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Greg

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About Me

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Things about me. I :
- am the lightest sleeper the world will ever know
- have a heightened sense of hearing
- enjoy learning to cook new things, particularly if they are depicted on The Food Network - sing in the car
- habitually confuse words & phrases (example: "withstain" and "get your nose wet"
- prefer not to pee in public restrooms
- have tried to pick up smoking but it never took
- had plastic surgery at age 14
- judge every book by its cover
- only dance at weddings
- made it from 7th grade to 12th grade without reading or completing a single assigned reading
- am an ISFJ on the meyers briggs test
- hate talking on the phone, no matter who the recipient
- am afraid to tell you the number of classic movies i have yet to see

My Interests

movies, music, guitar, piano, harmonium, candles, wine (red pref), wine tasting, thinking about wine, discussing wine, figuring out what foods go good with wine, worrying about wine, coffee, sushi, tv, posters and trailers.

Music:

The Beatles, U2, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds, Wings, Coldplay, REM, Radiohead, James Blunt, Ryan Adams, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Travis, the Shins, Tom Petty, The Who, Green Day, Elton John, David Bowie, CSNY

Movies:

Superman, Field of Dreams, Glory, Heat, Adaptation, Sideways, Silence of the Lambs, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Back to the Future, Cast Away, Children of Men, Zodiac.

Television:

Lost, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, Carnivale, Deadwood, 24 (not season 6), The Office (BBC), The Office (US), $40 a Day, How to Boil Water, Food 9/11, Real World, The Inferno, CBS Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning Shootout.

Books:

The Time Traveler's Wife, The Stand, The Remains of the Day, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

My Blog

Movies of 2008

Chapter 27 * *Street Kings * *Young@Heart * * *Under the Same Moon * * * 1/2Cloverfield * * 1/2
Posted by Greg on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:05:00 PST

Movies of 2007

There Will Be Blood * * * *Sweeney Todd * *National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets * 1/2Atonement * * 1/2Juno * * * 1/2Awake * * 1/2The Diving Bell & the Butterfly * * * 1/2The Savages * * 1/2Lars and th...
Posted by Greg on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:42:00 PST

Top 100 Movies - A Countdown

1. SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978, Directed by Richard Donner) 2. FIELD OF DREAMS (1989, Directed by Phil Alden Robinson) 3. GLORY (1989, Directed by Ed Zwick) 4. THE EM...
Posted by Greg on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:00 PST

TOP TEN SONGS

1. God Only Knows (The Beach Boys, 1966, Pet Sounds). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkflLXF_Zg2. Hey Jude (The Beatles, 1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygq3jUCHmc3. The Origin of Love (Joh...
Posted by Greg on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:22:00 PST