I'm like a lobster: hard, elusive, and intimidating on the outside, but really delicious with a lemon butter sauce.
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Nicolas Cage, mountains and activities that take place on them, guitars, voices, rock, composers (dead and living), lovely people.
Q: What was something you really wanted in this character, considering how involved you were in the production?Nicolas Cage: “It’s a deeply personal character and I was trying to find a new way of presenting how he would keep dark spirits at bay. I didn’t want him being a heavy drinker or a chain smoker. I wanted him eating jellybeans so he wouldn’t invite the devils in. I wanted him listening to Karen Carpenter to help him relax so he wouldn’t allow the devil with satanic Goth rock or something. Or, he’s watching chimpanzees do karate instead of The Exorcist. And, all three of those things I was doing in my own life. I was eating jellybeans out of a martini glass and listening to Karen Carpenter and on the Internet watching chimps do karate. And I thought, ‘Well this is funny, let’s put it in the movie.’ But it’s also true.â€
St. Elias, Riddle of Steel, Traindodge, Roma 79, Dead Twins, Grizzly Bear, QOTSA, Tears for Fears, St. Vincent, Shiner, The Life and Times, Radiohead, Chavez, Hum, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Francis Poulenc.
The Nicolas Cage collection, The Arnold Schwarzenegger collection, Amélie, The Indiana Jones series (here's lamenting an absurd #4), LOTR, westerns (particularly those featuring a young, handsome Gregory Peck).
I used to care about a few programs, namely "Lost", but TV is basically dead to me since my discovery of the greatest show that ever was: "DEXTER". Also, TV on DVD: why rearrange my life for programming when I can binge on entire seasons at will?
Blindness by Jose Saramago. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers. Anything and everything written by Christopher Moore.
Cage, the Dauphin, working musicians, the future inventor of teleportation.