Richard Van Ingram
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | Preoccupation with the impossible |
| Location | San Antonio, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I am a philosopher and artist, author of the new eBook "Philosophy and Other Bad Habits" available at Lulu.com and at the iBookstore for Apple. |
| Interests | Philosophy, Art (all sorts, including editorial cartoons), Writing, Music (no Opera, please), Cinema, high culture, satire & humor, low culture, no culture, Shepard Fairey, SWOON, street art, tattooing, politics, ethics, religion, painting on clothing & motorcycle helmets, etc., working myself into an early grave with nothing to show for it |
| Favorite movies | Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo,Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (all of it), Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, anything by Truffault, Bergman, Hitchcock, Cyrano de Bergerac, V For Vendetta, The Matrix (I), The Pirates of the Carribean movies, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Harper, M*A*S*H, Nashville, True Grit, all Film Noir, zombie flicks, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Fight Club, El Dorado, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York, Escape From L.A., most things by John Carpenter, Roxanne, Serial Mom, Natural Born Killers, (not a movie, but anything connected to the NEW Battlestar Galactica), Caddy Shack, The Razor's Edge, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, anything Monty Python, 007 films, etc. |
| Favorite music | Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Clash, The Church, Ministry, Black Sabbath, Concrete Blonde, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Beethoven, Ginastera, Stravinski, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Gregorian Chant, Enigma, Tangerine Dream, Steve Earle, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Kitaro, Bjork, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Goldfrapp, The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine, Smoke, Rock*A*Teens, Ennio Moricone, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, L7, Iggy Pop, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pete Townshend, The Cult, The Blue Oyster Cult, and numerous others. |
| Favorite books | Far too many to mention, including everything from Nietzsche, Camus, Plato, The early Church Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Cicero, the Pre-Socratics - especially Heraclitus, Maimonides, Descartes, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Martin Heiddeger, Ernst Cassirer, Kant, Martha Nussbaum, Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Mortimer, anything published by Taschen, Ralph Steadman: "The Joke's Over," "Street Sketch Book" by Tristan Manco, Kidner & Knee: "Vintage T-Shirts," Gavin: "Street Renegades," generally anything involving street art with pictures, Harlan Ellison: "The Glass Teat," Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dr. Hunter Stockton Thompson, Dan Clowes, Alan Moore, Charles Burns, P. G. Wodehouse, Robert Crumb, Charles Bukowski, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, William kennedy Toole, Walker Percy, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, thousands more just like this whom you could equally care less about, etc. |