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Ian

He must have thought it was white boy day.

About Me

I've sort of fused Flashdance with MC Hammer shit.

My Interests

Writing, reading, playing music with friends, watching movies, going to movies alone, learning new things, spending time with friends, etc.

Music:

Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham, My Bloody Valentine, Gossip, Elliott Smith, Joy Division, Skip James, Delta 5, Magnetic Fields, Otis Redding, S-K, blah blah--who cares?

Movies:

American Movie, Bottle Rocket, 8 1/2, Rear Window, Chungking Express, In the Mood For Love, Spinal Tap, Ghost World, Brazil. Movies by: Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Hitchcock, Terry Gilliam, PT Anderson, David Lynch, Fellini, Wong Kar Wai, Richard Linklater, Vincent Gallo, Cassavettes

Television:

The Office, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, Home Movies, Twilight Zone

Books:

Daniel Clowes, Raymond Carver, Haruki Murakami, Gary Lutz, Sam Lipsyte, Sheila Heti, Diane Williams, Adrian Tomine, Charles Burns, Isaac Babel, Bruno Schultz, Graham Greene, Lorrie Moore, Barry Hannah, Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Robert Coover, Amy Hempel, Aimee Bender, Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, George Saunders, Dorothy Parker, Jonathan Ames, Terry Southern, etc. I also like essays, books about film, and books about music (I'm working my way through the 33 1/3 series). And I'm always interested in good comics.

My Blog

Mildly Depressing

If your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)2. Put it on shuffle3. Press play4. For every question, typ...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:00:00 PST

Because I Was Flesh

A few thoughs for September:   Here is an emblem of how brainless my job requires me to be: I spent fifteen minutes flirting through the bulgy filmography of the actor Karl Urban (who had relativ...
Posted by Ian on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:13:00 PST

a few things

I know that very few people have an interest in reading and writing. And even fewer people have an interest in growing chummy with the complicated logistics of grammar and syntax. Whenever I mention t...
Posted by Ian on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:24:00 PST

Interesting read

A Theory of the Artist by Sam Lipsyte Say its three small children on a beach. Say they share a blanket on the sand, all of them coloring in coloring books. The first child tenses, fidgets...
Posted by Ian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST