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About Me

In 1988 I met Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry while getting smashed on Harp Lager and awaiting a Van Morrison concert in the Upper Circle Bar at London's Hammersmith Odeon. It has been all downhill for me from there.

Interests

• Music
• Art
• Travel
• Architecture
• Literature
• History
• Movies
• Politics
• Environmental Advocacy
• Despising Bush and His Ilk

Favorite Movies

• I only remember movies I dislike. A movie I can't seem to forget:
• Crash. Another recent haunter:
• Little Miss Sunshine.
• Okay
• I've remembered some favorites:
• Aguirre Wrath of God
• Fitzcarraldo
• most of the rest of Werner Herzog's stuff
• Sweetie
• Un Air de Famille
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Ran
• Secrets and Lies
• Jean de Florette
• The Celebration
• Gosford Park
• Love Liza
• Brazil
• Tampopo
• Breaking the Waves
• Dancer in the Dark
• Big Night

Favorite Music

• Damien Jurado
• Lambchop
• Hayden
• Calexico
• Howe Gelb
• PJ Harvey
• Will Oldham
• etc.
• Townes Van Zandt
• Dylan
• Tom Waits
• Van Morrison
• Brian Eno
• etc.
• Coltrane
• Miles
• Billie Holiday
• Chet Baker
• Oscar Peterson
• etc.

Favorite Books

• Ulysses
• JR
• Infinite Jest
• Gravity's Rainbow
• Pale Fire
• Disgrace
• Waiting For the Barbarians
• Life & Times of Michael K.
• In the Heart of the Country
• Blood Meridian
• Moby Dick
• The Odyssey
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Slaughterhouse Five
• The Sound and the Fury
• A Passage to India
• The Trial
• To the Lighthouse
• Notes From Underground
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• A Frolic of His Own
• White Noise
• The Crying of Lot 49
• Hamlet
• The Tempest
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Zorba the Greek

My Blogs	Team Members
If I Ran the Zoo	Tom Hilton aimai Steve M. Kathy Deb Nobody in Particular Deborah Shiltone
A Frolic of His Own
Pixe... at an Exhibition	Generik Tom Hilton