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Istvan

Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter

About Me

I'm a Transylvanian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1994. I speak four languages and I've lived all over Europe and North America. The qualities I value above all in my friends are intelligence and loyalty. I live in Santa Monica, I am a writer/director.

My Interests

I have a pretty wide variety of interests with a humanistic bend. I like writing, reading, religion, politics, film, arts, literature, sports, family, history, whiskey, beer, good conversation, transylvania, eastern europe.

I'd like to meet:

Ron Paul!

Music:

I believe there is all sorts of good music out there. Pretty much any genre from hip hop to classical as long as it doesn't suck. "That's a broad generalizaition, what does he mean by that?" Good question, it just means I know good music when I hear it, and I know bad music when I hear it too.That being said I've been on a modern kick lately. Franz Ferdinand, The Dandy Warhols, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age and Arcade Fire are all in the rotation right now.

Movies:

In no particular order, creator/directors, The Monty Python Films, Stanley Kubrick's works, Sergio Leone westers, John Ford westerns, Sam Peckinpah's works, esp the Wild Bunch, the Scorsese catalogue, Tarantino's films, The Cohen brothers films, ( eg, Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, Fargo) The Wachowski broter/tranny duo esp the The Matrix and V for Vendetta, Robert Rodriguez (Desperado and Sin City), Terrence Malick (Badlands Thin Red Line, New World), Terry Gilliam (12 monkeys, Fear and Loathing), Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann (Last of the Mohicans, Heat), Oliver Stone, Francis Coppola (Godfather, Apocalypse), Orson Wells, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Walt Disney, Peter Jackson.Some others I like include Glory, Excalibur, The Empire Strikes Back, Breathless (the original, not Richard Gere's disaster), Alfie (the original, Michael Caine is king), City of God, Amadeus, Braveheart, Dumb and Dumber, Bullit, Love Actually, Traffic, Rushmore, Conan the Barbarian, Before Sunset, Zoolander, Patton.Some of my favorite Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Michael Caine, Robert Duval, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt, Jhonny Depp, Geoffrey Rush.Some of my favorite Actresses: Cate Blanchett, Kirsten Dunst, Rachel Weisz, Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler, Frances McDormand.

Television:

The Jack La Lanne power juicer infomercials.

Books:

I haven't read a book since 1987. I have a deep-seated fear of all bound paper products.

Heroes:

St. Istvan, Hunter Thompson, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Che Guavera, Janos Hunyadi, William Shakespeare, James Dean, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Jim Morrison, Abraham Lincoln, Arnold Schwazenegger, JRR Tolkien, Benjamin Franklin, Petofi Sandor, Thomas Jefferson. Jesus Christ and my mom Eva and dad Val who raised us right.

My Blog

I am now on Myspace.

Yes, I am.
Posted by Istvan on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:22:00 PST