Friends and family are my number one thing in life.. Then there is film, going to the theater, music, poker, bowling, golf, drinking, hanging out downtown, tattoos, politics, reading, studying religions and philosophies, trying to write, photography, video editing, concerts, cooking, computers, designer jeans, architecture, web design, video/computer games...
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I love tattoos. I only have one as of now(above), but I plan to get a bunch more. Thanks to Cam De Leon for creating such beautiful art. Thanks to Tool for introducing me to him. And thanks to Nate Hudson, the great artist who inked it, may he rest in peace.
I like all the things in people that most people like. So I wont waste my time, or yours, saying what I like in a person. But, one attribute I WOULD like to point out that I like is people that let me do what I want...I don't like it when people judge me for drinking, smoking or anything I decide to do or try. Don't like it? Fine. But leave me alone, and don't get on my case. I consider myself a pretty intelligent guy, and I know when too much is too much, or what I really should or shouldn't do...Getting to the point; the only thing that has a chance of ruining my life is dumping all my money into film. And failing at it. Which I won'. So there. We're not gonna be here forever you know...I enjoy having fun, living life to the fullest and experiencing new things.
I do have one thing to say about attraction though: As much as some people disagree, physical attraction is very important. I hate it when people try and act like they only look for whats inside...Because thats bullshit, and everyone knows it.
Tricia Helfer is a breathtaking Canadian model. (Yet another reason to watch 'Battlestar Galactica.')
Tool. My favorite band. My musical idols. Best live show I've ever seen. It is so refreshing to hear Tool after having to listen to all the other bullshit out there. Most bands jump into the spotlight with their arms raised above their heads, while Tool stands fifteen feet to the right, and lures the spotlight to them. They don't need to stand out to be noticed...They're noticed because they stand out.
I've always wanted to sing, but I just cant. Maybe someday, I will gather up enough courage and just fucking do it. Until then, I will continue to be influenced by who I see as the best frontmen humans have ever witnessed:
Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, Solo)
Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, C.A.D.)
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin, Page & Plant, Solo)
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
My favorite bands/artists:
Tool
Nine Inch Nails
Led Zeppelin(R.I.P. John)
Pink Floyd(R.I.P. Syd)
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
Thursday
Thrice
A Perfect Circle
Alice In Chains(R.I.P. Layne)
The Smashing Pumpkins
Refused
Between the Buried and Me
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
Rage Against The Machine
Cursive
Johnny Cash(R.I.P.)
Opeth
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ima Robot
At the Drive-In
The Mars Volta
Darkest Hour
Clint Mansell
I like so many more artists...It's impossible for me to list them all.
GODS AND KINGS. Remember this name and logo...Because they will rape the Portland music scene in the next few years to come.
Nothing I say can do this film justice. Just may be the finest piece of American cinema I've ever seen.
Aside from the movie right above this one, this may be the finest film of our time. I can honestly say that no movie has ever made me feel the way I feel when I watch it.
12 Monkeys, 21 Grams, 25th Hour, 28 Days Later, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Abre los ojos, A Clockwork Orange, A History of Violence, A Very Long Engagement, Adaptation, Akira, Aladdin, Alien Quadrilogy, Amelie, American Beauty, American Psycho, American History X, Amores Perros, The Animatrix, An Inconvenient Truth, Apocalypse Now, Army of Darkness, A Time to Kill, Back to the Future Trilogy, Baseketball, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Being John Malkovich, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, Blow, Boogie Nights, Boondock Saints, Bottle Rocket, Bowling for Columbine, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Braveheart, Brazil, Brick, Bringing Out the Dead, Brokeback Mountain, Broken Flowers, Cannibal! The Musical, Casino, Chasing Amy, Chicago, CHILDREN OF MEN, City of God, The City of Lost Children, Clerks, Clerks II, Closer, Coffee and Cigarettes, Cool Hand Luke, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Crow, Conspiracy Theory, The Constant Gardener, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Daredevil: Director's Cut, Dark Side Of The Rainbow, Dawn of the Dead(2004), Dead Man, Death to Smoochy, Deer Hunter, Delicatessen, Die Hard Trilogy, Dogma, Domino, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Elizabethtown, El Mariachi, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Roon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Following, The Fountain, Four Rooms, Forrest Gump, From Dusk 'Till Dawn, Full Metal Jacket, Garden State, Ghost Dog, Ghost in the Shell, Girl Interrupted, Gladiator, Go, The Godfather Part I and Part II, Goodfellas, Good Night and Good Luck, Good Will Hunting, Grizzly Man, Groundhog Day, the Harry Potter movies, Heat, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Hellboy, High Fidelity, Hulk, I <3 Huckabees, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Inside Man, Insomnia, Interview with the Vampire, Jackie Brown, Jarhead, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill, King Kong(2005), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, L.A. Confidential, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, Leon, The Lion King, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Magnolia, Mallrats, Man on Fire, Matchstick Men, The Matrix, Memento, The Mexican, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Monster's Inc., Moulin Rouge, Munich, Mystic River, Natural Born Killers, The Nightmare Before Christmas, No Country For Old Men, No Logo, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Oldboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Hour Photo, Original Sin, Outfoxed, Pan's Labyrinth, Phone Booth, Pi, Predator, Primer, The Princess Bride, Princess Mononoke, Prozac Nation, Psycho, The Puffy Chair, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, Raising Arizona, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Romeo and Juliet(90's), The Royal Tennenbaums, The Rules of Attraction, Rumble in the Bronx, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, The Salton Sea, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, Schindler's List, Scream, Serenity, Se7en, Seven Years in Tibet, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Signs, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, SLC Punk, Sling Blade, Snatch, Solaris, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, The Squid and the Whale, Star Wars Trilogy, Summer of Sam, Sunshine, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Syriana, Team America: World Police, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terminator, Terminator 2, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Toy Story, Traffic, Trainspotting, Training Day, True Romance, Unbreakable, Untitled: Almost Famous Bootleg Cut, The Usual Suspects, Vanilla Sky, The Village, Walk the Line, What Dreams May Come, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The X-Men Trilogy, Y Tu Mama Tambien...And more.
