the band is at www.myspace.com/theduskdevils... these are a few of my interests: music music music, traveling the u.s. and beyond, meeting folks, mad mag, eating, moving, reading und writing, eccentric people, drinking coffee, monsters, joi de vivre
The Ultimate Movie survey
Here we go....
What movie have you watched the most time?: probably Casablanca or The French Connection, from my obsessed teen years
What is the first DVD you owned?: i think it was Female Trouble/Polyester, which i bought off a guy in a parking lot
What is the first movie you saw in theaters which you remember clearly?: cinderella - i remember holding dad's high-up hand, the red curtains sweeping apart, the inky black theatre, the swish of cool a/c, & the giant, scary witch blinking like popeye & holding a red poisoned apple
Genres
What is your favorite comedy?: It's a Gift (WC Fields), Repo Man, Ed Wood, Young Frankenstein
What is the scariest movie of all time?: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original); Zombi, The Rapture, Deliverance, The Exorcist
What is the best thriller?: Touch of Evil, Island of Lost Souls, Sexy Beast
What is the ultimate action movie?: The Yakuza, The Border, Ghost Dog
What is your favorite adventure movie?: The Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Treasure of Sierra Madre
What is your favorite fantasy movie?: Spider Baby, Santa Sangre
What is your favorite Sci-Fi movie?: Scanners, The Hidden, Galaxy Quest, Dark Star, Blade Runner
What is the most historically significant movie in film history?: oh, i dunno
Themes
What is the most romantic movie?: Atlantic City, Green Card, The Addams Family, Gun Crazy, Sexy Beast
What is the best movie about friendship?: The Station Agent, Elling, Lovely & Amazing
What is the best movie about sacrifice?: Monsieur Ibrahim, Gloria (original with Gena Rowlands), American Splendour, Dance with the Devil
What is the best movie about war?: Dr. Strangelove, Who'll Stop the Rain
Which movie is the biggest in terms of epic scale?: oh, i dunno.
What is the best coming of age movie?: Rushmore, But I'm a Cheerleader, Palindromes
Scenes
What is the best action scene?: sword fight in "The Yakuza," stuff in "Terminator II"
What is the best sex scene?: old Tarzan movies with Johnny Weismuller; depends on the actor/actress involved!
What is the funniest comedic scene?: the concluding opera in "A Night at the Opera," the monster meets the blind man in "Young Frankenstein"
Decades
What is the best film of the 30s?: Bride of Frankenstein, Gunga Din, Beau Geste, It Happened One Night, The Mummy, Angels with Dirty Faces, all Marx Bros., Island of Lost Souls, etc. etc. etc.
40s?: The Lost Weekend, Treasure of Sierra Madre, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon
50s?: Touch of Evil, Night of the Hunter, African Queen
60s?: The Great Escape, Dr. Strangelove, Abominable Dr. Phibes, Night of the Living Dead, Oliver
70?: Chinatown, Nashville, The French Connection, The Conversation, Young Frankenstein, Animal House
80s?: Atlantic City, Eating Raoul, King of Comedy, Spinal Tap, The Fisher King, Near Dark, Amadeus,
90s?: Lone Star, Terminator II, Unforgiven, Men in Black, Fargo, Affliction
since 2000?: Monsieur Ibrahim, The Proposition, Silver City, Lost in Translation, Palindromes, Far from Heaven
Sorry - forgot one in scenes. what is the best battle scene?: eh
Charactors?
Who is the best movie hero?: Tura Satana in "Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!"
Who is the best movie villain?: Doctor Moreau (Charles Laughton), Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price)
Who is the best movie character in terms of complexity?: oh brother, i don't know
And finally
What is the best movie of all time?: all of the ones i listed & more
Thank you.
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players/lovers of "american music," vintage WWI-early '60s, 70s-80s rockabilly, garage punk blues, monster culture & music... louisiana polka, delta blues, country, swing, rockabilly, jazz, country-western, chicago blues... cajun/zydeco, exotica, jump blues, norteno, cumbia, surf, rumba, afro-cuban, the ray price shuffle, western swing, etc. etc. etc. ... other boogie-woogie, honky-tonk piano players, any of you-all who like cult, B, midnight, drive-in films, schlock culture, LPs over CDs, treasure hunting thru piles & dusty bins, thrift shops, night time as well as the dawn, iconoclasts, eccentrics... and test nerds: Play Sploofus Trivia Free
rockabilly, boogie-woogie, honky-tonk, jump blues, country and western, garage punk/blues, primitive R&R and R&B, cowpunk, surf/exotica, some psychobilly... more at right...
big list at http://duskdevils.blogspot.com ... more at right...i read all the reviews before seeing any studio pic, but like to haunt the cinemas at least twice a month. don't sneak in anymore. just candy and soda pop.
no cable, so no real TV faves... stuff like simpsons, malcolm in the middle, who's line is it anyway, huell howser... that show about junk food, the odd travel show, austin city limits, when i can find it... radio: car talk & who's line is it anyway... my favorite simpsons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-bIdP1n4NY
it's at that blog i mentioned... i like books about eclectic music & movies, non-fiction, short odd tomes, the new yorker (most reading for least money). peter guralnick, raymond carver, bukowski, sandra cisneros, barry gifford, ray bradbury, philip k. dick, david sedaris, flannery o'connor, oscar hijuelos, john irving, saroyan, sherman alexie, russell banks, etc. etc. etc...
i admire many humans - living, dead, and imagined.