cactus
My blogs
| Location | Perth, Australia |
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| Introduction | this is where i talk to myself like an old hobo about what i do and sometimes about what i think though i don't seem to do much of that any more. |
| Interests | making stuff, gardening, amazing plants, languages, rummaging through second-hand stuff, historical, literary, and musical biographies, dictionaries, grammar books, 18th and 19th century travelogues, cryptic crosswords |
| Favorite movies | Vengo, Gadjo Dilo, La Strada, Y tu mama tambien, Time of the Gypsies, Stalker, Solaris, Taxi Driver, Pink Flamingos, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Don't Look Back, Flamenco, Brother From Another Planet, Short Cuts, Ciudade de Deus, City of Hope, Thin Blue Line, Praise, The Boys, Mean Streets, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Easyrider, Withnail & I, Aguirre Wrath of God, El Topo, The Harder They Come, Naked |
| Favorite music | Wil Oldham, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Cesaria Evora, The Pixies, Pepe Marchena, Butch Hancock and Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Iggy Pop, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Pete Williams, Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, Billy Holliday, Baaba Maal, Blind Willy Johnson, The Velvet Underground, The Stanley Brothers |
| Favorite books | In Sara's Tents, Spanish Raggle Taggle - W.Starkie, Memoria del fuego - E.Galeano, Labrynths - Borges, The Bible in Spain - G.Borrow, La Busca - Pioja, The Crossing - C.McCarthy, La familia de Pascual Duarte, La Colmena - C.Jose Cela, The Violent Bear it Away - F.O'Connor, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - C.McCullers, Midnights Children - S.Rushdie, etc |