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Giles

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Detroit-based artist working principally in film, photography & sculpture. I write as well, but have as yet shared little. I've seen a lot but not nearly enough. I enjoy moving about, exploring, gaining knowledge. I'm staying very busy, and check this site infrequently, but I'll get back to contact everyone who's emailed eventually, and certainly encourage further communication. Meanwhile, use my comcast email for a more rapid response.

My Interests

Film/Guns/Scuba/Construction/Demolition/Travel/Exploration/W omen/Tattoo/Insects/Art

I'd like to meet:

Cinema Contacts - Actors/Actresses, Crew/Network & Friends/A Lovely Benefactress

Music:

Goblin ; Eddie Noack ; Mummies ; Pete Drake ; Slim Harpo ; Sleep ; John Lee Hooker ; Throbbing Gristle ; Wanda Jackson ; Kool Kieth ; Tego Calderon ; SPK ; Richard Berry ; RL Burnside ; Negative Approach ; Mose Allison ; Monks ; Jimmy Castor Bunch ; Geto Boys ; Jimmy Reed ; Gories ; Charles Mingus ; GBH ; Esham ; Flying Lizards ; Captain Beefheart ; Curtis Mayfield ; Butthole Surfers ; Bo Diddley ; Mr. Lif ; Paik ; Simaryp ; Fantomas ; Ananda Shankar ; Os Mutantes ; Gangstarr ; Robert Johnson ; KRS1 ; Bad Brains ; Motorhead ; Yma Sumac ; Killdozer ; Orishas ; Flipper ; Utramagnetic MC's ; Black Sabbath ; Slick Rick ; Roky Erickson ; UTFO ; Kinks ; Emergency Broadcast Network ; Latcho Drom ; Chrome ; John Holt ; Sonics ; King Sunny Ade ; Anti-Nowhere League ; Brian Eno ; Dead Boys ; Devo ; Melvins ; Fugs ; Oppressed ; Negativeland & "Liar, Liar" by the Castaways.

Movies:

"The Killing" by Stanley Kubrick ; "Vernon, Florida" by Errol Morris ; "Even Dwarves Start Small", "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" & "Fitzcaraldo" by Werner Herzog ; "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" by Tobe Hooper ; "Suspiria" by Dario Argento ; "Kiss Me Deadly" by Robert Aldrich ; "The Bad Seed" by Mervyn LeRoy ; "Night of the Hunter" by Charles Laughton ; "El Topo" & "The Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky; "The Thing" by John Carpenter ; "Invocation of my Demon Brother" by Kenneth Anger ; "M" by Fritz Lang ; "A Zed & Two Noughts" by Peter Greenaway ; "The Man Who Laughs" with Conrad Veidt ; "The Penalty" with Lon Chaney ; "The Unknown" & "Freaks" by Tod Browning ; "The Tin Drum" by Volker Schlondorff ; "Playtime" & "Mon Oncle" by Jacques Tati ; "Shock Corridor" & "The Naked Kiss" by Sam Fuller ; Diabolique" & "The Wages of Fear" by H.G. Clouzot ; "Blood Simple" by Joel & Ethan Coen ; "Cool Hand Luke" by Stuart Rosenberg ; "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott ; "Female Trouble" by John Waters ; "The Fantastic Planet" by Rene Laloux ; "Crippled Masters" by Joe Law ; "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance", "Oldboy" & "Lady Vengeance" by Chan-wook Park ; "Denti" by Gabriele Salvatores ; "I Stand Alone" & "Irreversible" by Gaspar Noe ; "City of God" by Fernando Meirelles ; "Pixote" & "Carandiru" by Hector Babenco ; "The Grandmother" & "Eraserhead" by David Lynch ; "Killer of Sheep" by Charles Burnett ; "Night & Fog" by Alain Resnais ; "Mothlight" & "The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes" by Stan Brakhage ; "Begone Dull Care" & "Neighbors" by Norman McLaren ; "Run" by Herk Harvey ; "The House in the Middle" ; "Sonny Boy" ; "Spider Baby" ; ad nauseum.

Television:

Frontline, CSPAN & BBC, the rest seems to be an embarassing waste of time and a discouraging indication of idiocy that's running rampant.

Books:

J.G. Ballard ; Jim Thompson ; Dashiel Hammet ; Cornell Woolrich ; Raymond Chandler ; Philip K. Dick ; Noam Chomsky ; Charles Goines ; Iceberg Slim ; Cormac McCarthy ; Idries Shah ; Aldous Huxley ; William Burroughs ; Charles Bukowski ; Bataille ; Rimbaud ; Sartre ; Nietzche ; Plato ; Celine ; Daniel Mannix ; James Ellroy ; Flannery O'Connor ; Pier Lagerkvist ; Charles Willeford ; "Really the Blues" by Mezz Mezzrow ; "You Can't Win" by Jack Black ; "Flesh & Blood" by Reay Tannahill ; nonfiction & reference materials.

Heroes:

Carl Panzram & Noam Chomsky.