1.) Violently destroying used electronics
2.) Speculating about the apocalypse through collages with ink, colored pencil, clipping, photo, and other found materials
3.) Reading Ezra Pound
4.) Reading Søren Kierkegaard
5.) Meticulously crafting ridiculous short films I'm positive only I will like
6.) Irony
7.) Putting pictures of locusts on everything
8.) Falling asleep to Chaplin
9.) Haiku
10.) Loving my God, my family, my friends with all my heart: hopefully making up for all my obvious shortcomings
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who understands the writings of Kierkegaard, God, My Great Grandparents, Beck, Wes Anderson, my dead first cousin Steven, August Rodin, Charlie Chaplin, Don Quixote, somone with my same birth date (even better if they were born at Verdugo Hills Hospital like me too), Brother X, Johnny Depp, GaudÃ, Ezekiel, Solomon, John the Baptist, Leonardo Da Vinci, probably lots more...
Music:
Some Recent Spins:
1.) Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
2.) Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
3.) Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
4.) Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
5.) New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
6.) Wire - 154
7.) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
8.) Bob Marley and The Wailers - Rebel Music
9.) Sigur Rós - ( )
10.) Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Movies:
Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, Rushmore, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Roman Holiday, The Godfather, The Wind in the Willows, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, One A.M., The Royal Tenenbaums, The Wizard of Oz, The Princess Bride, The Hobbit (1977), The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas, Night of the Iguana, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 8 1/2, A Zed and Two Noughts, Fight Club, Se7en, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On, 2001:A Space Odyssey, The Great Dictator, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Conan The Barabarian, Buffalo '66, Baraka, The Last Laugh, Planet of the Apes (1968), O Brother, Where Art Thou, How Green Was My Valley, Magnolia, The Graduate, Ivan the Terrible, Part II, Fargo, Tanner '88, The Gold Rush, The Bond, Barry Lyndon, The American Astronaut, The Hour-glass Sanatorium, The Circus, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, Roma, Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Television:
Now that I am writing a television drama, I am starting to garner an appreciation for the medium that I was utterly lacking in my former ignorance. Some shows I like are: 24, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Ren & Stimpy, Deadwood, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Chapelle's Show, probably a couple more but I'm not going to rack my brain to recall.
Books:
The Bible, Moby Dick - Melville, Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky, Catcher in the Rye - Salinger, Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard, Julius Caesar - Shakespeare, Till We Have Faces - Lewis, Everything by Mark Twain, Watership Down - Adams, The Latent Power of the Soul - Nee, Seymour, an Introduction - Salinger, Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis, Perelandra - Lewis, Choice Cuts - Kurlansky, Hamlet - Shakespeare, Agamemnon - Aeschylus, The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, Don Quixote - Cervantes, The Odyssey - Homer, New Atlantis - Bacon, Gargantua - Rabelais, Pensées - Pascal, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon (in progress), The Hobbit - Tolkien, A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, The old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway, Men Without Women - Hemmingway, The Rose Tattoo - Tennessee Wiliams, Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams
Heroes:
Mother Teresa, C.S. Lewis, Dick - The Creative Superstar, Joe DiMaggio, Captain America, Charlie Chaplin, Mark Twain, My Dad, Stanley Kubric, Federico Fellini, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, J.D. Salinger, Søren Kierkegaard, JESUS
