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Norman

I left my heart on the L train.

About Me

$1.49 Day, Tuesday. $1.49 Day, Woodward's.******************************I'm not going out anymore. No more. I'm quitting socialising. Okay, maybe once in a while. No, but seriously, I'm not going out anymore.******************************I'd like to date Cindy Sherman. Such a good scandal.******************************I aspired to get my portrait drawn by Al Hirschfeld, but that ain't gonna happen. Now I'd like to get on the Leonard Lopate Show.******************************"Socialism or death!" said Chavez. So fucking great.******************************Let's not talk about Sleater-Kinney.******************************Loud motorcycles really annoy me. Like, hardcore annoy. They should die. The bikes, I mean. Not necessarily the bikers. Not necessarily.******************************I really dig my neighbourhood. My current favourite spot is Stem Open Kitchen, but I also enjoy the diner on Camden Street. Do you know about Camden? It's only a block long and is lined with warehouses. But this diner is great precisely because it's hidden.******************************I love everything about the concepts "austere" and "angular". The connotations, the sensations, the rhythms. On the other hand, I hate everything about "quirky", especially when used to describe any aspect of an independent film (especially a character). Quirky must die.******************************The best part of "La Notte" is when Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau attend the party and meet Monica Vitti, beleaguered by ennui. Jeanne asks the bourgeois and world-weary Monica how old she is, and she replies, "Twenty-two and many, many months."******************************"Theatre is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade," Bergman told the newspaper.
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My Interests

Film, theatre, visual art, writing, weird audio art stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Patrons and sponsors. Americans.

Music:

But seriously, hip hop pre-1998 is my heartbeat like The Treacherous Three. SLEATER-KINNEY. Antifamily. Beach House. The Long Blondes. The Velvet Underground. Voigt/465. The Shaggs. Lucrate Milk. The Raincoats. The Delta Five. Au Pairs. X-Ray Spex. LiliPUT/Kleenex. The Gossip. Bratmobile. Heavens to Betsy. Excuse 17. Le Tigre. Julie Ruin. Julie Doiron. PiL. Gang of Four. Blondie. Stereo Total. Movietone. Radio Heart. John Cage. Karlheinz Stockhausen. Arnold Schoenberg. Erik Satie. Matthew Herbert. Saint Etienne. WNYC every day. CFRO. CBC. NPR. Public radio and co-op radio and college radio, yes yes.

Movies:

Hou Hsiao-hsien. Jia Zhang-Ke. Michael Haneke. Ingmar Bergman. Michelangelo Antonioni. Satyajit Ray. Yasujiro Ozu. Eric Rohmer. Jean-Luc Godard. Agnes Varda. John Cassavetes. Jean Renoir. Carl Theodor Dreyer. Federico Fellini. Wong Kar-Wai. Atom Egoyan. Maya Deren. Hal Hartley. Jim Jarmusch. Woody Allen. Norman McLaren. Arthur Lipsett. Ermanno Olmi. National Film Board of Canada. Les Blank. LA DOLCE VITA.

Television:

was a great band.

Books:

Mao's little red book. Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Mamet, Chekhov, Strindberg, Michel Tremblay, Jason Sherman, Camus, Kafka, Salinger, Michael Turner. Almost everything from Grove Press/Evergreen.

Heroes:

I don't like the idea of "heroes". How about "Work I Like and People I Dig and Things That are Nice":Anna Karina. Cindy Sherman, again. Franz Kline. Roy Kuhlman. Reid Miles. Mies Van der Rohe. Jeff Wall. Robert Wilson, I think. Peter Brook. Monica Vitti. Ingrid Thulin. Anouk Aimee. Raoul Coutard. Sven Nykvyst. Christopher Doyle. Imperfection. Analog. Self-made celebrity. The death and life of cities!