Making movies(!), hot coffee, cold beer, Indian food, tequila, Japanese food, live music, real Mexican food, NPR and PBS, running (very slowly), working out at Pure Austin (the exercise thing is a necessity just like eating and sleeping), acting and taking acting classes, chocolate, philosophizing, modern art (Duchamp and Man Ray are my faves), whiskey, outdoorsy activities, cannibalism, red wine, necrophilia, ya'know the usual stuff...Not interested in: sports (e.g. football, basketball, baseball, etc.), NASCAR, (most) Hollywood movies, music for the the masses, Republicans, people who drive Hummers, etc.
I'd like to meet:
Eclectic, creative and interesting people of all kinds. People making movies (especially ones that will pay me to act in them!). Beside that... smart girls who are also hot. Hot girls who are also smart. A diamond in the rough. Just one good one (or even a few bad ones). A tiny needle in a huge haystack. My "soulmate". People I don't have to explain myself to. I have no idea...
Music:
Art Brut, The Hold Steady, PJ Harvey, Magnetic Fields, Wire, Cheap Trick, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, The Fall, Joy Division, The Who (early), The Kinks, The Handsome Family, The Cure, Hank Williams (the first and only), Richard Thompson, Elvis, The Sex Pistols, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, Husker Du, DEVO, Alice Cooper, Pere Ubu, The Stranglers, Mission of Burma, The Cure, Sons of Hercules, The Psychedelic Furs, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, AC/DC, The Sisters of Mercy, American Analog Set, The Arm, The Ugly Beats, The Faint
Movies:
The Passenger, Wings of Desire, Children of Men, Il Conformiste, Jacob's Ladder, Short Cuts, Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), The Man with the Golden Arm, The Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevard, Easy Rider, Blood Simple, Network, Once Upon a Time in America, Harvey, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Wernor Herzog Eats His Shoe, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Seventh Seal, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Caddyshack, A Streetcar Named Desire,The Station Agent, Unforgiven, Midnight Cowboy, Happiness, Bringing Up Baby, Casablanca, The Third Man, Aguirre: The Wrath of God. The Seven Sumarai, Eraserhead, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Clockwork Orange, An Affair to Remember, Straw Dogs, Blade Runner, Road Warrior, Duck Soup, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Shane, The Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, On the Waterfront, Night of the Living Dead, Man on a Train (l'homme du train), The Texas Chainsaw Massacres, Rock and Roll High School, Nosferatu (original), Fearless Vampire Killers, La Dolce Vita, Strangers in Good Company, Elling, Last Tango in Paris, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Spellbound (both of them)... Sorry, most new movies are crap.
Television:
The Twilight Zone (original), Six Feet Under (first 2 1/2 seasons), The Prisoner (possibly the greatest television series ever made), Seinfeld, Malcolm in the Middle (which is incredibly well done!), Beavis & Butthead (R.I.P.), The Civil War series on PBS (Television at it's pinnacle)
Books:
Middlesex, The Baghavad Gita, The Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Zen Flesh: Zen Bones, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Illiad, Dante's Divine Comedy, something else high-falutin.
Heroes:
Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Rogers and Hammerstein, Dr. Frankenstein, Werner Herzog, D. W. Griffith, Jean Luc-Godard, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, and all the other women who deserve to be just as famous.
