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bou

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About Me



i make movies and i work 'em. tho my love lies in documentaries. i've shaken hands with the guy who WAS "Good Morning, Vietnam"! these moments last forever. well. as does greeting Daniel Craig. haha. i also like pictures and food. i love pictures OF food even more. cooking is a passion. anything food, really. i spent hours walking up and down 2nd and 3rd St of Philly reading menus once. i have no life. you can see my works at www.flickr.com/photos/lastplacefilms

My Interests

eating, movies, filmmaking, music, photography, traveling, finding that perfect mojito... :)

I'd like to meet:

he should play the saxophone, flute, keyboards and be able to scream. no, i'm just kidding.

Music:

my fav local bands... so i had to, sublux (back in the day), lake trout, big in japan, dark water transit, co-pilot. all aspects of chill and euphoria as well as all things brooding... ambient, electronica, trance, lounge, jazz, latin jazz, bossa nova... airbase, at17, a girl called eddy, keren ann, the radio dept, bliss (quiet letters is my fave discovery in awhile), flunk, ivy, brookville, air, explosions in the sky, muse, cocosuma, nouvelle vague, gypsy kings, john pizzarelli, stan getz, kent, federico aubele, pink floyd, frou frou/imogen heap, erasure, pet shop boys, new order, massive attack, cibo matto, mew, tom waits, tommy guererro, radiohead, mum, richard hawley, keane, paul van dyk, johan gielen, armin van buuren, tiesto, air, weekend players, kings of convenience/erlend oye, 2 raumwohnung... a real weakness for oldies too.

Movies:

the devil and daniel johnston, little miss sunshine, city of god, layer cake, true romance, good night and good luck, lovers on the bridge (les amants du pont neuf), whale rider, butterfly, me you and everyone we know, high fidelity, garden state, old boy, hero, last life in the universe, donnie darko, take care of my cat, kissing jessica stein, infernal affairs, y tu mama tambien... favorite directors: wong kar wai, jean-pierre jeunet, wes anderson, stephen chow, johnnie to... anime: samurai champloo, cowboy bebop and kino's journey...

Television:

family guy, csi, x files, simpsons, millenium, curb your enthisiasm, made to order, iron chef, lost, wonderfalls, 24, heroes

Books:

douglas adams, nick hornby, and haruki murakami.. i'm starting to finally getting into paul auster as well. and graphic novels... the crow, sandman, preacher... i love children's books too. chronicles of narnia, encyclopedia brown, harry potter, peanuts.... just finished: paul auster's book of illusions and elizabeth kostova's 'the historian'. highly recommend both. my daily read: pearls before swine.... i aspire to be like Pig one day.

Heroes:

at the moment, i really respect, admire and look up to... in art, the two Bressons. Robert Bresson and Henri-Cartier Bressons. in the kitchen, Gordon Ramsay and Ludovic Lefevre (Anthony Bourdain is a guilty pleasure as well...), and in life, my sister...

My Blog

Argan nut

i'm sure everyone here will appreciate this fordifferent reasons...i saw bit on Argan oil last night. Argan oil comesfrom the Argan nut (in Morocco). The nut grows on atree..actually as a berry, I bel...
Posted by bou on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:40:00 PST

BT - This Binary Universe

I attended a screening of BT's latest work 2 weeks ago. It's taken me this long to digest it. It was special and intimate...this is BT's hometown, after all. So it was very positive and to hear him ta...
Posted by bou on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:32:00 PST

everything is a fairy tale lately

i saw a man today. slightly disheveled and in a wheelchair on the side of rockville pike. he had an inflated blue balloon (helium, i might add) tied to the chair, a tiny string of blue lights and a ha...
Posted by bou on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST

dirty

i don't know what happened.i've slowly become more germ-conscious overthe years. when i was in school. u bet ur ass i was one of the lumps huddled under a coat or w/ a backpack in the hallway. or god ...
Posted by bou on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

Nouvelle Vague concert review

Ive seen a lot of trippy things in my time. Ive seen Roger Waters surrounded by an entire stadium of tie-dyed shirts. Ive seen Lake Trout in radioactive suits with Evil Dead on the background. Ive see...
Posted by bou on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:02:00 PST

Little Miss Sunshine

I can't believe how great of a time I had watching this. It was ...just far too precious. The entire cast gave a strong performance. And to describe every element of this film in one word, it would ha...
Posted by bou on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:45:00 PST

I was a dead hooker in a trunk once. And now it's almost a year.

for one... I learned Reality TV doesn't always have to suck.I'm going on a year of fulltime freelance in film/tv now. It's been quite a journey. Lots of stressful moments but then... every single one ...
Posted by bou on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:29:00 PST

WHY, BURT?? WHY?!

i never thought i'd see the day where Burt Bacharach would end up in a Geico commercial. honestly, i'm a little crushed.
Posted by bou on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:45:00 PST

why i like haruki murakami

so i was reading an online article on haruki murakami on the age.com... and i was actually kind of surprised by it. it told me something that was so in front of my face and yet i never noticed it.mura...
Posted by bou on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:22:00 PST

nights that cling

i've been working as a pa for about a month on this small production. i worked on the winter portion of this piece last year as well. and as far as productions go...i really lucked out w/ the office a...
Posted by bou on Thu, 18 May 2006 03:11:00 PST