Music, reading, movies, and eating at new places occupy much of my time. I also enjoy running, distinctive (and historic) architecture, tattoos, photography, history, animals, Hawaiiana and Tiki, Japanese gardening, ice cream, and reading about defunct religions. One day I hope to join a cabal.
I'd like to meet:
People I might like. If I might not like you, stay away.
"Maybe you'll call me, maybe you won't," The Dandy Warhols
Music:
My personal triumvirate is Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits.
Read about other artists I love in my "33" blogs.
Forget all that. I love Trace Adkins and Honky Tonk Bodonkadonk.
Movies:
2007: Waitress, Juno, There Will Be Blood, A Mighty Heart, Eastern Promises, The Savages, Stardust, 300, Beowulf, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward John Ford, No Country for Old Men, and the Tarantino half of Grindhouse.
2006: The Proposition, The Departed, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Bobby, The Good Shepperd, and Blood Diamond.
My stream of consciousness list, I'm sure something disturbing can be read into the order I think of these: Titus, Elephant Man, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Graduate, Mars Attacks!, Gosford Park, Gods and Monsters, Bride of Frankenstein, Beloved, Jackie Brown, Les Vampires, Pi, Dead Man, Unbreakable, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window, 12 Monkeys, Barbarella, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Leon: the Professional, Garden State, Faust, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, eXistenZ, Desperado, Sense and Sensibility, Princess Mononoke, Akira, Traffic, and Serial Mom.
Hellzapoppin'
One of the craziest dance performances ever caught on film. No, really.
Television:
Mad Men, The Wire, Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, 30 Rock, Deadwood, Carnivale, Rescue Me, Rome, Family Guy, Henry Rollins Show, and I'm sure you're getting the idea. I catch anything with Andre Braugher.
Books:
You should be reading Coilhouse .
In the order in which they occur to me (except for the ones I added later): The Way We Are by Allen Wheelis, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore, From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, Immortality Isn't Forever by Eddie Campbell, Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, Idoru by William Gibson, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, Imajica by Clive Barker, Low Red Moon by Caitlin R. Kiernan, The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale, And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave, Cages by Dave McKean, Buddha by Osamu Tezuka, Down The Mysterly River by Bill Willingham, Shogun by James Clavell, Queen & Country by Greg Rucka, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephensen, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (a poem actually, but whatever), Hamlet by William Shakespeare (also not a book and again, whatever), 300 by Frank Miller & Lynn Varley, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, just about anything by Will Eisner, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (thought it gets less interesting the closer to heaven he gets), Get In The Van by Henry Rollins, Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Heroes:
Richard Hell, Nina Simone, Richard Neutra, Miles Davis, Edgar Leeteg, Ornette Coleman, Patti Smith, Klaus Nomi, Igor Stravinski, and Nudie
