i like photography and my dog. and photographing my dog. and the cat sometimes. basically, i'm good with anything that'll get me out of the city for a few hours...and who can say no to kittens?
pretty much anybody. i guess....
music is good.who would win a street fight between the stones and the who? (but like, back in the day stones, circa 1970 with mick taylor versus the who from the same era).also, sad and clishay, but i really do enjoy the Matthew Goods.also, to the first person to eliminate Geddy Lee and any trace of Rush from the fossil record and all time and memory gets..... high fives. seriously. and a pizza lunch for you and five classmates. (come on people!)Otis, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, and the Temptations..A+. well done. *i think jerome ackhurst and van morrison were separated at birth - if anybody has any info on that, please let me know.
there have been a spate of really good movies recently, probably to make up for a horrendous summer - but i really enjoyed Casino Royale, and Borat and to my surpise, also enjoyed The Fountain and Happy Feet.i saw this movie once about these guys in a boat and they were supposed to kill this fish that ate their town, or some people or something. that was a good one. and that one with roger moore, when bill murray and some japanese guy call him 'loger moole'. i liked that one. also, there is a series of good movies that i like to call 'temporally challenged Family Ties'. i like them cause this crazy old guy always says 'Great Scott!' and stuff.also Groundhog Day, 'Lebowski, Jackie Brown, The Muppet Movie (1st one w/steve martin), and the Last Waltz. also Terrence Mallick, Hitchcock, early Gilliam and early Spielberg are enjoyable directors.
...sucks away your ability to think for yourself and wastes your time. that said, i like the Sopranos a great deal, and Miami Vice is the best guilty pleasure in the world. and I am now desperately addicted to LOST also. and how come Max Headroom isn't on DVD yet? Moonlighting is.... man, that was a great show.
most of the books on my shelf, the fiction anyway, are 'now the basis of a major motion picture'. bah. one of my favourite and most useful books is the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock'n'Roll. if you enjoy the music, i recommend picking this book up. i prefer vonnegut over tom robbins, although i thoroughly enjoy robbins, i just find vonnegut's a little bitier. i like nick hornby a lot cause it's very much like listening to a friend tell a story or just talk. in a similar way i very much enjoy old stephen king because the guy tells stories like some colloquial old storyteller, and a fire at night and touches your arm when he wants to make a point. nice. i also really like steve martin's fiction because he conveys a very vulnerable sensitivity in his writing, and it's still very wryly funny. ansel adams series 'the camera', 'the negative' and 'the print' are also very interesting reads in that they are technical manuals but he writes in such a way that you feel that this master is right beside you and in your head and seeing through your eyes as well, all at the same time. also, i just read 'the prophet' a couple of weeks ago and finally understand what all the hullabaloo was/is about.
anybody who doesn't take shit lying down, and stands up for what they think is right. again, obvious and cliched but the oldies are oldies cause they're good and must have something right in them... (hey, look! there's me ramblin'!)also i did a speech on MLK when i was in grade six on the morning announcements.also, Ansel Adams was a brilliant and mysterious genius. he really liked the trees and mountains and whatnot.