I'd like to meet:
And...
The modern day, "Junkyard Dog":
Music:
I started off as a film major, then switched to music business management. Unlike many people who hold high positions within the music industry, I actually know my shit.
Afghan Whigs, Blackalicious, A Tribe Called Quest, The Verve... making a list like this seems useless to me!
I can't listen to 'Blackberry Belle' anymore... how 'bout them apples?
Movies:
A Streetcar Named Desire, Fargo, A Decade Under the Influence, Adventures in Babysitting, Uncle Buck, Stripes, The Departed, Henry & June, The Cohen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Scorsese, Mamet, The Ice Storm, Boyz in the Hood, Stella, Muriel's Wedding, Dogtown and Z Boys, At Close Range, Barfly, Quills,
FORTY SHADES OF BLUE, Lenny, Brewster's Millions, Back to School...
SIDEWAYS, The Boondock Saints, Friends With Money, Memphis Belle, And The Band Played On, VisionQuest, Rollbounce, Purple Rain, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Stealing Beauty, To Die For, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (Heart-breaking), Midnight Cowboy, Meatballs, The Toy, Taxidriver, Glengarry Glen Ross, Goodfellas, Party Girl, Caddyshack, Broken Flowers, Your Friends and Neighbors (Anything by Neil Labute), The 40 Year Old Virgin, Sleep With Me, The Last Emperor, Bachelor Party, Lost in Translation, Crybaby, Walking and Talking, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Conversations With Other Women, Weird Science, The Royal Tennenbaums,
Vacation, Scrooged, The Lover, Lolita, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Sure Thing, Showgirls, Mallrats, Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Happy Endings, Killing Zoe, Hollywood Shuffle,
The Woman in Red, Scrooged, Flashdance, American Beauty, Hype!, Tommyboy, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Fast Times, In The Company of Men, Clay Pigeons, Raging Bull... and I'm weary of people who actually OWN Requiem For a Dream.
Horrible film; AMAZING soundtrack:
Movies I only needed to see once:
The Accused, Happiness (couldn't even finish it), Faces of Death (again, couldn't finish it), Starship Troopers (FUCKING AWFUL), Matchpoint, Closer, Gummo, Bully, although it left its mark on me in high school, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (too sad), The Brown Bunny, Crumb, Brokeback Mountain, Beaches, Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, Kundun, Born on the 4th of July, Loverboy with Kyra Sedgwick NOT Patrick Dempsey, The Virgin Suicides (great soundtrack, but boring as hell), Deliverance (couldn't finish that one either)...there are more, but I mostly erased them from memory.
Heroes:
Blue collar workers, Matthieu Ricard...