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mark

an umbrella in the wind

About Me

i like film, music and books, the post/impressionists, aero bars, cold soda, the magnetic qualities of the beach and overcast afternoons...

My Interests

model railroad, cross-stitch, teeball

I'd like to meet:

gumby. if you have a heart then gumby's a part of you.

Music:

death cab for cutie - elliott smith - everything but the girl/tracey thorn - american analog set/andrew kenny - via audio - fleetwood mac - brian wilson - clue to kalo - broken social scene - air - julee cruise - chris isaak - azure ray - imogen heap - the radio dept. - the devoted few - the postal service - edisonmusic - the cure - blink 182 - brand new - gyroscope - thinktank - hot hot heat - placebo - scarling - sonic youth - ...and you will know us by the trail of dead - smashing pumpkins - foo fighters - antiskeptic - jimmy eat world - the jesus and mary chain - bluebottle kiss - the afghan whigs - twilight singers - red house painters - lo-tel - my bloody valentine - ratcat - screamfeeder - spod - knievel - motor ace - the police - american hi-fi - jebediah - klinger/ben birchall - crowded house - kisschasy - saves the day - the get up kids - taking back sunday - head automatica - glassjaw - the juliana theory - incubus - spitalfield - the ataris - rufio - the starting line - yellowcard - new found glory - stealing o'neal - sugarcult - weezer - nirvana - youth group - halogen - denvar

Movies:

film is quite an important medium to me. heres a few of my personal favourites in chronological, not neccesarily preferencial order. baring in mind this list could go on for all eternia...rear window (1953), vertigo (1958), the birds, (1963), the graduate (1967), 2001: a space odyssey (1968), walkabout (1971), dont look now (1973), picnic at hanging rock (1975), star wars [a new hope] (1977), stalker (1979), the shining (1980), the empire strikes back (1980), bad timing (1980), stripes (1981), sunless [sans solei] (1983), return of the jedi (1983), trading places (1983), caddyshack (1983), paris, texas (1984), the neverending story (1984), ghostbusters (1984), back to the future (1985), the breakfast club (1985), insignificance (1985), castaway [roeg] (1986), flight of the navigator (1986), playing beatie bow (1986), bright lights, big city (1989), back to the future pt II (1989), my own private idaho (1991), encino man (1992), six degrees of separation (1993), groundhog day (1993), brainscan (1993), son in law (1993), ace ventura: pet detective (1994), dumb and dumber (1994), billy madison (1995), bad boys (1995), jumungi (1996), the cable guy (1996), romeo + juliet (1996), lost highway (1997), good will hunting (1998), the wedding singer (1998), can't hardly wai (1998), the virgin suicides (2000), donnie darko (2001), mulholland drive (2001), vanilla sky (2001), gerry (2002), punch drunk love (2002), solaris [soderbergh](2002), lost in translation (2003), rhinoceros eyes (2003), eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004), garden state (2004), napoleon dynamite (2004), elephant (2004), somersault (2004), stranded (2005), last days (2005), thumbsucker (2005), broken flowers (2005), code 46 (2005), the last kiss (2006), 2:37 (2006), marie antoinette (2006), in the land of women (2007)...these people ma(k/d)e incredible films. nicolas roeg, sofia coppola, david lynch, andre tarkovsky, michael winterbottom, cate shortland, alfred hitchcock, jim jarmusch, gus van sant, wim wenders, peter weir, jane campion, roman polanski, steven soderbergh, stanley kubrick, krzysztof kieslowski, jean luc goddard, the list goes on...

Television:

the simpsons, degrassi (all generations), twin peaks, days of our lives, dawsons creek, californication, shaun micallef and his many p(r)ogram(me)'s, chris lilley's mockumentaries - big bite/we can be heros/summer heights high, the late show, the chaser's war on everything, the tom green show, seinfeld, scrubs, the IT crowd, the mighty boosh, garth marenghi's darkplace, black books, dr who [tom baker], the mysterious cities of gold, children of the stones, chocky, read all about it, press gang, our hero, ready or not, the secret world of alex mack, heartbreak high, secret valley, the trap door, puddle lane, sooty, gumby, T-Bag, count duckula, inspector gadget, art attack, the brollies, rocko's modern life, daria, AEIOU, quoa quoa, alias the jester

Books:

fiona capp's 'night surfing' is paperback perfection

Heroes:

nicolas roeg, luke hanigan, jamie hutchings, wayne connolly, brian molko, robert smith, jim carrey, elliott smith, benjamin gibbard and christopher 'applejacks' walla.these people make me smile.

My Blog

genie in a bottle, storm in a teacup

so, usually i prefer to vent my own thoughts and words through this particular outlet but recently on my internet travels i stumbled across a wonderful little piece of analytical pop-culture prose tha...
Posted by mark on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:50:00 PST

sofia's 'marie antoinette'

every frame was aching beauty. i had been waiting well over 12 months. and it was worth it. a unique and decidedly different take on an expected genre period piece about the tragic life of one of the ...
Posted by mark on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:26:00 PST

vhs or beta

blogging hey. im kinda new at this, so please bare with me as i iron out the creases... recently i went to one of our local 'video stores' and i use the term 'video' with great discression. i knew for...
Posted by mark on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:36:00 PST

death. cab. for. cutie.

5 hours. 43 minutes. the doors will be opened to a show that will most probably blitz the rest. death cab for cutie. returning as ben promised me three years ago. there will be tears. there ...
Posted by mark on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:07:00 PST