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Old Man Hansen

It must be my birthday!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Lambert, the Sheepish Lion

Music:

Tindersticks, Tom Waits, Belle and Sebastian, Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Nina Nastasia, Sleater Kinney, Nick Cave, Cardigans, Arab Strap, The Walkmen, Broadcast, Camera Obscura, Jens Lekman, Pulp, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Wanda Jackson, Elvis Costello, Isobel Campbell/The Gentle Waves, Andrew Bird, Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Clientele, Neko Case

Movies:

Films: Morvern Callar, In the Mood For Love, Ghost World, Jules et Jim, Last Tango in Paris, Stranger Than Paradise, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Stroszek, Ratcatcher, Manhattan, The Thin Man series, L'Avventura, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Phantom of the Paradise, Elevator to the Gallows, Big Bad Love, Mulholland Drive, The Sweet Hereafter, Il Posto, Round Midnight, Nashville, Night of the Hunter, Rosetta, Forbidden Zone, The Heart of the World, Little Fugitive, Far From Heaven, The Wicker Man, The Dreamlife of Angels, Scenes From a Marriage, Friday Night, Mysterious Skin------------------------------------Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen, Lynne Ramsay, Claire Denis, Guy Maddin, Robert Altman, Eric Rohmer, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch, Samuel Fuller, Robert Bresson, Brian DePalma, Jacques Rivette, David Gordon Green, Rene Clair, Aki Kaurismaki, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke

Television:

Veronica Mars, Black Books, Arrested Development, Brak Show, Freaks and Geeks, Home Movies, Mr. Show, The Office, Strangers With Candy, Upright Citizens Brigade, Curb Your Enthusiasm,

Books:

Larry Brown, Dorothy Parker, Douglas Coupland, Alan Warner, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver

My Blog

Top 20 Films of 2007 (aka "Holy Shit, a Post!")

Hooray, top 20 films I saw this year! (changes pending based on upcoming viewings of There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Persepolis) 1. Inland Empire 2. Before the Devil Knows...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:47:00 PST

Sweet Baby Jesus

Hey sinners! Just like Jesus, I have risen from the tomb and I have new photos! BUTTER LAMBS FOREVER!
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:05:00 PST

Feeling Jesus

Right now I am in the midst of my least favorite quarterly job-related activity: the re-entry calls.  Basically, this is when we take the list of all students who have withdrawn from school in th...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:06:00 PST

I always knew he was hardcore

Who knows what evil lurks beneath the long, flowing mane, the porn star moustache and the soothing new age sounds... Yanni Charged with Domestic Battery Acclaimed pianist Yanni is facing a domest...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:05:00 PST

AC Slater was secretly gay, I think

I've spent all of ten minutes in my life in the Cubby Bear near Wrigley Field and I had really made it a lifetime goal to never have to go there again.  However, I just found out that I may have ...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:54:00 PST

It must be my time of the month

Well, my ever-reliable bi-monthly cold showed up on Sunday.  It used to be that I would never get sick and for the last few years (ever since I moved to Chicago?) I have gotten sick every two mon...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:28:00 PST

Birthday Plans, Day One

My birthday is on Saturday. As a prelude to what will surely be a weekend of festivities, I'm inviting any interested parties to meet around 7:00pm or so at Galway Bay (not to be confused with Galway ...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:45:00 PST

Staying Up On a School Night

So, yeah.  As usual, I don't really have anything exciting or important to talk about.  But it's close to 2:00am and I don't feel anything like tiredness coming on, so this will waste some t...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:51:00 PST

Dammit, Chan, Dammit!!!

Oy vey, why couldn't you have kept your mental shit together for a measly three more weeks?  Well, at least I hadn't bought a ticket yet... Cat Power Cancels U.S. Tour Amy Phillips reports:Just ...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:54:00 PST

The Lost Generation

Okay, so the following exchange just occurred through e-mail between myself and my boss.  We're working on a project at school where students will paint a mural on the wall.  We're correspon...
Posted by Old Man Hansen on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:55:00 PST