animation, film production, more animation, knitting, making buttons, painting on canvas, making things in general, people watching, karaoke, web design, comic books, stop-frame animation, references, injokes, general dorky stuff, creepy toys/characters/things. crafty things and people. and i do mean crafty in all senses of the word.
I'd like to meet:
Other lovely and awesome people who like crafty things and filmy things (not soup skins) and also live in Auckland.
Bonus if you like, have a car or have an extensive DVD collection.
Music:
gorky's zygotic mynci, acid house kings, france gall, the little ones, eux autres, midlake, melodium, stereolab, mates of state, the be good tanyas, camera obscura, the fiery furnaces, the mountain goats, the thrills, okgo, the tokey tones, mirah, rufus wainwright, jolie holland, of montreal, architecture in helsinki, moog cookbook, flight of the conchords, postal service, deathcab for cutie, phosphorescent, spoon, yeah yeah yeahs, the brunettes, sigur ros, nick cave, dan sperber & luke casey, le tigre, pavement, the arcade fire, explosions in the sky, boards of canada, bjork, frou frou, kings of leon, portishead, U.N.K.L.E., belle and sebastian, coco rosie, the decemberists, PJ Harvey, the cure, miss kittin, scout niblett, the velvet underground, patti smith, the smiths, connan and the mockasins, the reduction agents, akron family, the incredible string band, komeda and azita (thanks maxxxx). ++teenwolf&whippingcats&thecosbys
also a fan of swing, jazz, lounge, etc. especially the likes of ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, dusty springfield, judy garland, june christy, bing crosby, diana krall, nina simone, frank sinatra, louis prima, trini lopez, artie shaw, and the list goes on.
Movies:
Jesus Camp, V For Vendetta, The Science of Sleep, Brick, Spellbound, Thank You For Smoking, Hard Candy, American Cannibal: Road to Reality, A Scanner Darkly, (Motherfuckin) Snakes on a (motherfuckin) Plane, Teen Witch, Mystery Men, Nobody Knows, My Girl, Night on Earth, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Sin City, Human Traffic, Napoleon Dynamite, Heathers, Howl's Moving Castle, The Edukators, Thumbsucker, Bad Education, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Old Boy, Shaun of the Dead, Irreversible, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, 8 Femmes, City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Spun, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, American Splendor, Donnie Darko, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Hero, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, The Dreamers, Big Fish, Secretary, Kill Bill vol. 1, vol. 2, Adaptation, Memento, Fern Gully, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Tape, Coffee and Cigarettes, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Ghostbusters, Chasing Amy, Clerks, 28 Days Later, Death Becomes Her, Jawbreaker, Office Space, Rules of Attraction, The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to the Future Trilogy, Amelie, Requiem For A Dream, Pi, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Almost Famous, Magnolia, Little Voice, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, A Night At The Roxbury, Singin' In The Rain, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa, Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke
Television:
robot chicken, drawn together, mission hill, the oblongs, rex the runt, the brak show, harvey birdman, sealab 2021, ATHF, family guy, invader zim, the simpsons, futurama, the office(UK) and (US) to an extent, extras, spaced, six feet under, reno 911, black books, green wing, big train, little britain, greg the bunny, the o.c., twin peaks, the sopranos, house, prison break, arrested development
Books:
Comic books?
Evan Dorkin(Dork), Jim Mahfood(anything), Jhonen Vasquez(everything, esp SQUEE!), Roman Dirge(everything), Tom Beland(true stories), Craig Thompson (Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice), Harvey Pekar/Robert Crumb, collaborators, etc (American Splendor), Hewlett/Martin (Tank Girl), Roger Langridge (Fred The Clown), Jim Massey (Death Takes a Holiday) and Tim Burton (The Melancholy Death of Oysterboy), Jeffrey Brown (aeiou, Unlikely). The list goes on and on and on.
Heroes:
I love my mum a lot. and my sister is more awesomer than you.
