Winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald Emotional Maturity Award
Winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald Emotional Maturity Award
I'm into excellent grammar and spelling. I like graffiti, water, sleep, bikes, cameras, cheeses, bass guitars, coffee (and its associated espresso beverages), unicorns, computers, beards, sushi, selective ambiguity, food, books, comics, moving pictures, illustration, debasement, cherry preserves, travel, hand signs, gold teeth, david byrne, motorcycles, smells, pets and boys, plants, automanipulation, colors, glasses, rude hand-gestures, paint, macaroni and cheese, gin, modified bodies, gang signs, constellations, King Arthur, pornography, Josh and Laura, hardwood floors, dorks, home, art, the echo people, lamps, games, goths, kissing, things that fly, and glitter. I like more stuff but that’s all I could come up with right now.
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Genres:
Art Rock
Folk Rock
Glam
Kraut Rock
Motown
New Wave
Post Punk
Progressive
Psychedelic
Soul
Synth Pop
Bands:
AIR
The Beach Boys
Billy Nayer Show
Bjork
Black Sheep
The Bloodhound Gang
The Breeders
Brian Eno
Calliopefair
CAN
Cocteau Twins
The Cure
Cyndi Lauper
Danny Elfman
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
David Byrne
Dead Can Dance
Deep Forest
Depeche Mode
Devo
The Dillards
Django Reinhardt
Donovan
Edith Piaf
The Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Gary Numan
Genesis (pre-1975)
Grandmaster Flash
Guided by Voices
Harry Nilsson
Husker Du
Interpol
The Jackson 5
Jah Wobble
James
Jane's Addiction
Joanna Newsom
John Cale
Jordan O' Jordan
Joy Division
Kate Bush
King Crimson
The Kinks
Kraftwerk
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Lou Reed
Love
LTJ Bukem
The Magnetic Fields
Mark Farina
Marvin Gaye
Massive Attack
Minutemen
Nat King Cole
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Order
Nick Cave
Nick Drake
Oingo Boingo
Otis Redding
Over the Rhine
Patsy Cline
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Peter Gabriel
PIL
Pink Floyd
Pixies
The Police
Portishead
The Pretenders
Prince
Psychic TV
Queen
REM
The Righteous Brothers
Robert Johnson
Robyn Hitchcock
Rosyvelt
Sam Cook
The Shins
Simon & Garfunkel
Siouxie and the Banshees
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sisters of Mercy
The Slits
Smashing Pumkins
The Smiths
The Split Enz
Stephen Malkmus
Stereolab
Stevie Nicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Supertramp
Syd Barrett
T.Rex
The Talking Heads
Theivery Corporation
They Might be Giants
This Mortal Coil
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tuxedomoon
U2
Velvet Underground
Violent Femmes
The Who
XTC
Yaz
Yo La Tengo
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Directors
Akira Kurosawa
Alfonso Cuaron
Carol Reed
Charlie Kaufman
David Lynch
Edgar Wright
Fernando Meirelles
Fritz Lang
Georges Melies
JessicaYu
Jeunet and Caro
John Cameron Mitchell
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Lasse Gjertsen
Lumiere Brothers
Mathieu Kassovitz or
Matthew Barney
Michel Gondry
Pedro Almodovar
Peter Greenaway
Peter Weir
Sofia Coppola
Spike Jonze
Werner Herzog
Wes Anderson
Movies
Amelie
Annie Hall
Black Orpheus
Children of Men
City of Lost Children
Cleo from 5 to 7
Clue
Delicatessin
Donnie Darko
Goonies
Harold and Maude
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Metropolis
My Own Private Idaho
Red/White/Blue
Seventh Seal.
Squid and the Whale
The Grand Illusion
The Lives of Others
The Passion of Jean d'Arc
The Rules of the Game
Thin Man
Third Man
Tristram Shandy
Trouble in Paradise
True Stories
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Actors
Crispin Glover
Jean Reno
Jeff Daniels
Michael Caine
Robert Downey Jr.
Steve Coogan
Vincent Cassel
I don't have cable--at all. That being said: Dr. Who (Tom Baker), Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Robot Chicken, Look Around You, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf (f-off smeghead), Monkey Dust, Scrubs, CSI, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, 6ft. Under, Sex & the City, Simpsons, Jonathan Creek, Poirot, Ms. Marple, Alias and the X-Files, I guess.
Alasdair Gray, Robert Heinlein, Lynda Barry, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Kafka, David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, Nick Hornby, Irvine Welsh, Donna Tart, Dan Savage, Mary Stewart, Agatha Christie, Kurt Vonnegut, Gladys Mitchell. COMICS: Roman Dirge, Neil Gaiman, ALAN MOORE (From Hell, Swamp Thing, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen, Promethea...etc.)Harry freakin' Potter, Phantom Tollbooth, Susan Cooper... I collect old copies of Children's Books, like the Dark is Rising Sequence, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pyrdain Chronicles (The Black Cauldron), Mists of Avalon (Arthurian Legends in general) His Dark Materials, Madeline L'Engle's Time Series (A Wrinkle in Time), the Phantom Tollbooth and other "juvenile" literature.
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