Self discovery. Self deprication. Music. Theatre. Film. Watcha got?
New friends in Chicago, IL (since I live there now). BANDS/VENUES/MUSICIANS IN CHICAGO WHO WANT TO START A BAND, BE MY FRIEND, GIVE ME A GIG/THA HOOKUP, OR TELL ME ABOUT THE SCENE. Nice people. Playwrights. Musicians. People/Bands who want to play gigs with my band. Theatres/actors/directors who want to perform my plays. Martin Van Buren.
The Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman, The Mountain Goats, Tom Waits, Pavement, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, Whatever the internet has told me is hip this week, Lots of local Baltimore music that you probably haven't heard of unless you pay attention to that sort of thing, Lots of other stuff. I'd love to make you a mix CD.
things by: Charlie Kaufman, Kubrick, The Coen Bros. Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson, Tarintino, Scorsese, David Lynch, Noah Baumbach, etc.
The Departed, The First 2/3rds of Grindhouse, Brazil, High Fidelity, Adaptation, Swingers, True Romance, Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Bowling for Columbine, Lost in Translation, Barton Fink, Velvet goldmine, Donnie Darko, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Memento, etc etc etc
THE WIRE. South Park.
lots of plays. Especially things by: Mamet, Eric Bogosian, Ibsen, Pinter, David Lindsey Abaire, Neil Labute, Adam Rapp, Beckett, etc. ...I also like Harry Potter
Charlie Kaufman, Tony Kushner, Gary Garrison, Eric Bogosian, Peter Wray, Jens Lekman, Noah Baumbach, Michael Stipe.