Acting, Screenwriting, Playwriting, collaborating on short films, watching a good movie, enjoying life to the fullest,thinking, pondering, being illuminated by the mystery of life, and--most importantly--loving.
People whom I'll never be able to meet: Marlon Brando, Cary Grant, Jim Morrison...those are just a few.
***Top 5 Artists: 1) Elvis 2) Otis Redding 3) Frank Sinatra 4) Kings of Leon 5) The Strokes***Top 5 Albums: 1) "Sea Change" - Beck 2) "The Doors" - The Doors 3) "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" - Outkast 4) "Rubberneck" - Toadies 5) "Naught by Nature" - Naughty by Nature***Top 5 Soundtracks: 1) Saturday Night Fever 2) Goodfellas 3) Reservoir Dogs 4) The Blues Brothers 5) Boogie Nights***Top 5 Songs: 1) "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy" - Elvis 2) "I've Been Loving You(Too Long)" - Otis Redding 3) "Tyler" - Toadies 4) "Summer Wind" - Frank Sinatra 5) "Supernatural Thing" - Ben E. King ***Top 5 Film Scores: 1) Halloween 2) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 3) Crash(2005) 4) The Natural 5) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Top Films: 1) Goodfellas 2) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4) Reservoir Dogs 5) Halloween 6) The Hustler 7) Pyscho (1960) 8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 9) A Streetcar Named Desire 10) Boogie Nights and Citizen Kane Then it gets harder to rank them: *The Godfather, *Rear Window, *Arsenic and Old Lace, *Glory, *The Doors, *JFK, *It's a Wonderful Life, *Roxanne, *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, *Casablanca, *Crash(2005), *Seems Like Old Times, *48 Hours, *Cannary Row, *Deliverance, *Harry and the Hendersons, *Silver Streak, *Stir Crazy, *Young Frankenstein, *Narc, *Aliens, *Near Dark, *Wargames, *Ghost, *Ironweed, *Frankenstein, *Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, *Pollock, *Five Easy Pieces, *Carnal Knowledge, *Fright Night, *Chaplin, *Easy Rider, *The Last Detail, *The Deer Hunter, *Ghostbusters, *The Blues Brothers, *Field of Dreams, *The Exorcist, *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, *Blow, *Sid and Nancy, *Awakenings, *Sideways, *Superman, *Shattered Glass, *Midnight Cowboy, *Lenny, *Seven, *Lean on Me, *Good Night, and Good Luck, *Hotel Rwanda, *Love Actually, *Kill Bill(Vol. 1 and 2), *Jackie Brown, *Natural Born Killers, *Weird Science, *Spies Like Us, *The Breakfast Club, *Kinsey, *Memphis Belle, *The Dirty Dozen, *Arthur, *Trading Places, *Scarface, *Stand By Me, *License to Drive, *Sleepers, *Flatliners, *Backdraft, *Spiderman 2, *Risky Business, *Cocktail, *Saturday Night Fever, *Heartbreak Ridge, *The Natural, *Bonnie and Clyde, *American History X, *Let it Ride, *Jaws, *The Sting, *The Shawshank Redemption, *Taxi Driver, *On the Waterfront, *Raging Bull, *Benny and Joon, *Stalag 17, *Dirty Harry, *Gone with the Wind, *Cool Hand Luke, *Go, *Love, Liza, *Saving Private Ryan, *Cast Away, *Misery, *Sling Blade, *Vertigo, *LA Confidential, *High Plains Drifter, *We're No Angels(1989), *Blue Velvet, *The Elephant Man, *The Door in the Floor, *The Virgin Suicides, *The Princess Bride, *Once Upon a Time in the West, *Romancing the Stone, *Frequency, *Wonderland, *Pulp Fiction, *Mystic River, *All 3 Indiana Jones films, *Dog Day Afternoon, *Full Metal Jacket, *The Shining, *The Color of Money, *Rocky, *Rocky II, *Papillion, *The Great Escape, *Million Dollar Baby, *Annie, *The Rocky Horror Picture Show, *Days of Wine and Roses, *The Untouchables, *Romeo is Bleeding, *True Romance, *Hoosiers, *Forrest Gump, *Road to Perdition, *The Usual Suspects, *Unfaithful(everyone has that one sexy movie), *Back to the Future, *The Woodsman, *Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory, *Dead Man Walking, *Leaving Las Vegas, *Magnolia, *Punch-Drunk Love, *Groundhog's Day, *From Here to Eternity, *Dick Tracy, *Batman, *Memento, *Fight Club, *Mr. Mom, *The Dream Team, *The Big Chill, *Body Double, *The Silence of the Lambs, *Evil Dead 2, *After Hours, *An American Werewolf in London, *The Three Amigos, *National Lampoon's Vacation, *The Best of Times, *Brewster's Millions, *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), *Rebel Without A Cause, *Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, *Bowfinger, and I could go on and on and on...
Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Deadwood --these are what I'm interested in now, but come on...everybody knows the best years of television were in the early eighties with Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and (my personal favorite) Night Court.
"Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi", "In Cold Blood", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra", "The Outsiders", "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus", "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"
No use for heroes