I have many directing/writing influences in the film/music industry...Some are: Quentin Tarantino, Michael Mann, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Terry Gilliam, Cameron Crowe, Darren Aronofsky, Sergio Leone, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jonathon Demme, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillermo del Toro, Charlie Kaufman, Oliver Stone, Danny Boyle, Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Fernando Meirelles, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Spike Lee, Tim Burton, Luc Besson, Jim Jarmusch, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Cunningham, Alfred Hitchcock, Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Robert Rodriguez, Mark Romaneak, Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cunningham, Anton Corbijn and (some)Kevin Smith.
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"Sorry, sorry, I got a little agitated...The thought of escape crossed my mind, and then suddenly, suddenly, suddenly...I felt like bending the fucking bars back, ripping the goddamn window frames and eating them, yes, eating them! Leaping, leaping, leaping! Colonics for everyone! All right! You dumbasses, I'm a mental patient, I'm supposed to act out!" -Jeffrey Goines
Extremely underrated movie. Brad Pitt is fucking amazing. It is, by far, his and Bruce Willis' finest 2 hours in any film.
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I don't watch TV. I either buy the DVD's or "aquire" them on my computer.
I blew it off for a long time. But after watching the first two seasons, it became my favorite TV show ever. After watching season 3, it proved itself even more by blowing the first two seasons out of the water. Fuck 'Star Trek.' Fuck 'Stargate.' Fuck the original 'Battlestar Galactica' series. This is utterly amazing. Yes, it's even better than 'Firefly.' And thats saying A LOT.
/nerdiness
Battlestar Galactica, The Shield, The Sopranos, Lost, The PLANET EARTH series, The Wire, Family Guy, The Office(Both versions), It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia, The Riches, Home Movies, Band of Brothers, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Firefly(Fuck you, FOX!), South Park, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Big Love, Carnivale, Arrested Development(Fuck you again, FOX!), Rome, Veronica Mars, Wonder Showzen, Weeds, Entourage, Dead Like Me, Sifl & Olly, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, Nip/Tuck, X-Files, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Metalocalypse, Harvey Birdman, Beavis and Butthead, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Chappelle's Show, old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...I also love watching almost anything on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.
Damn near perfect.
"Critics are men who sit and watch a battle from a high place and come down to shoot the survivors."
-Ernest Hemingway
My favorite book.
American Gods, Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, High Fidelity, Small Stakes Hold 'em, Jurassic Park, The Hobbit, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, American Psycho, The Road, No Country For Old Men, Blood Meridian, The Wheel of Time series, Invisible Monsters, Anthem, Lullaby, Diary, Neverwhere, Stardust, Haunted, Rant, Good Omens, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead, The Andromeda Strain, Smoke and Mirrors, Interview With The Vampire, American Psycho, 1984, Brave New World, Heart of Darkness, A Time to Kill, America(Jon Stewart), To Kill a Mockingbird, Red Dragon, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, The Beach, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies...
Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson, Cormac McCarthy, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ayn Rand, Aldus Huxley, Alex Garland, George Orwell, Stephen King, Thomas Harris, Bret Easton Ellis, Michael Crichton, etc.
Comics/Graphic novels: Watchmen, Y: The Last Man, Walking Dead, Spider-Man, From Hell, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Planetary, Wanted, 100 Bullets, The Dark Knight, 300, Promethea, Sandman, Swamp Thing, Sin City, Wolverine, X-Men...etc.
My favorite comic book series.
I don't really call them "heroes", but they are people that have influenced me more than the average person.
My friends and past friends more than anyone...As well as my family...Especially my three amazing sisters, my grandpa, my dad(in some ways), my mom(in some ways) and my step-dad(in some ways). I could go on and say something I love and respect about every one of my friends, but that would take too long...Just know that I love you all, and if you ever want to know the specifics, just ask me.
Bill Hicks, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Mann, Charlie Kaufman, Alfonso Cuarón, P.T. Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Trey Parker, Hunter S. Thompson, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, Neil Strauss.
Bill Hicks was a genius. He was THE most intelligent, sophisticated, well-informed comedian who ever lived. He was more than just a comedian...He was a philosopher, a poet and an inspiration for many of the current comedians you may listen to. Check him out if you have never heard him. Rest in peace, dark poet. And thanks to Tool for introducing me to him.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from him:
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross?"
"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
"Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make."
"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
"People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to."