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by Yours Truly
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who has something interesting to say really. People whom are perfectly happy amongst a crowd of strangers whose lives are completely different from their own. If you have no humility or your relationships are conditioned on propaganda or some sort of status, bugger off with ya. Otherwise perhaps Issac Newton, Queen Rania, Neil Stephenson, Valentino Rossi, Shintaro Katsu, Voltaire, Tenzin Gyatso, Tim Roth, Zhang Ziyi, Bruce Lee, Robert Heinlein, Eugen Weber, Lady Gabriela, Buckaroo Banzai, or Ari Vatenen
Here are a few video selections:
Underworld's Everything Everything tour seemed to be the peak of electronic music. The LA show at the Mayan was the highest condensation of energy I've been a part of. I think this was at the fuji festival:Cute GAULTIER spot:Award-winning corporate PR film for PeugeotGroove on some coffee art action!
Music:
You can tell how good the music is by the number of speakers you've blown lately. Ratatat (that is guitars you are hearing, not Moogs!). Underworld. Turin Brakes. MSTRKRFT. The Faint. Royksopp. Trentmoeller. Ulrich Schnaus. Orbital. Phoenix. BT. Quantic. Ladytron. Sacha. Rex the Dog. Tiefschwarz. CSS. Older stuff: English Beat. New Order. Fugazi.
Where I'd rather be tonight:
'Twas a grand day when this came out. One of the few pieces of vinyl still kickin' round:
Movies:
12 Monkeys, Luc Besson stuff (see 5th Element even just for the costumes by JPG), original Zatoichi movies, Dark City, American Cuisine, Roman Vacation, Dogtown and ZBoys (original), The Quiet American, Tron, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Buckaroo Banzai, Kafka, Shop Girl, David Lynch, Fellini, AYBABTU, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Ghost Dog, They Live, The Fog of War, 2046 and all Kar-Wai Wong even though he's obsessed with room numbers, Suicide Club, Gattaca, Lost in Trans, Ugetsu, Happy Times, La Dolce Vita, Logan's Run, Ju On, The Big Blue, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Wu Ji, Legend of 1900, Tim Roth in anything, The Odessa File, The Limey, Frantic, The Game, Falling Down, Ridicule, Seven Samurai, Down with Love, Syriana, Solaris, Dead Man, Sunshine, Toshiro Mifune, Come See the Paradise, Control Room, Beijing Bicycle, Soylent Green, Quitting, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Life Aquatic, The Devil Wears Prada
Television:
BBC (Coupling was the best), MotoGP, WRC, Biography, History, Twilight Zone, PBS, IFC. I was an X-Files fan when I was doing the adverts for the show.
Books:
Snow Crash, Holidays on Ice, Across Realtime, Ender's Game, The Art of War, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Final Blackout, A Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Crossing the Chasm
Good thing this didn't happen to Newton:
Heroes:
Anyone who has risked their life for something they believed in or were passionate about.
And whomever made this manhole cover:
