The Man Of A Hundred Faces

"I don't like the laws and I don't want to be a slave
of the alarm clock my whole life."

- Jacques Mesrine

Mesrine, Milk & Cookie

Last day at the gallery. Marked the occasion with
my usual glass of milk & chocolate milk cookie. Also
featuring one of the many faces of Mesrine. By far
the best French film I've seen since A Prophet
2 days earlier...

HERZOG

''Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious,
money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep.
He should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda
should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting
him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent
should bite him and make his brain explode! No, panther
claws should rip open his throat, that would be much too
good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes
and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the
plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more
I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.''

- Klaus Kinski

Kaleidoscope Obscura

I think I might start watching films through a
kaleidoscope...

Bob Dylan vs. A.J.Weberman

Meet A.J.Weberman, the self proclaimed
Dylanologist. My Dylan obsession doesn't quite
hit the levels his did...

SERRY JEINFELD

Claude VI presents Serry Jeinfeld's debut

show at Liverpool's Studio 2, Parr Street,

Friday 26th November. Films and wasabi

peas o'plenty.

Coffee & Cigarettes

If I could ever walk into a film, I think this would be it.

EIN FILM VON WIM WENDERS

Finally watched Wings Of Desire. It doesn't get much
better than that. It's been two days and it's still haunting me.
Wim Wenders run for the hills because I'm coming to take
everything you've got.

Talkin' Saturday Mornin' Gallery Blues

After selling my soul to Martin Scorsese, I paid
tribute to two of the finest blues-men known to man,
Son House & Robert Johnson. A milk & cookie
break soon ensued.

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

Martin Scorsese's odyssey of blues will cost me
13 hours of my life....where do I sign? I've also
got my paws on the final two films of the Jarmusch
collection along with 4 hours of Vincent Cassel.

Top 25

Anne J.Regan threw down the gauntlet and challenged
me to list my 25 favourite films of all time, in order. After
relentless headaches and sleepless nights, here's the finished article:

1.Badlands
2.There Will Be Blood
3.A Clockwork Orange
4.Taxi Driver
5.Barry Lyndon
6.Fitzcarraldo
7.Mean Streets
8.Goodfellas
9.One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10.Stranger Than Paradise
11.Dog Day Afternoon
12.Raging Bull
13.True Romance
14.Leon
15.Oldboy
16.Serpico
17.Down By Law
18.Blue Velvet
19.Apocalypse Now
20.The Deer Hunter
21.Chinatown
22.The king Of Comedy
23.Risky Business
24.Lolita
25.Buffalo 66

Right Around The Corner

Whilst on my travels today, I happened to pass by
this eerie looking farm house near where I live.
I've always wondered if it's occupied by anyone, as it
looks pretty disheveled. It looked particularly creepy
today, Chainsaw Massacre-esque. Maybe because
I watched The Orphanage last night.

K U B R I C K

Listen to this, viddy this, read this and enjoy
this....

Fresh Crop

Jim Jarmsuch successfully knocked me off my
feet last night with Ghost Dog. I wasn't sure what
to expect, but Jarmusch never lets me down. It
was like Tarantino directing Leon, with The RZA
conducting the orchestra.

The Voices Of The Spheres Take Over

Woyzeck was hauntingly beautiful. It has cemented
Kinski up there with De Niro and Day Lewis. Next up
Cobra Verde

Mr. Switch Light

Thought I'd humanize my switch light. How on earth
he got those coffee stain freckles I don't know....

Springsteen

I've been listening to outtakes from Darkness On The Edge
Of Town and The River day and night.

City Street Corridor

I'm not sure which Avenue this is, but it's as good as any...

Woyzeck

Good morning November. The Herzog odyssey continues
with Woyzeck. Merely 5 days after finishing Nosferatu,
Herzog shot the film in 18 days, with 4 days of editing. I've
come to terms with the fact that Klaus Kinski may very well
be the greatest actor that ever lived.