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Garret

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

About Me

existence before essence

My Interests

photography. suits. World War II.

I'd like to meet:

Gloria Grahame, Jean Brooks, Weegee, Ernst Junger

Music:

Sam Cooke, The Clash, CCR,The Animals, Billy Bragg, Jimmie Rodgers, The Johnny Burnette Rock 'n Roll Trio, Otis Redding, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sarah Vaughn, Queen, Jeff Buckley, Carl Perkins, James Brown, Johnny Cash, The Exit, Tom Waits, Refused, Robert Johnson, Link Wray, Aerosmith, Little Richard, Portishead, AC/DC, Chuck Berry, The Stalkers, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale

Movies:

Night and the City, The Seventh Victim, Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, The Big Sleep, The Big Heat, Crossfire, Murder My Sweet, Casque D'or, Body Heat, The Professional, Last Man Standing, The Outsiders, Dark City, Thunderball, Citizen Kane, Buffalo '66, 12 Monkeys, Dead Man, City of Lost Children, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, True Romance, Chinatown, Bringing Out The Dead, La Femme Nikita, Murder in the First, Edward Scissorhands, City of God, Cabin Boy, 28 Days Later, The Warriors, Sleepy Hollow, The Boondock Saints, Mystery Train, Down by Law, American Psycho, Blow-up, Scarface (1932), Lone Wolf and Cub (all 6), Star Wars, At Close Range, Seven, Dead End, The Cat People, Paths of Glory, Downfall, Stalingrad, Europa Europa, Downfall, Das Boot, Come and See, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, etc.

Books:

The Stranger, A Happy Death, Choke, Ways of Seeing, The Philosophy of J.P. Sartre, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer, A Stranger to Myself by Willy Peter Reese, Copse 125 by Ernst Junger

Heroes:

Montgomery Williams III, Bernie Weekends.