Movies, science, politics, religion, music, friends, books, drawing, painting, playing guitar, recording, writing, sleeping. Love, Justice, and Vengeance
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet Mike Scott from the Waterboys, Kate Beckinsale just so I could say "Gorsh yer a perty lady", I'd like to meet Bono, because I admire anyone who can do anything he wants, could sleep all day if he wanted to, or just spend his money and party, but instead goes to Harvard to study economics so that he can actually be taken seriously when he talks about helping the poor, starving and sick in the third world. I can't say that I would have the initiative or work ethic to go to that trouble. It's quite a far cry from just shooting your mouth off like most of Hollywood does.
Check out Focus on the Family's Review of Grindhouse by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. If the movie is HALF as entertaining as the review, I am Soooo there... "Crude or Profane Language: Hundreds of obscenities—and that's just counting the f- and s-words. There are also dozens and dozens of crude, vulgar and obscene references (verbal and visual) to sex and sexual anatomy. God's name is combined with "d--n" at least 20 times"
All you zombies hide your faces...
Music:
Muse
Peter Gabriel
Mike Oldfield
The Waterboys
U2
Daniel Lanois
Joseph Arthur
Remy Zero
Nick Cave
Johnny Cash
Yes
the Hooters
the Polyphonic Spree
Neil Young
Emmy Lou Harris
Sara McLachlan
Loreena McKennit
Red Hot Chili Peppers
(with John Frusciante only)
Pink Floyd
Brian Eno
Sixteen Horsepower
Grant Lee Buffalo
(Sorry Mr. Phillips, you
should never have
broke up the trio!)
Sigur Ros
The Flaming Lips
Larry Norman
Daniel Amos/DA
Chemical Brothers
Spiritualized
Mercury Rev
Matthew Sweet
Steve Hackett
Genesis (1968-1982)
Movies:
Sin City, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Passion of the Christ, Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, Brazil, The Matrix (only the original), Office Space...
I love these Ridley Scott movies:
Blade Runner
The Duelists
GladiatorI think there should be an academy award for comedies, because comedy is the highest art form.
Blazing Saddles and Strange Brew should be in some kind of hall of fame. They're two of the funniest movies ever made. Strange Brew is the best rendition of Shakespeare's Hamlet ever produced.
I used to love the Star Wars trilogy until George Lucas decided to destroy the fires of imagination he lit in me 30 years ago with the sludge he's been releasing lately. Episode III could have been fantastic, but instead it was a few dark and powerful seconds scattered throughout the film, surrounded by saturday morning cartoon shlock. In space, according to George Lucas, not only can everyone hear you scream, but you can eat pie and smoke cigarettes and breathe and not freeze in the 3 degree kelvin vacuum.
Stephen Spielberg is one of my favorite film makers.
Empire of the Sun is one of my all time favorite flicks. Minority Report and War of the Worlds were awesome. WothW is the first movie to actually scare me since I was a kid. Amistad, The Color Purple, Always all were very touching.
Other flicks I love:
Pink Floyd, The Wall. And
Blue Velvet. David Lynch is... what he is. Creepiest movie moment of all time is in Lost Highway when the Robert Blake character hands the phone to Bill Pulllman at a party and says, "I'm in your house right now. Call me."
Also a big Terry Gilliam fan. Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen and the Philip K. Dick-ian 12 Monkeys. and I can't wait for Good Omens to finally come out. Ah. Just read the Good Omens project fell apart. Terry Gilliam has real trouble getting it together, but when he does, its fantastic.
Forgot to mention
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, all the other Charlie Kaufman movies, and
Vanilla Sky is definitely another movie to add to my all-time favorites list. Oh - and of course the unimitatable, shocking and intensely erotic
"On Golden Pond". Maybe not the last one. Apparently the "On Golden Pond" every one is familiar with is not the one I saw. No old people in mine.
Television:
I haven't had television for over a year now. I sometimes miss the company of banality. But there's some shows I download and watch, or buy on DVD: Smallville, Lost, X-Files, Seinfeld, King of the Hill, South Park, The Prisoner.
Books:
CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, Space Trilogy, Screwtape letters, the Great Divorce. Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle, Valis, Through a Scanner Darkly. George R. R. Martin's Game of thrones, etc. Gene Wolf's books about Severian and his other books like Urth of the New Sun. Stephen King (though I sometimes have to skim his stuff), Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, and of COURSE J.R.R. Tolkien and Ray Bradbury.
Heroes:
C.S. Lewis, Philip K. Dick, Mike Scott, Dean Kamen, Thomas Edison, David Livingston, Ridley Scott, Bono, the Edge, LarryMJr, Adam Clayton, Peter Gabriel, George Mueller (founder of orphanages in Germany), Abraham Lincoln, King David, Mel Gibson, single moms and abused women who have the courage and independence to leave their abusers.
Anti-Heroes, (enemies in principal and fact)
- Liars who think their slightest comfort is more important than their "dearest friends" dire needs.
- Abusers and destroyers
- Sub-humans who enslave and imprison others and call it love.
