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samir

I am here for Friends

About Me

Not much to say. I like stuff. I'm single and planning on staying that way, cuz boys are jerks. What else do you need to know about me? Make me some awesome chicken curry, and we'll talk. Unless you're a pathetic stalker who has no sense of personal autonomy or a sane, working mind, in which case, I'd prefer we didn't talk... width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

Movies, music, reading books (about movies), tennis, smoking, fashion, film

I'd like to meet:

The Filthiest Person Alivepeople who can do this:and people who aren't douche-bags.But I don't really use this to meet new people, anyways. On MySpace I tend to connect with people I've already met in real life, so if you're looking at this page, odds are you probably already know me, and you wouldn't look for my myspace page and add me as a friend unless you liked me, so i already know i'd like to meet you, because we've already met. (Designers on Project Runway and ANTM contestants notwithstanding:) But be warned, jerks, dime-a-dozen pseudo-hipsters, and those who feign a predilection for diversity, have no place in this space.

Music:

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The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Perkins, Sondre Lerche, Dungen, Can, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Travis, Radiohead, Bjork, Brazilian Girls, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Bessie Smith, Manu Chao, Beach Boys, Weezer, Rilo Kiley, Bill Withers, Stephen Malkmus, Sam Cooke, Stephen Sondheim tunes, anything Motown, 50's rock, or classical (especially Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev), Hooray for Everything! oh and that Avril Lavigne song, something about being complicated...

Movies:

http://thismoviesamiracle.blogspot.com/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kenneth Anger, The Big Heat, Me And You And Everyone We Know, Last Year at Marienbad, Marnie, North By Northwest, Psycho (1960), Vertigo, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, Pretty Poison, The Girl Can't Help It, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Written on the Wind, The Shanghai Gesture, All That Heaven Allows, Goodbye Again, Pickup on South Street, Fear Strikes Out, The Opposite of Sex, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko (both theatrical and Director's cut, but the theatrical cut is better), 8 1/2, Big Fish, Rebecca, Singin In the Rain, Trouble in Paradise, The Scarlet Empress, Bigger Than Life, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Trial (1963), Touch of Evil, Pecker, Serial Mom, Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, A Dirty Shame, Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, They Live by Night, Laura, Leave Her To Heaven, Ivan the Terrible Parts I & II, Greed, The Devil Is a Woman, The Blue Angel, Broken Blossoms, All About Eve, The Women, A Star Is Born (1954), Ghost World, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, [safe], Far From Heaven, The House of Mirth, The Long Day Closes, The Neon Bible, Sunrise (F.W. Murnau), Ordet, Lord Love a Duck, Shock Corridor, Peeping Tom, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Howl's Moving Castle, Jackie Brown, Weekend, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorcese Through American Movies, Cabaret, The Celluloid Closet, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Untitled (Almost Famous director's cut), Gertrud, Winter Kills, Cat People (1942), Tokyo Drifter, Belle de Jour, Un Chien Andalou, The Exterminating Angel, Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, The Corporation, Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Prices, Ulee's Gold, McLibel, Dishonored, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Television:

The Simpsons, Absolutely Fabulous, Without Prejudice, Invader Zim, What Not To Wear, Roseanne, MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge), So Graham Norton, all the Law and Order shows (except for Criminal Intent, vincent d'onofrio SUCKS!), Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Project Runway, Wonderfalls, I Love Lucy, America's Next Top Model, Top Chef, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Choco-Bot Hour

Books:

Franny and Zooey, Movies as Politics & Movie Wars (by Jonathan Rosenbaum), all the Harry Potter books, (especially Book 6), The Pearl, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest, Black No More, Hitchcock's Films Revisited, Crackpot, bABEL 17

My Blog

Shabda Kumar Roy: August 4, 1937 - December 8, 2007

As many of you may know, my father passed away in his sleep Saturday morning, leaving behind his wife and 4 children. To all my friends who have sent their love and blessings to me and my family durin...
Posted by samir on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:44:00 PST

Good friends

I don't say this enough, but I will at least say it here. To all of my friends, I love you. I treasure all of you more than I can say. I love you for not letting me abandon my dreams, for giving wh...
Posted by samir on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:45:00 PST

McLibel

Everyone who eats at McDonald's should check this out, post a bulletin and spread it around.  Go to www.McSpotlight.org for more information.  I'm not telling you to become vegan, as the lea...
Posted by samir on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:21:00 PST

Lawsuits against Michael Moore

I'm calling bullshit on this. I am very skeptical of these kinds of lawsuits, and especially this one. This is totally frivolous. It seems more like a desperate attempt to take a swipe at Moore, and g...
Posted by samir on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:45:00 PST

Re: Fun Stuff When You're Hung Over

Courtesy of my good friend Adrian 1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you. - 2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you. - Pink Flamingos *shudder* 3. I'll pic...
Posted by samir on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Why does everyone love FIGHT CLUB?

Fight Club SUCKS!!! I tried to watch it again, and it just makes me want to wretch with every passing minute. This kind of self-indulgent, archly anarchistic, pseudo-Nietzschean garbage plays like t...
Posted by samir on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

marriage is for everyone, (well, everyone that's sane)

A California judge just struck down anti-gay marriage laws in this state, stating that the equal protection guaranteed under the state Constitution is violated by the denial of marriage rights to homo...
Posted by samir on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST