David Sweetman, a student in good standing, to those residing on the other side of cyberspace; grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
some music I tend to listen to.
Yadda yadda yadda I like a bunch of stuff, mostly I make movies
On a Life by Andrew Roberts:
here's my demo reel:
I enjoy an eclectic range of musical styles. Not really...I just like that word. "Eclectic." I listen to The Velvet Underground, Rage Against the Machine, Coltrane, Sonic Youth, The Mars Volta, Simon & Garfunkel, U2, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, Tom Waits, The Clash, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Foo Fighters, The Fire Theft, Duke Ellington, Debussy, Schubert, Tchackovski, Bach, and the rest.
In no particular order, and hardly exhaustive:
The Deer Hunter. The Great Train Robbery (the OG 1903.) Journey to the Moon. The Sacrifice. Solaris (the original Tarkovsky.) Stalker. Andrei Rublev. Nostalghia. Ivan's Childhood. Mirror (Zerkalo). Notre Musique. Ran. Bringing Out the Dead. The Seventh Seal. Winter Light. 8 1/2. Casablanca. Heat. Breathless. The Searchers. Apocalypse Now -- not the redeux, the original cut. The 400 Blows. March of the Penguins. Mon Oncle. The Wild Bunch. In Cold Blood. Northfork. Three Amigos. Taxi Driver. The Limey. The Shining. Dr. Strangelove. Blade Runner. Annie Hall. The Science of Sleep. Following. Lawrence of Arabia. A Simple Plan. O Brother, Where Art Thou. Magnolia. The Bicicle Thief. City of Lost Children. The Insider. Singin' in the Rain. Junebug. Dogtown and Z-Boys. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Das Boot. Barton Fink. Tora Tora Tora. 2001: A Space Odyssey. many others.
And another thing, I like negative space.
Tele-vision? I don't get it.
Who reads? You do, you say? Well, then have I got a book for you! Catch-22 -- though read too often by mind-numbed high-school students who cannot comprehend it -- is truly a great book. Also, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Sartre's Nausea, Camus' The Stranger, Heidegger's sauce, the Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov, Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer, The Godly Man's Picture by Thomas Watson. I have thoroughly enjoyed the textbook Principles of Macroeconomics. Scarcity: the foundation of all economic thought.
Sometimes there's a man...I won't say a hero, because what's a hero...but sometimes there's a man, sometimes there's a man...well, he's just the man, for his time and place. And that's 'The Dude.'..