A Film(maker) Adrift in the Cosmos.
aim = i dream in 35mm
A Film(maker) Adrift in the Cosmos.
aim = i dream in 35mm
FILM, FILM, FILM; Rock and Roll, and subsequently rocking and rolling; the fine art of comedy (written and improvised); BICYCLES!; the French New Wave; the British Royal Navy in the age of Sail; Guitar Hero; cineliteracy; people with a sense of humor as inappropriate as mine; reading; gettin' down to the rock music; bowling; raising hell; and cooking.
Filmmakers, passionate lovers of rock and roll, boys on bicycles, beardies, cinephiles, and maniacal laughers.
And, of course:
Mr. Jean-Pierre Leaud.
I definitely don't want to meet any jerks or people who are convinced that image is important.
Now in alphabetical order(!): !!!, Air, the Allman Brothers, Animal Collective, Architecture in Helsinki, Band of Horses, Devendra Banhart, the Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Chuck Berry, Big Joe Turner, the Books, David Bowie, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, the Byrds, the Clash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Cure, the Dears, Destroyer, the Doobie Brothers, the Doors, Doves, Nick Drake, Kevin Drew, Bob Dylan, Electrelane, Elefant, Enon, Exploding Hearts, Faces, Feist, the Flaming Lips, Flosstradamus, Gold Chains, the Grateful Dead, the Happy Mondays, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Islands, Etta James, K.C. Accidental, the Knife, Jens Lekman, Joy Division, the Kinks, Klever, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Les Savy Fav, Lo-Fi-FNK, M83, Magnetic Fields, Mew, Minus the Bear, Mojave 3, Van Morrison, Mr. Bungle, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Phoenix, Pink Floyd, Polaris, Queen, Otis Redding, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the Rolling Stones, the Sea and Cake, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, South, the Stone Roses, Tahiti 80, Television, Them, Thin Lizzy, Travis, the Velvet Underground, Muddy Waters, the Who, the Zombies, and more that I inevitably left out.
I have a lot to say about this, but I'll make a list anyway (also alphabetized!): The 400 Blows, Adaptation, Airplane!, Almost Famous, Animal House, The Apartment, Army of Darkness, the Back to the Future Trilogy, Barbarella, Being John Malkovitch, Better Off Dead, Billy Madison, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Bonnie and Clyde, Le Boucher, Breathless, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Cecil B. Demented, A Clockwork Orange, Crybaby, Day for Night, Dead Alive, Death Race 2000, Death to Smoochy, Detroit Rock City, The Devil's Rejects, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, A Fish Called Wanda, The General, The Godfather, The Graduate, Grindhouse, Harold and Maude, Help!, House of 1000 Corpses, High Fidelity, I The Last Picture Show, The Life of Brian, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Man on the Moon, Master and Commander, Midnight Cowboy, The Meaning of Life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Naked Gun Trilogy, Paper Moon, Pulp Fiction, Police Academy 1-3 (after that they got a little too ridiculous), Quills, Rushmore, Le Samourai, Scorpio Rising, Shoot the Piano Player, Singin' in the Rain, The Squid and the Whale, The Star Wars Trilogy (the real one, not that CGI crap), Steamboat Bill Jr., Stolen Kisses, This is Spinal Tap, Troll 2, Weekend, Yellow Submarine, Young Frankenstein
TCM is the only TV worth watching, really.
Books about film. the Lord of the Rings; the Hobbit; Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (I made it through the first eleven!); The Pythons Autobiography; The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists; The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab; Andy Kaufman Revealed!; 1984; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Killing Yourself to Live; Klosterman IV; Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way; the Outsiders; To Kill a Mockingbird.
Andy Kaufman, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, John Cleese, and definitely, definitely, definitely Francois Truffaut.