My Friends, The Newlywed Game, Meatloaf-the man & the meal, Billy Ocean music videos, this new R&B station that my alarm clock is set to, Things that are REALLY fake, The Esoteric & The Popular, the act of giving people compliments, Wilf's Piano Bar, Tony's Tavern, Ringside Steakhouse, Scarlatta Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Mint Julips, Black Butte Porter, Mexican Food, Pizza Oasis, India Chat House, Spending Hours in Powell's Bookstore, Things that are genuinely charming such as the Mount. Angel Oktoberfest, The St. Paul Rodeo (no I'm not a redneck, but I still find it charming), Tad's Chicken & Dumplings, and the Hunter Beach Cabana, The City, The Country, keeping a clean early 1960s esthetic, Walking, Talking, doing thing fast, Collecting Vintage Movie Posters, Dipping Sausage in Fondue, Entertaining Small Groups of People in my Tiny Apartment, Appearing put together with the least possible effort.
Someone who will make me laugh. People that can fuckin' bring the dance party, when it's needed. People who like different things than me, but can still enjoy each others company. Shared interests aren't nearly as important as a similar sense of humor. People that don't wear rainbows, or do all of their socializing in bars. People that know DEVO isn't a one hit wonder. People who have patience with my talking about movies all the time, People who aren't lame-os. But, then again I'm flexable-except for the thing about rainbows.
The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Can, Eno, Ennio Morricone, Devo, David Bowie, Scott Walker, OOIOO, Deerhoof, The Beau Brummels, Townes Van Zandt, Traffic Sound, Peter Bjorn & John, Cut Copy, The Byrds, Bülent Ortaçgil, We All Together, Justin Heathcliff, Rod McKuen, Kraftwerk, Erik, The Cyrkle, The Left Banke, The Chocolate Watchband, Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Bros, The David, The Attack, Emitt Rhodes, The Merry-Go-Round, The Marvel World of ICARUS, Pentangle, Bert Jansch, The Montage, Sallyangie, Soundtrack to The Wicker Man, Dat'r, DeBarge, Heroes and Villains, Bob Dylan, Ricky Nelson, Pulp, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood, Marlene Dietrich, Chet Baker, ELO, T-Rex, Marty Robbins, Air, Burt Bacharach, The Kinks, Beyonce, Big Mama Thornton, C.A. Quintet, Calexico, Captain Beefheart, Morrissey, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Devendra Banhart, Justin Timberlake, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Heart, Mae West, Os Mutantes, The Pretty Things, Roy Rogers, Snoop, The Velvet Underground, Movie Soundtracks, Beck, Outkast, Leonard Cohen, Hoagy Carmichael, Bruce Haack, Enchanted Forrest Sound track, Love, John's Children, The Zombies, Nina Simone, Prince, Radiohead, The Nashville Soundtrack, Roger Miller, Blondie, Junior Senior, Fujiya and Miyagi, Junior Boys, The Yellow Magic Band, Chromeo, Bobby Beausoleil
I am one of the five gay men on earth that genuinely love Westerns. Some of my favorite Directors are, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, Kenneth Anger, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean Luc Godard, John Casavettes, Jacques Tourneur, Orson Welles, Rouben Mamoulian, Ernst Lubitsch, Erich von Strohiem, Josef von Sternberg, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujuro Ozu, Richard Lester, Martin Scorsese, Douglas Sirk, William Wellman, Maya Deren, Vincente Minnelli, Bob Fosse, Preston Sturges, Fritz Lang, the Maysles, Howard Hawks, David Lean, Carol Reed, The Coen Brothers, Federico Fellini, Jacques Demy, Sam Peckinpah, Jules Dassin, Marcel Carne, Luis Bunuel, P.T. Anderson, Ingmar Bergman, Don Siegel, John Schlesinger, Budd Boetticher, Anthony Mann, Elia Kazan, Lynne Ramsey, Ang Lee, Nicholas Ray, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Kenji Mizoguchi, Max Ophuls, Robert Altman, Luchino Visconti, Raoul Walsh, Sergio Leone, Jean Renoir, Powell and Pressburger, Francois Truffaut, The Night of the Hunter, Logan's Run, Tron, Cabaret, Hud, Robo-Cop, Leave Her to Heaven, Pennies from Heaven, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Polyester, Once Upon a Time in the West, Hell's Hinges, The Hired Hand, The Magnificent Ambersons, 3 Women, 7 Women, Marcello Mastroinni, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Alain Delon, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Newman, Richard Widmark, Jean Gaban, Marlene Dietrich, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Mae West, I love Film Noir, Pre-Code, Musicals, Melodramas. Shit! There are tons more I'll have to continue up-dating this
TV on DVD has got to be one of the greatest inovations of the 21st Century. I haven't had TV for a year, and I really don't seem to miss it except for Turner Classic Movies. Other TV favorites: Dynasty,LOST, ALIAS, Six Feet Under, The O.C., The Daily Show, Reno 911, Da Ali G Show, The Office-UK, Popular, Bewitched, The Ramblin Rod Show, Extras, Titans. Oh yeah, I hate Deadwood
The Road, Lonesome Dove, Jimmy Corrigan, Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Fun Home, Tab Hunter Confidential, Death in the Family, BUTT Magazine, In Touch Magazine, The Onion, Marlene Dietrich's ABCs, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schniztler, Close Range, Motel Chronicles, Guy de Maupassant's short stories, Ice Castles-the Fotonovel, Gone with the Wind, Being Your Best-Tina Yothers Guide for Girls, A Third Face-Samuel Fuller, The Great Gatsby, ,Berlin Stories, The Leopard, The Stories of John Cheever, The Little Prince, The White Paper, Horseman, Pass By, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Catcher in the Rye, Rebel-the life and legend of James Dean, Tons of film books and coffee table books with Pretty Pictures or Dirty Pictures
John Ford, Kenneth Anger, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Samuel Fuller.