Richard Van Ingram
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Religion
- Occupation: Preoccupation with the impossible
- Location: Georgia : United States
About Me
I am a writer, philosopher, & artist living in a land that has little use for any of the aforementioned vocations.
Well, it isn't all that bad, is it?
Interests
- Philosophy
- Art (all sorts
- including editorial cartoons)
- Writing
- Music (no Opera
- please)
- Cinema
- high culture
- satire & humor
- low culture
- no culture
- Shepard Fairey
- SWOON
- street art
- tattooing
- politics
- ethics
- religion
- painting on clothing & motorcycle helmets
- etc.
- working myself into an early grave with nothing to show for it
Favorite Movies
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Good
- the Bad
- & the Ugly
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Magnificent Seven
- Yojimbo
- Resevoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill (all of it)
- Mean Streets
- Taxi Driver
- anything by Truffault
- Bergman
- Hitchcock
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- V For Vendetta
- The Matrix (I)
- The Pirates of the Carribean movies
- Cool Hand Luke
- Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
- Harper
- M*A*S*H
- Nashville
- True Grit
- all Film Noir
- zombie flicks
- Gladiator
- Blade Runner
- Fight Club
- El Dorado
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Escape From New York
- Escape From L.A.
- most things by John Carpenter
- Roxanne
- Serial Mom
- Natural Born Killers
- (not a movie
- but anything connected to the NEW Battlestar Galactica)
- Caddy Shack
- The Razor's Edge
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
- anything Monty Python
- 007 films
- etc.
Favorite Music
- Leonard Cohen
- Pink Floyd
- Jethro Tull
- The Clash
- The Church
- Ministry
- Black Sabbath
- Concrete Blonde
- Emerson Lake & Palmer
- Beethoven
- Ginastera
- Stravinski
- Frank Zappa
- Captain Beefheart
- Gregorian Chant
- Enigma
- Tangerine Dream
- Steve Earle
- John Prine
- Bob Dylan
- Kitaro
- Bjork
- Neil Young
- Tom Petty
- Goldfrapp
- The Chemical Brothers
- Rage Against the Machine
- Smoke
- Rock*A*Teens
- Ennio Moricone
- White Zombie
- Rob Zombie
- L7
- Iggy Pop
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- Pete Townshend
- The Cult
- The Blue Oyster Cult
- and numerous others.
Favorite Books
- Far too many to mention
- including everything from Nietzsche
- Camus
- Plato
- The early Church Fathers
- St. Augustine
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Epictetus
- Marcus Aurelius
- Seneca
- Cicero
- the Pre-Socratics - especially Heraclitus
- Maimonides
- Descartes
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Martin Heiddeger
- Ernst Cassirer
- Kant
- Martha Nussbaum
- Jacques Maritain
- Etienne Gilson
- William Faulkner
- Thomas Wolfe
- John Mortimer
- anything published by Taschen
- Ralph Steadman: "The Joke's Over
- " "Street Sketch Book" by Tristan Manco
- Kidner & Knee: "Vintage T-Shirts
- " Gavin: "Street Renegades
- " generally anything involving street art with pictures
- Harlan Ellison: "The Glass Teat
- " Kurt Vonnegut
- Jr.
- Dr. Hunter Stockton Thompson
- Dan Clowes
- Alan Moore
- Charles Burns
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Robert Crumb
- Charles Bukowski
- William Butler Yeats
- William Blake
- William kennedy Toole
- Walker Percy
- Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
- thousands more just like this whom you could equally care less about
- etc.
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