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darren

i love it when a plan comes together

About Me

I'm currently working on my graduate thesis film, and it's my pride and joy. I have a beautiful girlfriend and some great friends, although i wish i could see them more often. I was an experimental musician and office drone until i made up my mind to leave home and join the circus that is filmmaking.

My Interests

film, experimental music, good food, good wine, dancing (notice how it follows wine), conversation, writing, poetry, coffee, old friends, new friends

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to help make this amazing film happen!

Music:

Stravinsky, VU, the modern lovers, hank williams, sleater kinney, conlon nancarrow, janisary music, autechre, the postal service, elliot smith, sebadoh, the smiths, devo, misson of burma, the ramones, sonic youth, the pixies, beethoven, dvorak, hans zimmer, suicide, boston, beat happening, the beatles, the rolling stones, the kinks, the raincoats, jandek, daniel johnston, talking heads, glen branca, tony conrad, loren mazzacaine, radiohead, Idea fire company, the ny dolls, blade runner soundtrack, the sonics anything with soul ray charles doc boggs lots of stuff

Movies:

dreyer, fassbinder, wes anderson, lars von trier, goddard, resnais, chris nolan, terrence malick, wong kar-wai, tsai ming liang, hou hsou hsien, woody allen, orson wells, hal ashby, spike jonze, preston sturges, tarkovsky, more

Television:

the office, the simpsons, frontline, now, the daily show, reel new york, new york noise

Books:

the brothers k, josef k, kenzaburo Oe, rilke, salinger, hemmingway, big jim joyce; currently reading swann's way by proust and a biography of Robert Bresson

Heroes:

henry james, rimbaud, rilke, dickinson, renoir (august and jean), keats, the 86 mets, sonic youth, my brothers, my mom, jon stewart, wes anderson, terence malick, andy warhol, leadbelly