bad photography (i don't enjoy bad photography - i take bad photographs), coney island (for pizza, skeeball, burlesque, mermaids, the sideshow and looking at old rides about to fall after a century of rusting away, but not riding on them), dogs and cats, cats and dogs, living without cars, walking, walking in the cold, riding on trains, animation, puppetry, movies, the discovery of food, the discovery of music, trying to sleep through the mess that's being made of the world, and wanting to change it at the same time, fun houses, watching tennis on tv, and the search for the perfect cupcake. And http://rupertmag.typepad.com.
Music
The Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista, Carla Bozulich, Scarnella, Ethyl Meatplow, The Night Porter (there is a running theme here), Nels Cline, 2 Foot Yard, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney, R.E.M., The Handsome Family, Carolyn Mark, Curtis Mayfield, Prince, Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields, Carla Kihlstedt, Charming Hostess, anything involving the sublime genius of Shahzad Ismaily, VOCO, Misscincinati, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds generally but right now very much enjoying "Dig! Lazurus! Dig!," Nellie McKay, Flare, Metric, LaVern Baker, Smoke (Benjamin Dickerson), Jim White, Kiki and Herb, X-Ray Spex, Bettye Swann, Blossom Dearie, Dreaming Ferns, Forget Cassettes, Dolly Parton, Bootsy Collins, Richard Hell, Holly and the Italians, Freakwater, Run On, Skeeter Davis, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Marianne Faithfull, Public Enemy, Julian Koster, Ketty Lester, Sly Stone, Bill Withers, Kimya Dawson, The Evolution Control Committee, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Lennon, Cibo Matto, Lord Invader, Quintron and Pussycat, Irene Moon, Kelly Hogan, Ethel Waters, Dresden Dolls, Death Cab for Cutie, The Kropotkins, Deerhoof, Blonde Redhead, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, The Mountain Goats, Low, Cooper-Moore, Marc Ribot, Susie Iberra, Chocolate Genius, M. Ward, Smokey and Miho, Joy Division, Burd Early, Pink Nasty, Billie Holiday, Judy Holliday as a singer (and she's really one of my favorite singers), Fred Astaire as a singer, Zooey Deschanel as a singer and of course Hoagie Carmichael (who also acted in To Have or Have Not)
Movies
Vagabond, The Gleaners and I, La Pointe Courte, Down By Law, Dead Man, Stranger Than Paradise, Gas Food Lodging, Grace of My Heart, Things Behind the Sun, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Faces, Gloria, Big Night, Harold and Maude, Safe, The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble In Paradise, To Be of Not To Be (with Lombard and Benny), The Shop Around the Corner, The Death of Mr. Lazerescu, Pan's Labyrinth, Shoot the Piano Player, 3 Women, Nashville, Belle du Jour, The Last Metro, Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind, It Should Happen to You, Spirited Away, Night of the Hunter, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Black Cat, The Old Dark House, The Face Behind the Mask, Waitress, All The Real Girls, Bright Leaves, Sherman's March, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ed Wood, Stage Door, Christopher Strong, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, A Face in the Crowd, The Thin Man, The Bandwagon, Singin' in The Rain, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Junebug, The Station Agent, The Baxter, You/Me/Everyone We Know, Monsieur Verdoux, The Circus, The Gold Rush, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Hair, The Apartment, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hair, Almost Famous, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Dark Crystal, Young Frankenstein, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Shall We Dance, Swing Time and every Astaire and Rogers musical, the animated films of Faith and John Hubley, the animated films of Bob Clampett, the animated films of Dave Fleischer, the animated films of Nina Paley, Begone Dull Care by Norman McLaren, the short films of Maya Deren.
Television
Obsessively watching What's My Line? reruns at 3am on the game show network. I know way too much about Buffy and Angel.
Books
Currently reading: Love Among the Ruins following up after The Moviegoer by Walker Percy; Up In The Old Hotel (Joseph Mitchell), all the Glass family things, The Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Requiem for a Dream, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Razor's Edge, Evil by Rennie Sparks, The Blindfold by Siri Hudsvedt, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote, Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler, The Unprofessionals by Julie Hecht (thanks Franny), Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the essays of EB White, and what the hell, Charlotte's Web, The Age of Innocence, The Dispossesed by Ursula LeGuin, Mother Night by Vonnegut, the poems of Kenneth Koch, Pnin by Nabokov, Franky Furbo, Vonnegut's stuff, Shakespeare, especially The Tempest and I Henry IV
About me: i would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way to the answer. - rainer maria rilke
Who I'd like to meet:
... myself, but i always end up coming apart at the seams.
Hi and thanks for the friendship! Black Bile Extempore, an album with our deconstruction of John Dowland’s galliard Can She Excuse will be released on August 20 during the Happy Nordic Music Days in Oslo. The CD release will be celebrated with a duo performance on guitars and electronics at Sound of Mu at 20:00 on August 20. This performance is organized by NoTAM, the studio in Oslo where the album was recorded. On our site you will find six tracks from the album. All best!/The Black Bile Galliards
hi anthony--thanks for that rilke quote. he's so reassuring. that's too bad you can't make saturday, we'll be at celebrate brooklyn on the 22nd as well, and flushing town hall on the 12th. i love carla bozulich too. cheers, haale
Hi Anthony, thanks a lot for adding me and for my song in your myspace. I love this records with carla bozulich and I'm proud on it.The record will be released on the first half on may. for info ask to www. myspace. com/longsongrecords thanks and stay in touch. s.
no quizzes--the problem with that is that you get your a** kicked on buffy quizzes and you have to invite people. which reminds me i must tend to my lil lohan. redundancy rules!
Like the tagline Monarch Comics puts below my signoff says, "Witch hunts aren't about hunting witches. They never were." so the only thing I'm hunting today are treat bags, preferably the good ones with the comic books and Gas-X in them.
If you ever need help, just call me on my Witch Watch and I'll be there. I fight the evils that hide in the shadows and point the finger of blame at everyone but themselves. I hunt the hunters. I figured you'd dig the mission.
I'll see you soon. Have a very Happy Halloween and Be well.
