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Tyler

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About Me

I guess you could say that I’m a shy person. I’m somewhat of a movie nut and I want to become a filmmaker. I’m currently trying to transfer to a film school.

My Interests

I love renting movies and hanging out with friends. I enjoy making films and want become a professional filmmaker. I like playing videogames and making stuff on the computer using programs like Reason, Flash, Photoshop, etc.

Music:

my top 5 favorite bands are:

1. pinback
2. at the drive-in
3. radiohead
4. the mars volta
5. nine inch nails

more: air, arcade fire, arthur brown, at the drive-in, beastie boys, the beatles (durr), beck, ben folds five, bjork, braid, brendon small, bright eyes, broken social scene, built to spill, caribou, the chemical brothers, chicka chicka, cornelius, the cure, daniel johnston, david bowie, de facto, django reinhardt, the doors, dust pipe, electric light orchestra, elliott smith, four tet, frank zappa, gorillaz, heavy vegetable, hella, honeycut, jimi hendrix, jon brion, the killers, king crimson, madvillian, the magnetic fields, the mars volta, massive attack, minus the bear, moby, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, nine inch nails, oasis, of montreal, peter bjorn and john, pinback, pink floyd, pixies, the police, pop levi, portishead, presidents of the united states of america, prodigy, queen, radiohead, rage against the machine, the rapture, red hot chili peppers, the rentals, rush, the shins, sleepytime gorilla museum, the smiths, sufjan stevens, supreme beings of leisure, system of a down, talking heads, thanks for the frisbee, third eye blind (hehe), tom waits, the velvet underground, violent femmes, weezer, the white stripes, the worldy self-assurance, yeah yeah yeahs, zipline,

Movies:

My Top 50 Favorite Movies:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick; 1968)
2. Fight Club (David Fincher; 1999)
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam; 1998)
4. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola; 1979)
5. American Psycho (Mary Harron; 2000)
6. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle; 1996)
7. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini; 1963)
8. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick; 1971)
9. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey; 1933)
10. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen; 1969)
11. Annie Hall (Woody Allen; 1977)
12. The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary; 2002)
13. Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter; 1933)
14. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner; 1968)
15. Rushmore (Wes Anderson; 1998)
16. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick; 1980)
17. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry; 2004)
18. Koroshi no rakuin (Seijun Suzuki; 1967)
19. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott; 1982)
20. C'est arrivé près de chez vous (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, & Benoît Poelvoorde; 1992)
21. The Thing (John Carpenter; 1982)
22. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese; 1999)
23. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese; 1980)
24. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick; 1987)
25. Freaks (Tod Browning; 1932)
26. Science des rêves, La (Michel Gondry; 2006)
27. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2007)
28. Westworld (Michael Crichton; 1973)
29. Maquinista, El (Brad Anderson; 2004)
30. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell; 2004)
31. Ostre sledované vlaky (Jirí Menzel; 1966)
32. They Live (John Carpenter; 1988)
33. Tsubaki Sanjûrô (Akira Kurosawa; 1962)
34. The Matrix (Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski; 1999)
35. The Last Minute (Stephen Norrington; 2001)
36. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger; 1969)
37. American Beauty (Sam Mendes; 1999)
38. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson; 2001)
39. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1997)
40. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan; 2006)
41. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles; 1941)
42. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly; 1952)
43. Bananas (Woody Allen; 1971)
44. Happiness (Todd Solondz; 1998)
45. Fellini – Satyricon (Federico Fellini; 1969)
46. American Astronaut (Cory McAbee; 2001)
47. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch; 1986)
48. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson; 2004)
49. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis; 1988)
50. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick; 1964)

Television:

Home Movies, Twilight Zone (original), Lost, Flight of the Conchords, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Three Stooges (not really a tv show), Boy Meets World, Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons (first 10 seasons), Friends, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021 (first 2 seasons) Venture Brothers, Mission Hill, Cowboy Bebop, Mr. Show, etc.

Books:

Cat's Cradle, Survivor, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Choke, Transmetropolitan, Lullaby.

Heroes:

Stanley Kubrick, Rod Serling, Katherine Phillips, Mister Rogers, Rob Crow, Armistead Burwell Smith IV, H.R. Giger, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Hunter S. Thompson, The Mars Volta, Trent Reznor, Brendon Small, Paul Reubens, Spider Jerusalem, Bruce Lee, Batman.

My Blog

The Mars Volta, 3/31/07, Berkeley Community Theatre

On March 31st, Jack, Katey, and I went to see The Mars Volta in Berkeley. It was great, the venue was nice and small, and we weren't as far back as I thought we were going to be. We got a chance to ea...
Posted by Tyler on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST

number one in the hood, g

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249241,00.htmlwhat the hell is going on when a city is so freaked out that they spend $750,000 removing colored lights? and of course, fox news is first on the scen...
Posted by Tyler on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:42:00 PST

LOST is here!!! (and the toys are coming)

Well, today is the first episode of the third season of LOST. I don't know about you but I'm excited. I'm also excited about the LOST series 1 figures by Mc Farlane landing in November. The gang's al...
Posted by Tyler on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:53:00 PST

Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane!

"snakes on a plane" lived up to every bit of it's hype. it's best movie i've seen in the theatre in about 5 years. go see it. ...
Posted by Tyler on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:03:00 PST

*cough*

I'm an extremely picky eater and technically a vegetarian cause I don't eat meat, but I also don't really like vegetables. I'm such a sponge. I take in everything. It's hard to tell whether I'm goth, ...
Posted by Tyler on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:47:00 PST

Radiohead Show UPDATE (now with video!)

All of these videos were taken by me. National Anthem Exit Music (for a film)I Might Be WrongStreet Spirit (Fade Out)Pyramid Song There There SpooksIdiotequeBonesLuckyEverything In It's Right PlaceDe...
Posted by Tyler on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:37:00 PST

Pee-Wee says "Don't do crack"

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Posted by Tyler on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:17:00 PST

NIN Show 7/8/06

So Jack and I went to the Nine Inch Nails show at Shoreline. It was a nice way to spend the night before my 21st Birthday. Peaches and Bauhaus opened. Peaches was ugly and the music was alright. Bauha...
Posted by Tyler on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:46:00 PST

Radiohead Concert Berkeley Greek Theatre 6/23/06

On Friday, Katey and I went to see Radiohead which just happens to be her most favorite band in the world. We brought supplies to stay cool in the extremely hot weather. However, when we got there it ...
Posted by Tyler on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:17:00 PST

March 23rd

march 23rd hushed the wind, the music died if you can't get the best of us now it's because this is forever -and- it's Akira Kurosawa's birthday...
Posted by Tyler on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:12:00 PST