PATERSON
I just watched Paterson by Jim Jarmusch tonight for the first time.
Wow! I really enjoyed the film and think it's Adam Driver's best role to date. Classic Jarmusch characters that were assessable and relatable. Golshifteh Farahani's portrayal of Laura was fantastic and endearing. I loved their relationship.
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The film sparked my own creative side as an artist and writer. It made me want to write, paint and create.
I love studios, artist's workshops, writers desk and nooks. Paterson's basement had me constantly pausing the film just to look around.
I also was drooling over his library.
A list of books are below:
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"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
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"Lunch Poems" by Frank O'Hara
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"Paterson" and "The Collected Earlier Poems" by William Carlos Williams
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"The Fall" by Albert Camus
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"The Walk" by Robert Walser
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"Double Indemnity" by James M. Cain
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"Bambi" by Felix Salten
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"Alone and Not Alone" and "Great Balls of Fire" by Ron Padgett
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"The Collected Poems" by Wallace Stevens
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"On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988" by Kenneth Koch
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"The Call of the Wild/White Fang" by Jack London
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"Collected Poems, 1956-1987" by John Ashbery
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"The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" by Sy Montgomery
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"In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop" by Steve Kowit
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"Selected Prose and Poetry" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"Save the Last Dance for Satan" by Nick Tosches
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"The New York Trilogy" by Paul Auster
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"I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller" by Miriam Linna & Randell Fuller
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"Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" by Lucy Sante
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"Gone Man Squared" by Royston Ellis
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"This Planet is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra" and "Prophetika Book One" by Sun Ra
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"The Baltimore Atrocities" by John Dermot Woods
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"Sweets and Other Stories" by Andre Williams
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"Benzedrine Highway" by Charles Plymell
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"I Remember" and "The Nancy Book" by Joe Brainard
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"Monk" by Laurent de Wilde
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"Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East" by Scott Anderson
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"Consider the Lobster and Other Essays" and "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
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"The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire
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"Up Above the World" by Paul Bowles
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"Amerika" by Franz Kafka.