Films, holidays, wife, films, music and films, but not in that order. Big art fan, especially Modigliani, Rothko, Pollock, Manet, Warhol, Anger, Welles, Duschamp, Sherman.
I'd like to meet:
Clint Eastwood (made 3 of the best westerns ever, and the best cop film ever)
Chow-Yun Fat(cooler than cool-he made Bulletproof Monk almost watchable, but he nearly blew it by being in that Disney-ride pirates shite),
Andrew Braybrook (he did 'Paradroid' on the Commodore64-the greatest game ever),
Katie Derham,
Uma Thurman,
Jodie Foster (beauty and brains)she's a what? Oh fuck!
Ian Brown,
David Lynch,
Neil Gaiman,
Garth Ennis,
Stan Lee,
Bruce Campbell,
Mark Rothko,
Peter North (how does he do that?)
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Music:
Where to start?
I love movie soundtracks, especially Morricone, Schifrin and Herrmann.
Top 10 songs:
1. Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf.
2. Lady Madonna by The Beatles.
3. Just by Mark Ronson.
4. Most Likely Reversion by Dylan/Mark Ronson.
5. Karma Police by Radiohead.
6. Fools Gold by the Stone Roses.
7. Rockferry by Duffy.
8. La Femme d'Argent by Air.
9. Cannonball by the Breeders.
10. Leave Home by the Chemical Brothers.
Although it does change from day to day.
Reading my cd rack, from left to right:
Goldfrapp, Mr JT, Air, the Bravery, Antony and the Johnsons,
Editors, Muse, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand,
Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, the Twang,
Madeline Peyroux, Killers,
Ennio Morricone, Beatles, Klaxons, Pixies,
Kate Nash, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, Kasabian,
Sonic Youth, Stone Roses, Radiohead, Strokes,
Smiths, Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Interpol, Chemical Brothers,
Frank Sinatra, Jefferson Airplane, Beach Boys, Byrds,
Buffalo Springfield, Happy Mondays, New Pornographers, Hives, Led Zeppelin...
Where do I stop?.
Movies:
My top 10 would be:
1. Boogie Nights
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Ju-on The Grudge
4. Peeping Tom
5. The Happiness of the Katakuris
6. Bad Taste
7. Jaws
8. Battle Royale
9. Planet Terror
10. Sin City
I'm a big film fan, so I can't list all my faves, so I'll break it down a bit:
Top 5 horror:
1. Ju-on The Grudge
2. Ring
3. Prince of Darkness
4. Dark Water
5. Ring 2
Top 5 comic adaptations:
1. Sin City
2. Ghost World
3. Batman Begins
4. Spiderman 2
5. Akira
Top 5 creature features:
1. Destroy All Monsters.
2. The Host.
3. Jurassic Park.
4. The Creature From the Black Lagoon.
5. Bride of the Monster.
Top 5 Gore Fests:
1. Bad Taste
2. Braindead
3. Evil Dead
4. Ichi the Killer
5. Any of Romero's 'Dead' films
Top 5 mind-fuckers:
1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Holy Mountain
3. Un Chien Andalou
4. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
5. Visitor Q
Top 5 Sci-fi:
1. Alien
2. Starship Troopers
3. Casshern
4. Star Wars
5. Aliens
5 worst bags of shit:
1. Cliffhanger
2. Maniac Nurses Find Ecstacy
3. Bogus
4. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
5. Watchers 2
Top 5 action:
1. Battle Royale
2. Predator
3. Robocop
4. Hard Boiled
5. A Bittersweet Life
Top 5 war films:
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Enemy at the Gate
4. R-Point
5. Brotherhood
Top 5 drama
1. Boogie Nights
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Dirty Harry
4. Goodfellas
5. Pulp Fiction
Top 5 comedies:
1. This is Spinal Tap
2. Kingpin
3. Anchorman
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. The Simpsons Movie
Top 5 martial arts:
1. Enter the Dragon
2. House of Flying Daggers
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. Mr. Vampire
5. Kill Bill part 1
Top 5 westerns:
1. Once upon a Time in the West
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. El Topo
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. A Fistful of Dollars
Top 5 scenes:
1. The childrens' hospital in 'The Third Man'
-the teddy tied to the bed gets me every time
2. In 'Bad Taste', where Ozzy rips the alien's head off
and boots it out the window.
3. Stonehenge in 'Spinal Tap'
4. The ballet sequence in 'The Red Shoes'
5. Sadako climbing out of the TV in Ring
The best of the rest (although I might have already mentioned it above):
Grindhouse, The Holy Mountain, the Host, Park Chan Wook's 'Vengeance' trilogy,
any Michael Powell, The Goonies, R-Point, The Eye 1&2, A Tale of Two Sisters,
Dog Soldiers, 28 Days/Weeks Later, Spiderman 1,2 and 3, Team America,
Last House on the Left,Event Horizon,Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
Any Tarantino, The Killer, God of Gamblers, Magnolia, Amelie,Severance,
Taxi Driver, the Godfather trilogy,the Dr. Phibes films,
Zoolander, Gladiator,A Beautiful Mind, La Lectrice, Betty Blue,
Robocop 2, Meet the Parents/Fockers, the Thing,
Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Ed Wood, Freaks, Blue Velvet,
Straight Story,any Lynch (even Wild at Heart!) any Cronenburg, Eraserhead, Rumblefish,
Night of the Hunter, Santa Sangre, Bubba Ho-Tep, Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter,
Audition, Ab-normal Beauty, Phone, Guyver, Ghost in the Shell,
Pan's Labyrinth, Goodfellas, Wicker Man, Mystery Men, Best in Show,
Waiting For Guffman, the Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Sudden Impact, Superfly,
Shaft, Dolemite, Plan 9 From Outer Space, American Pie 1&2.
Television:
Don't watch too much, but I'd go out of my way to watch:
Simpsons
The Mighty Boosh
Extreme Makeover:Home Edition
TNA Impact (don't you just love those badly-acted backstage bits? And Gail Kim! mmmm!)
Most Haunted
Knowing Me, Knowing You/I'm Alan Partridge
Strictly Come Dancing
Miami/LA/London Ink
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Peep Show/Mitchell and Webb
Books:
Top 5 faves would be:
1. My Dark Places by James Ellroy.
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
3. If Chins could Kill by Bruce Campbell.
4. American Tabloid by James Ellroy.
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
I read a lot of autobiographies, but like any HST, Chandler, Palanahuik, Ellroy, Kerouac, Film books; a bit of anything really.
Heroes:
Hunter S. Thompson,
He-Man,
Bruce Lee,
Michael Powell,
John Holmes,
Bruce Campbell,
Takashi Miike,
Sergio Leone,
Jackson Pollock,
Marcel Duschamp,
Michael Ironside,
John Saxon.
