Acting; Writing; Movie-Watching; Reading; Intelligent Conversation
Kevin Spacey; Paul Thomas Anderson; Jonathan Franzen; Tom Waits; Colin Meloy; Charlie Kaufman; Don DeLillo; Martin Scorsese; Charles Foster Kane
TOM WAITS; AIMEE MANN; SOCIAL DISTORTION; THE DECEMBERISTS; GLEN HANSARD; THE WHITE STRIPES; BOB DYLAN; BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN; SPOON; DAVE MATTHEWS
MY FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME (about 30 of them, in order): Magnolia; Pulp Fiction; Citizen Kane; The Lord of the Rings; Scenes From a Marriage; The Shawshank Redemption; L.A. Confidential; Saving Private Ryan; Network; The Matrix; American Beauty; Short Cuts; The Royal Tenenbaums; Fargo; Traffic; The Pawnbroker; Memento; The Incredibles; Glengarry Glen Ross; High Fidelity; Crash; JFK; Closer; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?; La Dolce Vita; Kill Bill; The Aviator; Boogie Nights; Dr. Strangelove; The Sweet Hereafter; In the Bedroom; Your Friends and Neighbors
Seinfeld; Curb Your Enthusiasm; The Sopranos; DEADWOOD; The Office (both UK and USA); Dinner For Five (If you're an actor, of like to hear discussioins about acting, WATCH THIS SHOW) Sports Night; Arrested Developement; My Name is Earl; LOST; The WIRE; Family Guy; The Critic; Batman: The Animated Series (that's right.) And I absolutely HATE "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex and the City." They are mindless, stupid drivel.
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen); Underworld (Don DeLillo); The Twenty-Seventh City (Franzen); As I Lay Dying (Faulkner); Diary (Chuck Palahniuk); The Sweet Hereafter (Russell Banks); The Angel on the Roof (Banks); Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis); Gift From the Sea (Anne Morrow Lindbergh); Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (David T. Hardy and Jason Starke); Waking the Dead (John Eldredge); Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis); Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut); The Golden Bowl (Henry James); White Noise (DeLillo); The Ice Storm (Rick Moody); The History Plays by William Shakespeare; From Beirut to Jerusalem (THomas L. Friedman); The Body Artist (DeLillo); Matchstick Men (Eric Garcia); Demonology: A Collection of Short Stories (Rick Moody); The Broom of the System (David Foster Wallace); CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoevsky); The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (Jonathan Franzen); In Cold Blood (Truman Capote);