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Michael

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships and Friends

About Me

My head’s swimming with poetry and prose

My Interests

Fighting irony with sincerity, iconoclasts, independent film, understanding my circumambient universe, emotion, perfecting my Bryan Ferry croon, unsettling myself, Ran Prieur, drones, synth washes, Fender Rhodes, "Cantinque de Jean Racine, Op.11," romantic notions

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers for truth

Music:

Standards of Living: Talk Talk; Radiohead; The Smiths and Morrissey; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions; Roxy Music; R.E.M.; The first five Simple Minds albums; Fleetwood Mac; dEUS; Shearwater; The Three O'Clock; The Rain Parade; Can; Joy Division; Neu!; Slowdive; The Stooges; Big Star; Gang of Four; Nick Cave; The Left Banke; Tom Waits; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Alice Coltrane; Gabriel Fauré; Steve Reich; Toru Takemitsu; Terry Riley; Debussy; Chopin; Brian Eno; David Bowie; Prince; Captain Beefheart; Stevie Wonder; Wire; XTC; The ClashThey're Rising Daily: Stars of the Lid; Fabio Orsi; Our Sleepless Forest; Sunn O))); Raccoo-oo-oon; Sleep; Flamin' Groovies; Circle; Ashra

Movies:

A Woman Under the Influence, Bleak Moments, The Sacrifice, Stalker, Winter Light, Paris, Texas, The Decalogue, Coming Apart

Television:

The Office, Mr. Show, Tim and Eric, Babylon 5

Books:

Currently: Ray Carney's Film writings, Murray Bookchin, Curtis White, Meister Eckhart, William James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Raymond Carver, Jacob Needleman, D.H. Lawrence

Heroes:

Mark Hollis, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Cassavetes, Mike Leigh, and yes, Ray Carney

My Blog

Movies Seen, 2007

1/1  Brokeback Mountain (Lee); Raining Stones (Loach)1/11 Husbands (Cassavetes); Children of Men (Cuaron)1/13 The Corporation (Achbar/Abbott)1/14 Time Indefinite (McElwee)1/16 Monika (Bergman)1/...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:06:00 PST

Movies Seen, 2006

Here is a list of the films I watched in 2006. It was pretty much the year of John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh.1/8 Munich (Spielberg)1/12 Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Lang)1/17 All or Nothing (Leigh)1/20 Th...
Posted by Michael on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:19:00 PST