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Hoop

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My Interests

Music:

Bill Withers, The Beatles, Coldplay, Imogen Heap, Radiohead, Sara Evans, Nickel Creek, Country, Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Brahms, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, The Police, The Fray, Miles Davis, cool jazz, some other stuff...

Movies:

You Can Count on Me, American Beauty, The Graduate, Vertigo (and most Hitchcock), 40 Year Old Virgin, Field of Dreams, Run Lola Run, Pride and Prejudice, Lost in Translation, Some Like it Hot, Back to the Future, Team America, Road to Perdition, Classics, Drama...

Television:

Seinfeld, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, Lost, Blackadder, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Lucky Louie, Undeclared, Entourage, Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Show, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Hogan's Heroes, The Sopranos...

Heroes:

Steve Young, Joe Montana, Will Clark, Larry David, Bob Odenkirk, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Judd Apatow, JJ Abrams

My Blog

Hacking Democracy Documentary

I came home feeling a little bored, unispired, lazy. Turned on HBO, watched a documentary, and boom, I'm fired up. Here's why. The documentary was called "Hacking Democracy" and it blew my f'ing mi...
Posted by Hoop on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:21:00 PST

I've been watching...

The Dick Van Dyke show. Oh my god, it's so great. The cast is amazing, it's still funny and most important, it's FUN. Okay, I'm happy now. Anybody else a fan? Or is there some other classic TV sh...
Posted by Hoop on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:07:00 PST

Graveyard + old movie = good times

Last night I went to see The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. They project a 35mm print onto a white wall and there's a huge open grassy area (no, we weren't s...
Posted by Hoop on Mon, 29 May 2006 06:46:00 PST

Domestic disturbance

I was witness to yet another domestic disturbance. I was innocently playing pool online on orbitzgames.com when I heard some people screaming in the courtyard. One woman, who is short and seems to a...
Posted by Hoop on Mon, 08 May 2006 12:19:00 PST

Writing class / blocked

I took a writing seminar this weekend. It was cool. It's good to have positive supportive people in my life, and Pilar - the instructor - is totally that. We watched some clips and looked at some s...
Posted by Hoop on Mon, 08 May 2006 12:05:00 PST