Porter Melmoth
My blogs
| Occupation | The heaviest of Industries |
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| Location | Western Hemisphere, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands |
| Introduction | There's an awfully darn lot to yak about out there today. If I could just, just focus a little. You know, if I could just concentrate on a few subjects, that would be good. NPR pops up regularly here, but that's just a mere starting point. Cinema is infinitely more exciting and rewarding, so that's a good incentive to do more yakking about film. Paul Wolfowitz (remember him?) is deserving of mockery. Oh, and he should also be prosecuted for high crimes and misdemeanors. Still. Another starting point. And, don't forget: Chimpeach! Even though he's out of office. The time was never better. Oh, and I was just kidding about 'South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands' as a location point. I'm in the US, as if one couldn't tell! And yes, that's the great, late Lord Larry Olivier in that there profile photo, as the ever lovin' Archie Rice in 'The Entertainer', A Woodfall Production from 1960. Masterpiece photographer Lord Snowdon snapped this brilliant portrait of Larry in full character. |
| Favorite Movies | 'War and Peace' (Russian version), 'Richard III' (Ian McKellan version), 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', 'It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World', 'Duel In The Sun', 'The Song of Bernadette', 'The Fugitive Kind', anything David Lynch..., John Ford, 20th Century-Fox in the Zanuck era, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Silver Chalice, Bad Day At Black Rock, 1900, The Savage Hunt of King Stakh, Mon Oncle, Au hasard Balthazar, The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover, Bleak House (1985 BBC version), The Pickwick Papers (BBC), Playtime, Traffic, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Henry King, Otto Preminger, Peter Greenaway, DeMille, Billy Wilder, The Ghost And Mr. Chicken, Mervyn LeRoy, Jean Renoir, The River |
| Favorite Music | Shostakovich to Sinatra to Sheryl. And Leon Redbone. Perhaps even a tad bit of the Dead Kennedys on selected occasions, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, Mahler, Delius, Bax, Wagner, Berlioz, Liszt, Prokofiev, Mosolov, Myaskovsky, Bruckner, Sonny Rollins, Miles, Sonny Clark, Kasey Chambers, Amy MacDonald, Joan Baez, Nino Rota, Angelo Badalamenti, Michael Nyman, Popov's Symphony #6 'Festive', Muravlev's 'Azov Mountain', Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, Jack Soo |
| Favorite Books | 'Hobson-Jobson', 'The Baboo', 'New World For Nellie', 'Titus Groan', 'By The Great Horn Spoon!', 'The Phantom Tollbooth', 'Beyond Good and Evil', 'With Fire and Sword' |