James Albert Barr
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm a freelance writer of essays and articles, a published poet, cultural critic and analyst, and frustrated musician with a veritable catalogue of music in his head. |
| Interests | Poetry, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Music, Film, Hockey, the Occult, Painting, Art History, Politics, Ancient Civilizations, UFOlogy, Synchromysticism, Women. |
| Favorite movies | Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Rear Window, Blow Up, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Mandy, Annie Hall, The Empire Strikes Back, Mulholland Drive, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, Nosferatu, Leaving Las Vegas, My Own Private Idaho, The Shining, The Out-of-Towners (1970), Seven Year Itch, Naked, Solaris (1973), L.A. Confidential, All The President's Men, Network, The Godfather trilogy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back To The Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, After Hours, The Lobster, American Psycho, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind,... |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, The Police, R.E.M., Radiohead, Amon Tobin, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Broadcast, Beach House, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Talk Talk, PJ Harvey, The Doors, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, XTC, The Smiths, Yo La Tengo, Fleet Foxes, Steely Dan, Tears For Fears, Jessica Pratt, Roxy Music, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock,... |
| Favorite books | Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems - Stephane Mallarme, The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles, VALIS - Philip K. Dick, Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher, Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche, Time of the Assassins - Henry Miller, Looking Awry - Slavoj Zizek, The Dark Lord - Peter Levenda, Illuminations - Walter Benjamin, Poetic Diction - Owen Barfield, Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke, Against Nature - J.K. Huysmans, Art After Metaphysics - John David Ebert, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Romantic Image - Frank Kermode, Axel's Castle - Edmund Wilson, Civilization and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud, Collected Works - H.P. Lovecraft, The Endless American Midnight - Chris Knowles, Genuflect - Tracy R. Twyman |