filmmaking, film watching, music playing, cycling, writing, world travel, collecting soul records and then listening to them, comics, fine food/wine/tobacco, dancing, film history, history in general, learning interesting things, occasional indulgences/bad choices, creating wikipedia entries
If you're funny and smart, it's on! If you're one or the other, who's gonna admit they aren't the other? I won't tell! People to work on projects with, people to go on long bike rides with, people to play cards with. Also gorilla my dreams.
SOUL, R&B 45s, pre-war blues, a lot of the usual rock shit, The Secret Museum of Mankind series of traditional ethnic music, Bow Wow Wow, early Human League, the Slits, Kleenex, the Damned, Morricone, Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann, the Ventures, girl groups, psych-folk, black metal and whatever else- WFMU!!-also like playing music
Michael Haneke, Casablanca, The Third Man, The Val Lewton horror movies, mostly Isle of the Dead and Cat People, Old Dark House, All Kubrick, All Bunuel, All Polanski, Little Children/In the Bedroom, (Todd Field is the best new American director) dozens of the Fassbinder movies although he is certainly an acquired taste. Best Years of our Lives, Golddiggers of 1933, White Heat, Public Enemy, anything by Raul Walsh or Michael Curtiz, anything with Robert Mitchum. Takashi Miike, Sejuin Suzuki, Martin Scorcese (mostly early but I admit I liked Departed and Aviator) weird 70's movies like Night Moves, Inserts, and many others. Can't forget Mario Bava, Guy Maddin, Alan Rudolph, Alain Resnais, Kieslowski or Max Ophuls. Also, guess what! Stupid movies! Old School, Ali G, etc.
The Wire, Weeds, Sopranos (though I'm glad it's over), Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, Harvey Birdman attorney at Law, Freaks and Geeks, the Mighty Boosh, Soul Train
In no particular order: Under the Banner of Heaven: amazing modern-day In Cold Blood starring Mormons, High Wind in Jamaica, Master and Margarita (almost impossible to talk up too much; it will not disappoint) The Dharma Bums, My Last Sigh by Bunuel, Blinding Light by Paul Theroux, Dorothy Dunnett's historical novels, ditto for Patrick O'brian. Bill Bryson, Arturo Perez-Reverte, George Orwell, J. Krishnamurti, good weird history books - Devil in the White City, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon, People's History of US.
Robert Mitchum, Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Hinault