Brian Paul Bach
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Introduction | Ongoing artworks; FORWARD TO GLORY - A nobody goes to Hollywood, becomes biggest star ever. I: Tempering - Efforts in Obscurity, II: Exposition - Attainment and Achievement, III: Apotheosis - Triumph and Transcendence, IV: Beyond Fin - essays, filmography, sensational bonus chapter; LURID - A Calcutta thriller; BUSTED BOOM: THE BUMMER OF BEING A BOOMER - A trenchant examination of mine own generation (ebook) CARSTAIRS: A NOVEL OF 1975 - Cars, radio, and theatre; NOX NOVA LUNÆ - Canal barge misfits, India, 1905; THE ELECTRIC PUNKAH - India-oriented short stories; A GRAND TRUNK ROAD GUIDE & GAZETTEER; WHEELS OF LIFE - Travels in India. PUBLISHED WORKS: CALCUTTA'S EDIFICE: THE BUILDINGS OF A GREAT CITY - The architecture and ambience of Calcutta, 2006, Rupa & Co., New Delhi. 733pp; THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD FROM THE FRONT SEAT - Travels from Calcutta to Afghan frontier (1993 & 2000) HarperCollins, New Delhi. 440pp & 528pp. ISBN: 81-7223-088-3 & 81-7223-088-5 Illustrated by the author. FILMS: DEATH DESERT Travails of Plumpet Maximus, adventurer; EXPEDITION; THE CREATIONS OF PROFESSOR BEASLEY; A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD |
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| Favorite Movies | Duel in the Sun, Broadway Danny Rose, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Inland Empire, The Song of Bernadette, Ten Commandments, Voyna I Mir, Land of the Pharaohs, Eraserhead, The Cardinal, Lolita, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Mildred Pierce, Humoresque, The Egyptian, The Big Lebowski, 55 Days at Peking, Gone with the Wind, Tobacco Road, El Cid, How Green Was My Valley, Dragonwyck, Palm Springs Weekend, The Hudsucker Proxy, Carrington, And Quiet Flows the Don, On Borrowed Time, Cold Turkey, Dune, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Iceman Cometh, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, How the West Was Won, Cheyenne Autumn, Sholay, Khuda Gawah, Ek Duuje Ke Liye, King of the Khyber Rifles, Ramona, Play Time, Exodus, Mon Oncle, 1900, Au hasard Balthazar, The Sand Pebbles, South Pacific, Carousel, A Certain Smile, The Best of Everything, The Silver Chalice, The River, Bad Day at Black Rock, Quo Vadis, Cleopatra, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Fugitive Kind, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Little Murders |
| Favorite Music | Alfred Newman, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bela Bartok, Arnold Bax, Bernard Herrmann, Frank Sinatra, R.D. Burman, Lakshmikant-Pyarelal, Sonny Rollins, Arnold Schoenberg, Kasey Chambers, Michael Nyman, Nelson Riddle, Dean Martin, Gyorgy Ligeti, George Enescu, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Max Steiner, Gustav Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Franz Waxman, Howard Shore, Amy Macdonald, Little Milton, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Serge Prokofiev, Alex North, Miklós Rózsa, Frederick Delius, Richard Thompson, Dimitri Tiomkin, Richard Wagner |