R W Manning

My blogs

About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Literacy Tutor
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction For the past two years I have been photographing with a Nikon Coolpix L37. This Blog displays what I hope are the most interesting images captured during this time.
Interests Photography, Literature, Music, Cooking.
Favorite Movies Performance (Roeg/Cammell), The Long Goodbye & Nashville (Altman), The American Friend & Paris Texas (Wenders), Withnail & I (Robinson), Hairspray (Waters), The Lavender Hill Mob (Crichton), Touch of Evil & F For Fake (Welles), Pete Kelly's Blues (Webb), Wonder Boys (Hanson), I'm Not There (Haynes), Mystery Train (Jarmusch), Pierrot Le Fou (Godard), The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah), "A Hard Day's Night" (Lester), Repo Man (Cox), The Lady Vanishes & Psycho (Hitchcock), Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson), Chinatown (Polanski), The Pledge (S. Penn), The Servant (Losey), The King of Comedy (Scorsese), The Cincinnatti Kid (Jewison), The Limey (Soderbergh), Pulp Fiction (Tarantino), Bonnie & Clyde (A. Penn), Entertaining Mr Sloane (Hickox), The Odd Couple (Saks), Point Blank (Boorman) and The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers).
Favorite Music Exile On Main Street & Let It Bleed (The Rolling Stones), Revolver (The Beatles), American Beauty (The Grateful Dead), Empty Glass (Pete Townshend), Natty Dread (Bob Marley & The Wailers), Vampires Stole My Lunch Money (Mick Farren), St. Dominic's Preview (Van Morrison), Elvis: The Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley), Little Richard's Greatest, Blonde On Blonde & Blood On The Tracks (Bob Dylan), On The Corner (Miles Davis), The Velvet Underground & Nico, Kinks' Greatest, Electric Music For The Mind & Body (Country Joe & The Fish), Horses (Patti Smith), Sandinista! (The Clash), Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention), Hokey Pokey (Richard & Linda Thompson), The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths), The Stone Roses, Rain Dogs (Tom Waits), Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy (The Who), and "Heroes" (David Bowie).
Favorite Books Cities Of The Red Night & The Western Lands (Burroughs), Tales Of Ordinary Madness (Bukowski), Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories (Southern), The Great Shark Hunt (Thompson), The Crying Of Lot 49 (Pynchon), White Chappell Scarlet Tracings (Sinclair), Hawksmoor (Ackroyd), The Shining (King), No Particular Place To Go (Williams), The Tightrope Walker (Demoriane), Steppenwolf (Hesse), The Bottle Factory Outing (Bainbridge), The Mimic Men (Naipaul), Travels With My Aunt (Greene), Earthly Powers (Burgess), The Folks That Live On The Hill (K. Amis), Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable (Beckett), Ulysses (Joyce), Mrs Dalloway (Woolf), The Rainbow (Lawrence), Nostromo & Heart Of Darkness (Conrad), Jude The Obscure (Hardy), Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass (Carroll), The Pickwick Papers & Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), The Life & Opinions Of Tristram Shandy (Sterne) and Mansfield Park (Austen). Collected Poetry of Byron, Hardy, W. H. Auden, Larkin, Thom Gunn, Robert Lowell, and Hugo Williams.

If you drive on a parkway why don't they make the whole plane out of that?

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