Music, movies, magazines and just moving around.
I'd like to meet:
Myself. (See above.) Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Flood, Nigel Godrich. And meeting this guy would be cool, too:
Music:
U2, James, Radiohead, Kula Shaker, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, The Flaming Lips, Doves, Sigur Ros, The Crash, Morrissey/Smiths, Zoé (the band from Mexico), Stone Roses, Charlatans, Blur/Gorillaz, Suede, Arcade Fire, Bravery, Depeche Mode, Cure, Police, Editors, Soda Stereo/Gustavo Cerati (from Argentina), Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy (but not the newer stuff), Underworld, Massive Attack, Air, New Order, Erasure, Jarrè, Zeppelin, Floyd, Merz, Daniel Lanois, Wilco, INXS (even with their new singer!), and many others... here's a list of things I've been listening to recently (updated June 2007):For more music from these and other bands, go to http://blog.jcgarza.com
The following information is no more than the result of a brute sift of my iTunes Library, so don't take it too seriously:
Movies:
Although I have a weakness for martial arts movies and Robert Rodriguez flicks, I do enjoy serious cinema as well. Some of my favorite movies are Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man", David O. Russell's "I Heart Huckabees" (and the underrated "Three Kings"), Tom Tykwer's "The Princess and the Warrior", Bill Condon's "Gods and Monsters", and "City Lights" with Charlie Chaplin. Other movies that come to mind now are "Syriana" and "Gegen Die Wand" (aka "Head-On"). More recently, "The Departed", "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Borat" are movies I've enjoyed.
Television:
With the exception of news shows (specially The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) I haven't watched a proper TV show in over 7 years, although in the last few months I've been getting hooked on some video podcasts, mostly Diggnation.
Books:
Sadly, not a lot recently. Read "El Bufalo de la Noche" by Guillermo Arriaga earlier this year and "El Testigo" by Juan Villoro shortly before that. Cherished authors from my past are Hesse, Sagan, Fromm, Frankl, Tolkien... and those are all I can think of now...
Heroes:
Bruce Lee and Bono
