filmmaking, music, improv, writing, and making a genral ass of myself for the amusement, annoyance or befuddlement of others.
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AMFM, pinback , ween , the warlocks, modest mouse, ambulance ltd, built to spill, foo fighters, pavement, guided by voices, yo la tengo, frank zappa, alice cooper, harry nilsson, sonic youth, iron maiden, the kingsbury manx, slayer, los halos , phillip glass, pink floyd, radiohead, talking heads, wilco, the flaming lips, butthole surfers, igor stravinsky, bernard herrmann, my bloody valentine, slowdive, mojave 3, my morning jacket, aphex twin, unkle, johnny cash, primus, dinosaur jr, joy division, tom martin social club
filmmakers: hal ashby, martin scorsese, the coen bros., terry gilliam, david lynch, wes anderson, pt anderson, sam raimi, michel gondry, spike jonze, orson welles, quentin tarantino, billy wilder, woody allen, tim burton, david cronenberg, brian depalma, joe dante, david fincher, john landis, akira kurosawa, the shaw bros., the marx bros., buster keaton, jean-luc godard, wong kar wai, tsui hark, jim jarmusch, adrian lyne, steven soderberg, stanley kubrick. (have i picked all the *cool* directors? yeah, i'm pretty average like that) genres: comedy, gangster films, porn, and kung fu epics
i work in television and seldom watch it. almost any series on HBO is good though. early Fox network shows like "Get A Life" and "The Adventures of Beans Baxter" were awesome too.
hubert selby jr, brett easton ellis, arthur nersessian, kurt vonnegut, paul feig, and elmore leonard are current faves.