Here are some items I am interested in that I shall submit for your consideration: languages, travel, scuba diving!, animals (esp: kitties/chickens), music, politics/world events, art and artistic people, literature, movies, clothing (but not necessarily fashion), being @ home, Wii - playing right now: Trauma Center (New Blood), DDR (secretly-shh!), basketball (go NEW Trailblazers!), and most anything else is better left to the imagination of the reader/viewer...
Anyone who is mysterious, dysfunctional, honest, creative, silly, understanding, lovely, interesting, humble, intelligent, humorous, empathetic, wordly, loyal, engagé…
I will listen to almost anything but here are some artists currently in my iPod: Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Nouvelle Vague, The White Stripes (Get Behind Me Satan), David Bowie, Björk (Sugarcubes), Stéréo Total, Pixies, The Rolling Stones (pre1980) Freezepop, Violent Femmes, Lupe Fiasco, Peaches, Siouxie and the Banshees, Nous Non Plus, Slick Rick, Brazilian Girls, The Fugees, Lady Sovereign (Vertically Challenged), N.E.R.D (In Search of…), Lilly Allen, Gym Class Heroes, Bloc Party, Sonic Youth, Camille,
CURRENT RECOMMENDATION: Renegade (2004) - AKA : "Muraya: L'expérience secrète de Mike Blueberry", "Blueberry", "The Adventures of Mike S. Blueberry" - "RENEGADE is an ambitious hybrid of genres that occupies a liminal space similar to that of its main character, Mike Blueberry (Vincent Cassel). Building on the conventions of the Western and adding psychedelic elements and the sophisticated - albeit atypical - European sensibilities of director Jan Kounen, the result is a fascinating and compelling existential film about self-definition and the untapped regions of the mind."
--A very interesting film that does a good job of portraying the effect that psychedelics can have on the mind and an in-depth look at the spirituality of the Native Americans. Although normally I'm not a fan of westerns, this is one worth watching because there is so much more to it. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it stars one of the best French actors ever, Vincent Cassel, along with Juliette Lewis (with a lovely nude scene at the end), Michael Madsen and Eddie Izzard (as one of the bad guys).
LAST RECOMMENDATION: Tekkon Kinkreet (2002) Based on Taiyo Matsumoto's popular manga serial "Black and White," this surreal anime adventure follows two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggling to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
--One of the most amazing, impressive and emotional japanimation movies I've ever seen. I would highly reccomend watching it if you have any appreciation for the genre or art in film itself.
-I adore movies and will watch anything interesting but here are some that stick out:
RECENT:
Shaolin Soccer, Kung-fu Hustle (Steven Chow), Les Revenants (FR), Ma peau (dégueulasse! - FR), Mirror Mask, Pan's/Labyrinth, Borat, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Minority Report, Perfume, Murder Party, Knocked Up (silly funny), *La haine (MUST SEE! - France)*
--my fav genre: HORROR MOVIES (esp: Japanese and Korean):
Old Boy, J.S.A. (not horror but a great film!), Sympathy for Lady Vengeance/Mr. Vengeance, Three Extremes (Chan-wook Park - S. Korea),
Ichi the Killer, Audition, MPD Psycho (Takashi Miike - Japan),
Bright Future, Cure, Doppelgänger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Japan),
Tenebrae, Suspiria, Trauma (+ ALL Dario Argento - Italy),
Memento Mori, Whispering Corridors (S. Korea),
Darna Mana Hai (Bollywood horror), High Tension (France),
*Save the Green Planet (sci-fi - MUST SEE - S. Korea)*
OTHER GENRES:
Lolita, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket (+ ALL Stanley Kubrick),
Satyricon, Guilietta degli spiriti, Ginger e Fred (+ ALL Federico Fellini),
The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic (+ ALL Wes Anderson),
The Birds, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, Frenzy (+ ALL Alfred Hitchcock),
Sleeper, Take the Money and Run, The Purple Rose of Cairo (+ ALL Woody Allen),
From Manhattan (1979)
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The Simpsons, Family Guy, Reno 911, Dexter (Showtime serial killer), Heroes (admittedly kinda cheesy), Big Love (highly addictive), Jon Stewart/Colbert Report, Discovery Channel (Mythbusters, Survivorman, other good documentaries about space, people, history, etc.), Project Runway (and some other reality tv I won't admit to), Arrested Development (I can't believe it was cancelled!!), Six Feet Under (also finished), Sailor Moon (japanimation! -not really on TV anymore),
1) Reading right now: When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger (It is the first book in Effinger's Marîd Audran series, named after the protagonist, and was followed by A Fire in the Sun in 1989 and The Exile Kiss in 1991).
2) Just Read: Postsingular by Rudy Rucker - Go here to check him out cuz he's really interesting: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/
* I LOVE TO READ anything I can get my hands on but there are too many to list so here are a few of my favorite authors:
SCIENCE FICTION - Rudy Rucker (ANY&ALL), Philip K. Dick, Alastair Reynolds …
Aldus Huxley (Brave New World - MUST READ!),
OTHER GENRES:
Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus, erotica)
J.D. Salinger (especially 9 stories),
Albert Camus,
Simone de Beauvoir,
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Descartes,
Nabokov,
Ronsard,
Guy de Maupassant,
Lewis Carroll,
Amélie Nothomb,
Samuel Beckett,
Burroughs,
Colette,
Marcel Proust (sometimes),
William Blake,
Edgar Allen Poe,
Raymond Queneau,
Eugène Ionesco,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Charles Bukowski,
bukowski - born into this
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