Movies, books, music, comics and sequential art, writing, painting, sketching, continental philosophy, existentialism, post-structuralism, abstract expressionism, dadaism, 8-bit and 16-bit video games, postmodernism, meta-fiction, absurdity, cheap mexican food, mythology, Turkish movie stars
I'd like to meet:
Interesting, eccentric folk with many interests and quirky senses of humor; preferably precocious but not pretentious. Creative types, independent thinkers, geeks and stuff.
Now everybody get up, get into it, and get involved!
"If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope."
--Bertrand Russell
One of the best things ever put on film
Music:
The Jam, My Bloody Valentine, The Dismemberment Plan, Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, The Talking Heads, The Smiths, David Bowie, Death Cab For Cutie, The Clash, Tom Waits, The Cure, Nick Drake, Matthew Sweet, Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions, Guitar Wolf, The Shins, The Buzzcocks, Jon Brion, Drive Like Jehu, Sleater-Kinney, Elvis Costello, Built to Spill, No Knife, Broken Social Scene, Nick Cave, Superchunk, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Television, Wire, Joy Division, Matt Pond PA, Wilco, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Ed Harcourt, Belle and Sebastian, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Pavement, Failure, Gang of Four, A Tribe Called Quest, The Red House Painters, Guided by Voices, The Boo Radleys
Movies:
Brazil, The Seven Samurai, Wings of Desire, Rushmore, Paths of Glory, Eraserhead, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, El Topo, Le Million, The Elephant Man, The Graduate, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Down By Law, Deep Red, This is Spinal Tap, City Lights, Barfly, Fireworks, Waiting for Guffman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, American Movie, City of Lost Children, Freaks, A Hard Day's Night, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Knightriders, Orpheus, Singing in the Rain, Grave of the Fireflies, Drunken Master I, Drunken Master II, The Odd Couple, The Apartment, The Warriors, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Bride of Frankenstein, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Infra-Man
Television:
The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The Kids in the Hall, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Office, Da Ali G Show, Doctor Who, The Daily Show, Batman the Animated Series, Batman (w/ Adam West and Burt Ward), Mr. Show, Good Eats, Sledgehammer, Justice League Unlimited, Red Dwarf, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Perfect Strangers, MacGuyver, The Family Guy, Iron Chef, Quantum Leap, No Reservations, MythBusters, Dirty Jobs
Books:
Let's do writers/authors instead:
Italo Calvino, Michael Chabon, E. B. White, Harold Brodkey, Richard Yates, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac, Alan Moore, Hubert Selby Jr., Craig Thompson, John Cheever, Mark Twain, David Mamet, John Irving, Jorge Luis Borges, John Updike, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Eudora Welty, H. L. Mencken, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sarah Vowell, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde, Charles Burns, Manuel Puig, Christopher Moore, John Kennedy Toole, Jonathan Lethem, Vladimir Nabokov, Roald Dahl, Norton Juster, John Fowles, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Bukowski, Walter Abish, Mike Allred, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes
Heroes:
Apart from some of the authors and musicians listed above:
Bill Hicks, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Will Eisner, Jackie Chan, Wes Anderson, James Randi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harry Houdini, John Waters, Louis Theroux, Errol Morris, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charlie Kaufman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Robert Rauschenberg, Don Hertzfeldt, Pedro Almodovar, Bertrand Russell, Nick Park, Rene Magritte, Brad Bird, Toshiro Mifune, Buster Keaton, Kitano "Beat" Takeshi, Jim Henson, Groucho Marx, Emmanuel Levinas, Chow Yun Fat, Soren Kierkegaard, Bruce Campbell, Lenny Bruce, David Cross, Richard Dawkins, Jim Jarmusch, Noam Chomsky, Aaron McGruder, Max Cannon, Spider Jerusalem, Hourman, The Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, Dr. Fate, and countless other comic book characters
