film, music, great coffee, art, reading. I just bought the board game, Risk. Any players out there? I'm a huge fan of brunch.
I would like to meet anyone from any of the following categories:
(a) Anyone at all.
(b) Actors and other filmmakers who are interested in networking and pooling resources. I have access to some equipment and am happy to help people out when they need it.
(c) After watching Un Homme et Une Femme, I decided I need to meet more 1960's French film stars...
Anything exciting, interesting or hard-hitting . . .
Current rotation:
Bjork, Medulla , John Adams, Shaker Loops, Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell, Brian Wilson, Smile, Richard Buckner, Bloomed, Paul Simon, Graceland.
Regular House Favorites:
Pinback, Thursday, Aphex Twin, Arvo Part, The Clash, Danger Mouse, Fugazi, Edith Piaf, Indigo Swing, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Meatloaf, Bjork, Shadows Fall, Radiohead, Herbie Hancock, Postal Service, The Bad Plus, Extortion Labs (www.extlabs.com), KCRW, Kept Blue, Philip Glass
You'll probably get a better idea of my taste in movies by checking out my blog: I've started posting my thoughts on the movies I see and that I think are worth posting thoughts on (I have a movie diary in which I write my thoughts on every movie I see).
I keep a list of my top 100 movies if anyone's interested, but for now I'll list just a portion of them . . .
In America, Once Upon a Time in America, Army of Darkness, Annie Hall, Dancer in the Dark, Mean Girls, Un Homme Et Une Femme, The Thin Red Line, About Schmidt, L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes, A Very Long Engagement, Breakfast at Tiffany's
I guess I sort of take my movie watching seriously . . .
Waiting for the cable guy to show up.
I was a Great Books major in college, so I have read alot of really old books. I enjoy books that make me think and I often lean towards nonfiction but for no particularly good reason.
**Props to anyone who can get this quote:
There are only faces, a whole lot of faces. It's faces, faces, faces.
They are very funny, and I keep laughing all the time. I just sit
still, and the faces come jumping and gliding past me, jumping and
gliding. You've got a very funny face too, it's
enough to make one die of laughter.
I have this weird thing with reading multiple books at once, and I have a Hell of a time finishing most of the books I start. I'm also a bit of a magazine whore.
Currently Reading:
Francois Truffaut, The Films of My Life, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Tichard Shickel,D.W. Griffith: An American Life,Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare, Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating
Favorites from Past Reads:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, The Master and Margarita, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, The Sun Also Rises, Julain of Norwich's Showings, Kotik Letaev, Augustine's Confessions, The Geneology of Morals, The Underground Man, Brothers Karamazov (Russian literature in general), Neuromancer
Magazines
"The New Yorker," "Esquire," "GQ," "Entertainment Weekly," "Commonweal," "Sound & Vision"