A girl becoming more amazing everytime I look into her eyes, updating my Criterion Collection, taxes magically appearing in my checking account, David Shire's score for Zodiac, hating Grindhouse when everyone thinks its the second coming, spies, detectives, the Cold War, fast women, and car chases.
Just a few directors that I admire to the utmost: Living: Terrence Malick, Brian DePalma, Francis Ford Coppolla, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo Del Toro, Woody Allen, Bryan Singer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Mann, Wong Kar-Wai, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson, Park Chan-wook, and Werner Herzog - - - Deceased: Robert Altman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murneau, Sergei Eisenstein, James Whale, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tod Browning, David Lean, Sergio Leone, John Huston, Terence Young, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, William Castle, and John Cassavetes . . . and Dax Flame!------------------------------------------------------ -----
Bands and Artists: Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Can, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, Midnight Movies, Soft Machine, The Arcade Fire, Talking Heads, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Estradasphere, Miles Davis, Nine Inch Nails, Koenjihyakkei, Ornette Coleman, The Strokes, Sonic Youth, Franz Ferdinand, The Dresden Dolls, Rob Dougan, Necrophagist, The Pixies, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, MF Doom, Louis XIV, DragonForce, DEVO, The Artic Monkeys, David Bowie, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gnarls Barkley, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, The Sex Pistols, The Zombies, Kaiser Chiefs, John Zorn and Naked City, Vic Flic, The Beatles, Interpol, Devo, Cat Power, Sorry No Ferrari!, Eric Clapton, Bloc Party, Kasabian, Midnight Movies, Gorillaz, Sigur Ros, The Clash, Iron Maiden, Dead Can Dance - - -Film Composers: Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, John Williams, David Shire, Lalo Schifrin, Dave Grusin, Elliot Goldenthal, Marco Beltrami, Howard Shore, Christopher Young, Dario Marianelli, Michael Kamen, Hans Zimmer, John Debney, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, Lisa Gerrard, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Patrick Doyle, Wojeich Kilar, Mark Isham, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Nyman, Alan Silvestri, Brian Tyler, Christopher Gordon, Steve Jablonsky, Terrence Blanchard, Anne Dudley, Michael Giacchino, Roque Banos, Mychael Danna - - -Classical Composers: Richard Wagner, Igor Stravinsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, E.W. Korngold, Richard Strauss, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, George Crumb, Vaughn Williams, Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok
My Top 20 Favorite Films: ---1.) ) Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931); 2.) The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973); 3.) Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000); 4.) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963); 5.) Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964); 6.) Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967); 7.) Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983); 8.) Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973); 9.) Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppolla, 1979); 10.) Blade Runner (Ridely Scott, 1982); 11.) Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954); 12.) Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985); 13.) North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959); 14.) F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974); 15.) The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1999); 16.) Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927); 17.) California Split (Robert Altman, 1974); 18.) The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppolla, 1974); 19.) A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935); 20.) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
HBO: Deadwood, Carnivale, Mr. Show, Extras, sex documentaries; Comedy Central: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Stella, South Park, Upright Citizens Brigade, Reno 911!; Fox: The Simpsons, Arrested Development; Showtime: Dexter, Masters of Horror; Cartoon Network/Adult Swim: Futurama, Metalocalypse, The Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force; NBC: The Office (US and UK versions), Studio 60; MTV: The State, Wondershowzen, Super Sweet 16; Sci-Fi: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who; various other things on PBS, History Channel, TLC, etc.
Reading Right Now: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein - - -Recently Read: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner, White Jazz by James Ellroy, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton, Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Dress Your Family in Courdoroy and Denim by David Sedaris
David Cronenberg, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Federico Fellini, Jerry Goldsmith, Will Eisner, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Bernie Wrightson, Harry Dean Stanton