Writer/Filmmaker/Teacher/Cynicand a fanatic of
Volkswagen/Audi, car detailing, working out, film, film history, bossa nova, samba, jazz, DVDs, Home Theater, Ebay, theater, DC comics, writing and I am somewhat liberal on many issues but also interested in libertarian politics (anything other than the neocons who have taken over the country and if you want my opinion on that take a seat and call into work, it's going to be a few days.)And by the way . . . Check out my Seinfeld Spec Script here!
Michael --
[noun]:
A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult
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I already met Burt Bacharach once. Who else is there?
Frank Sinatra, Django Reinhardt, Burt Bacharach, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, White Stripes, Radiohead, Billie Holliday, Bebel Gilberto, Elvis Costello, Thievery Corporation, Girl Called Eddy, Ennio Morricone, Nellie McKay, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Al Green, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Beastie Boys, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Ben Folds Five, Barry White, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Black Eyed Peas, Bob Marley, Cal Tjader, Sonic Youth, Combustible Edison, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, Dead Kennedys, Dean Martin, Desi Arnez, Dinah Washington, Gotan Project, Dimitri From Paris, Dionne Warwick, The New york Dolls, Dizzy Gillespie, Public Enemy, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Shonen Knife, Herb Alpert, The Hives, Ice T, The Ramones, James Brown, Koop, Marcos Valles, Nino Rota, Pizzicato Five, Sex Pistols, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Marvin Gaye, Mel Torme, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode. I have an ipod so no reason to listen to the radio anymore (which is always on NPR anywyay)
Any pictures from - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, David Lean, Orson Welles, Truffaut, Fellini (8 1/2 is a fav, obviously), Kurosawa, Terry Gilliam, Kubrick, Lubitsch, Stephen Soderbergh, Bergman, Chaplin, Marx Bros, Sergio Leone, Coen bros, Tarantino, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah. I'm really into these guys who have a body of work that I can look at as a whole and just absorb it all into my brain. Pretty much anything any of those guys do or did I'm going to like and is in my top 20 list. I try and keep up with the usual new movies but 90% are pretty forgettable.
Coupling (BBC version), Seinfeld, Futurama, Simpsons, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boondocks, The Office (both NBC and BBC), Battlestar Galactica (new). Most of these I just watch on DVD. Don't watch much TV except the news or PBS specials sometimes. Reality TV is brainwashing you. Turn it off please. And the news doesn't tell you EVERYTHING you need to know. In fact, big surprise, it's often a bunch of half truths if not mostly lies. Read a newspaper and look for alternative sources online.
I like reading biographys of directors or actors that I listed above and have quite a large library, books about films or the film industry, political non-fiction, paranormal non-fiction. I like classic novels like Catcher In The Rye, Stranger In A Strange Land, Johnny Got His Gun, Catch-22, To Kill A Mockingbird, In Cold Blood. Some new fiction I do enjoy (I've been reading The Historian lately) but most of my current fiction fix I get from comic books. In fact, I think Batman Year 100 (story and art by Paul Pope) is rocking out right now. It has a very timely Police State setting for Batman in the year 2039, obviously out of continuity from the regular comics. It even refers to Frank Miller's classic from 1986, The Dark Knight Returns. Check out the images below!
Another space for dead people and parents and other relatives. I'll tell you one of my heroes currently. Lou Dobbs on CNN. He is fighting the good fight every afternoon against this corrupt administration fleecing the country. He is on top of all the issues. I can't believe Lou still has his job! He knows what the fuck is up with these criminal imposters currently in the White House.