Marathon running, hiking, swing dancing, X-box, skiing and boarding, Disneyland, food, playing the baritone sax, Hiking, Classic Hollywood screwball comedies, Captain Britain, red wine, New York City, Dickens and Twain, Broadway musicals, working on my 66 Mustang Convertible, Cirque Du Soleil, French electronica/nu jazz and film.
People who are into me.I have no tolerance for those that aren't.
The Bad Plus, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Bird and the Bee, Bitter:Sweet, Bjork, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Bobbie Gentry, Cake, Mingus Big Band, Digby Jones, Emilie Simon, Esthero, Gil Evans, Groove Armada, Hotel Costes, Jamie Cullum, Kurt Elling, Lenny Kravitz, Lily Allen, Louis Prima, Marc Broussard, Madeleine Peyroux, Medeski Martin Wood, Nellie McKay, Nina Simone, Norah Jones, Nouvelle Vague, Parov Stelar, Portishead, Ramsey Lewis, Ray Charles, Rilo Kiley, Sexmob, Emilie Simon, Sia, Psapp, Spoon, Sephane Pompourgnac, Vince Guaraldi, Waldeck, Wax Tailor, Zero7
Iron Giant, Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction, Mr and Mrs Smith, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, A Little Princess, Lion King, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Dogville, Old School, Just Friends, Poltergeist, Logan's Run, Hudson Hawk, Pirates Of The Carribean, Kill Bill, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Curse Of The Demon, Cat People, Magnolia, The Kid, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Moulin Rouge, Monsters' Inc., Invincibles, Emperor's New Groove, Pleasentville, The Philadelphia Story, Charade, The Rock, Armageddon, A Knight's Tale, , Spider-Man 2, Die Hard, 3:10 To Yuma, Truman Show, Children Of Men, Eternal Sunshine Spotless Mind, Lord Of The RIngs, Pan's Labyrinth, those old Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone -- Directors -- Tarantino, Sam Raimi, Frank Capra, Peter Jackson, Doug Liman, Tim Burton, George Clooney, P. T. Anderson, Brad Bird, Michel Gondry, Terry Gilliam, Guillermo Del Toro (especially the foreign stuff) Alfred Hitchcock (especially the American stuff), Roman Polanski, Steven Spielberg, Jacques Tourneur, Frank Capra, Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott,Check out my first short film THEY MIGHT BE DRAGONS
Buffy, Angel, The Office, Veronica Mars, Moonlighting. Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, Wild Wild West, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Father Ted, Twin Peaks, Scooby Doo, Jonny Quest, Doctor Who, Animaniacs, Get A Life (Chris Elliot), Meeting Of The Minds, Batman, Extras, Lost, Heroes, Conan O'Brien, Dick Van Dyke, Quark
Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Ayn Rand, Alan Garner, Shel Silverstein, William Shakespeare, Rold Dahl, Dr. Suess, Stephen King, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman and G.K. Chesterton -- Coraline, Peter Pan, The Fountainhead, Wolves In The Walls, Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass, Einstein's Dreams, The Great Divorce, Great Expectations, Weirdstone of Brasingamen, The Owl Service, Christmas Carol, Narnia, Lord Of The Rings, Orthodoxy,
Winston Churchill, G.K. Chesterton, Walt Disney, Ben Franklin, Teddy Roosevelt, and Noah