I love almost every kind of printed word (internet forwards with bad luck implications can die).
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I love Indy and foreign films.
I write character-driven screenplays with a dark edge and a dry sense of humor... with the occasional Horror film thrown in for good measure.
I'm addicted to those weird little Listerine Oral Care Strips.
I have an appreciation for almost every kind of wine made.
I like to answer rhetorical questions.
I like to learn about strange facts and random bits of history (a giraffe's neck has the same number of vertebrae as a human being's).
I play the bass guitar.
I like Cheez-Its, popcorn, sushi and pretzels, but I will eat just about anything you put in front of me.
I like live music, live comedy, and exhibitions of dead artists' work.
I like to randomly compliment people for no reason.
I like watching Karaoke.
I want to meet a millionaire wine heiress who really wants to finance a bunch of independent films written by a wine geek from Holland, Michigan. If she's not available, I'm just looking for friends in general. All shapes, sizes, and backgrounds.
(Special points for storytellers, do-gooders, rapscallions, wandering minstrels, and people doing the best they can with what they were given.)
Jenna Bryson brought me back to playing music and I am forever in her debt.
Motown or on an Oldie's station. Any Cake album will show you a good time. Anyone who can play the piano. Ben Folds , Rachel Yamagata, Mike Doughty, Bright Eyes, Pearl Jam, Rufus Wainwright, Afro-Cuban All-stars, Ruben Gonzalez, Nick Cave, Ani DiFranco, Ray LaMontagne, Sia, Better than Ezra, Blues, Jazz, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sting, Outkast, Muse, The new Green Day album, Rolling Stones, the Beatles, whatever my agent is listening to, and hundreds of bands I can't think of right now.
Adult Fairy Tales (My favorites): Amelie, Chocolat, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, The Princess Bride, Pleasantville.
Classics: Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, Being There, The Sting, Double Indemnity, Kramer Vs. Kramer, The Hustler, North by Northwest, Rear Window.
Other Foreign: Kolya, Nine Queens, Y Tu Mama Tambien, City of God, Talk to Her, On a Clear Day, The Chorus, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Motorcycle Diaries, Yojimbo, Life is Beautiful, The Sea Inside, Run Lola Run, Mostly Martha, Il Postino, Amores Perros, Millions, Sexy Beast.
Mainstream stuff: American Beauty, Fight Club, Seven, The Shawshank Redemption, Miller's Crossing, V for Vendetta, Sideways, Syriana, The Station Agent, Shaun of the Dead, Million Dollar Baby, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Crash, The Dreamers, Closer, Three Kings, Good Will Hunting, Deep Impact, Munich, Thank You for Smoking, Unfaithful, The Last Samurai, Brick, Finding Neverland, Memento, LA Confidential, Ray, Cinderella Man, A Knight's Tale, and an endless list...
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Brothers K by David James Duncan, The Stand, High Fidelity (or any Nick Hornby), A Prayer for Owen Meany (or any John Irving), Tishomingo Blues (or any Elmore Leonard ). Anything by Jane Green, David Sedaris, Max Barry , Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Albert Camus, or Michael Chabon. Anything wine related, those collections of factoids they've dubbed bathroom books, writing how-tos, Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Slick Willy Shakes, Harlan Ellison, Good Sci-Fi and the occassional fantasy novel. This could go on FOREVERRRR.........
Leonardo DaVinci, Phil Drongowski, Karen Drongowski, Aaron Sorkin, Ted Williams, Alan Ball (would that my career be as storybook as his), William Goldman (same for this guy), Cal Ripken Jr, Marie Curie, Julie Timmer, Max Barry, Brian Helgeland, Pablo Picasso, Jim Abbott, John Irving, Bob Dylan, Ben Folds, Alan Trammell, Shakespeare (I have his head on my desk), Jaime "Bug" Willis and Eric Fick.
Heroes Under Advisement:
Dana Hahn and Nick Hornby.