R.H. Mustard

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City Noir

About me

Location	Los Angeles, United States
Introduction	I like L.A.'s warm, dry summers, its wet winters washing everything clean, when there is big surf, Santa Ana wind, sudden, late afternoon light.
Interests	Road Cycling, Eddy Merckx, la Giro d'Italia, le Tour de France, la Vuelta a Espana, Paris-Roubaix, Campagnolo; vintage lugged steel road frames, preferably Italian, especially Colnago; vintage British cars, MG, Austin-Healey (especially the 3000), Triumph, the e-Type Jag, Le Mans, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, the Edwardian period, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Raymond Chandler, Bernard Malamud, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, C.J. Jung, Michel de Montaigne, Haruki Murakami, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saul Bellow, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, James M. Cain, Anton Chekov, Mark Rothko, Impressionism, Caravaggio, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism
Favorite Movies	Out of the Past, High Noon, Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, Confidential Agent, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Breaking Point, Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, From Here to Eternity, Key Largo, Billy Budd, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Outland, 3:10 To Yuma (1957), The Ox-Bow Incident, Rebecca, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, L'avventura, The Passenger, La Dolce Vita, Wild Strawberries, John Garfield, Jean Arthur, Gene Tierney, Marcello Mastroianni
Favorite Music	Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Bruckner, Bartok, Berlioz, Mahler, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Copland, Debussy, Glenn Gould, Pablo Casals, John Williams, Paco Pena, Enya, Doc Watson, Paul Simon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Eva Cassidy, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, David Bromberg, Don Henley, Tom Rush, Bob Dylan, Lightin' Hopkins, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Michelle Branch, Merle Haggard, John Prine, Townes Van Sandt, Patsy Cline, Sarah Vaughan, Liquid Mind, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Kasey Chambers, Alison Krauss, Nickelback, Creed, & never to be under-rated, silence
Favorite Books	Winner Take Nothing (A Clean, Well-Lighted Place), The Sun Also Rises, Sons and Lovers, Women In Love, Ulysses, Hamlet, Cat's Cradle; Bartleby, the Scrivener; Rappaccini's Daughter, Goodbye Columbus, Seize the Day, The Naked and the Dead, Being and Nothingness, The Stranger, In Cold Blood, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Moby Dick, The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, Death In Venice, A New Life, The Catcher in the Rye, Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find), Raymond Carver, ee cummings, T.S. Eliot, John Keats, Tobias Woolf, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, Graham Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, Ranier Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Philip Larkin, Charles Simic, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Gary Soto, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Anthony Hecht