History of the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, WWI and WWII History, Film Studies (in particular German cinema and horror films), Disc Golf, sewing, exploring the Gulf Islands (in particular Wise Island), traveling, playing games (in particular Citadels, Seafarers of Catan and Dr. Mario... of which I am... The Doctor)
Aqueduct, Final Fantasy, David Bowie, Chad VanGaalen, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, The Pixies, Radiohead, Of Montreal, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (really anything Nick Cave touches incl. Birthday Party and "The Proposition" soundtrack), Dave Brubeck, Run Chico Run, Sleater Kinney, Ween, The Unicorns, Pink Floyd, The Flaming Lips, Barenaked Ladies, The Hip, Weezer, The Dresden Dolls, Nirvana, Architecture in Helsinki, Jim Guthrie... AND Pimp 500!... best band ever... so underground... although only because they are yet to emerge from their basement rehearsals
Horror: Freaks (1932), Eyes Without a Face (1960), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Thesis (1996), Peeping Tom (1960), Halloween (1978), Nosferatu (1922), Deathdream (1972), M (1931) German: Run Lola Run (1998), Wings of Desire (1987), The Blue Angel (1930), Pandora's Box (1929) Comedy: The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), Naked Gun 2 1/2: the Smell of Fear (1991), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Shaun of the Dead (2004) Woody Allen: Sleeper (1973), Annie Hall (1977) random: Dr. Strangelove (1964), No Man's Land (2001), Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (1984).
Recently saw and enjoyed... Blood Feast (1963) [how can a movie go wrong with so much fake blood and fake eyebrows?], The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Purple Rain (1984), 400 Blows (1959), The Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ... always looking for recommendations...
You mean this contraption can be used for something other than watching movies?!?... and Twin Peaks.
Fiction: Kobo Abe "Face of Another" and "The Woman in the Dunes", Tom Robbins "Jitterbug Perfume", Salman Rushdie "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", Patrick Suskind "Perfume", Virginia Woolf "A Room of one's own", Tom Wolfe "the pump house gang".Recently read and enjoyed... "Down and Out in Paris and London" George Orwell.Magazines: "Sight and Sound" and "Cineaction" Non-Fiction: Siegfried Kracauer "From Caligari to Hitler", Christopher R. Browning "Ordinary Men", Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality" and Naomi Wolf "The Beauty Myth" Essay: Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"