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one eye open's Interests
General
Painting and Drawing , Coffee , Hardcore Punk , Art , Books , An unnatural desire to live in Paris, Music , Movies , Traveling , Road Trips and other long drives with no real destination , Camping , Games, Role Playing Games , Riding my Bicycle , Fixing up the House , Working in the Garden
Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Lounge Lizards, Nick Cave, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Pachelbel, Penderecki, Albinoni, Joy Division, Dead Can Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pixies, Dinosaur JR., Big Country, Maggot Sandwich, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks ,Black Flag, Henry Rollins, Minutemen, Mike Watt, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Saccharine Trust, Husker DU, Bob Mould , Firehose, Agent Orange, the Faction, Sonic Youth, Misfits, Samhain, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard, Die Kreuzen, Big Black, Girls vs. Boys, New Wet Kojak, Sepultura, Tool, Shinjuku Thief, Scorn, Lustmord, Sigur Roos, Bill Frisell, Angelo Badalamenti and lots of Soundtracks for painting to : including Event Horizon, Blade Runner, Conan, Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with me
Movies
INLAND EMPIRE , Children of Men
, Se7en , Empire Strikes Back , Spiderman , Lost in Translation , BarFly, Night of the Hunter, Halloween, The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, Conan , To Live , Hard Boiled , Hero , House of Flying Daggers , GodFather I and II , Sixth Sense , Tombstone , Pale Rider , Platoon , Full Metal Jacket , Pollock , Brazil , Whale Rider , Fast Times at Ridgemont High , Stripes , Traffic , Collateral , ManHunter , Heat , And I am sure I will think of more later.
Television
, Rome , Entourage, Curb your Enthusiasm ,GlobeTrekker, Daily Show , The Shield ,Battlestar Galactica , The Wire , Anthony Bourdain : No Reservations .
Old stuff : Homicide , Seinfeld , American Gothic , Millinnium
Books
Reading now :"Catching the Big Fish" David Lynch, "An Instance of the Fingerpost" Iain Pears, "Warped Passages: Unraveling the mysteries of the universe's hidden dimensions" Lisa Randall , Favorites :Books on Art and Artists, "Down and Out in Paris and London" George Orwell, "Tropic of Cancer" Henry Miller, "A Moveable Feast" Hemingway, "Travels with Charley" John Steinbeck, "Boy in the Air" Don Bajema "No Longer Human" Osamu Dazai, "A confederacy of Dunces" John Kennedy Toole, "Stories and Text for Nothing" Samuel Beckett, "The Complete Stories" Flannery O'Connor, "Paris to the Moon" Adam Gopnik, "The Unbearable lightness of Being" Milan Kundera, "Love in the Time of Cholera" Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Street of Crocidiles" Bruno Schultz, "A Wild Sheep Chase" Haruki Murakami, "Factotum"Charles Bukowski, "Tales of ordinary madness" Charles Bukowski, "Palm of the Hand Stories "Yasunari Kawabata, 'Snow Country" Yasunari Kawabata, "A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat " Arthur Rimbaud, "Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)" Charles Baudelaire, "Elric Saga" Michael Moorcock, "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" J.R.R. Tolkien, "Song of Fire and Ice series" George R.R.Martin, Most every thing I have read by H.P. Lovecraft, "The Yellow Sign and Other Stories" Robert W. Chambers .... Thats a good start
Heroes
Caravaggio••••••••••••Edvard Munch Egon Shiele••••••••••••••••••Francis Bacon Lucian Freud••••••••••••••••••••••Rembrandt Van Rijn Leonardo DaVinci , N.C. Wyeth , Claude Monet , Odd Nerdrum , Frank Frazetta , Max Beckman , George Inness , Iri and Toshi Maruki , August Rodin , Henry Miller , Charles Bukowski , Jean Leon-Gerome , Jules Breton , Bill Murray , David Lynch , Jim Dine , Thomas Jefferson , Henry Rollins
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
--- Henry Miller
It is a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.
--- Haruki Murakami
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--- Benjamin Franklin
"In my dream, I see these fantastic paintings that were done by somebody else. And I wish that I had painted them. And I wake up, and after a while the impression wears off. I say, wait a minute, those are my paintings. I dreamt them; they're mine. Then I can't remember what they were." --- David Lynch
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
--- Vincent van Gogh
I should have been, I don’t know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
--- Francis Bacon
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
--- Georges Rouault
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
--- Charles Bukowski
I just finished reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. For some reason it made me think that you would have loved it. I hope you did get to read it. I miss you.
im sure that you aleready know this but in harry potter your patrounous is an animal that you care about so last night i had an idea.whenever i get the chance im going to find out your favorite animal so that whenever im playing i can say that it my patronous.by the way i finished my book and it was the best that i have ever read!
For those needing some closure to this mystery. I received word that Thomas had a rare disease called Sarcoidosis, this disease is a multi-organ disease, Thomas was found to have it in his heart, lungs, spleen, and liver. It is believed that Thomas had a Disturbed heart rhythm (arrhythmia) causing his sudden death. Please visit http://www.stopsarcoidosis.org to learn more and make a donation to the research of this complex disease for which the cause and cure are unknown. We miss you Thomas! Love Your Little Brother Dan
THOMAS, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOOKING DOWN AND READING ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS AND I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOUR NEWPHEW FINISHED HAPPY POTTER 7 TONIGHT AND HE WAS SO PROUD!!! WE LOVE AND MISS YOU!!!!!! PAIGE
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, Se7en , Empire Strikes Back , Spiderman , Lost in Translation , BarFly, Night of the Hunter, Halloween, The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, Conan , To Live , Hard Boiled , Hero , House of Flying Daggers , GodFather I and II , Sixth Sense , Tombstone , Pale Rider , Platoon , Full Metal Jacket , Pollock , Brazil , Whale Rider , Fast Times at Ridgemont High , Stripes , Traffic , Collateral , ManHunter , Heat , And I am sure I will think of more later.
, Rome , Entourage, Curb your Enthusiasm ,GlobeTrekker, Daily Show , The Shield ,Battlestar Galactica , The Wire , Anthony Bourdain : No Reservations .
Old stuff : Homicide , Seinfeld , American Gothic , Millinnium
