this is how we roll.
For The Damaged Right Eye, by Toshio Matsumoto
I recommend you listen to -- that song while watching ^^ this video.
i'm in this band, check it out; plural .
books movies music, non-stop. cool furniture, friends, mood lighting, a.m. coffee, p.m. scotch, walking, hanging out with my wife and kids, dinner parties, drinking parties, art and artful living.
talking insects, sentient robots, emma peel. and you. you know who you are.
spiritualized, elliot smith, stereolab, billy squier, ambulance ltd, can, scorpions, smiths, cure, bauhaus, siouxsie, joy division, judas priest, iron & wine, arcade fire, david bowie, queen, al green, badly drawn boy, beat happening, manuok, belle & sebastian, black sabbath, flying saucer attack, the cramps, portishead, psychedelic furs, scene creamers, shins, roxy music, soft.lightes, sonic youth, vincent gallo, ken nordine, hank williams sr, pink floyd, beatles, rolling stones, prince, velvet underground, simon & garfunkel, kinks, the who, pinback, the police, crap- is there anything I don't like?
blade runner, the apartment, dr. strangelove, flash gordon (the 80's one with the Queen soundtrack), royal tennenbaums, the graduate, all about eve, sweet smell of success, seconds, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, clockwork orange, godzilla vs. the smog monster, being john malkovitch, solaris, jackie chan movies, hackers, everything by Wong Kar Wai (especially Happy Together), the ice storm, wings of the dove, 2001 a space odyssey, blue velvet, the straight story, taxi driver, and a bazillion more.
heroes, colbert report, house, perry mason (yeah, that's right), space ghost coast to coast, er, the prisoner, the young ones, the avengers (emma peel!!), courtship of eddie's father.
I remember liking Watership Down a lot when I was little. More recently (but still not very recent), Paul Bowles- The Sheltering Sky. Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast. Fitzgerald- The Beautiful and the Damned. Philip K. Dick- everything, esp; The Man In The High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, V.A.L.I.S.. Haruki Murakami- The Windup Bird Chronicle, Kazuo Ishiguro- The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled. Jonathan Franzen- The Corrections. Thomas Pynchon- V. Kurt Vonnegut, the usual stuff. J.D. Salinger, everything. Jonathan Lethem- Fortress of Solitude. Douglas Coupland- Generation X, etc., Henry Miller- Tropic of Cancer!!!! Dave Eggers- AHWOSG. Graham Greene- The Ugly American. Umberto Eco- Foucalt's Pendulum. John Fowles- The Magus. Non-fiction; Douglas Hofstadter- Goedel, Escher, Bach. Seems like now that I have a subscription to the New Yorker, I don't read as many books. It is sad. But the magazine is so good.. update: seems like now I have little kids running around, I don't even read the magazine. it looks nice on the coffee table though.
natalie