bartleby the Scrivener, Johan Nilsen Nagel
